my Portuguese neighbour voted out, is she a xenophobe? a couple of asian guys i work with voted out are they racist?
It would be racist and xenophobic to answer those questions based purely on the information you've given us
my Portuguese neighbour voted out, is she a xenophobe? a couple of asian guys i work with voted out are they racist?
well have a lot less to lose, so it worth a risk to get some kind of change.....
not saying its right..... just trying to pick apart whats happened without just going over the half the country is racist...... i just dont think it as simple as that
Farage, Marine Le Pen, Trump and Boris Johnson on the spotlight. What a way to start the day
your right, but it very hard to do something about the government, i mean the conservatives got in with 35% last time, and even if you get labour things don't change.It's rich and poor. But the poor have blamed the foreigners for their problems instead of the government.
toucheIt would be racist and xenophobic to answer those questions based purely on the information you've given us![]()
you might be right, the rich generally lose more money, but losing any money hurts the poor more.Actually I think they have more to lose. Just basing off the financial crisis and how the poor generally seemed to have done worse out of that. Rich people have the money to adapt.
Which just shows how the EU has totally failed then.
People saying xenophobia didn't play a big part in leave voters motivation is simply not true. Ive got several leaflets from the leave campaign with immigration issues all over the front page including the infamous Iraq/Syria map leaflet. Then you just have to look at the political background of the people who run the official leave campaign and the things they have been saying.
Unfortunately far right politics is on the up and a further recession will only give them more popularity, as a minority with a young child i am deeply concerned about the future.
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you might be right, the rich generally lose more money, but losing any money hurts the poor more.
but i do think telling poor people who have been kicked by the economy year after year and have very few workers rights on things like zero hour contracts, to vote to save these things was a massive miscalculation..... but then hindsight is a glorious thing
How much of those money is returned from EU?Regarding how much the EU costs each person- cost to the UK £8.5bn/ year with a population of 65m equates to £130 per person per year
How much of those money is returned from EU?
They're doing it for the kidsAre the old folks aware of how badly their pension funds are going to be affected by a freefalling market?
and they just didn't have an answer on immigration, whether you think its an issue or not, the remain campaign just didn't address the issue, and just carried on banging on about an economy that isn't working for a lot of people.The Remain campaign to me looks to have been so over-the-top in its scaremongering that the people it needed to persuade simply couldn't be arsed to listen to what it had to say any more.
That's typical haves rhetoric. The Polish are generally hard workers, but for most the reason they are working in Western Europe is that they can sell their labour cheap because the cost of living in their own country is much lower. This leads to the situation that a British worker with a British priced house and a British cost of living has to work for Polish wages to compete, and has therefore much less money to spend.How has that harmed the have nots? Do you mean it's taking away opportunities from all the type of people who have been living off benefits most of their lives because they're too feckin bone idol to do a decent days work in their miserable feckin lives? I'd say let's exchange them for people from other countries who are willing to work hard and provide a positive contribution to society!
How much of those money is returned from EU?
That is the nett figure after the money is returned
Both countries accept free movement of workers. Which both adds to what you are saying, and takes away from it I guess.It's not like they try to convince the Norvegians or Swiss to join with a democratic EU for example.
and they just didn't have an answer on immigration, whether you think its an issue or not, the remain campaign just didn't address the issue, and just carried on banging on about an economy that isn't working for a lot of people.
i know hindsight is a wonderful thing, but that was just a terrible tactic
They're doing it for the kids
Are the old folks aware of how badly their pension funds are going to be affected by a freefalling market?
The drivel you are spouting has been debated and debunked over and over in the last 70 pages yet your ill informed side of the argument still won, do you think maybe you could shelve all the lies and xenophobic claptrap for now and just leave us to wonder how the feck we get out of this mess you idiots have put us all in.That's typical haves rhetoric. The Polish are generally hard workers, but for most the reason they are working in Western Europe is that they can sell their labour cheap because the cost of living in their own country is much lower. This leads to the situation that a British worker with a British priced house and a British cost of living has to work for Polish wages to compete, and has therefore much less money to spend.
It's not much more complicated than that and it's good for the haves and bad for the have nots. Because the EU is not democratic, it is and will be used by the haves at the cost of the have nots. The EU is the answer of the haves to democracy, with all it's bad things like good wages, affordable housing, decent working hours etc. The freedom of employment is dragging the situation of workers down towards the level of the poorest EU country, which gets richer, Polish are sending 1 billion from the British economy home to Poland each year, but that's why the EU keeps expanding with poor countries. It's not like they try to convince the Norvegians or Swiss to join with a democratic EU for example.
i think if a party doesn't cut immigration now, they won't be winning the next general election.They can't say anything about immigration that will placate the people bothered by it because they think the economy needs immigration at the moment. No one who has a decent chance of being PM is actually planning to reduce immigration any time soon - I'd put money on that. So in my opinion lying won. Like it did in the general election (twice) when the Tories said they'd reduce it and ended up increasing it (which they then blamed on the EU, the cnuts that they are).
Boris eulogising David Cameron is akin to Bin Laden starting a blog on the beauty of the architecture of the WTC on 12th September 2001.
That's typical haves rhetoric. The Polish are generally hard workers, but for most the reason they are working in Western Europe is that they can sell their labour cheap because the cost of living in their own country is much lower. This leads to the situation that a British worker with a British priced house and a British cost of living has to work for Polish wages to compete, and has therefore much less money to spend.
It's not much more complicated than that and it's good for the haves and bad for the have nots. Because the EU is not democratic, it is and will be used by the haves at the cost of the have nots. The EU is the answer of the haves to democracy, with all it's bad things like good wages, affordable housing, decent working hours etc. The freedom of employment is dragging the situation of workers down towards the level of the poorest EU country, which gets richer, Polish are sending 1 billion from the British economy home to Poland each year, but that's why the EU keeps expanding with poor countries. It's not like they try to convince the Norvegians or Swiss to join with a democratic EU for example.
No there's isn't a fecking plan at all.
We don't even know who's going to make the plan that doesn't exist yet to lead us through this mess since Cameron had no desire to leave in the first place and his position as PM has taken a massive hit anyway.
i think if a party doesn't cut immigration now, they won't be winning the next general election.
but i guess your right their is nothing the stay campaign could of said to address immigration.
Immigration will sort itself out now the economy is going to go to shit and there are no more jobs for the bloody foreigners to steal.
They can't say anything about immigration that will placate the people bothered by it because they think the economy needs immigration at the moment. No one who has a decent chance of being PM is actually planning to reduce immigration any time soon - I'd put money on that. So in my opinion lying won. Like it did in the general election (twice) when the Tories said they'd reduce it and ended up increasing it (which they then blamed on the EU, the cnuts that they are).