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In the minds of some people migrants aren’t even human, they “flood” into countries, they somehow manage to claim benefits and get free houses whilst managing to take all the jobs.
The thing is it’s mostly complete bollocks, it’s planed in the media by the Tory government to pass the blame of everything else that’s going wrong.
The same happens with working class people who have to claim benefits too.
I cannot believe people still fall for it and use it as an excuse for their prejudice.
Complete open borders wouldn’t work but the arguments against immigration are usually just ignorant.
No I didn't. Can't you read? I said even if you are free from prejudices open borders are still an economic problem, just like the NHS and the housing situation is an economic problem. That's is why every country in the world is protective of its own borders.
100% correct.
The effect of the media is very worrying. Back in 2008 the government spend billions upon billions bailing out the banks. The opposition agreed to this bailout.
Within no time, the media helped encourage people to blame immigrants, benefit cheats and Labour overspending on the state of the economy. The interesting part of this is that not one single independant fiscal organisation (OBR, IFS, BoE, etc) agreed with any of this. People seem to forget it was all about the banks. It's been one of the greatest manoeuvers in blame in history. We've been told the economy has been in a dreadful state for years. It's been so dire, to the point where the deficit has never even really been brought under control, that we're now going to be spending money like confetti, presumably all borrowed - a situation that all leading economists and financial institutions suggest will get significantly worse when we leave the EU.
I can only presume that the debt isn't as dreadful as we are led to believe and austerity was all about an attack on the worst off in society.
Whether someone is free from prejudices or not is irrelevant to the possibility of an economic problem in your scenario. It was a surprising line that you used, suggesting that freedom from prejudices could lead to this, so one could easily assume you meant the opposite for people wanting the opposite scenario.
Of course, we know for a fact that those who want the strongest border controls tend to be those who have prejudices. To suggest otherwise would be silly. The usual line is that "we don't want them coming in".
Anyway, to another point, you are aware that the UK controls over half of the immigration that comes in already?
The media who are saying this don't want us to leave the EU. It's all smoke and mirrors. What we do know is the majority of British people voted to leave the EU. This majority need to organise and do what's best for Britain, with no more labour v tory distractions. So yeah, you are right about the media, but I'm not sure how you are going to convince everybody else regarding your insight.
Exactly I’ve worked in a foreign country for the last 3 years and have worked in another before. I didn’t have to jump through any hoops other than learning a language and you can ever get by without doing that.
I think Morrissey is racist because he supports for Britain who are known racists. They were called nazis by 2 UKIP members ffs.
Don't trust any opinion except your own, everybody has an angle, especially politicians and the media.
Interesting question, given the unique collection of knowledge you have accumulated over time, what percentage of this knowledge would you consider to be absolutely true?
You always have these weird anecdotes for every thread, we know they’re bollocks btw. Don’t waste your time making them up in future.
Secondly who the **** has asked for complete open borders in this thread?
Thirdly Albania isn’t even in the eu. So they don’t get freedom of movement.
Wanting controlled immigration doesn’t make anyone racist. Wanting no immigrantion and making up complete bollocks to justify it doesn’t make you racist, but people question your motives. When you have been doing this non stop for years it’s obvious why.
It'll be interesting to see how Brexit pans out. Whenever Theresa May suggests a soft Brexit, her approval ratings increase. YouGov have reported that for several months more and more leave voters are convinced Brexit is a bad idea. The further we go along this journey, the more we see significant job losses threatened if we have a hard Brexit.
Ultimately, the whole thing will be decided by whoever wins the warfare in the Conservative party.
Morrissey pens dreary songs that sound depressingly similar as he's a lousy singer. He can't play an instrument either. He's almost as talentless as mega feckwit Ozzy Osbourne is.
The media are also desperate for brexit, darce and his Tory pals are desperate for the tax loopholes it will exploit. Just look at the front pages of te express, mail, sun, times and telegraph during the last 2 years. He’ll try and have you believe his conspiracy theories but he’s living in a dream world.
Yes, the remain fear campaign run by the media, business & prominent individuals is having an effect. I've always thought we would never leave, as nobody ever have once the propaganda taps have been turned on. I also think the EU is going to collapse sooner rather than later, so we'd best be out of it before then.
The EU has never revealed it's true intentions, we just get little tidbits here and there.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7095657.stm
The delusion Jesus Christ it’s ridiculous.
Politicians are master illusionists, they are very good at creating problems that need solving, in order to further their agendas.
Regarding Morrissey and The Smiths, they are musically and lyrically interesting, and they turned out to be very influential for a lot of bands who followed. Johnny Marr is a unique and inventive guitarist. The world would be if poorer place if they hadn't come along when they did.
That's utter nonsense. The vast majority of the national newspapers want Brexit, the harder the better so they can avoid the EU closing down the tax loopholes they enjoy.
What I can't understand is your total refusal to believe there could be any downside to Brexit, despite so many concerns from so many people, organisations, businesses, politicians etc. Any concerns must be project fear and are instantly dismissed.
I'd love to start hearing evidence from educated economists and those far more in the know than our politicians what will be great about Brexit. At the moment it just seems like a total leap of faith, borne about due to a lunatic belief that the UK is superior to the rest of the world.
I can't believe anyone would say the media are anti brexit unless they never saw any of it, the bbc still hasn't covered Mogg moving his hedgefund to dublin and nothing about aarong banks and the russians, nothing about muller investigating farage either. Other than the guardian and the independent every other paper has been unbelievably pro brexit.
We've had headlines like "enemies of the people" etc for almost 2 years now. The media wants brexit because the owners will save millions on tax.