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| Quote: | his comments took a bitter racist twist: “We do not want that cosmopolitan crowd of Indians, Arabs, Chinese, etc. We want something more quiet.” |
Perceptions of racism are f*cking everywhere these days. There's nothing objectively racist about that. he just doesn't want to live near them.
We're offered an outsider's perspective here on how swamped some parts of our country are becoming with foreigners, and what do we do? We cry "racist!" and put our fingers in our ears. I expected a little more vehemence from the Daily Express, too...
| Quote: | "Yet here are people wanting to come to Britain clearly not wanting to integrate within our society, based upon their prejudices. |
Integrate into OUR society? As a matter of fact it appears that that is EXACTLY what they want to do, but they are struggling to find somewhere to live amongst British people. Well done for completely missing the point, again, I'd expected different from a UKIP MEP.
It's a shame that one of them doesn't think English people are friendly though, he's definitely got the wrong end of the stick since he's talking about rural folk
PC culture is a truly vile plague.
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Published: Sun, February 24, 2013
The lack of Romanians and Bulgarians who've arrived is going to take the some of the wind out of the sails of the big political parties anti immigration drive that's a result of UKIP gaining popularity.
Let's see what happens next. |
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| Benno wrote: | Perceptions of racism are f*cking everywhere these days. There's nothing objectively racist about that. he just doesn't want to live near them. |
I think it's a fair enough viewpoint, there's some classes of people I wouldn't be too keen on living near, which isn't at all to say I hate them or want them to take a one way trip to the shower block or anything, it's just mutually beneficial if we don't live near each other.
Let's take the example of wreckheads and straight-laced people, two somewhat oppposed "cultures".
When all the wreckheads live on the same street, they will likely get on pretty well. Matey down the way might be rinsing out the tunes a bit loud one night, but it sort of balances out because sometimes you crank your rig up, and so do the other folks on the street. The result is that everyone tolerates the loud music and house parties and everyone gets along. Hell, most likely the whole street would be invited to everyones party.
With a mixed street of straight laced and wreckheads, there is an immediate conflict. The SLPs don't want to put up with loud music and constant parties, the wreckheads get a load of noise complaints so just play tunes in the daytime instead to get around the 2300-0700 sound restriction, and none of the parties get what they want.
That doesn't mean I hate SL people, it doesn't mean I don't have SL friends. It just means that due to a conflicting interests, the quality of both mine and the SL persons life is increased when we live apart. |
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| Ste wrote: | Published: Sun, February 24, 2013
The lack of Romanians and Bulgarians who've arrived is going to take the some of the wind out of the sails of the big political parties anti immigration drive that's a result of UKIP gaining popularity.
Let's see what happens next. |
We definitely can't claim that yet! The media came up with the idea of people flooding in on the first day, and then decided to dismiss the immigration issue when there weren't visible floods of them on the first day. Of course they knew full well that if there were visible large numbers, then the numbers would be truly incredible. Immigration stats should be done on a yearly basis, so we add up all that come over the year, and then you get your annual immigration stats. So let's say 36,500 Romanians and Bulgarians come, that's only about 100 a day, it would look normal, but it is statistically very significant when your government claims it will reduce immigration to the low tens of thousands.
100/Day => 36,500/Year
200/Day => 73,000/Year
300/Day => 109,500/Year
400/Day => 146,000/Year
Would you notice an extra plane landing at Heathrow for a day? Probably not! Has anyone noticed any immigrants in East London recently? No I can't see any either, maybe you're right
https://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article8502584.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/tower-hamlets.jpg
One Boris Bus: ~80 passengers
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Arriva_London_bus_LT2_%28LT61_BHT%29_2011_New_Bus_for_London%2C_Victoria_bus_station%2C_route_38%2C_27_February_2012_%281%29.jpg
Boeing 767: ~400 passengers
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/United_Airlines_B777-200_N780UA.jpg |
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Things have changed since the big influx of Polish workers a few years ago. Back then times were good, British workers had become lazy, and a lot of Poles could do the first generation immigrant thing. It worked out fairly well, unless you were a British tradesman, who suddenly had competition.
The Romania and Bulgaria situation is different. They don't seem to have a particular skilled or semi skilled niche to fill as with the Polish builders, so the jobs that a lot of them would be going after are unskilled service industry jobs. These are harder to get because a lot of people from other European countries have come over here - half the coffee shops in London now are staffed by young Spaniards, because youth unemployment in Spain is so high.
The benefits tourism angle is an interesting one, it may just be that we have a different kind of underclass. I could see British dolescum moving to a country with higher paying benefits to be overseas dolescum, but maybe Bulgaria and Romania don't have the same sort of dolescum. Maybe their underclass is made up of Roma gyppos instead, who do a bit of (legal) dolescumming alongside plenty of (illegal) benefit scams, petty theft and begging. The crime side of is enough to get them arrested, sent home, and then refused entry on subsequent attempts. |
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| Robby wrote: | The crime side of is enough to get them arrested, sent home, and then refused entry on subsequent attempts. |
It's not though. See link above, oomin rites innit.
I'm not making any claims about the scale of the problem, just noting that we remain the host of choice for professional parasites. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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And yet migrants do travel all through Europe to squat in the UK. You should let them know that they can just park themselves wherever they want and start claiming, they'll be delighted. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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| daemonoid wrote: | They do the same to all the countries I mentioned. |
And yet millions (literally millions) of 'em still continue their journey and make it to the UK, bypassing multiple countries en route.
| daemonoid wrote: | As I said, migrants are a net benefit over homegrown potential workers. |
Saying it don't make it so. There are downsides: driving down wages, working off the books, over subscribing public services and our already crowded housing without appearing on censuses.
I do agree that the UK's problem is moany Brits who won't work. Pandering to that by waving in boatloads of cash-in-handers is a piss poor way to deal with it though. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Skilled immigration is fine.
And to some extent I believe in general freedom for anyone to cross any border they like, to make a life wherever they please.
But the one thing that really annoys me is how the UK is seen as this wonderful utopia of awesomeness, just because we had an empire last century and most of the world is now indoctrinated into our greatness by the false ideals put forward by our cultural exports.
So loads of people want to come here, but they don't have a clue what 'here' actually is.
Then they arrive, by whatever means they used, and end up living a shitter, more boring life than they had before!
I worked night shifts in Sainsburys for a little while and was amazed by the amount of immigrants from non-EU countries who were clearly unskilled and could barely speak a word of English. I do understand how they probably got here, as it's a general knock-on effect of the actions of the British Empire, but I don't know why in hell they ever came here in the first place because they seemed utterly miserable, and frankly they probably were.
Most first-world folk who do the whole voluntourism thing comment on how happy and vibrant people are even in the poorest of communities. So why do they leave? Why do they come here? I firmly believe that the primary reason is so they can have more things. Because in the modern world, you're a nobody until you have things.
And that is why immigration is starting to piss me off a bit. Because I truly don't think most people come here simply for a better life. They come here on a sort gold-rush. They want a little bit of loot. They want their share of the pie they've had sold to them by Western media. Their lives at home aren't worse! Oxfam may tell us they live in awful conditions, but it's entirely subjective. If they didn't know about our world, they would be utterly content with what they have. They wouldn't know any better. Ok there is the odd corner of general squalor and misfortune, but I'm fairly sure most 'third world' countries have their own sections of paradise too, if only they were willing to manage themselves properly. In the end it's just land (fertile), nature, animals (domestic), humans (educated), and suitable governance. Moving to another country won't suddenly achieve that.
Primarily I do wonder what the flow of immigration would be like if the whole 'better life' thing wasn't sold to every man and his dog. Specially when 'better life' hardly means what they think it means. We still all work roughly the same amount of hours in a day, after all. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 12 years, 52 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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