Sex Pistols’ John Lydon says immigration has created “division and animosity” in the UK

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Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has said that immigration has created “division and animosity” in the UK.The London-born singer, whose parents were immigrants from Ireland, discussed the apparent effects of immigration and doubled down on his support for Brexit during an interview on LBC last night (March 7).“Britain today is so, so catastrophically disappointing,” said Lydon, who now lives in Los Angeles, California.He went on to talk about how some of the shows on his forthcoming spoken word tour – dubbed ‘I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right’ – would be taking place “in seaside towns” such as Brighton, Folkestone and Blackpool.“I mean, they really indicate how rundown Britain has become,” Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, continued. “Those used to be fantastic places when I was a kid.

Mum and dad would drag us off there for what felt like hours in a traffic jam, but it was absolutely great.“It was working-class people throwing sand at each other […] and the environment was economically thriving, I suppose, in the seaside towns […] It was vibrant.”Lydon went on to claim that such towns were now “full” of “prospective immigrants, which are really like illegals [who are] not being cared for properly, but they shouldn’t have been accepted in such vast numbers”.He said: “It’s created a real, real animosity in communities.

The division… when you import so many people with a completely different point of view, they’re not going to adapt to yours.