I love the gloating that often accompanies the “collapse of Europe” arguments. maybe Europe will collapse. But I am from England. I recently had my DNA tested. I am a Celtic Briton and my blood can be traced back at least 12,000 years in these Islands. I share my blood type with 90% of Irish, Welsh and Scots and 60% of English people. Surprisingly it is not affected by Viking, Roman or Saxon invasions. It was blood that created an Empire, resisted the German war machine twice and now fights in Iraq and Afghanistan. The people of my small Islands are slow to anger, seem overly polite, tolerant and diffident. But scratch the surface and we are a lot tougher than we appear.
Please consider our history and nature when you next wonder if some feudal peasant religious types from Pakistan are about to overwhelm us.
