You seem to believe "technology" and "civilisation" (whatever that is) are analogous - and restricted to - western culture.
I think you've been very much misled by cranks like Farage.
Don't pretend to know what I believe. I never said that at all. Modern technology, principally technology from the industrial revolution forwards.. steam, combustion, electricity.. these are the fruits of Western culture. They would not exist if we had not established the culture that allowed them to come forward. Farage may be a crank to you but he's the only politician in this country who speaks his mind and generally is spot on. You may disagree with that, but really you just don't like him.
I guess Britain actually did have criminals and crime well before it had large scale immigration from Africa.
Of course it did. I mean.. what? You actually had to post that?
Culture has never been static. It just appears that way when you are within in, but we all only operate within a tiny window of time and space. The world was mighty different 50 years ago and it will be again in 50. There have always been conservative people who tried to avoid change. ..Conservatives who wish to stop immigration and cultural change may have their reasons, but they will never win. History tells us this; no culture is static.
And what is the result? What we have today.. where humanity functions as a plague driven by the base instinctual needs, where we are on the verge of destroying both ourselves and our environment. Progression is not automatically progress. Perhaps the conservative minded people identified certain things that you have yet to realize. Society can go one of two ways.. towards civilization or backwards towards tribal living.. we have yet to achieve civilization and are still battling out the decision in which direction we shall go.
"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain." - Winston Churchill
You should consider however though that what you think of as a modern day conservative is not really that conservative at all. All the political parties in the UK are left-leaning Blair-ite corporate sponsored parties.. our conservative party is not conservative in the slightest, it only pretends to be.
I feel sorry for the people who consider their 'way of life' (whatever the fuck that is) to be of more importance then other peoples actual right to life. Who like seeing people who think/talk/act like then more then they do seeing people raise their children in safety.
Being born in an arbitrary geographic location of planet earth does not give you a right that others not born there do not. That is make believe, arbitrary and cruel. Borders are fictions. Let us hope that we do not consider upholding fictions to be more important then confronting actual reality. I do not believe that all people should be allowed to freely roam wherever they want without government being aware, but I do not believe the inhabitants of a land have any right to withhold sharing it if they are able to; and the western world is more then able to, despite what the frightened may say. That is more important then the obligatory burden some people place on the west, hat these problems are of our making. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but that doesn't change the fact that we have a moral obligation to help people when we are able to, regardless of whether they are owed your help or otherwise.
As has been said numerous times, what about the safety of OUR children. Playing the world savior and world police is not a game you can play if you want to raise the standards of your own nation. It costs money. Lots of money. We take in refugees every year, we do more than most countries. But we are full and that is obvious.
And right to life? The people who have fled Syria are ALIVE. There is your god damn right to life. The fact they can even make it to another nation that is safe is a miracle in itself. What you are talking about is right to a comfortable life, which is not a right at all. The 3 year old boy who drowned.. they had been living in Turkey quite securely for three years. They got greedy and wanted more. That is not my problem. They are alive and safe, that is what counts. The hoards from Africa and the Middle East who are bashing their way through Europe are ECONOMIC MIGRANTS.. some of these people are wearing nicer clothes than what I own for fucks sake, and have nicer phones!!!
I want to see my nation get better and more prosperous. That can not happen if you throw open the doors to everyone who wants a piece of the pie. I will not feel guilty for holding that position at all. None of you liberal minded people have any real idea what it costs to just maintain the state of a nation, let alone make things better. Our national debt is in the trillions.. we are not prosperous. I will not feel guilty for wanting to see OUR house get put in order first before we decide to go playing world savior to anybody. If that offends you, that's your problem.