Questions Time. Brexit And Racism ?

[SparklyKid]

Just fast forwarded through lasts episode. Totally mind numbingly boring.

Anyone still watch this prog.

[Rosie29]

I watch it - I suppose I like the speakers who confirm my values and views. Although sometimes I change my mind after hearing arguments. But it is wonderful when audience members speak out on a subject with heartfelt passion.
Last Thursday I thought the Scottish woman and the Barnardos man particularly powerful.

[Rockrose]

I didn’t watch it but I do believe that a large number of brexit voters did so due to fear of immigration- could that be classed as racist, I believe so.
That is of course just my opinion.

[Rockrose]

I should have given an example I apologise so I was told by an elderly lady that she voted brexit because she had enough of the black and brown faces as apparently did most of her friends!

[SparklyKid]

Javed Khan is one of the reasons I do not give to charities. His salary in 2017 was £190,000.

[SparklyKid]

RR, your friend probably lived in Oldham ,or a similar Northern town.

[Rosie29]

That does sound a lot but I am out of touch with what would be the going rate for his and other similar charity heads.

[Rockrose]

Actually sparklykid Norfolk!

[SparklyKid]

The majority of charities are the same with massive salaries paid to CEO's.

[SparklyKid]

Being concerned over the levels of immigration is not racist.

[Rosie29]

10.32 I agree.

[Rockrose]

My point was that brexit would not affect the area of immigrants they are concerned about!
What really made me laugh 3 of them were immigrants themselves but as they had been in Uk 40 classed themselves as English

[naomi24]

Rockrose, //My point was that brexit would not affect the area of immigrants they are concerned about! //

But Brexit does affect it – very much so. Jobs, housing, education, hospitals, welfare – all of that, and more, has to be provided. And let’s not forget the £11 billion plus, in the form of child benefit, that goes to children living in mainland Europe, who have a parent working here and consequently eligible to claim. Concerns about all of that isn’t racism – it’s common sense.

[Rockrose]

But the child benefits is a reciprocal agreement and it’s not as much as the media make out!
The lady in question was more concerned about the colour of someone skin not about child benefits

[anneasquith]

Ruined by Fiona Bruce and politicians too cowardly to appear on the programme in the midst of brexit.

[Mozz71]

I have to be honest, if that Martin fella was the best the Brexit Party had to offer, it's no wonder some people go cross eyed at the thought of leaving the EU. What an imbecile.

[naomi24]

Rockrose, that isn’t strictly accurate. Apart from the fact that our benefits are often – although not always - more generous, the criteria for claiming benefits in the UK is somewhat simpler to fulfil than in most of the rest of Europe where claimants are usually required to have lived, worked, and contributed to the system for a specific period of time, and even then benefits are sometimes awarded on a sliding scale dependent upon income. As for media hype – no. This country is paying an enormous amount in child benefit to children who don’t live here. Uncomfortable for you to acknowledge perhaps but true nonetheless.