British values

What does the term "British Values" mean ?
There was a time when it would have been a question that hardly needed asking.  The society was fairly homogeneous in the sense that it had been inculcated with a series of unwritten but well understood norms of what was acceptable and what was unacceptable. The society was tolerant but had not made a fetish of tolerance in the way which it has developed over recent years where now virtually anything goes. It is now a human right, prescribed in law that you are encouraged to express your views and follow your ideological leaning.
Society of course was a structure made up of people who would recognise each other as largely having the same ethnicity and culture. The main, perhaps the only divide was between rich and poor which gave rise to political parties who would devote their energies to protecting either the rich or the poor. 
After the Second World War the society began to change with the substantial influx of people from different parts of the world who naturally held different perspectives of they way to live their lives and the cultural values which they brought with them.
The seeds of multiculturalism were sown without questioning the effect it would have on the people living here. "They", as always were not consulted since there was an economic imperative to bring in people to work at wages which were designed to provide an economic return on the goods we manufactured at the time. Of course as commerce became global and the workforce could be obtained at source amongst the economically poor, the country no longer had the manufacturing to mop up the labour which had been encouraged to come here and we have what we have today a low wage poorly educated workforce sustained by Welfare.
Now the religious and cultural values are the only way to distinguish a segmented society and whilst the concept of insisting that underlying British Values should have pre-eminence in such a melting pot of beliefs and centuries old custom it is frankly ridiculous to expect people from the four corners of the world to have any cognisance of our frankly weirded feudal make-up. 
Put another way  could a Muslim or a Nigerian, someone from China or Japan be expected to change their fundamentally ingrained mode of thought and practices to accommodate a nation which had loosened its own concept of what is right or wrong, good and bad for a laissez faire free for all !!