UK immigration spouts ‘rapid cultural changes' with no ‘shared national identity'
'You cannot have a successful country if you have no sense of shared national identity, culture and history,' Mr Christys told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
'I worry, many people worry, that Great Britain is now being reduced to nothing more than a plot of land, where anyone from all over the world can reside.
'We're seeing rapid cultural changes … the Muslim population could be as high as 20 per cent in Britain by the turn of the century.'
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