(not satire – it’s the UK today)
The coalition government has agreed to open the door for United Arab Emirates citizens coming to the UK as part of a £6 billion deal to sell Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets to the Emirates.
Amazingly, despite the immigration deal being widely reported in the Arab press, the UK press – including the BBC – has completely failed to report that Cameron has waived visa requirements for UAE citizens visiting the UK.
In fact, Cameron’s present visit to the UAE also seems to be mostly unreported in the UK – despite his visit to Sri Lanka being front-page news.
Could it be that visiting Sri Lankan refugees and criticising human rights abuses there is seen to be positive news for the PM – whereas opening the door to immigration from a country with its own human rights abuses in order to secure a defence contract – is not?
Answers on a postcard please to your MP.
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It never ceases to amaze me how the UK press completely manages to hide announcements that may be damaging to the coalition government.
Sharing the information on social media is one way to balance the pernicious effects of a UK press under the thumb of an increasingly autocratic government.
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The left MUST talk about immigration. What is everyone so afraid of?
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See sample of new negative ads about UK for Romania and Bulgaria
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Further evidence from Tom Pride on the double standards on immigration practised by Cameron and the rest of the Coalition. Citizens of the United Arab Emirates, a wealthy Arab gulf state, will soon be able to come to Britain without a visa. The poor, meanwhile, will find asylum and immigration to this country increasingly difficult. Mr Pride has put up a couple of particularly telling cases of those threatened with deportation by Cameron’s policies. These were of a hard-working Aussie, who owned her own property, and a seven year-old boy in Liverpool. By Cameron’s standards, these are evil criminals threatening British society. The UAE, I believe, also has the appalling attitude to human rights of the other Gulf Arab states. I’ve also got the impression that its wealth is also based on the extensive use of migrant labour from Pakistan and elsewhere. These workers are very much treated as slaves, even now in the 21st century. The UAE’s citizens, however, are seen as welcome future residents. So, one set of rich exploiters is welcoming in another set. And all so Cameron can sell more Typhoon fighters to their corrupt and oppressive government.
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David Cameron’s attendance at the Commonwealth Heads meeting in Sri Lanka, as justified by his ‘I’ll help to shine a light’ claim, on its government’s extensive and ongoing human rights abuses, was likely an inadvertent spoonerism. He really meant – I’ll give just give them a line of sh-te about it.
Big money Arms deals were no small persuader for Dave in Sri Lanka.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/18/britain-sri-lanka-arms-trade
But let’s be fair and see what happens come March. Will Dave move heaven and earth for that international ‘independent’ enquiry, or will it become dodges and wheezes to fix a show enquiry and the dismissive pretence of Tamil separatist violence as a balancing equivalence to government slaughter, torture, disappearance and ethnic cleansing.
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UAE will plant their people in our land, and what is the assurance the Jets will not be used against us at a future time.And will these Arabs get top choice for jobs in Britain?
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Will the unpaid, abused African and Asian servants the wealthy Arab immigrants keep for domestic drudgery, raping and beating also be waved through or will they be required to have visas?
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I’d want to get the hell out of the UAE too, it looks dull as dishwater there.
But where will they keep their pet leopards if they move to England?
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Hmmmm, this is interesting…
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Pobably not, chances are that those on JSA will be put on workfare placement as a slave courtesy of C A M O R A N; in fact that was probably one of the selling points he used… come to the UK, have free slaves all paid for by the taxpayer!
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Are other European countries practicing the same double standards to secure contracts or are they as outraged of us at what Cameroon is up to?
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outraged as us not of us.
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