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So they're happy to make hay with headlines which won't really work and they know it. Sounds very cynical, taking people for a ride, jumping on their fears and prejudices in order to make political capital, excluding the rich from the rules and fudging the figures so that the whole thing is a sham.
Sounds like the work of this government to me
Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Friday, 26 November 2010
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
UK opens door to wealthy migrants
Poor foreigners we don't want, but rich ones we welcome with open arms. A very dark and unpleasant side to the government's migration policy. Not nice at all.
If this is the price we pay for being 'open for business' I think we should look at other options.
If this is the price we pay for being 'open for business' I think we should look at other options.
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Australia race politician Pauline Hanson moving to UK
There is a part of my that thinks "fuck off back where you came from", but the condescending liberal in me welcomes her, her different views and her bigotry, with open arms.
Come to the land of the free, where will believe in the compassionate acceptance of all, regardless of race, religion, creed, or populist foreigner-bashing. Would the Mail employ her? She hates foreigners, but is a foreigner. A paradox too delicious to leave cooling on the side-board
Come to the land of the free, where will believe in the compassionate acceptance of all, regardless of race, religion, creed, or populist foreigner-bashing. Would the Mail employ her? She hates foreigners, but is a foreigner. A paradox too delicious to leave cooling on the side-board
Thursday, 11 February 2010
'Every Hindu and Sikh should be praising the BNP' | Politics | The Guardian
Very interesting. I always try to see everyone's point of view, and I can see why a Sikh would join the BNP, of course. Sikhs and Muslims have a pretty narcy history, so one taking sides against the other is hardly surprising. The far left's love-in with Islam mean that we could get into a case where the far-left and far-right have become so focused on Islam that they become engrained in that fight. That's the last thing we need.
What we need is community cohesion, a proper meritocracy where people are treated for who they are and what they do. A Muslim terrorist should be treated the same as a white, black, Sikh, Jew or mixed terrorist, to use an extreme example.
If blocs form and start seeing the other as the enemy then the country could end up torn apart, with the likes of Griffin cheering the split in the country they claim to love as it will enhance their power.
It's easy to judge people on their skin colour or background, but something wicked that way lies
What we need is community cohesion, a proper meritocracy where people are treated for who they are and what they do. A Muslim terrorist should be treated the same as a white, black, Sikh, Jew or mixed terrorist, to use an extreme example.
If blocs form and start seeing the other as the enemy then the country could end up torn apart, with the likes of Griffin cheering the split in the country they claim to love as it will enhance their power.
It's easy to judge people on their skin colour or background, but something wicked that way lies
Using immigration to turn Britain into a nation of Labour voters is so shameful I can hardly believe it | Mail Online
Cynical WUM moment of the year goes to this cunt.
Are Labour importing immigrant to vote Labour? No. for a start you have to qualify for it.
For another it's a standard tory lie to whip up anti-immigrant and anti-labour feeling.
It's pretty fucking shameful
Are Labour importing immigrant to vote Labour? No. for a start you have to qualify for it.
For another it's a standard tory lie to whip up anti-immigrant and anti-labour feeling.
It's pretty fucking shameful
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Did immigration transform Britain by accident?
So, immigration eh? There are plenty of factors at work here, so I'll touch on the odd one or two. Firstly, one bone of contention that I've long held is 'they're taking our jobs'. No, they're not. It's the employer who gives the job to the employee, and yet employers get away scot free while some poor bugger gets the blame. Polish plumbers. Plumbers used to be the popular comedy character for someone lazy who drank your tea and emptied your wallet. Now they are seen as foreign, quiet, cheap and efficient. I wonder if any BNP supporters ever had a Pole doing up their kitchen, probably.
Now if a little bit of logic can be injected into this debate (unlikely I know), then to follow the argument through would mean deliberately having a less competitive labour market. I can't help but think that is a recipe for disaster. We're never going to be a world leader with a LESS productive work force, seeing as ours is bad enough as it is. In part I blame a lack of public holidays and too long hours.
Now I'm generally a liberal, and even free-ish on the market some times. But immigration needs some controls on it to balance the needs of those who have and those who need. A minimum wage is a good one, but the enforcement needs to be better. Not a new law, just better implementation of the current one.
London is crowded, massively. There are people who say this country is full etc. etc. bollocks. The country is not full, we may need to tinker around the edges with some bits, but we're not full. Is there enough affordable housing? No. is infrastructure properly resourced? No. in part, this is because of the more people having come here and using it, but it's also because the money is not being collected properly at the other end. If it needs to be paid for, it needs to be paid for.
As with most things it's a matter of drawing the line in the right place. That, sadly, is a very boring conclusion to come to, but there it is.
Now if a little bit of logic can be injected into this debate (unlikely I know), then to follow the argument through would mean deliberately having a less competitive labour market. I can't help but think that is a recipe for disaster. We're never going to be a world leader with a LESS productive work force, seeing as ours is bad enough as it is. In part I blame a lack of public holidays and too long hours.
Now I'm generally a liberal, and even free-ish on the market some times. But immigration needs some controls on it to balance the needs of those who have and those who need. A minimum wage is a good one, but the enforcement needs to be better. Not a new law, just better implementation of the current one.
London is crowded, massively. There are people who say this country is full etc. etc. bollocks. The country is not full, we may need to tinker around the edges with some bits, but we're not full. Is there enough affordable housing? No. is infrastructure properly resourced? No. in part, this is because of the more people having come here and using it, but it's also because the money is not being collected properly at the other end. If it needs to be paid for, it needs to be paid for.
As with most things it's a matter of drawing the line in the right place. That, sadly, is a very boring conclusion to come to, but there it is.
Monday, 9 November 2009
Jeremy Clarkson can fuck off
It amazes me how those on the right who are always banging on about how great Britain is are always doing it down.
Clarkson has extended this to every other part of the world too.
"After describing Britain as “mosque-drenched” and denouncing Albanians for taking university places and stealing wheelbarrows" he went on to slagging off everywhere else too:
" “You can’t go to France because you need to complete 17 forms in triplicate every time you want to build a greenhouse, and you can’t go to Switzerland because you will be reported to your neighbours by the police and subsequently shot in the head if you don’t sweep your lawn properly, and you can’t go to Italy because you’ll soon tire of waking up in the morning to find a horse’s head in your bed because you forgot to give a man called Don a bundle of used notes for “organising” a plumber.
“You can’t go to Australia because it’s full of things that will eat you, you can’t go to New Zealand because they don’t accept anyone who is more than 40 and you can’t go to Monte Carlo because they don’t accept anyone who has less than 40 mill. And you can’t go to Spain because you’re not called Del and you weren’t involved in the Walthamstow blag. And you can’t go to Germany … because you just can’t.
Do we have to go on? Oh alright then:
“The Caribbean sounds tempting, but there is no work, which means that one day, whether you like it or not, you’ll end up like all the other expats, with a nose like a burst beetroot, wondering if it’s okay to have a small sharpener at 10 in the morning. And, as I keep explaining to my daughter, we can’t go to America because if you catch a cold over there, the health system is designed in such a way that you end up without a house. Or dead.
“Canada’s full of people pretending to be French, South Africa’s too risky, Russia’s worse and everywhere else is too full of snow, too full of flies or too full of people who want to cut your head off on the internet.”"
Fuck off Clarkson
Clarkson has extended this to every other part of the world too.
"After describing Britain as “mosque-drenched” and denouncing Albanians for taking university places and stealing wheelbarrows" he went on to slagging off everywhere else too:
" “You can’t go to France because you need to complete 17 forms in triplicate every time you want to build a greenhouse, and you can’t go to Switzerland because you will be reported to your neighbours by the police and subsequently shot in the head if you don’t sweep your lawn properly, and you can’t go to Italy because you’ll soon tire of waking up in the morning to find a horse’s head in your bed because you forgot to give a man called Don a bundle of used notes for “organising” a plumber.
“You can’t go to Australia because it’s full of things that will eat you, you can’t go to New Zealand because they don’t accept anyone who is more than 40 and you can’t go to Monte Carlo because they don’t accept anyone who has less than 40 mill. And you can’t go to Spain because you’re not called Del and you weren’t involved in the Walthamstow blag. And you can’t go to Germany … because you just can’t.
Do we have to go on? Oh alright then:
“The Caribbean sounds tempting, but there is no work, which means that one day, whether you like it or not, you’ll end up like all the other expats, with a nose like a burst beetroot, wondering if it’s okay to have a small sharpener at 10 in the morning. And, as I keep explaining to my daughter, we can’t go to America because if you catch a cold over there, the health system is designed in such a way that you end up without a house. Or dead.
“Canada’s full of people pretending to be French, South Africa’s too risky, Russia’s worse and everywhere else is too full of snow, too full of flies or too full of people who want to cut your head off on the internet.”"
Fuck off Clarkson
Immigration debate
Apparently,
"Immigration is down, more people are being repatriated if their claims are illegitimate and the points-based system for working visas is taking effect."
How to solve immigration problems?
"social development at home and economic development abroad."
Yeah, i'd probably go with that. Houses for British people, which all too few politicians are willing to do, that'd be a start.
"In the UK, the far right, elements of the media and a few among the less-far right play on the fear of people in low-income areas that jobs are being lost to immigrants. Try as we might, sounding authoritative on immigration is not going to win this fight and dispel that fallacy, even if it is based on malice and xenophobia. Instead, we have to continue to work to make these areas less deprived: improve employment, increase community and hunker down on social policy initiatives. We will have to fight against inactive ... councils to reintegrate people into society, where they have been left on the cold of the doorstep for too long."
"Abroad, simply speaking, we need to work hard to make life better for people so that fewer feel the need to travel thousands of miles to make a new, safer and better life for themselves. The Department for International Development is seen as detached from the lives of everyday folk in this country, but that is simply not true. A prosperous world is better for all of us and increasing the quality of life abroad will do more to stop outflows of people from deprived countries than an increase in border controls ever could. DfID is a world leader in its field and, if we can tie its work in to the answer on immigration (as well as international business and the environment), its relevance can be highlighted."
Yeah, i'd have some of that.
"Immigration is down, more people are being repatriated if their claims are illegitimate and the points-based system for working visas is taking effect."
How to solve immigration problems?
"social development at home and economic development abroad."
Yeah, i'd probably go with that. Houses for British people, which all too few politicians are willing to do, that'd be a start.
"In the UK, the far right, elements of the media and a few among the less-far right play on the fear of people in low-income areas that jobs are being lost to immigrants. Try as we might, sounding authoritative on immigration is not going to win this fight and dispel that fallacy, even if it is based on malice and xenophobia. Instead, we have to continue to work to make these areas less deprived: improve employment, increase community and hunker down on social policy initiatives. We will have to fight against inactive ... councils to reintegrate people into society, where they have been left on the cold of the doorstep for too long."
"Abroad, simply speaking, we need to work hard to make life better for people so that fewer feel the need to travel thousands of miles to make a new, safer and better life for themselves. The Department for International Development is seen as detached from the lives of everyday folk in this country, but that is simply not true. A prosperous world is better for all of us and increasing the quality of life abroad will do more to stop outflows of people from deprived countries than an increase in border controls ever could. DfID is a world leader in its field and, if we can tie its work in to the answer on immigration (as well as international business and the environment), its relevance can be highlighted."
Yeah, i'd have some of that.
The kind of people who want to stop ‘Islamification’ of Britain
Never let the facts get in the way of a good scare story eh?
Either about immigrants or those who are worried about it.
Sure, the quote cited are nasty xenophobic wankers, but not everyone who is worried about immigration is.
The point is that we need to make the case for how great immigration is, and has been for our country.
How many people would rather have Lee Barnard over Christiano Ronaldo in their team? Not many, i'd bet.
So we need to make, again and again, how good immigration can be. Who'd rather have Steve McLaren than Fabio Capello? Mentals, that's who.
Either about immigrants or those who are worried about it.
Sure, the quote cited are nasty xenophobic wankers, but not everyone who is worried about immigration is.
The point is that we need to make the case for how great immigration is, and has been for our country.
How many people would rather have Lee Barnard over Christiano Ronaldo in their team? Not many, i'd bet.
So we need to make, again and again, how good immigration can be. Who'd rather have Steve McLaren than Fabio Capello? Mentals, that's who.
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Immigration
Bloke who used to write speeches. Did one on immigration. Said of it:
"As a ministerial speechwriter in a former career, in 2000 I penned a key speech for the then immigration minister Barbara Roche, which mooted changes to make it easier for skilled workers to come to the UK.
…
Multiculturalism was not the primary point of the report or the speech. The main goal was to allow in more migrant workers at a point when – hard as it is to imagine now – the booming economy was running up against skills shortages."
Told media about it:
"Somehow this has become distorted by excitable Right-wing newspaper columnists into being a “plot” to make Britain multicultural. There was no plot. … What’s more, both were robust on immigration when they needed to be: Straw had driven through a tough Immigration and Asylum Act in 1999 and Roche had braved particularly cruel flak from the Left over asylum seekers.
…
Perhaps the lesson of this row is just how hard it still is to have any sensible debate about immigration. The Right see plots everywhere and will hyperventilate at the drop of a chapati: to judge by some of the rubbish published in the past few days, it’s frankly not hard to see why ministers were nervous."
Bloomin media.
Not saying it's a right-wing conspiracy, more that they tend to blow things out of proportions to make stories out of it
"As a ministerial speechwriter in a former career, in 2000 I penned a key speech for the then immigration minister Barbara Roche, which mooted changes to make it easier for skilled workers to come to the UK.
…
Multiculturalism was not the primary point of the report or the speech. The main goal was to allow in more migrant workers at a point when – hard as it is to imagine now – the booming economy was running up against skills shortages."
Told media about it:
"Somehow this has become distorted by excitable Right-wing newspaper columnists into being a “plot” to make Britain multicultural. There was no plot. … What’s more, both were robust on immigration when they needed to be: Straw had driven through a tough Immigration and Asylum Act in 1999 and Roche had braved particularly cruel flak from the Left over asylum seekers.
…
Perhaps the lesson of this row is just how hard it still is to have any sensible debate about immigration. The Right see plots everywhere and will hyperventilate at the drop of a chapati: to judge by some of the rubbish published in the past few days, it’s frankly not hard to see why ministers were nervous."
Bloomin media.
Not saying it's a right-wing conspiracy, more that they tend to blow things out of proportions to make stories out of it
Friday, 28 August 2009
Deconstructing scare stories
In case anyone thought the Mail was bad, the News Of The World takes the biscuit.
Tabloid watch has done some top work showing up what a nasty piece of work Carole Malone is with her truthless scare stories. Or lies, as you like it
Tabloid watch has done some top work showing up what a nasty piece of work Carole Malone is with her truthless scare stories. Or lies, as you like it
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Daily Mail bollocks story of the day
There are lies, damn lies, and Daily Mail statistics, it seems.
I studied Sociology at uni, so i know all too much about how to come up with statistics.
When working for the Mail, it seems it's ok to get one lot of stats, compare them with something completely different to make a scare story.
Example here, from Liberal Conspiracy.
"Journalism and statistics go together like Dog the Bounty Hunter on a dinner date with Tolstoy."
"The piece begins triumphantly: “The true extent of the huge influx of foreign workers into Britain is revealed in an investigation by the Daily Mail.” In a line that wouldn’t be out of place in a BNP pamphlet**, it adds, “The figure[s] expose as a sham the New Labour pledge of ‘British jobs for British workers”."
I studied Sociology at uni, so i know all too much about how to come up with statistics.
When working for the Mail, it seems it's ok to get one lot of stats, compare them with something completely different to make a scare story.
Example here, from Liberal Conspiracy.
"Journalism and statistics go together like Dog the Bounty Hunter on a dinner date with Tolstoy."
"The piece begins triumphantly: “The true extent of the huge influx of foreign workers into Britain is revealed in an investigation by the Daily Mail.” In a line that wouldn’t be out of place in a BNP pamphlet**, it adds, “The figure[s] expose as a sham the New Labour pledge of ‘British jobs for British workers”."
Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Daily Mail bollocks news story of the day
Today's Daily Mail bollocks that has amaused me, headline could be 'The foreigners are out to get you!'
Typical Mail, more to be expected over the silly season.
Best quote:
"the lure of the UK's 'enormous' state handouts to asylum-seekers was the reason why thousands of foreigners are using the French port as a staging point to get across the Channel.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201039/Calais-migrants-ambush-Britons-knifepoint-terrifying-highway-robberies.html#ixzz0Lu3niHO4"
In others news, apparently MPs have an 82-day summer holiday. Which just isn't true. Writing for the Mail seems like easy work to me, write a piece of outraged fiction and there you go. Bastards
Typical Mail, more to be expected over the silly season.
Best quote:
"the lure of the UK's 'enormous' state handouts to asylum-seekers was the reason why thousands of foreigners are using the French port as a staging point to get across the Channel.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201039/Calais-migrants-ambush-Britons-knifepoint-terrifying-highway-robberies.html#ixzz0Lu3niHO4"
In others news, apparently MPs have an 82-day summer holiday. Which just isn't true. Writing for the Mail seems like easy work to me, write a piece of outraged fiction and there you go. Bastards
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