It started with the Common Market for those of us old enough to remember, we were reassured that our sovereignty would never be surrendered and it has ended with Angela Merkel calling the shots.
The EU don't do audits, (that is the process of checking accounts) apparently it's more cost effective to just give money away to MEP's and the like.
Mine most likely, my well educated mid income readers need not fear, the middle classes tend to have well protected employment contracts, ordinary people like me, zero hours contracts and no rights, and not even the support of our better off countrymen and women.
How will it all end, probably with an avalanche of propaganda such as that from our left of centre friends, just look at the rational output from Christine Tongue, films interview with the man who assualted Nigel Farage in Margate (all justification and not a lot of sorry), and flilms a sort of Match of the Day type highlights show of the angry hostile protesters.
Forgive me if I and roughtly seventy percent of the population are not just ready to give up on what was once our home, Great Britain or to see this countries, call them what you will, lefties, liberals, intelligentsia, looneys or whatever bury our freedom and celebrate thugs on some twisted slur. National interest is not racism.
What a load of fascist rubbish.
ReplyDeletePlease don't be so harsh when referring to Thanet's red brigade
DeleteNigel Farage says German wife is not taking Briton's job
ReplyDelete8 hours ago
The leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, was asked whether his wife, who is German, was taking a British person's job by being employed as his secretary.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson put the question at the launch of UKIP's European elections poster campaign warning about Europeans taking British jobs.
Mr Farage said "nobody else could do that job", working unsociable hours seven days a week.
Shame on nick Robinson who recently as remember highlighted BBC censoring the flow of information concerning immigration
DeleteThat was a party political broadcast on behalf of the UKIP party.
ReplyDeleteYou wouldn't catch Polish manual workers writing on blogs at 9am on a working day. Get back to work Tone!
ReplyDeleteI won't be taking a lunch break today and didn't yesterday
DeleteWhy not? EC regulations (Not UK regulations!) say that you're legally entitled to one.
DeleteThanet's Red Hall mob are happy to stir up hatred and violence like the spiteful attack on Farage the criticise from the sidelines.
ReplyDeleteFlaig,,,German: from a Swabian-Alemannic word cognate with the word for ‘fly’
ReplyDeleteThanks for a rare incite into my family origins, which is probably as reliable as the one I read elsewhere just now wittering on about anglo saxon tribes blah blah blah. Still you may be right.
DeleteAs you're clearly are interested, my family name as far as I'm concerned, originates with my great grandfather who along with four others emigrated from a small town in Thuringia in Germany around 1890, each being skilled in the manufacture of scientific and technical laboratory glassware.
Life moves on however, these people helped create a small but vital industry which helped sustain research in universities, chemical and pharmaceuticals industries, when such things mattered and British manufacturing rivalled that of Germany,America .
Anyhoo I only mention this to balance, your (14:35) rather loopy comment and to illustrate I'm not entirely unaware of the benefits that migration can bring, if you're selective. A handful of migrants creating a small industry employing a few hundred people, until other technologies took over in the 1970's
So it's okay for your ancestors bringing their skills to Britain and setting up shop but not for say a present day Pole or Romanian?
DeleteHow are you going to be "selective" and at the same time stop skilled, or even, unskilled Poles or Romanians coming here who might actually turn out to be future job creators?
In fact, how will your selective, limited immigration policy actually work Tone?
I'd limit EU immigration but let in more fit Swedish and Czech women but keep out all those hairy Polish builders and Slovakian farm labourers if I was them ukips!
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Delete11:00 a rather silly question Australia USA Canada all manage to select those they need.
Delete11:22 looks like this one emerged from under a rock Tony. Could pose the same question of the present royal family. Cowardly and I guess as stupid as the previous twit.
12:59 Is it really?
DeleteI asked Tony how selective immigration will work in the UK not a comparison to other nations with different circumstances.
You've boiled a complex issue down to "Australia USA Canada all manage to select those they need." Do they indeed and you think we will follow along similar lines do you?
Please enlighten us as to just who we will let in and keep out. I know, lets let in CEOs, Oligarchs and prostitutes and keep out farm workers and plumbers. Easy peasy, problem solved.
11:22 I've removed your offensive remark it seems that low life's such as yourself, when not bleating about bedroom tax and whatever work shy socialist do, spend there time attacking hard working people like me,as some weird leisure activity.
DeleteLay off the drugs get off your sofa and find a job
Actually I'm a taxi driver! We know how to run the country!
DeleteI see now why you dissed your former Lib Dem colleague in your previous thread - you've no formally come out of the UKIP closet. At least we can all see your true colours now, Mr Flaig.
ReplyDeleteDissed? clearly I'm getting a younger readership, I'm sorry that I'm not part of the trivial "Liked" facebook generation.
DeleteMy true colours are Liberal I don't buy into Europe, since it is inherently corrupt, undemocratic and has no legitimacy, outside the crazy world professional politicians.
Bring back European collaboration, open travel, free trade, but not the right to take up permanent residency or my job.
PS Still if your Matt Brown consider yourself Liked
DeleteI hope that with this post you will end your pretence of being a political "liberal". I also hope you will have no aspirations to stand again as a representative of the Liberal Democrat Party, because that would be an electoral fraud. Your opinions and the principles you hold are far away from those of a "liberal".
DeleteTwo specific examples in your comments.
You support the concept of nationalism - and distinguish it (possibly fairly) from racism - but the Liberal Democrats are fighting nationalism in their stance on Scottish independence.
Your scepticism about Europe - and I applauid you for expressing an opinion rather than slagging off Labour as you habitually do - is quite alien to the policy of the Party you have pretended to support for so long.
You are clearly firmly in the UKIP camp, which is fine, but be honest about yourself and your opinions.
Your job will be taken by a robot Flaigy. You'll be sat on your arse drinking tea and twiddling some knobs...
ReplyDeleteTone, you've never been one for joined-up thinking have you? Nor have many Ukippers for that matter.
ReplyDeleteAll for free trade and open travel but want to clamp down on the free flow of labour? Do you not know how the world of free market Capitalism works?
So how will you and UKIP stop mass immigration while supporting free trade and open travel? Encourage multi-national Corporations to come here and set up shop but limit their pool of low waged workers? Create a police state monitoring the whereabouts of everyone who comes to the country on a tourist visa and make sure they return home on time?
Unfortunately, or not, Neoliberalism won't work with the UKIP version of limited immigration and free market ideals. It's extremely doubtful that the world of Corporate Capitalism will play ball and will likely give Britain a wide berth in favour of nations that work better for them.
10:47 clearly you are some sort of Nazi a "pool of low paid workers" sorry you little fascist these are people like those I work with.
DeleteTony is only reacting to a problem which happens to be people like yourself seeing working people as no more than objects.
Wow! That's a grown up response. You're not a Ukipper by any chance are you?
Delete10:47 nazi or Thatcherite parasite makes no difference, 14:05 scum like yourself relish the idea of people working for poverty pay while you and your accountant dream up ways to avoid paying your share
Delete15:34 says, through a mouthful of venom and hatred: "scum like yourself relish the idea of people working for poverty pay". I'm sorry, where did I say that exactly?
DeleteIf you had half a brain you'd realise that I'm playing devil's advocate and pointing out the problems of having ill thought out ideas, like most kippers, without realising how the world of free-market/Corporate/Global capitalism works.
Britain and most of the western world has gone so far down the route of neoliberalism that trying to put a halt to many aspects of our political/economic consensus would result in more problems than it could handle. I'd love to see a reverse in the way the current model operates but I'm afraid I can't see it happening and this is where UKIP would fail miserably.
It's alright whingeing about immigration and giving money to foreigners in Brussels but I'm yet to hear you kippers supply a working alternative.
Well done for giving an opinion Tony. Even if people don't agree with it, they should not run you down for having an opinion. That feels like massive hypocrisy to me.
ReplyDeleteThis blog post proves exactly why you're a manual worker and not a politician. Just stick to what you're good at, eh?
ReplyDeleteThat is a very bigoted point of view above
DeleteHow is it? I'm sure that not many politicians can lay railway tracks. We all find what we're good at in life, and often it's a mistake to step out of that.
DeleteDid Shipman and Hitler find what they were good at?
DeleteThe bloke in the 2nd poster is an actor and IRISH!!!
ReplyDeleteShocking I always thought advertisers used "real people" next you'll be telling us that coronation street is just a group of actors
DeleteThe point is the "advertisement" complains about people from other countries taking British jobs, and then they used a non-British actor!
DeleteAt the very least 26M unemployed in Europe shows that the EU is not run very well? And the EU failing to provide its accounts is bureaucracy waste with our tax. I can't see how the EU "runs the UK" though. How?
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