Social housing prioritisation and immigrants

[gingerjedi]

Just how long are people expected to go on being reasonable?

Forever, it's the British way.

I expect some of the more established immigrants to start complaining before we do.

[Cyberman]

Do you not have any sympathy for the people who say “they come over ere’ and take our jobs”? Is that a xenophobic statement?

I agree that right wing will take advantage of the situation but where do you expect ‘ordinary hard working families™’ to turn when they are being ignored by whichever government happens to be in power?

People who spoke up a few years ago, like myself, were immediately called racist, which I strongly objected to, because in no way did I consider my views on protecting UK jobs and thus my own standard of living, racist. Now it appears that we are all becoming what we deemed a racist a few years ago.

If we are racist, then so are NZ and Japan that have very recently announced much stronger immigration controls to protect jobs for their indigenous population.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

People who spoke up a few years ago, like myself, blah blah

It's the Thatcherite free market. You voted for it.

[NotAllThere]

Do you not have any sympathy for the people who say “they come over ere’ and take our jobs”? Is that a xenophobic statement?

No, I don't. Because it's pig-ignorant.

It is a xenophobic statement as it shows animosity towards immigrants. As you said - the fault is not the people coming over, it's the government's - and the people who elected them.

It's also damn stupid that the same people say this as complain about the immigrants as all being social security scroungers.

[Cyberman]

It's the Thatcherite free market. You voted for it.

There's no such thing as a totally free market. Brown's belief that you could let banks regulate themselves is just further proof.
Even in a free market, countries do protect their own interests, and so they should within reason, especially with regard to their own people's jobs and thus standards of living.

[The Lone Gunman]

There's no such thing as a totally free market. Brown's belief that you could let banks regulate themselves is just further proof.
Even in a free market, countries do protect their own interests, and so they should within reason, especially with regard to their own people's jobs and thus standards of living.

That'l be why Thatcher made it so easy for foreigners to flood into Britain under her watch then!