Rascal
El Presidente
Seosa said:Helmet Cole said:Strangely, Rascal is probably the only poster on this thread that has ever called for the forced repatriation of an immigrant (thaksin), so It's perhaps a little unfair to call him a leftie unless you mean like Stalin.
Thaksin's human rights record probably played some part in that.
And seeing as he's a Communist, I think it's quite easy to bracket Rascal with Stalin. Especially when he probably wouldn't think twice about executing 20m slightly right-thinking people.
Yes his human rights record wasnt the best.
Im not a Stalinist, im a Socialist with some Marxist tendencies.
Immigration is good for the country, the UK needs workers as strange as that may sound with so many unemployed. But a man laid off from a building site cant suddenly become an aerospace engineer and such. We also have the problem of low birthrates. We need people in the future to work to pay for our pensions etc. If the population falls the people in work wil be left with a bigger tax burden or we will have smaller pensions.
As for Europe im not rabidly pro or anti. I think it needs a drastic overhaul if we are to stay members. If we stay in I would like to see it become Democratic, perhaps even have an elected EU president and again if we stay in we have to at some point join the single currency. If we leave and thats a possibilty, i worry we will be isolated in the world. We no longer have an empire and the Commonwealth no longer relies on us. I worry that the CBI predict leaving will cost a million jobs.
Much is made in parts of our press about bonkers Brussels directives such as the ridiculous straight banana nonsense, yet can any of you really say the EU has a big impact on your life. It doesnt in my opinion as our parliament remains soveriegn and passes laws relevant to the UK.
UKIP to me is a party of the far right who cleverly marriage far right ideology with soft left social policy. It does appeal to voters across the political spectrum as it uses the politics of fear especially with its rhetoric on immigration. I recall a party called NSDAP once doing it vry succesfully.