UKIP

[EalingBlue2]

As someone whose dad grew up in Thanet and whose grandparents lived in Birchington and Cliftonville until they died I saw a lot of the area and its decline.

I do find it amazing how immigrants are blamed though including by my own grandfather when quite clearly that has fuck all to do with the issue. Immigrants came in because it was dirt cheap and half empty

Thanet declined when package holidays, air travel, started , go back to the 60's (and for two centuries before) half of Those able to take holidays from London travelled there. The injection of money was huge and the economy thrived. Once Spain and Portugal and the south of France became realistic alternatives then tourism collapsed. With the collapse everything about those towns economies collapsed as has happened in seas side towns all around the country.

The main reason Thanet is a UKIP hot bed is because white English Londoners quite rightly decided the beaches and weather in Spain were a better bet for their holiday. I bet half the hoteliers in Margate did the same too.

Now of course immigrants are blamed for the decline but in truth if they weren't there it would probably be even worse!



Still usually UKIP areas don't even have immigrants it is the fear of possible impending immigrants that is enough to send UKIP supporters into a tail spin.

Still UKIP could change Margate, they could offend Europe so much that we don't get allowed back and then Margate could become a thriving centre for holidays again!

There is a few on here with connections to Thanet , I grew up in Ramsgate and there are plenty of areas in Kent that dispell the rich South East myth.

Flooded by Northerners in the 80's who wanted to sign on by the sea and immigrants now , the Cinque Ports have been in decline for years , you'd think that UKIP would walk this in the Election, I'm not convinced Farage will win this or any other seat.

It was well in decline by the 70's already and as a kid in the 80's it was sad to see lots closed down and already run down , same with places like Rhyl too.

 

[Rascal]

Heard another belter from Farage yesterday on tin-pot local radio saying all the refugees heading to Italy should be, "Rounded up and sent back to where they came from."

Alf Garnett anyone..?

After travelling through several Countries to get to England , how many would you let in?

How many would you?

 

[EalingBlue2]

Heard another belter from Farage yesterday on tin-pot local radio saying all the refugees heading to Italy should be, "Rounded up and sent back to where they came from."

Alf Garnett anyone..?

After travelling through several Countries to get to England , how many would you let in?

How many would you?

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[SWP's back]

Heard another belter from Farage yesterday on tin-pot local radio saying all the refugees heading to Italy should be, "Rounded up and sent back to where they came from."

Alf Garnett anyone..?

After travelling through several Countries to get to England , how many would you let in?

How many would you?

I'd have a points system like Austrailia.

 

[Rascal]

After travelling through several Countries to get to England , how many would you let in?

How many would you?

I'd have a points system like Austrailia.

Would you board the life rafts to add up there points or like Farage would you check for bibles first?

 

[SWP's back]

How many would you?

I'd have a points system like Austrailia.

Would you board the life rafts to add up there points or like Farage would you check for bibles first?

No. They aren't landing on our shores.

Was hoping you'd overlook that and the fact the poster said after travelling through several countries how many would you?

 

[EalingBlue2]

After travelling through several Countries to get to England , how many would you let in?

How many would you?

I'd have a points system like Austrailia.

Australia spends 4 billion a year detaining a few thousand people and keeping 10 or 20k people out of the country. It also has few countries near by it has seas that can be controlled and I don't think the policies used in australia would be either affordable or possible in the UK as Australia's policy depends on it being so hard to get to

 

[Rascal]

I'd have a points system like Austrailia.

Would you board the life rafts to add up there points or like Farage would you check for bibles first?

No. They aren't landing on our shores.

Was hoping you'd overlook that and the fact the poster said after travelling through several countries how many would you?

They are not asylum seekers they are refugees so the travelling through countries line is irrelevant.

I think it is our obligation to take as many refugees as possible. And no cap must ever be put on asylum seekers.

 

[Metal Biker]

Would you board the life rafts to add up there points or like Farage would you check for bibles first?

No. They aren't landing on our shores.

Was hoping you'd overlook that and the fact the poster said after travelling through several countries how many would you?

They are not asylum seekers they are refugees so the travelling through countries line is irrelevant.

I think it is our obligation to take as many refugees as possible. And no cap must ever be put on asylum seekers.

And what about our fellow EU members? Are they tied by the same obligations? I'd have thought that Great Britain was a far distance to travel for a refugee, especially when Italy, Germany and Spain are much closer and capable of tending to their needs.

 

[Rascal]

No. They aren't landing on our shores.

Was hoping you'd overlook that and the fact the poster said after travelling through several countries how many would you?

They are not asylum seekers they are refugees so the travelling through countries line is irrelevant.

I think it is our obligation to take as many refugees as possible. And no cap must ever be put on asylum seekers.

And what about our fellow EU members? Are they tied by the same obligations? I'd have thought that Great Britain was a far distance to travel for a refugee, especially when Italy, Germany and Spain are much closer and capable of tending to their needs.

And they do already.

Germany takes far more than we do. Sweden is a desired destination. They dont all want to come here you know, that is the Daily Mail lying.