PROF ROBERT TOMBS: Mass Immigration is Destabilising Our Country Last weekend, my cousin's beautiful child, not long out of medical school, wed her sweetie - a handsome young doctor from an Indian family. The Hindu wedding was spectacular, colourful and huge enjoyable for everyone. Watching as young English and Indian people danced together, I showed that the day was an ideal example of multicultural integration as all of us want it to be. But it is dangerously ignorant to take these benefits for approved and to anticipate that the meeting of cultures will automatically cause universal love. The UK has arguably the very best record of any nation in the manner in which, for centuries, it has actually taken in immigrants and refugees from every corner of the planet, offering a safe and civilised sanctuary. From the Huguenot Protestants who fled massacres in France during the 16th century, to the Jews getting away Nazi genocide during the Second World War, right approximately the Ukrainian females and kids used shelter today, British tolerance and compassion have actually been a lifeline for millions. Now that tolerance is being stretched to its limitations. Mass migration, compounded by people-smuggling on an industrial scale, is destabilising our country. We need to not fall into the trap of expecting that, because it has actually generally worked out fine in the past, Britain can absorb any quantity of group modification. We have never seen escalating immigration on anything like the scale of the past twenty years, wites Prof Robert Tombs History reveals that, even here, abrupt increases of migration have triggered turmoils that last for centuries. And we have never seen intensifying immigration on anything like the scale of the previous 20 years. Official figures from the Department for Education revealed on Thursday that white British children are currently the minority in one in four schools in England.