This overblown time-wasting debate

GD in a nutshell. But isn’t that the point?

I watched “Blazing Saddles” the other night and nowadays it is difficult to watch without being acutely aware of the language. However it doesn’t denigrate black people, quite the reverse in fact and I doubt if Richard Pryor would have been associated with it if it had.
….and it is still one of the funny films ever made.

Well it would be if that was actually what happened.

“A spokesperson for Cambridgeshire Police confirmed today that the visit had occurred but said they had not told Mr Abberton to delete any tweets.

“We were called with a complaint about a message on social media at about 12.40pm on Friday.”

The concern should be about the complainant. The police were legitimately following up a complaint. It all came to nothing so yet another example of the media creating a story where there isn’t one, or certainly not one worth spending time on.

So that is what happened as your quote states. UKIP complained about someone daring to criticize their policies so complained to the police.

Not worth spending time on – I guess you could say that about the whole forum.

Urrrrrrrgh ukip’s antics are making my blood boil more and more by the day… and I am concerned by what I read around various posts on social network sites at how many people are falling for their bull**** .

If ukip put a stop to immigration, and there are still no jobs, I wonder who people would turn on next? homosexuals? The disabled? Women?

When did everyone become so hateful? Surely humans are better united? The world is changing, more and more cultures are starting to entwine with each other. It’s time people started embracing it, rather than creating propaganda to feed peoples’ fear and hate. No amount of ‘foreigners’ are going to stop you being English/Scottish/Welsh/ whatever.

All my opinion of course. I feel better for getting that off my chest.

I can’t disagree with that.

Nationalism and to a lesser extent religion/ideology have been the causes of the vast majority of wars and conflicts and yet we still tolerate and indeed celebrate it. This forum had a thread that derided organized religion has a root cause for for many problems and yet nationalism with its symbolism and flag-waving goes unchallenged.

I also doubt that queues are longer due to immigration. It is much more likely to be due to reduction in services and staff, more OAPs, more leisure time, and any number of other factors. Blaming immigration is sadly typical of the right wing requirement for a scapegoat for everything.

What’s wrong with first names? Resepct has to be earned and has nothing to do with what we call people.

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At what point do we stop importing people? There is, on a finite island only so much space.

Your quote. Nothing to do with people moving from the South East. But you knew that.

What was it you said about wriggling?

From Nigel Farage in 2010

“Let me make this clear to you: UKIP is not against immigration. We welcome immigration; we want immigration.”

How odd…..

I’d better be careful. I don’t want the police around…….

Indeed. It may be a lot less of an issue than Farage and (sorry I can’t think of any other UKIP people) might think. The UK population are probably more interested in issues like unemployment, the economy, the environment, law and order, defence, etc. in which UKIP have shown an almost total disinterest.

Perhaps when the dust settles after this “earthquake” then UKIP can be questioned about policies other then the EU or immigration. That should prove interesting. Their last manifesto looked as if it had been taken from a 12-year-old’s “When I’m Prime Minister” assignment.