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OwainLlanedi
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I've always found the immigration question to be purposely sensationalised by the right, and comments on this thread kind of reflect the polarised views on the issue. The Churchill WWII analogy does leave me cold, and the propaganda of the plucky Brits standing up for the free world alone totally misleading. Immigration has long been a source for social and economic good for Wales and other countries of the UK, whose positive effects outweigh any perceived sense of "taking advantage of the system".
For me, the biggest problem with a Welsh UKIP vote is that isolation from Europe really could be devastating for the Welsh economy, which makes the high percentage of UKIP votes in impoverished areas of the South Wales Valleys even more shocking. The irony of a populist vote for an ex-banker who wishes to directly remove sources of investment to Wales doesn't seem to have reached certain areas of Wales. Edited by OwainLlanedi - 27 May 2014 at 12:07pm |
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If any country has cause for concern over immigration it is Wales. So many of our rural communities have been slowly decimated by English immigrants who have so little respect for our language or culture, that they are barely distinguishable from villages in Sussex in the summer months.
As for Winston Churchill, he was a ruthless imperialist who had no qualms on gassing Iraqis or other "lesser" races so let's not make a hero of him just because he had a nice turn of phrase in the English language
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OwainLlanedi
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Shouldn't it be a fundamental human right to speak the language you choose and to live your life by your values amongst your own community should you choose do so? Try and change our country to be like theirs? I take it this is the conspiracy theory that we'll all be living by Sharia law in 10 years time and exclusively eating Halal meat? Always enjoyed those exposes by the red tops. |
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I went to Spain on holiday and the bloody immigrants over there ruined my holiday. Who do they think they are? Going over there, lying around in the sun doing nothing, opening their pubs serving pints of beer, showing premier league football, selling fish and chips and all day full English breakfasts. They even sold their food in the supermarkets!
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geordie scarlet
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Try being an immigrant yourself, by that i mean living in England and being Welsh...constant reminders of sheep, leeks and mining
Even worse supporting a team that actually has those immigrants in it...bloody Saffers, Scots, English and a New Zealander in a WELSH region...who do they think they are, coming over here, taking our regions players places..i would make them all speak Welsh before a contract is signed !!
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What's the point in going abroad on a holiday if your going there for the same things we have here though? I know people do but kind of defeats the purpose of going abroad? Might aswell go down Tenby .
This is a sore subject and people will have very strong and different views. Everyone is entitled to theirs but don't try and force it onto others. Unless your a Jehovah's Witness, can't stand the whole knocking on your door forcing their religion and beliefs on others. Does my swede in! They should be able to speak either English or welsh though. Human right shite. |
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Didn't they have mines up north then? |
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....one of my responses !
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.....not to metion all them blydi foreigners that live there.
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I'm not worried, it's a protest vote with only 36% of the voters voting.
listened to a bbc interview where people were asked if they would vote UKIP at a general election and they responded probably not. The issue is though there are no credible alternatives. we have 3 parties which are morphed into the same beast. people are just pissed with all these eton toffs running the country and want some core values brought back... Personally I wouldn't vote UKIP even though when I took a test to see who I should vote for the majority of my answers matched UKIP by 78%, then again it matched the tories as well by the same margin (says a lot really). The tories want a strong UKIP and for UKIP to win seats in the GE as long as it isn't at their expense because when we get another hung parliament next year the Cons will work better in bed with UKIP than they have with the libs.
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M.M.
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The thought of Cameron & Farage in bed together has put me right off my dinner. |
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On the plus side, they wouldn't be able to produce [genetic] offspring together. Well, not easily, in any case.
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Yeah, thing is the number of people coming over here for that purpose is statistically negligible. There are probably a few thousand in a country of 80million people. And how does that factor alone actually affect the quality of life of people and so disenfranchise them to vote for parties like UKIP whose only policy that people know about is to get out of the EU? That's where that argument falls away. They also want to privatise the NHS; would UKIP have sustained their vote on that? Can't see it. I'll be blunt: I think people throwing an anti-EU vote out there (and this is for the UK, Spain and Greece have their own reasoning - austerity etc.) is because of the uncontrolled immigration from outside of the EU. I think this was an anti-Islam vote as much as anything. The Basildon bloke on Radio 4 last week said he voted UKIP because of the amount of Muslims in the country. Sorry, that's British policy - not anything to do with Europe or the EU. The creation of the EU has been a beacon for peace and prosperity, stability and freedom and we should be proud of that, not seeking to drown it because of a fear of Johnny Foreigner. |
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OwainLlanedi
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How little do I want to live in a country run by you Sosban FACH. The irony of you saying they should be able to speak the language and you getting your own username wrong does make me laugh. Pedantic, I know, but funny. Edited by OwainLlanedi - 27 May 2014 at 2:28pm |
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omri jones
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I certainly didn't vote for UKIP who are just a rightwing splinter group from the Tories, a one man band, who is a little more witty , honest/tactless than the usual politician. But I did vote for No2-EU which is a leftwing group. My main reason for deserting Plaid, the pro-EU party I normally vote for, is to do with the meddling of the EU in Ukraine and elsewhere way beyond its traditional boundaries and the imposition of sanctions against Russia, which has reacted with great restraint, while Russian speakers and anti-fascists have been burned alive, massacred and are now being attacked with heavy armour, helicopters and jet bombers. If the idea is to provoke a war with Russia then they are going about it the right way and there will come a time when Putin is going to have to move in to protect SE Ukraine.
The EU politicians are rapidly getting us involved in more and more foreign adventures at the behest of their US masters. The US and several EU countries have already been overtly involved against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and succeeded in changing regimes and totally destroying those countries without ever being able to control them. However Russia is not a third world country with obsolete weapons. It has a nuclear capability.
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