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It was big during Labour government but got worse under Tory austerity, privatising, weakening employment rights, reducing benefits and creating more zero contracts under their reign.
Problem with the UK, is if you don't work your quality of life, at least financially is better than someone who works.
That is not even true for most people on minimum wage jobs. I agree that anyone working should be taking home more than those who are unemployed but the problem is not the unemployed, it is the poor stagnated wages of the average working person when the disparity between them and those at the very top is indefensibly propped up by the policies of a political class who are intent on keeping it that way. The tax threshold should be higher to encourage working, yes, but very few want to live their life paying off a landlord rather than a mortgage and having the stigma of not being employed.
Anyone can find themselves claiming benefits through no fault of their own. It does not help when the minority are reckless with their choices are are fraudulent but they are the minority and the problem is in the avoidance of tax by the super rich who are trying to normalise people like veterans and the disabled falling through the net and dying whilst that 1% avoid acting responsibly.
The design and enforcement of the systems is many times at fault. I can't speak for the UK, but in PR as well as in the US, benefits for the unemployed can sometimes dissuade a person from working depending on that person's pay scale. There's a fine line between working one or two jobs while barely being able to pay your bills... and claiming benefits that may be 5% less in total (or 5% more)... and not having to work. That's where the mentality of the individual kicks in. If the system makes it tough to decide, something's wrong.
Stagnant wages? Sounds like a job for masses of immigrants who by making the very lowest wages in England (or the US) will be making the most money they ever have in their lives....which in turn fucks over the folks making relatively low wages already in the UK or US.
It'll be even better once there's robots doing those jobs.....ain't gotta pay them shit and they don't need a break at all.
Sounds like you are obsessed by immigrants. Your President is the child of Immigrants, the fact that you are White American means your ancestors too were immigrants. Surprisingly though, not everything is the fault of Immigrants.
In the UK, where you don't fucking live, there is no evidence that unskilled migrants suppress wages, even without considering skilled migrants, it is a Tory/Conservative fallacy, an immigration policy based on your and the Tories distaste for 'Low skilled workers'. You are fucked if you want to use logic to excuse your bigotry. You believe in Markets and yet here you are arguing for centralized Government control in another country based on your own disgusting distaste for it. Most immigrants in the UK come from the EU and are far better educated than the Brits. Young, well educated and hard working but you never mention them. One would have to ask themselves why that is? oh and students. I suppose you find them being immigrants disgusting too? Are they an invading army? Or is it the Refugees who will massively increase after Brexit. The EU has the Schengen passport free agreement in places BUT NOT THE UK. WE HAVE BORDER CHECKS. You have been sold a lie because like a hungry Sea Lion you were drooling in anticipation of something so fishy. Then you swallowed it whole. Not a good look.
"..the empirical evidence shows that EU immigration has not had significantly negative effects on average employment, wages or inequality for British people." http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2016/0...ag-down-wages/
So Theresa May says there isn’t enough money for doctors, nurses, hospitals, firefighters, so little money that she has had to cut 20,000 frontline police officers, not enough money to help the 400,000 more children in poverty since her government came to power, the 300,000 more pensioners in poverty or the homeless whose numbers have risen by 53% since 2010 …
… BUT SHE’S FOUND ENOUGH OF OUR MONEY TO INCREASE SUBSIDIES FOR GROUSE SHOOTING ESTATES FROM £30 PER HECTARE TO £56 PER HECTARE?
The amount you are now paying for her wealthy mates ‘sport’ has risen from £45m to £84m.
Exceedingly rich people are about to get considerably richer – all willingly paid for by you and me.
https://tompride.files.wordpress.com...ng?w=529&h=273
But nah...some clueless American tells us it is the fault of the Immigrants :vd: it's not it's these fuckers :toff:
https://tompride.wordpress.com/2018/...ouse-shooting/
I wouldn't say I'm obsessed BY immigrants at all...what I explained was not so much an immigration issue as it is an economic issue. It's supply and demand. We've got a demand for unskilled workers like anywhere else, however, when the supply of unskilled workers is so great the folks actually needing the workers can pay them pennies on the dollar for their labor thereby hurting unskilled workers who were already in that area/nation/state/country it's not good, not good for anyone really even the migrants.
Donald Trump is the GRANDSON of immigrants, legal immigrants mind you and at a time when immigration was needed to help man factories which fueled the industrial revolution and built our economy up.
LOL my ancestors, oh dear dear dear :shakehead:....my ancestors have been here since before the United States was an independent nation, they fought in the Revolutionary War....multiple times mind you. So that's what? 243 years ago? So we're talking what? 9-10 generations of my folks being here in this very same state. How much longer will I be considered the product of "immigrants" I'm curious?... but I'm sorry you were saying? ;D
In the UK where I don't live....
How immigrants affect jobs and wages
https://fullfact.org/immigration/imm...s-immigration/
UK research suggests that immigration has a small impact on average wages of existing workers but more significant effects for certain groups: low-wage workers lose while medium and high-paid workers gain.
...Immigrants make your working class poorer and the wealthy more wealthy FACT
I don't care for the Tories or the Conservatives, UKIP is the only party with any lick of sense.
Yes yes call me a bigot, but don't talk about the issues.
"You believe in Markets and yet here you are arguing for centralized Government control in another country based on your own disgusting distaste for it."
Um, you may have inferred that but I didn't say or imply it....The US is on your little graph there and so I responded to it. Sorry I didn't realize I wasn't welcome....mea culpa.
Immigrants can be well educated and all that awesome great stuff I don't deny it....where's their loyalty and what makes them British or English? Those are important questions for the future of England and the UK. In order for there to be a working society there needs to be a couple common threads which bind the people together otherwise problems will develop...I don't make the rules up it's just how life is.
Refugees COULD increase after Brexit, or England COULD enforce it's borders. It's up to those folks who live there.
Look at the EU and look in the mirror and ask yourself who got sold what....I thought England and the UK were just fine before they sold their future to Brussels. LMAO fight the Nazis tooth and nail and then decades later WILLINGLY sign up for their One Europe where you don't even get to choose your fucking European Parliament members LMFAO.....yeah nothing gets past you guys :spit:
Anywho, you have fun :thumb:
Theresa May is a goofy idiot, I don't think many will disagree with that...her pussyfooting around with Brexit is troublesome. It has everyone worldwide thinking "Will they or won't they"? She's an establishment hack she's not doing Brexit unless she's absolutely forced to.
Woah so the NHS is in financial trouble?!?!?! Whoever would have imagined socialized healthcare running outrageously over budget :scratchchin:
You really hate those thunder-chickens don't you?
I'm telling you these guys :toff: are making a killing on the working class by flooding the market with cheaper labor and the wages of the working class have stagnated.....but hey don't believe me.
The NHS is in trouble because of YOU and people like you telling lies. You obviously agree with subsidizing the rich at the expense of the poor even when it means the decimation of wildlife for wannabes with thousands to burn every weekend. The Tories who you are absolutely identical too in every meaningful way have an agenda like Trump your terminally stupid President to privatise everything. Most people in the UK (and Americans who have been treated in it)love, treasure and respect the NHS while you are spitting on the idea of it. You have no clue about anything in the UK other than what the fools you want to believe have told you.
The NHS is full of Immigrants and thank fuck few of them are dumb Americans like you. Educate yourself...THEN open your mouth
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...stem-trump-nhs
To not point out immigration at all when 8 million people have moved to a small country in a relatively short time and in turn contributed to a housing crisis, school place shortages and been a burden on the NHS is daft. A figure that is not disputed is that migration over a 15 year period cost the UK 119 billion pounds conservatively, but more likely up above 150 billion pounds. That is 6bn pounds a year. I don't know about you but to throw away that much money when it could be spent on something useful for local people seems a waste.
That in tandem with a poorly run economy will have an effect. The truth is the UK minimum wage is reasonable and you can rent a studio cheaply and though you will never live like a king (and neither should you doing an unskilled job), you can live okay. It is one reason migrants like the UK and of course the very generous benefits system that all too many in the country use and stay on year in year out. Out here it is 3 months and then snip. Gone. Get a job.
It would be better to close the borders, protect domestic jobs and rights, and of course close down loopholes and tax havens for the rich. Actually build council housing and give it to responsible people rather than ISIS fighters and single mothers.
A country needs to aspire and this is where other countries leave the UK behind with stronger public services, more cohesive family structures and better education.
How unsurprising that you are still waging your fake news war denying the horrors of the Nazis with your desire to emulate them with an axis of Nationalist states around the world. The arrogance of you assuming their are no common threads between British unless you approve of them or they are white is mind blowing. You can get to France in an hour and a half from England in a car on a boat or you can even take a train like people do daily. You seem disgusted by that or the idea that we may work in Europe or they may come and work here. Why? Had you not taken into account exactly how much we Europeans have in common when many families share more than one nationality?
A figure that is not disputed is that migration over a 15 year period cost the UK 119 billion pounds conservatively, but more likely up above 150 billion pounds
This is a lie. That makes you a liar.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8448261.html
You insistence that council housing is reserved for ISIS fighters and single mothers proves that you are also a Racist and Bigot. You are pretending that because you despise the working class the immigrant working class willing to do jobs that Brits will not, are scum to you. Your disgust at people doing what you consider an unskilled job reveals just how much you have sold out. How many pieces of silver did you get for that?
You would rather suck off Douglas Murray than give anyone a living wage. No wonder you love to have your ears tickled by fascists.
LOL.
A proven 15 year study of the net cost of immigration is something most sensible people would take over a 'projected' number from a contemporary Independent 'newspaper' puff piece.
The data is the data and your other ranty faux outrage is neither here nor there. You cannot prove it wrong whence that article which refuted nothing. I can cite the specific research which you can read yourself.
I could rent a studio and live on the minimum wage. There is no contempt there. However, it is made harder when 8 million are competing for the same things. It's basic supply and demand.
When is enough? 10 million? 15? 25? You do realize that politicians, even British politicians, accept that yes, there is a problem. Even Labour who started this on the contemporary scale admitted they got it wrong. Brexit says people think it is wrong. So, what are you defending exactly? Do you think multiculturalism has been a success?
I said to close down tax loopholes and off shore havens. But the compromise is an end to immigration and to have a little self respect and believe that British people can drive taxis and work in hospitals. I went to hospital yesterday. There was no demand for overseas nurses plucked from the 3rd world. Everything functions just fine.
Douglas Murray is an attractive and well informed man. You should have a little respect.
Fuck Douglas and all who ride in him
When reason flies out the window and the gutter rises.
There is no lower form of stupidity than the racism that you and Murray both subscribe to. It is crass, dangerous and a filthy ideology with which you both like to play. If in a thread about the gross inequality in Great Britain, all you are worried about is defending some Etonian Schooled Oxford educated Neo-con, who like you has made sure that any voices who are not vehemently anti-Muslim and anti-Immigrant are silenced, then it is quite clear where your allegiances lie. They are most certainly not with the country you ran away from, or the working class you seem to think should be grateful for cake.
Wanker.
Hmm. Who brought up the subject of race? Didn't George Orwell also go to Eton too? It's not about defending an individual it is about making an argument about what contributes towards a 'gap'. My argument is that open borders along with deregulation and weak government leads to inevitable inequalities of wealth. It has little to do with skin color. Most of the migrants from Europe are white.
I am telling you, on an income of 7 pounds an hour and with a hot chick who earns the same, you can pool that money and live a very reasonable life. Now you do need to have a certain Etonian charm and an ability to count to get such work or indeed entice the hot chick, who must indeed be non white, as one needs to cover ones racist tracks, but overall you can live pretty well.
People should of course not eat cake as it is filled with chemicals and gluten which will inevitably mean the NHS is even more burdened. Just eat healthily and all is good.
Wow....you're an angry lil fella, don't stroke out on us.
Hey man, you go do whatever you want with England. Pay no attention to the Pareto principle or game theory or ACTUAL HISTORY, you know really go out and ACHIEVE that utopia!
Ever get assigned a group project in school? Out of 6 about how many truly put the work in? Would that be a fun way to live?
I never dismissed what the Nazis did by the way....not sure I get where you're coming from in accusing me of that, but I'd venture to guess it's close to Plymouth.
It's such an intellectually dishonest way to 'debate'. To turn criticism of immigration into an automatic advocacy of 'racism' and to then resort to very crude 'Ad Hominem' and then run away. Surely you have to accept that a huge net loss to an economy over 15 years is pretty substantial. One cannot just ignore it and pretend that it does not matter. 6 billions pounds a year. An article a few days ago suggested the NHS needed an immediate 3 billion. That would be easy to find if between 119 - 150 billion (or even more) had not been frittered away bringing in people who would cost money. And for sure, far more was given to the banks too.
Angry poster not called Beanz goes on to suggest that allegiances do not lie with a country which apparently has been run away from, but Brexit tells its own story as do polls asking what Europeans feel about immigration within their societies. One can make it a personal attack but what about what those in Europe or the UK, you know people who actually live there, and the data from those people? I have never participated in such a poll. When 47% of the populace argue that Islam has no place in a Western society, that is the British people. When 66% of Germans say the same, that is their voice. When a majority votes for Brexit that is their voice. When 89% of the population wants no more population growth it might be wise to listen to them.
Is everyone now a racist and a traitor? It is a very ideological way to look at things. I thought this was a debate about wealth inequality, but somebody does not know how to debate. ;D
I don’t know if he is Beanz or not, just that it’d be a lot funnier if a new poster happened to join right after he banned himself and pressed play;D A Brock knock off would be much less believable of course, I’d be worried about being struck by lightning if that happened.
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It is telling that in a thread about tax avoidance that the continued scam of neoconservatives using immigrants as a convenient scapegoat is the first thing mentioned by those wanting to blow a dog whistle to alert their fellow racists.
Make no mistake Murray is a bigoted racist white supremacist and he like Bannon is part of a campaign to push white supremacy. This is the book he and Bannon see as 'prophetic'. It is why he Trump and Bannon think all Muslims should be banned and repatriated. It is why Murray the loathsome cunt claims that all Indians have brought to the UK is cuisine. Just like Gandalf and his similar broad racist propaganda in which non-White means non British, in fact even many whites are to him not British enough despite being born here. Here is the book https://m.huffingtonpost.com.au/entr...b0284854b3dc03
Here is an article about how the far right in The Henry Jackson society, who Murray is a director of, are paid to spread fake news on behalf of others.
Any dissenting voices are silenced. This is happening everywhere
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/brend...ociety-matthew
It is racism repackaged as logic and reason.
No, this is simply not good enough. If this is Beanz, then I am actually a bit disappointed by the quality of the 'debate' going on here. I am going to have to either concede that Beanz has been hit on the head (again) or that this is simply not Beanz.
The book is prophetic, and probably quite racist, though the author of that book later conceded that the scale of immigration in fact far exceeded the numbers given in the book.
What do you mean by white supremacy? The concept that Europe is the home of particular groups who have no other place to go to in the world if they are usurped, then is that white supremacy? Is there black supremacy in Nigeria? Should Europeans all move there? Is there 'Asian' supremacy in India where foreigners are prohibited from purchasing property? You cannot have it all ways? Are the Japanese supremacists too because they carefully control the borders of their fine and exceptional country? Or does this supremacy deal only apply to those of a paler skin colour in Europe and America because they dare to consider that their homeland is theirs and that they should have priority over people who do not have citizenship or in many cases have not even attempted to move to a country legally?
Now is the book tasteful? No. Is it nice? No. However, that does not subtract from its message that Europe will in time become dominated by illegal invaders who will not integrate? No. Books do not have to be tasteful. Conrad's The Heart of Darkness was not tasteful. William Burrough's Naked Lunch was not tasteful. However, that does not detract from the power of the literature. Literature is art, it is not actual political analysis. In art you can say and do anything. In some art you will find a reflection of reality and in some art it might prove eerily prophetic, and that is all that Murray takes from The Camp of the Saints. You can look at demographic projections and you can see exactly what will happen.
There is nothing wrong with believing that Europe is not for the world or that America does not owe the world a living and that countries and people have a primary responsibility for their own people first. If fertility rates are high in Nigeria, then that is a Nigeria problem, it should not be a Europe problem.
Now you say that I think non white people cannot be British and accuse me of racism yet again which is slander. I am someone who can get a little bit irritated by people who cannot debate a topic. You are either a troll, or else you are a rather reduced Beanz and if you are the latter I am a little bit disappointed because your argument is a) Pathetic and b) Not even related to the topic that you started. This is unworthy and easy. It is a caricature of Beanz. As much as I dislike Beanz he was more able than this feeble imitation.
Prophetic and only 'Probably quite racist'?
The plot of The Camp of the Saints follows a poor Indian demagogue, named “the turd-eater” because he literally eats shit, and the deformed, apparently psychic child who sits on his shoulders. Together, they lead an “armada” of 800,000 impoverished Indians sailing to France. Dithering European politicians, bureaucrats and religious leaders, including a liberal pope from Latin America, debate whether to let the ships land and accept the Indians or to do the right thing — in the book’s vision — by recognizing the threat the migrants pose and killing them all.
Only white Europeans like Calgues are portrayed as truly human in The Camp of the Saints. The Indian armada brings “thousands of wretched creatures” whose very bodies arouse disgust: “Scraggy branches, brown and black … All bare, those fleshless Gandhi-arms.” Poor brown children are spoiled fruit “starting to rot, all wormy inside, or turned so you can’t see the mold.”
The ship’s inhabitants are also sexual deviants who turn the voyage into a grotesque orgy. “Everywhere, rivers of sperm,” Raspail writes. “Streaming over bodies, oozing between breasts, and buttocks, and thighs, and lips, and fingers.”
The white Christian world is on the brink of destruction, the novel suggests, because these black and brown people are more fertile and more numerous, while the West has lost that necessary belief in its own cultural and racial superiority. As he talks to the hippie he will soon kill, Calgues explains how the youth went so wrong: “That scorn of a people for other races, the knowledge that one’s own is best, the triumphant joy at feeling oneself to be part of humanity’s finest — none of that had ever filled these youngsters’ addled brains.”
Is it not true that birth rates are higher in poor countries and that most of the refugees are economic migrants? That is quite true.
The book is literature, it is not political analysis. I think you need to actually read Murray's book rather than read articles that jump aspects of tiny parts of it. Murray himself admits that the book you are quoting from has become decried as racist, but the general point I made in my first sentence above is the key one.
Stop backtracking. First you blame the extreme rise in wealth inequality in the UK on Migrants. Then you quote a well known white supremacist Islamaphobe to further distract from the main reasons, a man like you who uses propaganda and lies to silence anyone who does not subscribe to his rampant xenophobia. Then when some of the source material that Bannon, Murray and Now YOU claim to be prophetic is shown quite clearly to be a racist piece of garbage you are revealed as the idealogue using lies to defend your racism.
No it is not true that most of the Refugees in Europe are economic migrants. Most of them are from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq over the last 10 years but you would like to pretend that white Europeans and their pasty American counterparts had no part in that.
Stop blaming your bilious pessimistic defeatist ignorant attitude on migrants. Europe has not signed up to you emo self centered death trope just because you would like to live in la la land. Europe was never the exclusive home of white people you moronic gammon head.
Your arguments are very weak. You clearly know very little of the topic you are attempting to debate.
1.Prove that the refugees are genuine refugees.
2. Prove that they mostly come from those countries.
3. Prove that they are not economic migrants.
4. Explain why the people of Europe have an obligation to take any of them in.
5. Prove that migration does not cost a substantial.amount of money.
6. Prove that migrants are not lying about their age.
7. Prove that rises in violent crime is not caused by migrants throughout many parts of Europe.
8. Tell me where the Europeans can call their home.
Show me data. Give me reasons. Tell me why I am wrong without resorting to weak slander nor ad hominem.
And nope, I have never supported any of the illegal wars. I am NOT responsible for any of those conflicts. If Lilly Allen wants to take in a refugee she is perfectly welcome to, but she changed her mind. Surprise, surprise.
He's banned already?!?!? That was fast
What for? Mods, I'd like an explanation if one of you would be so kind...you can DM me if that suits you better.
That was an unfair ban. The guy was Russian that’s how they talk.
Was he?
I mean it doesn't much matter, he pulled the same bullcrap Beanz pulled, but was more honest about his emotions.
I wanted to ask if the countries the immigrants are leaving are such shitholes then why is it men aged 18-35 as the LARGEST group of those migrating? What kind of MAN leaves behind their wives, children, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, etc and why the fuck would we want to import such cowards?
I'm sure there's a lot of bad apples who migrate in order to cause trouble in their new country. But then there's this.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/...conomic-force/
I had previously read an article about migrants to places like Dubai, among others, where the driving purpose was to make a livelihood for themselves they were unable to do in their own country. They leave their families behind, yes... but mostly to send back money that otherwise they'd be unable to provide.
Just pointing out that immigration is never an all-or-nothing deal. It's up to immigration officials and government to sift out the good from the bad.
Well, that's just silly.
There was a bike, I think it was like a Grifter or a Chopper, that was called the 'Tomahawk'. We named lots of women Sue (though it believe it should be Sioux). People shout 'Geronimo' when they parachute out of 'planes, people from Dudley call a sink a 'bison', and all British kids do that woo woo woo noise when they get the palm of their hand into their lips repeatedly
Hiw dare you downplay Indian contribution to U.K. Culture!
Or get away from dealing with the consequences of their poor behavior in their previous country....yeah LOTS of those guys. The Cuban Boat lift....LOTS OF THOSE GUYS. Just Fidel saying "Fuck let's empty out the prisons" where sure there are some political prisoners, but mostly gang members, violent criminals, thugs.
Yyyyyyeeeeeaaaaah they send money back, but the people they're sending money back to are still in a shithole country. Remember we law abiding citizens are told "These people are escaping the horrors of the third world" "they're fleeing war torn countries"......and they're LEAVING BEHIND THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN.....your "Awww, but they send money back" doesn't much change the shithole or war torn part of their former nation.
And again....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
I cannot stress that enough, but hey whatevs
Ok so let's talk percentages.
What percentage of these 18-35 year old men are leaving their "shithole" countries to go and ravage their new country with pillaging, terrorism and rape?
98%? 99%? 99.5%?
Because all I'm saying is I don't believe in the all-or-nothing. But it seems you want to drive the argument there.
What percentage?
Mind you, that would leave 1% or less as actual decent people.