Morrissey is getting pilloried in England for the following comment in an interview with NME:

[W]ith the issue of immigration, it’s very difficult because, although I don’t have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British [sic] identity disappears. . . . If you travel to Germany, it’s still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity. But travel to England and you have no idea where you are. . . . England is a memory now.

The England I grew up in is certainly a memory now. Whenever I go home I’m faced with the sad fact that England’s green and pleasant land is now relegated to myth status. Things change, but that’s not always necessarily good.

“Englishness,” for lack of a better word, is all but dead and with it dies my only home.