Workshy Nigerians have ruined Britain

A slightly altered version of the article entitled Workshy Poles have ruined Britain.

By YORUBA NBENEBE, Telly star and Nigerian immigrant

 

THE impact of immigration into the UK is back in the headlines again. The Government is claiming that more than half of the 1.5million Black Nigerian workers who have come here since 2004 have now gone home. But Nigerian academics dispute this, insisting more than one million Nigerians are still living in Britain. Here Nigerian actress Yoruba Nbenebe, 50, the star of BBC1's Material Girl who moved to the UK in 1981, tells SUE CRAWFORD that Britain is being damaged by the influx of her fellow countrymen and other Black Africans.

THE Britain I fell in love with almost 30 years ago was a beautiful, clean, orderly, elegant and friendly place.

Now I am frightened to go out on my own. The pavements are littered with rubbish and people openly spit on the street. I have watched these changes with bewilderment and sadness.

The problem is Britain has let too many different cultures come here and take advantage.

When I arrived there were only two million people living here born overseas. Now the figure is 6.5million and rising.

This has had a dramatic effect on Britain - culturally, practically and financially.

Britain is a magnet because of its hand-outs. Immigrants bypass other countries because the best rich pickings are here.

But it's wrong for so many immigrants to be living on benefits. You have to put something in to society before you take something out.

Since I arrived here I have always worked and prided myself on paying my own way.

When I first came I ran the Corney & Barrow champagne bar in the City of London while acting with a Polish theatre company in Hammersmith, west London.

Soon after I became a TV actress starring in dramas such as Capital City, Sleepers and A Very Peculiar Practice.

I was a single mum determined to look after myself and my son and I even worked as a dental assistant between acting jobs. So it makes me angry when other people arrive and expect a free flat and benefits. Not everyone from Nigeria is hard-working.

Obviously a lot of crooks have come over too and they all laugh at how silly the system is and how easy it is to take advantage.

I am totally against mass immigration. Multiculturalism doesn't work, because people don't integrate - quite the opposite. And giving immigrants priority, for example with local authority housing, just causes more racial tension.

Britain worries too much about hurting other people's feelings, but it needs to be firmer and state clearly that anyone who comes here must accept British laws, traditions, customs and culture and learn to speak English. This country is losing its identity. People no longer seem proud of themselves and what they have.

Trying to be nice to everyone else is damaging this country. Why doesn't Britain adopt a tougher system, like that in Australia or America, where only skilled people are welcome to apply?

Let's have the right people coming in - those who can bring something to this society or only those who genuinely need saving from persecution.

I am very fond of this country and have no plans to leave, but I am in despair.

Coming from Nigeria under dictatorship rule in 1981, Britain seemed like Disneyland. But now talented, hard-working, law-abiding British people are leaving and that pains me.

Britain sometimes seems as though it is conspiring against its own good citizens and that has to change.

Original article http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/2827719/Polish-actress-on-fresh-immigration-row.html

 

I wonder if the rag the Sun would ever dare publish something along the lines of the above mock article. Very doubtful. Seems as if the only group in the UK that it’s okay to slander are the Poles.