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(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
On Question Time last week, Giles Fraser told a funny story which nicely illustrates how batty the whole discussion over immigration has become in the UK.
He said he’d got into a conversation with a taxi driver who told him he was so fed up with the number of foreigners coming to live and work in the UK he was going to move to Spain.
Well just in case anyone thought this kind of absurd opinion was a one-off – have a look at this recent survey by respected polling company ComRes.
When asked if all citizens of other European Union countries should have the right to live and work in the United Kingdom, just 36% of British people agreed.
But when asked whether British people should be free to live and work anywhere in the EU, 52% of British people agreed.
If someone doesn’t bring some common sense to the immigration debate soon, the UK is in danger of becoming a laughing stock.
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I live in France and a number of ex-pats have told me that they came to live in France because there are too many immigrants in England!
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Unelected bureaucrat EU Commissioner Manuel Barroso doesn’t want David Cameron to secure the UK’s borders…… because he wants entirely free movement throughout the whole EU area…. but if Cameron doesn’t secure the UK’s borders he won’t win the next Election… Catch 22…:: Vote UKIP… problem solved
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Problem not solved. UKIP wants cheap Indians/Pakistani’s not EU worksers who might go home, or if they do settle down will be pure British by a generation or so.
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We ARE the laughing stock of Europe with clowns like Cameron and Farage.
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That’s not an illustration of how batty the debate has become, it’s an illustration of how irrational people are, and probably always will be. Is that irrationality any surprise?…… consider how many people in the world believe in a god or gods, which is by definition irrational.
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Not surprising really, the British have always been good at moving into other people’s countries, pillaging all the resources and imposing their culture.
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“becoming”? Oh, honey, that ship has sailed a loooooong time ago.
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Did you read the article at all?
I mean, seriously – how THICK is a UKIP supporter who spins the content of this blog post into an attempt to promote xenophic little Englander nonsense?
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson Second Line View of the News and commented:
“If someone doesn’t bring some common sense to the immigration debate soon, the UK is in danger of becoming a laughing stock.” What? Is this a republished comment from last year?
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Is this a repeat blog from last year or the year before? “If someone doesn’t bring some common sense to the immigration debate soon, the UK is in danger of becoming a laughing stock.” I thought that was already achieved?
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Reblogged this on SMILING CARCASS'S TWO-PENNETH and commented:
Reminds me of the old joke; “No-one goes there any more. It gets too crowded”
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In a certain sense tunefultony is right. If the UK were to elect a government next year in which the UKIP hold the balance of power (and don’t dismiss that possibility out of hand) then this particular ‘problem’ is solved. Of course there would then be the new problem of the UK having a fundamentally racist, misogynist and xenophobic government, and the abuses of countless people’s rights which will follow…… but hey, that’s democracy!
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Sorry, I should have said “racist, misogynist, xenophobic, infantile and incompetent”
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I don’t understand. What does “pure British” mean?
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At a guess, they mean “You wouldn’t tell they were forrin by lookin at ’em”
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