The London Olympics are already achieving the number one aim of the politicians who brought them here, which is making our politicians feel very important indeed.
The media is quite frenetic in its efforts to make us all believe we should be terrifically proud of the fact we are hosting the Olympics, as though there were something unique in this achievement. If we can’t competently do something that Greece, Spain and China have done in recent years, that would be remarkable. Of course the Games will be on the whole well delivered, sufficient for the media and politicians to declare it an ecstatic success. Some of the sporting moments will be sublime, as ever.
But did it have to be in London? We won’t know the total cost of the Games for months, but it will cost the taxpayer at least £9 billion and I suspect a lot more. I also suspect the GDP figures will, in the event, show that the massive net fall in visitor numbers has hurt the already shrinking economy further.
But to take the most optimistic figure, holding the Olympics in London has cost every person in the country an average of £150 per head in extra taxes. That is £600 for a family of four. Actually it is in the end going to be well over £2,000, as of course the money has been borrowed on the never never, and taxpayers are going to be paying it off their whole lives, along with the sum ten times higher they are already paying direct into the pockets of the bankers through their taxes.
The very rich, of course, don’t pay much tax, so they are not worried.
But to take just the figure of £600 extra taxes for a family of four, the lowest possible amount, and not including the interest. Is having the Olympics here really worth paying out £600 for? If Tony Blair had approached the head of the family and said “We are going to have the Olympics in London, but it’s going to cost you £600, would the answer have been from most ordinary people: “Yes, great idea, this is that important to us”?
People are not disconcerted because they don’t see that they have to pay. There is no special Olympics tax, and they pay their taxes in a variety of ways, and individuals are not the sole source of taxation. But this is nonetheless real money taken from the people in pursuit of the hubris of politicians.
I love sport. I hate the corruption of the International Olympic Committee, Fifa and the rest; I hate the vicious corporatism and militarisation of our capital and absurd elitism of the transport lanes; the sport itself I love. But with the economy contracting, and the NHS being farmed out for profit, is it really worth £600 for a family – and many families are really struggling in a heartbreaking way – is it worth the money to have the Olympics here rather than in Paris?
Of course it isn’t. I think many of us will feel an extra pleasure watching the Opening ceremony because it is British. Patriotic pride will surge. It is not wrong to enjoy the spectacle tonight on TV. The corporate well connected and ruling classes will enjoy it in the stadium.
But after you have watched it on TV, ask yourself this question. How much more did you enjoy it than enjoy watching the Beijing ceremony, and was that margin of extra enjoyment something that everybody in the room would have paid out £150 for?
Because they just did.
Somebody referred to George Galloway earlier. He has not made much impact in the HoC has he? Many written questions from him and replies are recorded –
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?pid=10218&o=d&pop=1
– but I have not heard him speak, unless he is being blanked by the media which is likely.
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Does he still present a programme on TalkSport? I thought they had dropped him. He declared an annual income of £100,000+ for that in September 2010.
{http://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10218}
Fri Aug 10, 2012
A group of activists have gathered in front of the American embassy in Tokyo, condemning the US nuclear bombing of Nagasaki in 1945
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http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/08/10/255419/activists-condemn-us-nuking-nagasaki/
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Let us not forget that Mordechai Vanunu is still incarcerated by the Israelis for his actions on behalf of all of us. One of the Mossad agents who led the plot to capture him was killed in a car accident the other day. Some natural justice there.
{http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4256489,00.html}
I’m not taking sides here, but I made a similar assertion much earlier in the thread, and Technicolour criticised it as unproven. Could you offer a source for this? (Equally if anyone from the other side wishes to demonstrate the opposite, that would further the discussion).
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I was not saying it’s the only cause, but it’s the only portion of the opposing argument (“immigration is good for the economy, so it transcends any minor discomfort on the part of those already here”) that makes sense in the face of the economic and social indicators I mentioned above.
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I have yet to see the alleged good flowing from immigration quantified. It is usually merely stated, in the hope that shame at being labelled a xenophobe will silence the opposition. A survey revealing the benefits would be difficult to mount, admittedly. Much easier to implement, and giving some numerical support to the notion that unease is general on this issue, are opinion polls on attitudes to immigration:
http://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/briefings/uk-public-opinion-toward-immigration-overall-attitudes-and-level-concern
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I think it will take more than hugging your local bit of a beefcurtain to change this.
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It is also often forgotten, that among the objectors to continued mass immigration are a good number of people whose parents and grandparents were immigrants. Powell’s Wolverhampton constituents frequently supported his call for restrictions to be put in place on new arrivals.
(His Sikh and Caribbean constituents, that is)
And here Komodo is, linking in good faith to an article full of such blatantly twisted and misleading propaganda that you might just stick a little moustache on it.
Look at the headline:
“Revealed: How HALF of all social housing in parts of England goes to people born abroad ”
Most people, Komodo, it seems, included, will just read the headline. Terrible, innit?
Then look at the facts:
In the UK as a whole,8.6 per cent of new social housing tenants were foreign.
On average 11 per cent of new social housing lets in London went to foreigners.
They found TWO boroughs in London where the figures were:
Haringey, North London, 43 per cent of new social housing tenants were foreign
Ealing, West London: 45 per cent.
Note that the screaming, lying hysteria of the headline is changed in the piece itself to ‘up to half’.
But job done, if you have a willing sucker on the other end. Well done, Komodo!
OldMark: address the central problem of the main industry of the area (the car plant) having closed down. Do I think my taxes should go to supporting communities who are suffering from that kind of loss? Yes, I do. That, in my opinion, is partly what I pay my elected representatives to take care of: making the UK a balanced and fair place, not a wasteland of poverty with pockets of rich people living out miserable lives behind gates and bars.
Jon: “As I’ve said, the sole justification for encouraging immigration is to lower
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I’m not taking sides here, but I made a similar assertion much earlier in the thread, and Technicolour criticised it as unproven. Could you offer a source for this?”
Jon, Suhayl, CheebaCow and others have demonstrated that there are many benefits to encouraging immigration. So did the Olympics. ‘Big business’ is using students and prisoners as slave labour; of course it will use anything or anyone it can. But the ‘imported workers’ are not, generally, immigrants: they come here under the EU Schengen agreement.
And all of this circular, so often mean-minded discussion, with people inserting their little slivers of spleen with gleeful alacrity, completely ignores the fact that immigration figures have been slashed to the point where the UK is now hemorraghing people. Glen, you might like to factor that into your calculations?
See, I don’t think I’d would put up with this for the minimum wage (I’ve done longer hours of manual work for only slightly more in my time, but there is some shit I will not eat) –
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http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1083134/bitter_harvest_how_exploitation_and_abuse_stalks_migrant_workers_on_uk_farms.html
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I’m not even sure a right-on PC Guardian True Believer would, either.
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And the only beneficiary is?
Yeah, migrant workers, not ‘immigrants’. But why bother actually examining the facts? Your last link didn’t.
Assume you’ll be fighting for the rights of the people exploited, along with Unite, from now on, instead of banging on about immigration. I bet your heart’s bleeding, behind your ‘beef curtains’. What does that mean, actually? It’s not a derogatory word for a part of the female anatomy which guarantees that the user will never get a lover of any description, let alone one of Louise Ubermensch’s sort, is it?
Yes, Technicolour. I thought that would get you going. I just linked to it. Who said it was in good faith?
Now take a look at the Oxford link, and tell me whether the Mail is spreading propaganda or simply reflecting the views of its readership.
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Remind me how the Olympics, er, “demonstrated” the benefits of encouraging immigration? Would that be because people who can run in circles and throw things make the country rich? Another option, if that were the case, would be to stop selling off playing fields to developers.
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Re haemorrhage (sic) of people, you are as far as I can gather simply toying with the truth: Net migration to Sept 2011:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/23/net-migration-britain-record-levels
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Those are the latest figures I can find in a hurry.
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“However, the Migration Watch UK chairman, Sir Andrew Green, who campaigns for zero net migration, said “tough measures” were now needed: “You cannot expect to repair 15 years of mismanagement in 15 months, but it is still worrying news that net migration is running at a quarter of a million a year. There is no sign of any reduction from the huge numbers that developed under Labour.”
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Passerby – good point on localism. But I thought I’d take a break from the MidEast, where I am reasonably consistent in my thinking that we have no place. And if we were a coherent nation (that smiley again) national pride would prevent us ever again behaving like shits East of Dover.
*sigh*
Guess I’ll just have to call a redacted a redacted then, Technicholer.
If you’re reduced to that kind of post, you need a break.
actually, Komodo, please don’t answer that question: just all the other ones you haven’t answered. In the meantime, this says it all rather well:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/are-we-doing-enough-to-halt-the-rise-of-complete-and-utter-psychopaths-201107254117
An interesting twist on the attack against the Egyptian soldiers in Raffa:
“Advocate Mostafa Olwan has submitted a notice to the Egyptian Attorney General in which he accuses former Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan of passing maps of Egyptian security posts to Israel. According to Olwan, maps of the army post targeted in northern Sinai were handed over to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency by Dahlan. (Middle East Monitor).”
For anyone’s info; the Guardian piece linked to above is confusing. It refers both to ‘long-term immigration’ and ‘migrants’
An immigrant is defined as a person who comes to live in a country permanently. Students, for example, are not immigrants. They do not come and live in a country permanently: they come to study. They also, of course, often pay through the nose for it.
One assumes, therefore, that students would not be included in the Office of National Statistics’ immigration figures, which the Guardian quote. But then you have this:
“Long-term immigration of New Commonwealth citizens has reached 170,000. This is the highest recorded estimate. Two thirds have migrated to the UK to study.”
So it seems the two are being conflated.
What question? I’m not pretending to be the authority on immigration, you are. On the basis of mere assertion and damn-all objective evidence.
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Re. migrant workers vs. immigrants: migrant workers are temporary (ideally) immigrants. So they are conflatable for that reason. Whether permanent or temporary, they are undercutting local labour and displacing it. The article is not in the least misleading, it makes the distinction.
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Anyway, sign this, will you?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFBpbkRTaE5ZWnRydGtyUGh6bDVxOGc6MQ&theme=0AX42CRMsmRFbUy0yYTVkNjg3Ni00NjJkLTQwMmEtODI2ZC00MWRkOTg4OTlmZTQ&ifq
“There were 177,000 new British citizens – 9% fewer than in 2010.”
http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/
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Have figures to back their assertions…eg:
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60,000 Bogus Students Could Have Entered the UK Last Year – Government “have bottled out on bogus students”
24 July, 2012
As many as 60,000 bogus students could have entered the UK in 2011 alone.
This is the conclusion of a study by Migration Watch, based on the findings of a Home Office pilot scheme which were published last week. Under the pilot scheme applicants for student visas were interviewed to determine whether they were genuine. This involved two tests – whether they were genuine as students and whether they intended to return home after their studies. The Home Office found that the highest percentage of bogus students came from Burma, where 62% would have been refused a visa on doubts about their credibility. In Bangladesh, India and Nigeria, 59% of students were considered as likely to be bogus. When these proportions were applied to the number of applicants from each country in the pilot, it emerged that the total came to 63,000 potentially bogus students in just one year.
Of those who were potential refusals on credibility grounds, 61% were applying for privately funded colleges, 17% for a publicly funded college and 14% for a university.
Following this pilot, the Home Office has introduced plans to interview 10,000 students a year and has set out the criteria on which they will be judged. But it is now clear that the government has lost its nerve and has dropped the second test (intention to return) from the student interview scheme which comes into force as the end of July.
The Australian authorities – often quoted by the university lobby as a good example of student immigration control – have this very test. Their recent major review considered it to be “The first item of business in assessing a student visa application.”
As for the scale of interviews, 10-14,000 a year have been mentioned but this is only about 10% of the number of applicants from the countries of immigration concern.
Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK said, “We now have clear evidence of abuse on a major scale. Bogus students come here to work illegally and thus take jobs from British workers. If it is clear from the circumstances that a student is unlikely to go home, the visa should not be granted in the first place. After all, many of the advantages claimed for foreign students depend on their going home after their studies.
“These half measures simply will not do. The government have bottled out on bogus students. If they are serious about immigration they must face down the self interested demands of the Higher Education sector and pursue the public interest.”
Referring to the letter to the Sunday Times signed by 37 business leaders calling for students to be taken out of net migration, Sir Andrew Green said:
“It is, in fact, impossible to take students out of net migration because, unlike the US and Australia, we still have no exit checks so nobody knows how many who came as students have actually left the UK. It seems that business leaders are clueless about immigration policy and will sign whatever is put in front of them.”
‘But the ‘imported workers’ are not, generally, immigrants: they come here under the EU Schengen agreement.’
Wrong again Technicolour, the UK isn’t, and has no intention of signing up to, the Schengen agreement. My wife on several occasions (prior to ‘becoming British’)had to apply for a Schengen visa several times in order to visit mainland Europe.
Suhahl- I don’t of course accept the pastiche of my views on the subject you produced at 7.57, but at least it made me smile.
I’d just want to make a plea in defence of personal abuse. It’s one of those things, like an odd sexual position, which is only unacceptable if you’re not good at it. Admittedly most people are not good at it, but rule it out totally and you could be missing an entertainment. Also, you might not be telling the truth.
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https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/10874
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Anyway. To use this site you must give an email address. If it’s a valid email address you can be contacted. I suggest that if a moderator is uncomfortable with a comment yrz (suggested genderless token for he/she/him/her/his/hers – hope that helps, Clark) should email the commenter and explain the concern. I’d guess that around 95% of the time a comment can be quickly revised to make the same point but remove the moderator’s concern. It might be possible in this blog (and no other I can think of) for yrz to reply: no, I’m sober, I’m calm and that really is what I meant to say – please publish. Whereupon you just append a note: moderator’s advice declined. Let’s be adult.
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Finally, I don’t think mods should edit posts – that carries the risk of misrepresenting someone’s view or emphasis. Publish in full, or request a revision from the author.
Migration Watch “Have figures to back their assertions…eg:
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60,000 Bogus Students Could Have Entered the UK Last Year – ”
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“Could have?” “Could have!” LOL!
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Here is someone else, slightly more in-depth:
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“The original survey was biased to begin with. The survey used a risk-based profile to interview applicants who were judged (in the Home Office’s view) to be most at risk of entering the UK illegally. These were from countires such as Burma, Sri Lanka and India and in no way reflect the make up of the wider international student population.
b. Migration Watch’s maths is dodgy. Migration Watch uses the overall refusal rate per country and then simply multiplies the rate against the total number of student visas from that country. They should instead have taken a weighted average taking into account the proportions of students studying in further education, universities and higher education institutions and private colleges.”
http://www.nusconnect.org.uk/news/article/international/Why-Migration-Watch-has-got-it-wrong/
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Still, it does confirm that students make up a vast chunk of the hysterical ‘migration’ figures, so thanks for that.
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OldMark; yes, was researching Schengen (the UK has in fact signed up to parts of it). Meant to say EEA agreement viz:
As an EEA or Swiss national, you have the right to live and work in the UK (known as the ‘right of residence’) if you are working here (and have obtained our permission to work if this is required – see below); or
you can support yourself and your family in the UK without becoming an unreasonable burden on public funds.
Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovakian and Slovenian nationals do not need to obtain our permission before they work in the UK.
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Thank you for small correction.
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Btw don’t flatter me, Komodo. I’m not claiming to be an authority. It is true that I don’t just link to newspaper articles containing blatant lies, or newspaper articles whose terms are so unclear as to be useless, and then ignore any analysis of these pieces and continue to post more and more nonsense, claiming that I don;t mean anything by it whenever it is challenged, until everyone dies of boredom.
Financial institutions getting away with fraud? Blonde bimbo regulators are part of the problem, as are those totally distracted by CNBC dancing booobies
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A powerful exposure here, one of a few before the inevitable crash. – Ready to bury gold? Last warning.
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http://rt.com/programs/keiser-report/episode-325-max-keiser/
It’s official. Boris is a Titan according to Cameron.
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“I welcome the fact that I’ve got, in Boris Johnson, a great Mayor of London, a great titan in my party and someone who I think has got a lot more to give the country.”
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‘Out of conflation with the Gigantes, various large things have been named after the Titans, for their “titanic” size, for example the RMS Titanic or the giant predatory bird Titanis walleri. The familiar name and large size of the Titans have made them dramatic figures suited to market-oriented popular culture. Something titanic is usually considered bigger than something gigantic.’
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(mythology)
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Does Cameron just mean he’s large?
You don’t usually link to anything at all, Technicholer. And when you do – still no figures, and still pure assertion:
Migration Watch’s maths is dodgy. Migration Watch uses the overall refusal rate per country and then simply multiplies the rate against the total number of student visas from that country. They should instead have taken a weighted average taking into account the proportions of students studying in further education, universities and higher education institutions and private colleges.
Did the reliable and unbiased source you cite on student numbers -the NUS, lol – actually take that weighted average? It did not. Though the figures are publicly available…
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Still waiting for The Truth to set against all those lies you think I am posting (with numbers)…is God speaking to you? Please present His revelation. Like most of the public, I go by what I can see, and God and I parted company long ago.
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I’ll just add something before I pack up for the weekend. Your interjections (and my resulting visits to the web) have done much to shift me from a “could barely care less, but I’ll see what the blog thinks” mode, to one of considerable concern about mass immigration. Congratulations.
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I’ll just add something before I pack up for the weekend. Your interjections (and my resulting visits to the web) have done much to shift me from a “could barely care less, but I’ll pretend I do and see what the blog thinks” mode, to one of considerable concern about mass immigration. Congratulations. You’ve made a convert.
Vronksy, I am personally not in favour of people editing their own posts after they’ve published. We’d get into the mess of people changing their substantive meaning during the time people are composing a reply (or, indeed, well after). And, again, no moderator has ever changed the meaning of a post here, save snipping outright abuse/racism/homophobia.
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Also: we remove text +so+ infrequently it really isn’t worth putting a lot of (volunteer!) developer work into it, imo. This isn’t CiF.
Passerby,
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In take your point about ‘peaceful electrons’ but how can we evolve without debate. Do we not learn from others?
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Vronsky,
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sexual positions aside; ‘Mods’ cannot use email correspondence in that context, it is wrong in the spirit of open debate – they must also delete offensive, bemean and abase rape of contributors to benefit a wider passive audience and as respect for Craig’s space.
Komodo,
You recalcitrant lizard, you are now having a laugh, just because “they” are “(His Sikh and Caribbean constituents, that is)” does that qualify “their” racist and disjointed world views, as the “normal”?
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You are correct what we have sewn over there, has come back to bite us on the butt. Most of the “immigrants” are in fact the human assets stripped from these benighted lands that our governments in our name have been waging covert and overt wars against. That is to point out that emigration really compounds the problems of the countries that are subject to the negative attentions of our successive governments, which represent a very narrow bandwidth of the interests of their plutocrat enablers. Take for granted most immigrants would rather stay put, where they have been born, and raised, even salmon always get back to their roots.
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Trouble is whilst the race row goes on here, the bigger problems remain unaddressed. for seventy years now isreal has been raging havoc, destruction and mass murder across the mid east. In every turn the mercenary bastards acting as our governments proxies, have been occupying the Palestinian lands, and have been at the vanguard of holding back the whole of the mid east progress, by destroying any prospect of the independence of action of the nations in that area. The excuse for this mode of destructive conduct has always been, security of the fuel supplies, a disingenuous attempt to excuse the mass murder, land theft, and asset stripping of the area.
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With the above in mind, until such a time that our government is not compelled to stop its malicious conduct of waging war, and sabotaging the progress of these developing countries, then you can expect even more refugees/immigrants/hoards at the gate. The simple fact is those caught up in the midst of chaos and destruction have no other choice than hang onto the flotsam in order to live another day.
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You want to address immigration, then best start by compelling our government to cease and desist from any further involvements in waging wars, and creating chaos in the mid east, in fact stop these bastards from supplying five million pounds to the “rebels” in Syria, that is paid from the 100 million pounds Syrian assets that they proceeded to freeze.
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But that is not going to be the issue, because it is much more pleasurable/practicable/easier to beat on the fucking immigrants and stop them coming here. This is in order to carry on the the same fucking policies, but without as many of the sandnig*&*rs amidst our population. This is the official policy. As I have already gone on record earlier for the benefit of the uninitiated; we all are equally well despised by our ruling elite, and the harangues of stop the waves of immigrants invading our septic isles, are the cue for introduction of even greater laws to curtail the rights of the we the indigenous bastards whom have come to believe our station is above the immigrants. (Enoch da man puts it as; black-man will come to tell a white man what to do in his own lands!)
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Hence the never ending, fruitless debate about immigration and “multi kulti” that is encouraged by the programs on the telly, and the oodles of articles on the subject of the “inn is full”, immigrants are taking our; homes, benefits, mobiles, cars, and women, genre and the subsequent referential limits of any debate, on this subject. With those immigrants on one side, and those indigenous on the other, all the while each justifying their own position and exposing the myths of the subject. Fat lot of good this has done, and is yet do of course.
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The degrees of chicanery include production of “an idiot abroad” in isreal, during which the “idiot” is kidnapped by the: …. hang on, ……. wait for it, …… what a surprise ….”the Arab terrorists”! The programme celebrating the sum total of the contribution to humanity by the shitty strip of land, in the “skilful survival techniques” in the hands of the “uncivilised barbarians”. All the while DM, Express, et al warning us all: we here are swamped by the Arabs, and other Arab looking Daigoes, and such like “immigrants”, and illegal asylum seekers, etc.
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In conclusion, if you are really worried about the subject of immigration, then perhaps you all ought to start helping to stop these immigrants from moving out of their own lands, and heading for here. A simple fact that often goes missing in the debate, if truth be known none of the poor immigrants wish or care to come over here. They have much better weather and sunshine where they normally hail from, and are much more happier to play the right wing nationalists giving the order of the boot to any would be immigrant into their lands.
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Now can someone help me to work out, this day so far, how many immigrants have we created in; Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Palestine, …………..
Mensch has tweeted or retweeted (what a silly expression) over 23 times today. Going off her trolley perhaps or just addicted to it.
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http://twitter.com/LouiseMensch
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They don’t like her very much over at ‘menschn’. {https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23menshn}
U.S. banks told to make plans for preventing collapse
-(secretly since 2010)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/10/us-banks-recoveryplans-idUSBRE87905N20120810
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http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16153042,00.html
“Germany’s second-biggest lender, Commerzbank, says it will no longer participate in market speculation on basic food prices. The bank says it has removed all agricultural products from its funds for moral reasons. “
Just seen Mr Boy’e’s entertainment. Having previously glimpsed his treatment of satanic mills arising out of bucolic idyll I’d naively assumed he’d produced a drama.
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He hadn’t.
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It’s classical pomo surfaces. Nothing begats nothing. Nothing unfolds under its contradictions.
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It’s all an eternal harmonious present. Only the weeds change. Tableaux, vignettes, undrama, without even the discontinuities of montage for relief.
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The comments of the uh, commentators, were inane – even those which were scripted.
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The only interesting tells were in their commentary on the teams.
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It doesn’t really deal with immigration. But then it doesn’t really deal with anything.
“I think it will take more than hugging your local bit of a beefcurtain to change this.”
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http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/beef-curtain
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As I said earlier, when you have no deletions, people’s real personalities do “shine through” (“shine” is sarcasm, btw).
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“Publish in full, or request a revision from the author.”
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Vronsky, I’d be inclined to agree with you there. Not for ‘entertainment’ purposes, but because it says so much more about who you’re dealing with, when they resort to personal abuse and/or nasty misogynistic slang.
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No replies to Suhayl’s questions I see. No surprise. He-of-the-forked-tongue may be hoping Suhayl will ask again and that Nextus will jump on Suhayl again for asking.
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‘Congratulations. You’ve made a convert’ (but also)
‘Who said it was in good faith?’
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Christ, I’m sick of it.
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I’ve been waiting for Clark to calm down before I mentioned the following, but I’ve been subjected to substantial misrepresentation, i.e. when Clark posted this:
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“Look at the reaction when I said it wasn’t wrong to be discomforted when in a group of people speaking a language one doesn’t know. Apparently, I’m supposed to learn their language, because it’s good for me!”
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I didn’t say anything of the sort. (And if someone else did, I can’t find it.) If you’re going to accuse others of misrepresentation, better be careful not to do it yourself.
Surely the following in the Daily Mail is prejudicial to the man mentioned if he is eventually charged and tried. It reminds me of the way in which that English teacher Chris Jefferies was tried by the media after the murder of Joanna Yeates took place. I believe that some newspaper editors were subsequently punished by the Attorney General.
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Murder inquiry launched as police find body in home of missing Tia Sharp’s grandmother as officers hunt for her 37-year-old partner
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Met say police cordon was ‘pre-planned’ and Christine Sharp agreed to leave home so they can carry out a forensic search
Tia’s mother Natalie is ‘in bits’ and had to get away, according to grandmother Christine Sharp
Police leave her home with two bags of evidence this morning and a sniffer dog was also taken in
Step-grandad Stuart Hazell, 37, said previous convictions have ‘nothing to do’ with her disappearance
He served two years and ten months in 2003 for supplying crack cocaine and a year in 2010 for having a machete
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185939/Tia-Sharp-missing-Step-grandfather-Stuart-Hazell-makes-emotional-plea-missing-schoolgirl-come-home.html#ixzz23A1Oxw00
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Gutter press indeed.
That beacon of peace, democracy , equality, toleration, and victim of Palestinian aggression for 60 years are leading from the front yet again.
http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/4119-african-ambassadors-feel-unsafe-in-israel