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I had to listen to a long diatribe from a couple yesterday, about immigration.
They come out with all the usual racist and xenophobic drivel....all these foreigners taking our jobs, changing our way of life, smelling of curry, etc.
This is in a small village in the Neath Valley, with nary a non-white face to be seen.
They both had well paid jobs, both with the local authority. But then they said that they were so fed up with all these foreigners, that they were in the process of emigrating to Australia !
When I gently pointed out, that when they arrive in OZ, THEY will be the immigrants, they said............."oh but that's not the same at all !"
Hypocrisy is a word that comes to mind !
They come out with all the usual racist and xenophobic drivel....all these foreigners taking our jobs, changing our way of life, smelling of curry, etc.
This is in a small village in the Neath Valley, with nary a non-white face to be seen.
They both had well paid jobs, both with the local authority. But then they said that they were so fed up with all these foreigners, that they were in the process of emigrating to Australia !
When I gently pointed out, that when they arrive in OZ, THEY will be the immigrants, they said............."oh but that's not the same at all !"
Hypocrisy is a word that comes to mind !
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Talbot - //But you are right....I occasionally meet racists like these and I do have to put up with it. It must be very difficult to be forced into hiding your views & principals. I'm not sure ... in fact I am sure ... I couldn't do it. Why do you 'have to' put up with it? // Putting up with unpleasant behaviour is often part of living in a modern society - and as Mikey has...
10:10 Wed 18th May 2016
By the thousand and Mr Straw admitted the same. Mot formthe betterment of thencountry but to secure Labour votes before
2010. Selective amnesia mikey? As a London son of an Irish immigrant father and you now residing as an English migrant in Wales pots and kettles leap out when you accuse people of economic migrancy and stealing
Jobs from the true Men of Harlech to boot.
2010. Selective amnesia mikey? As a London son of an Irish immigrant father and you now residing as an English migrant in Wales pots and kettles leap out when you accuse people of economic migrancy and stealing
Jobs from the true Men of Harlech to boot.
"Here they let in anybody."
That's not quite the correct term when it comes to those arriving from the EU, Dave. The UK has no right to deny entry to anybody arriving from any of the 27 other EU nations. They can visit here, settle here, work here and draw benefits here. It is rather like saying Hampstead Heat "lets in anybody". And the only way to change that is for the UK to quit the EU and not, incidentally, to then join EFTA, which some are suggesting as a possibility.
That's not quite the correct term when it comes to those arriving from the EU, Dave. The UK has no right to deny entry to anybody arriving from any of the 27 other EU nations. They can visit here, settle here, work here and draw benefits here. It is rather like saying Hampstead Heat "lets in anybody". And the only way to change that is for the UK to quit the EU and not, incidentally, to then join EFTA, which some are suggesting as a possibility.
