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Aaaaaaaaghhhh! We're Doomed!!
Aaaaaaaaghhhhhh! Help! Help! What are we going to do?!!!!
We're doomed!!! Doomed I tell you!!! Well, he tells you. He being David Cameron, the snotfaced public schoolboy who is the current leader of the Conservative Party.
He wants to reassure the Daily Mail and Express that he'll be as much of a shitbag when it comes to immigration as Blair and Brown have been. Just in case that much wasn't obvious.
And what better way to begin than to scream blind panic about the numbers of immigrants coming into the country. 200,000 more people come into Britain than people who leave, he tells us.
I can almost see Helen Lovejoy, the gossipy vicar's wife from The Simpsons, running across my TV screen wailing "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children."
But let me be the first to say this: what a load of sinister old "so what" bollocks. So in a country of 60 million people, I'm expected to panic because there's 200,000 more people than there was last year?? What's to worry about?
Let's put the numbers into a perspective that's easier to get your head round. Lets say you're in a group of 600 people. Now imagine that 2 people turn up. Are you even the slightest bit bothered? Are you suddenly reaching for those tins of food that you'd originally gathered for the post nuclear winter in desperation? Or do you not even notice?
You see, to scale, that's all that's happened. Those 200,000 people added to a population of 60 million, is the same as 2 extra people joining a population of 600.
Who'd even care? Especially when the 2 people are more than happy to pitch in and help out the community they'd joined.
Surely only a berk of unimaginable proportions (imagine Blair, Brown, Cameron melted together into a three headed orgy of hysteria) would possibly panic at that?
In which case I daren't show them this other bit of news.
I can exclusively reveal that on top of that, there are another nearly 75,000 thousand more people in the country than the year before - and all without a flinch from the complacent authorities! Even though they're well aware that it's going on. And that it's been going on for decades!!
Not a single one of these people will be employed. Instead, every single one of them will be paid for by the state. Yes that's YOUR taxes!! And every single one of them not just incapable of working but utterly, totally, pants wettingly dependent.
It's been this way for years!! In the 60's this was happening to the tune of 400,000 a year. Isn't it time something was done about it!!!!
Are you outraged? Are you shocked? Are you donning a tin hat, and banging a bin lid as you march up to Whitehall demanding how on Earth the government could ever let this happen. And keep letting it happen at that.
Once again I demand: "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children."
Well actually I am. It's children I'm talking about. Births outnumber deaths by around 75,000 a year at the moment. And in the 60's they outnumbered deaths by a staggering 0.4 million.
Where was the outcry? Where was the horror? Where was the yells of "but we're full!!!"? Where were the front page headlines and snivelling statements demanding the government prevent all this from happening?
Who has been yelling "Get Tough On Childbirth - It's Got To Stop!!"
Nobody. That would be ridiculous obviously.
But no more ridiculous than this constant wailing about immigration.
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Lmfao I couldn't have put it better myself.
Posted by
Armoured Amazon |
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
How many of this 600 group are already illegal immigrants?
Statistics can be very misleading cant they!
Posted by
Anonymous |
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
How many? Well that depends on the definition of illegal - an abstract term defined by the lawmakers of the day.
If immigration ceases to be illegal, none of them are.
Ultimately though, why do you care where people are born instead of caring about who they are as people?
It's a pretty irrelevant statistic to keep a watch on don't you think?
Why are you threatened by the idea that people live here that used to live somewhere else?
I'm sure that the people who have power, wealth and a vested interested in keeping us all distracted with such divisive hogwash are delighted at the sight of you sat there clutching your abacus.
Posted by
Alun Parry |
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
errr?
I am just saying that your numbers may be wrong, therefore you may be using a lie (or untruth, depending on your perspective) to prove your point, if you use facts your points may be more viable, such is the problem with most politics dont you think?
Please do not assume you know what my thoughts on this matter are as i have not expressed them to you, i just suggested your numbers may be wrong, therefore maybe it is you who feels threatened? I am sorry if this is the case but I dislike seeing injustice.
As you say yourself "it is a pretty irrelevant statistic to keep a watch on" anyway so therefore you admit your blog is irrelevant?
Statistics are used to back up weak arguments and very rarely provide a true fact; 8 out of 10 cat owners and all that nonsence!
I dont own an abacus but i know an eastern european fellow who sells them cheap if you are interested??? x
Posted by
Anonymous |
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
well i never raised the issue of counting migrants. cameron did. and then come to think of it, so did you.
cameron thinks it's relevant as he has a sinister and racist agenda.
as such it's very important for me and others to point out that his nasty scaremongering is just that.
so i wouldn't say this blog topic is irrelevant no.
but you're right, I'd rather I didn't have to be discussing the issue. when the day comes that politicians stop attempting to induce panic attacks about such non-issues then i'll be a very happy man.
cameron's statistic of 200,000 may well be a lie. who knows? but presumably his propaganda skills would tell him it'd be a more useful lie if he bumped the numbers up rather than knocked them down.
but even if it's true (and who wouldn't take an old Etonian at face value!), my point is so what.
the news bulletins thought this was a major story. i'm here to put a different slant on it and present it to you as the non story it really is.
Posted by
Alun Parry |
Wednesday, October 31, 2007