I'm not sure we had the full context of that remark - when it suits them, the BBC is as adept at snipping context as the Daily Mail is.

 

He mentions immigration partly because no other mainstream politician is willing to - despite what lefties want us to believe there *are* negative consequences as well as positive ones. As for racist attacks, the perpetrators are solely responsible for their actions - unless you are claiming that Farage urged people to commit racist acts?

There can be little doubt that the prominence of immigration in the referendum campaign has led some racists to believe that the result now makes their repugnant views acceptable. As the man who mentioned immigration more than anybody, Farage played a part in that. Many leading politicians have rightly condemned these attacks. Farage has said not a single word.

 

The idea that no other mainstream politician has talked about immigration is just bizarre. I'm sure I'm by by no means alone in being bored with hearing politicians claim that they are not allowed to talk about immigration before going on a rant about that very subject. Did you miss those Tory posters in the 2005 election campaign? Yes, that was 11 years ago, but it serves to illustrate just how long some politicians have been banging on about the subject. That all helped to create the impression that the number of immigrants in the country is much higher than the true figure.

I'd estimate around 95% of the supposed "negative consequences" of immigration could have been avoided with the following simple steps:

 

01 - Stop starving the NHS of cash in an attempt to cripple it and sell it to the lowest bidder bit by bit.

02 - Stop selling social housing.

03 - Start allowing councils to build social housing to replace the ones you sold for 45p on the £1

04 - Encourage private house builders to build on brownfield sites with a tax incentive

05 - Introduce teacher training bursaries, especially for those who complete the post-grad qualification as they switch careers

06 - Provide more funding to local authorities in order to increase the number of staff in schools

07 - Emulate the devolved administration in Scotland and invest in School buildings by rebuilding existing schools, extending schools in growing areas and building new schools altogether.

08 - Increase funding for UK Visa's and Immigration, allowing them to post more staff at the borders.

09 - Re-introduce exit controls to count out people.

10 - Actually deport those whom have overstayed their visas. We should no longer operate a catch and release programme.

11 - Start participating fully in pan-EU policing and criminal record efforts

12 - Check all arrivals into the UK against the pan-EU criminal database in order to prevent entry by those that could pose a thread to public safety - in full compliance with the EU treaty of free movement

13 - Introduce minimum standards of training and experience for trades with guidelines for non-UK nationals for converting their previously obtained qualifications and experience. (No more dodgy polish plumbers and no more cowboy british ones either as all will be of a minimum standard) Those who don't meet the standard can be very heavily fined for practising and those who do unsafe work while unlicensed can be jailed (and yes, then deported in full compliance with EU law if they are not UK nationals)

14 - Beef up workers rights by making it illegal for a British job vacancy to be advertised abroad but not at home.

15 - Make the minimum wage a minimum 'take-home' wage (i.e. after tax, NI, pension and all other deductions) and make it illegal for 'room and board' provided by employers, and deducted from wages at source, to mean that the person is actually paid below minimum wage. Fines & Jail for those employers that break this law

16 - Introduce a special regional development fund for local authorities who have a rapidly growing population to help them provide more quality housing, increased level of public services, integration specialists, free English language courses for the whole family, translators to assist service centres and print materials in more languages etc etc.

 

I could keep going, especially because I haven't gone near benefits.

 

This involves spending money, something our government is allergic to, but this is basic country building stuff right here. You invest, the economy grows and increased tax revenues pay back your investment which allows you to make further investments and that grows your economy some more and you get even more tax revenues which allow more investment....and so on.

I think everyone but the rich and well-off would vote for any party with those policies. I would.

 

On a personal level, the local company who employ 2 of my nephews has announced it's local paper Headline-grabbing intention to shift most production from here to germany, because of the referendum and wanting to expand in Europe. I wish I could say my nephews were aware of this potential development and sensibly voted Remain (the firm has around one-third EU staff, not highly paid on the whole). I can't say that though.

 

For those low-paid Leavers who thought things couldn't get any worse.....?

 

It's only 2 weeks since the referendum.

Got an email from my insurance university. It's been confirmed that people entering uni this year will still be able to benefit from study abroad, but unsure for the years to follow. Personally I'm delighted that I'll still have the opportunity to live in Germany for a year, but I can't help but be worried that the chance for the people going to uni in the years to come will be gone :(

Fab you can still get a year study abroad! Go for it :cheer: (and I'm also sad for the next gen of students/uni/job-seekers)

 

On another note, just for the Project Fear crew, Private Eye reports (because no other paper will) that IS have actually now published in their own rag their rather cheerful assessment that they are very happy the UK has left the EU as it's much more likely to see Europe fragment and fall apart.

 

As I said, Project Fact. Project Lies of course has yet to have one single prediction or assertion be proven correct. That I have to continually show David Cameron was telling the truth (for once in his life) makes me feel dirty....

Got an email from my insurance university. It's been confirmed that people entering uni this year will still be able to benefit from study abroad, but unsure for the years to follow. Personally I'm delighted that I'll still have the opportunity to live in Germany for a year, but I can't help but be worried that the chance for the people going to uni in the years to come will be gone :(

Just one of the many benefits of EU membership that the idiots behind the Remain campaign didn't bother to mention :(

Of 751 MEPs he has the 747th LOWEST attendance. Saying he does nothing doesn't require much of an intuitive leap

 

Of course. if he was there every day, then there'd be counter-claims that he was a hypocrite, having his snout in the trough of an organisation he didn't believe in... :rolleyes:

 

 

There can be little doubt that the prominence of immigration in the referendum campaign has led some racists to believe that the result now makes their repugnant views acceptable.

 

Racists have *always* believed their repugnant views are acceptable, ISTM the referendum has made to difference to that misguided belief.

Of course. if he was there every day, then there'd be counter-claims that he was a hypocrite, having his snout in the trough of an organisation he didn't believe in... :rolleyes:

 

In which case, since he's got what he wants why doesn't he do what The Last Leg suggested last night and donate his 80k a year to charity?

 

Now, let's see you defend that utter hypocrisy, and without using Leave catch phrases like "snout" and "trough" when he clearly IS a hypocrite with his "snout" in a "trough". He has NO excuses other than he's in it for himself, and to get paid a massive wage to occasionally go over and crow and insult elected officials who are actually doing the job they were elected to do. Unlike him.

The thing about international students at uk universities that used to annoy me when I was there the local uni used to fall over themselves to get international students at the expense of locals because they could earn a lot more money off them to pay their overlap chancellors - in a MA course I did at Queens Belfast my class was 95% from the United States.