Not all hunky dory in the UK

MR Leggat largely sidesteps the key issues raised in my previous letter in an attempt to show that everything is hunky dory in modern Britain.

He has outlined the supposed economic benefits of immigration, but has not addressed the important issue of overpopulation in an overcrowded island.

With the strain on public services and the NHS reaching breaking point, I would have thought that this might have warranted a mention.

Furthermore, having correctly assumed that the Muslim communities are the subject of my criticism for failure to integrate, I would suggest that the facts are very much in my favour.

If 77% of Muslims in Britain strongly identify with Britain, with 83% claiming to be proud to be British, then why are there 85 Sharia courts across the country, ranging from Bradford to Nuneaton.

Why do they need their own theocratic legal system which has been in conflict with UK law since 1982.

Weasel words like ‘Islamophobia’ will not answer these questions.

I might also draw attention to the barbaric practise of FGM.

Perhaps Mr Leggat would also like to try to defend the fact that in the Muslim enclave of Tower Hamlets, Imams have issued death threats to women who refuse to wear the veil.

Does that identify with being British?

Mr Leggat’s use of ‘that’ll shut him up’ style statistics raises some more questions. Opinion polls have carefully worded leading questions.

If 71% of Britons seem to support gay marriage, so what? I am quite sure that most of this supposed 71% would have said that they merely tolerate gay marriage, which is not the same as actively supporting it.

Toleration simply means to put up with something while not necessarily liking it.

Mr Leggat will have to do a lot more to prove that modern Britain is some kind of cosmopolitan paradise than just offer up the glib assumptions of the liberal left. Dick Hayball