Perhaps I can give some kind of nuance since I'm actually an immigrant to the UK who has made friends with people who are very happy to embrace me and my Italian ways but are very happy about this... There is something very different about people like me who came to the UK - legally I might add - and embrace life here and speak English, compared with people who are coming here illegally, who then don't embrace english culture or even learn english and end up creating little enclaves in cities where they basically recreate their own country of which they have originally fled from. I had a girlfriend who was working in Watford for a while and jesus christ, we went to a moroccan restaurant somewhere and the street was literally like something from an american film about the iraq war - everyone was stood outside their shop on the street smoking and we were basically harassed down the street, one guy came up to us and asked are we lost and what we were doing there. I'm not even English and its not my country but I didn't like that at all, I do think that some english people are very racist without need but I also think people like you who live in some sort of bubble are the other end of the issue. Go to bradford and walk around the muslim areas and tell me that's what you want for your country because I think even you would be shocked.