Big Joe Corrigan
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Great tune.
I was talking about people voting differently than they normally would to rid a county of an odius mp.I think it does.
What reform are exceptionally good at though is making poor people believe that their problems are almost exclusively down to foreigners. Brexit was going to deliver untold benefits to the poor because ‘the EU’. What’s sad is the same charlatans are now using a general ‘if it wasn’t for the foreigners’ you’d have great wages, open access to healthcare and cheap housing and the same people are falling for it.I have found that when people are called racist, it is because they are actually racists and racists tend not to think of themselves as racists because they have a friend who is a different colour to themselves.
It is called "othering" and Reform are good at that.
I’m starting to see how well they did in so many places. I suspect largely pissed off Tory voters too.
Becomes an interesting conundrum for reform does this and I’m looking forward to the squirming and double standards already.By 8.30am I heard Tice banging on about the "unfair voting system" in the UK ( FPTP) as I predicted. The odd thing is ( not ) he, Farage and the rest have never been bothered about a move to PR before and with 4 MP's why on earth would they think Labour with over 100 times that number of MP's could be persuaded to change a system that delivered them a landslide - deluded.
I want controlled immigration and strong border controls, i do not want people having to cross the channel in small boats in order to seek asylum, i do not want potential asylum seekers being housed in hotels costing millions of pounds.Basically if you think mass immigration of thousands of people arriving on boats with no checks, then housing them for millions of pounds a day is bad, you are racist.
Fools and their votes, easily parted.What reform are exceptionally good at though is making poor people believe that their problems are almost exclusively down to foreigners. Brexit was going to deliver untold benefits to the poor because ‘the EU’. What’s sad is the same charlatans are now using a general ‘if it wasn’t for the foreigners’ you’d have great wages, open access to healthcare and cheap housing and the same people are falling for it.
Isn’t that what Reform have said they want?I want controlled immigration and strong border controls, i do not want people having to cross the channel in small boats in order to seek asylum, i do not want potential asylum seekers being housed in hotels costing millions of pounds.
I am not a racist, I want a system that works and i want there to be legal routes for people to enter this country so we do not have to spend millions on hotels.
The difference is I want a system that works for everyone, racists want a system that does not work for anyone.
And then what though?It's immigration. It's always immigration. Brexit was purely immigration.
For 30 years, a large amount of people in this country have been telling political parties that they want less immigration and for 30 years they've been called racists, ignored and eeventually been made promises that were broken.
When you don't listen to the electorate then they will punish you. Brexit was a punishment. Reform is a punishment. And until we have a strict immigration system, the electorate will keep on punishing the two major parties. It won't go away. They need to be listened to and only Reform is listening to them which is why they abandoned the Tories and a shockingly large number of Labour voters
Worked much better whilst we were in the EU though, which you also want no part of. The conundrum is, population is getting older and the replacement has slowed right down. We used to get workers from the EU who often stayed for a relatively short time whilst we now get them from much further afield, with more dependents, with absolutely no plan to ever leave. It’s a right buggers muddle and no mistake.I want controlled immigration and strong border controls, i do not want people having to cross the channel in small boats in order to seek asylum, i do not want potential asylum seekers being housed in hotels costing millions of pounds.
I am not a racist, I want a system that works and i want there to be legal routes for people to enter this country so we do not have to spend millions on hotels.
The difference is I want a system that works for everyone, racists want a system that does not work for anyone.
No, Reform wants a freeze on immigration, that is very different to having a system that works for everyone. Their stance is a system that works for the people who do send people across the channel on small boats. There has to be legal routes into the country, if there is not you simply cannot control immigration as has been proved over the last few years. Whatever gimmick the Tories tried that they hoped would appease the racists failed because quite simply, there are no legal routes to get to the UK.Isn’t that what Reform have said they want?
Sending them back as soon as they arrive will stop the boats.No, Reform wants a freeze on immigration, that is very different to having a system that works for everyone. Their stance is a system that works for the people who do send people across the channel on small boats. There has to be legal routes into the country, if there is not you simply cannot control immigration as has been proved over the last few years. Whatever gimmick the Tories tried that they hoped would appease the racists failed because quite simply, there are no legal routes to get to the UK.
What i wanted at the Brexit referendum was not on the ballot, i thought the status quo was unworkable. I wanted a fully integrated EU with an elected President with supra national political parties. I was not against the EU I was against the status quo as it was not working and is still not working.Worked much better whilst we were in the EU though, which you also want no part of.
The NHS would collapse without immigration.I spent far too much time in hospital in recent years and was cared for by a number of Indian nurses who were exceptional at their jobs. They must never stop key workers coming here.
The NHS would collapse without immigration.
But how many of these arriving on boats are doctors and nurses?