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Sick of immigration, the anti-immigraton activist declares:

“This country is finished. I’m emigrating!”

Irony is lost on this chap.

Soon he will be an immigrant in another country, where he will insist on speaking English as he integrates himself into the English diaspora, visiting English pubs, eating in English restaurants and shopping at the English corner shop.

Don’t believe me? Visit any area where English emigrants have settled in large numbers.

Whatever they decry in the foreign other at home, they practice themselves abroad.

To do otherwise would be to Go Native, the worst kind of being for a Brit, whatever we demand of others.

We have our own rules for others and another set for ourselves. Why on earth we can’t see others in ourselves, I just don’t know.

What does it take to be fair? Surely, only a deep introspection and a single measure for all.