Brexit

[darmstadt]

Its the same image used by groups like Britain First back in October 2015, maybe they should have done some research first if they don't want to be associated with far right extremists...

[BrilloPad]

The poster of the migrants is harsh, but fair.

Merkel the sill cow opened the floodgates of hell.

I disagree. The UK could do plenty about non-EU migration.

[Platypus]

John Oliver is the one thing I miss since cancelling my Sky subscription. Always brilliant.

Ya know, I just don't get it with him. Am I the only one who thinks he's a smug tosser?

[VectraMan]

There are aspect of other cultures (such as FGM) I would say are total unacceptable, yet any mention of this has you branded as a racist.

Complaining about people involved in FGM is completely fine. It's the assumption that all people of a race, or culture, or from a particular country are involved in something that abhorrent that is the problem.

This is nothing to do with Brexit; it's not likely that anyone involved in FGM comes from Poland or Spain or any EU country. Yet in the mind of some things like FGM help justify their suspicions of all foreigners, and it's particularly older people that have that because the world they grew up in is different from the world today's 20 something grew up in. I agree there are some cultural clashes, but the biggest irony of the whole debate is that it's not EU migrants that are the source of such cultural differences.

[jamesbrown]

1.46 USD for GBP, bring on Brexit phears!!!

Hammering us poor little exporters

Likely 1.5-1.55 on Friday.

[jamesbrown]

Another silver lining for a Remain vote, although actually it's really not. Still, could lead to change that Remainers claim (Owen Jones and Corbyn spring to mind) can be negotiated. Nothing like an ideology to make a mess of things.

"Lead not leave"

You have Tusk calling for the end of Western civilization, mid-campaign, but not supporting minor changes to in-work benefits before the campaign. Only this morning, he was briefing that this is a "warning" for the EU to change its ways

[vetran]

Its the same image used by groups like Britain First back in October 2015, maybe they should have done some research first if they don't want to be associated with far right extremists...

yeah those fascists the washington post & bloomberg wouldn't want to use the same pictures as them...

[LondonManc]

The poster combined with the Birstall tragedy have killed Brexit.

Boris should have been the face of Brexit at this stage, not someone who, no matter how much he claims not to be racist (and may be more a patriot than a racist) will be viewed as one. UKIP is viewed as a racist party rather than a patriotic/protectionist party because the left have succeeded in painting them as such.

[shaunbhoy]

yes but occasionally Darmy says something interesting not bile filled trash.

Linky??

[The_Equalizer]

Where did OG say that?

If you look back in the thread he states:

"Interesting that old people dislike immigrants even more than they like high house prices."

What actually is going on is people on the ground in these areas are understandably worried about having no say in the way their area is dramatically changing. Like it or not, different cultures do things differently and we now have problems - such as FGM I mentioned - that didn't exist before. It's easy to cry racism - which the 'dislike immigrants' bit is - when you're sitting well out of the way of 'the action'. Labour and Conservatives wonder why they are dropping votes to 'racist' UKIP. I wonder how on earth they can't see it. Perhaps that’s the same with relatively highly paid CUKers?