The really stupid thing, Bazz, is that the downfall of Europe via multiculturalism is ignored by our politicians because they are the same sort of invertebrates as the ones who have brought about the 'death of Europe' as chronicled by Douglas Murray in his book. Our 'death' will be just a bit later than Europe's, but it will occur. We are well on the way.

I have read 'The Strange Death of Europe', which is now available on Google Books for $11.05.

ttbn, finally some reason for a change.
I'm sick of these back patting simpletons, telling each other how wonderful they are, when everyone else around them is trying desperately to explain and demonstrate to them that they are wrong.
Geoffrey Luck, put it very well, and without embellishments.
Unfortunately the deplorables refuse to see the fallacy in their beliefs.
When someone only sees and promotes one side or belief, even if 'they' feel 'they' mean well, it is ignorance accompanied by sheer arrogance, and a very large dose of naivety to continue pushing an agenda even after many have proven them wrong.
Words like 'preserves tolerance and protects order'?
What a load of crap.
Again none of the comments in this particular post are a tried and proven fact, just another pathetic example of self importance and trying to appear viable in an attempt to be seen as someone with something worth saying or worth hearing.
I would like to hear, just once, some original words or thoughts of their own doing, (aka opinions) and not stupid quotes from just another plagiarized excerpt from someone else.
It simply demonstrates, by their own hand, that they do not have an original thought, thereby exhibiting a total lack of personal and 'real' knowledge, about anything and everything.
And so it is their comments should be taken as satire and not as serious.

"I have read 'The Strange Death of Europe', which is now available on Google Books for $11.05."

By any chance was it actually 'strange'?
Or was it just simple cause and effect;

- What happens when you put idiots in charge -

ALTRAV,

First, please accept my belated congratulations on your description of one of the “back patting simpletons” as a cross between a “5 year old and Mary Poppins”. Very apt. The luvvies have the need to crowd together in their echo chamber because they don’t manage at all well in the larger world.

I no longer read their nonsense, having returned to scrolling upwards, noting the names, and whizzing past the cranks and idiots. The only posts I bother with are those expressing sentiments and opinions similar to my own. There is no point dealing with people who you know will oppose everything you say, no matter what you say. If the poor fools think that they have any influence over others, let them have their illusions: they have nothing else. I won’t name the posters I read because I don’t want to accidentally leave anyone out; but I think they will know who they are.

I am content to have the opportunity to express my opinions and have the occasional yarn with like-minded people.

AC,

Yes, the title is strange in my view too. ‘Inevitable’ would have been better, and the death was really suicide by stupid politicians. However, it is a very good book and a warning (that is being ignored) to us. Murray is the leader in thoughts on the European sickness, which we are slowly succumbing to here

" The practitioners of the politics of resentment
recognise one another," writes Francis Fukuyama in
his new book on identity politics, helpfully titled -
"Identity."

He tells us that "You didn't have this white identity
politics till the last couple of years in the US."
Or at least not in a mainstream political party.

"It's Trump - he's basically a racist and he's
encouraged others so it's not surprising they've come
out of the woodwork."

There are calls for
dramatic cuts to immigration intake and a toughening
of citizenship criteria. Yet, in Australia we don't
have the problems that others do. For example we don't
have the rigid class structures of Britain and the
self conscious humanist idealism of America - these
are missing DownUnder. Our Penal colony roots and the
celebration of the larrikin are a part of it.

That opens the way for all migrants
to join. The key to becoming an Australian is not the
fact of letting go of another culture. It is the act
of holding onto it from afar. That's the paradox of who we
are.

In 2014 Francis Fukuyama wrote that American and global
institutions were in a state of decay as the state
was captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later
his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of
a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism
and authoritarian tendencies today threaten to destabilise the
entire international order.

These populist nationalists seek
direct charismatic connection to "the people" who are
usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an
irrisistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts
of the population as a whole.

The demands of identity direct much of what is going on in
world politics today.

The universal recognition on which liberal democracy is
based has been increasingly challenged by restrictive forms
of recognition based on nation, religion, race, ethnicity or
gender, which has resulted in anti-immigrant populism, the
upsurge of politicised Islam, and the hideous emergence
of white nationalism.

Unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity
we doom ourselves to continual conflict.