The Times prints some examples of questions the Home Office will be asking new entrants to Britain. The entire test takes 45 minutes and the applicant must score more than 75% in order to pass.
The applicant will be pleased to know that the GCSE his kids will take are a lot less rigorous.
The test exposes the hypocrisy of a government which seems not to place any importance on the British native understanding his own history whilst making itself look tough to the electorate by forcing Mr and Mrs Gupta to become near-experts.
It is laughable that new arrivals could well know more about this country than we do. Equally, it is laughable that knowing the answers to a list of questions determines your level of Britishness.
But, then, these measures are about making immigrants jump through hoops for the amusement of small-minded racists - but, for their sins, possible Labour voters - rather than promoting something truly and meaningfully British. This rotten government will never learn that patriotic yearnings will never be assuaged by picking on brown-skinned immigrants. We’re not improved by making their entry into this country difficult or belittling them in any other ways we might dream of. We’re improved by taking only the few immigrants we actually need and then addressing the appalling lack of national cohesion caused by multiculturalism, rampant multiethnicity, moral relativism and the degradation of national confidence and pride that is part of the Left’s on-going project to abolish this country.
Anyway, here are some of the questions which, answered correctly, somehow make a Chinese rice farmer British:
1) Where are Geordie, Cockney, and Scouse spoken?
2) What are MPs?
3) What is the Church of England and who is its head?
4) What is the Queen’s official role and what ceremonial duties does she have?
5) Do many children live in single parent families or step-families?
6) Which TWO telephone numbers can be used to dial the emergency services? 112, 123, 555, 999.
Answers are here (more…)
