OK, for starters, I'm a lifelong Labour voter and Trade Union activist who has managed to get a fair number of racists and sexists sacked. I also know the difference between criticising the Israeli government and anti-Semitism and was a Corbyn supporter until he threw the election by going soft on Brexit instead of ordering his party to toe the line and campaign for a Leave vote.

But - unlike you, apparently - I am not an intellectual who ignores or disregards the concerns of the 'peasants', the ordinary folk who do see immigration and immigrants as a problem.

I'm talking about the parents whose kids got little to nothing done at school because the teachers and the TAs had to spend most of their time with the poor bairns who didn't speak English because nobody ever thought of ESOL classes for four-year-olds. I'm talking about the mums who are hurt because the Asian and Eastern European mums aggressively exclude them from conversations. I'm talking about the men who lost hier jobs because their bosses realised that Polish men will work insane hours for starvation wages. About the Maths teacher in my daughter's school who threw the textbooks at the white and Black kids at the start of term, told them to get on with it, and went on to teach exclusively in Urdu for two terms before Jen could get up the nerve to tell me about it. She didn't want to be called out as a racist, you see. When challenged, he told me and the Head - and this is more or less a direct quote "The white brats will pass because they're white and the c***s haven't the brains to pass however much you teach them!"

These are real things that really happen because racism cuts both ways. It made me feel sick because I'd spent my life fighting white racists without realising that some people are racist against white people or just people who aren't from the same culture/background as they are.

People worry because they see people arriving here without jobs, money, homes and ignorant of so many things they need to know. They worry because it seems we don't have the structure and resources to look after them properly. There is also a fear that bad actors among the immigrant communities are fostering a separatist attitude amongst them for their own agenda.

Now I'm not saying any of this is necessarily true or laudable. But that's the way ordinary folk think. They see these things at street level, they don't have a broader perspective and they aren't clever enough to develop one. So they themselves become a screen for other bad actors with agendas. The troublemakers - who are not, as I said, a single faction - play on these concerns. People go along with the idea of making their concerns known, and the agitators who've slipped in among them use them as cover to do what they want to do. Far-right thugs who want to attack PoC, mosques and community centres, Far-left thugs who want to attack the 'capitalist running dogs' - the police. Professional criminals who systematically loot nearby businesses.

Ivory tower perspectives like yours are unhelpful at best. The older-established white community of the UK is not a seething mass of racists. Mostly they're just folk with too many responsibilities and too few resources. You know and I know why they have too few resources and what should be done about that. They just worry that there's not enough to go around already, and more people coming will make it worse. Or as somebody in the supermarket said the other day "If them poor buggers knew how bad it is, they'd not come here! Talk about out of the frying-pan!"

BTW, do try to differentiate between Nazism, which is based on racist ideas, and Fascism, which is mostly about nationalism. Mussolini only put racism into Italian Fascism after Hitler told him to.