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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 19 Sep 17 2.55pm

Originally posted by hedgehog50

The game of who you would let live and let die is more complicated than just numbers. The people you let die might include someone who would have grown up to find a cure for cancer say. Similarly, those you let live might include someone who grows up to become a leader who does great damage to society - a baby Jeremy Corbyn for instance.

Edited by hedgehog50 (19 Sep 2017 1.30pm)

Probably more a threat to the Labour party than the Country, unless the Conservative really f**k up. Whilst he did far better than expected in the election, and effectively prevented a Tory majority - he's still a long way from winning

The reason why I think we should take from the camps and displaced, as they arrive (still with limits on numbers) is that you can effectively cherry pick those with the skills you want.

 


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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 19 Sep 17 3.00pm

Originally posted by Kermit8

Well you certainly have a hard-on for your interpretation of Japan's (and Poland's) ethnocentric attitudes and seem to believe they are much better places than Blighty because of it. I just thought if our country's way of doing things displeases you so much with your constant criticism of it you could always go to one where your mindset might fit in more? Makes sense.

Edited by Kermit8 (19 Sep 2017 1.17pm)

I'm not sure Poland is a great example, given that large numbers of Polish people have emigrated in recent years: Emigration is Polands big problem - as it loses its best and brightest.

But Japan is very interesting example - That's not to say that it doesn't have a lot of social problems, its true that immigration isn't one of them. It does have some very strange 'culture appropriation' as a result - and it does have its problems - esp with racism (one of the few countries that really does have a racist term for white people - Gaijin - white devils).

Ironically though Japan really does have a lot of very varied subcultures.

 


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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards Hrolf The Ganger Flag 19 Sep 17 4.02pm Send a Private Message to Hrolf The Ganger Add Hrolf The Ganger as a friend

Originally posted by jamiemartin721

Personally, yes. I'd let any number of people die, to protect my own family and loved ones. And not just immigrants. But that's why policy and law can't be determined on personal emotions - the rules have to be fair.

Asylum, if we go to source though, can be made to work for the UK in a way the current system doesn't. If you can select from the camps and refugees crossing the border, you can pick and choose the best candidates rather than just those who turn up on the door step.

It also creates a reasonable grounds for refusing most Asylum claims 'at the border' of the UK and returning people to the point of transit to the UK (i.e. refusing them entry - which is a lot easier than dealing with denied claimants later)

Fair to whom?
This is just one emotional choice against another. Who is making these moral decisions on our behalf and how wise are they really?
I'm all for a much more selective process but how effective can that really be? How do we determine who is a risk other than by blanket bans on specific groups? That policy would surely irk the least altruistic person. Better to try and resolve their problems remote from these shores. At least that is the same for all and protects the tax paying citizens of Britain. And the thousands of scroungers.

 

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Originally posted by hedgehog50

The game of who you would let live and let die is more complicated than just numbers. The people you let die might include someone who would have grown up to find a cure for cancer say. Similarly, those you let live might include someone who grows up to become a leader who does great damage to society - a baby Jeremy Corbyn for instance.

Edited by hedgehog50 (19 Sep 2017 1.30pm)

I don't think anyone is smart enough to predict 'butterfly effect' even a computer. Good and bad will come from any decision but like the weather, we can only predict so far ahead.

 

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Kermit8 Flag Hevon 19 Sep 17 4.44pm Send a Private Message to Kermit8 Add Kermit8 as a friend

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

They are much better in their attitudes towards immigration.....As for your suggestion that I move there....I think perhaps you are missing a trick there.

Besides I'm English and have always lived here....A nationality you can't even call yourself. This is my country and my fate is sealed within. I argue for the rejection of progressive attitudes and ideas that are damaging it. Ethnocentric ideas are in the majority anyway amongst the actual population.

To say that I don't like my own country is just more crowbar logic from you.

Of course 'moving' was meant to be a facetious proposition (oft used by The Right on here).

The bit in bold I like. Get your head around the fait accompli insofar as we are not just a clearly defined working, middle and Upper Class nation with a vast majority 99% caucasian population now but a mix of others, as well as British with far back ancestry here (still a huge majority but not vast as previous) and it won't seem so terrible.

Nearly everyone here just wants a quiet existence and not have obnoxious neighbours, etc, and to live and let live. It doesn't have to be happy clappy and it isn't but a pretty much peaceful melting pot is not such a bad thing. See London and New York. Probably the two best cities in the world all in all.

 


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hedgehog50 Flag Croydon 19 Sep 17 4.50pm

Originally posted by Kermit8

Of course 'moving' was meant to be a facetious proposition (oft used by The Right on here).

The bit in bold I like. Get your head around the fait accompli insofar as we are not just a clearly defined working, middle and Upper Class nation with a vast majority 99% caucasian population now but a mix of others, as well as British with far back ancestry here (still a huge majority but not vast as previous) and it won't seem so terrible.

Nearly everyone here just wants a quiet existence and not have obnoxious neighbours, etc, and to live and let live. It doesn't have to be happy clappy and it isn't but a pretty much peaceful melting pot is not such a bad thing. See London and New York. Probably the two best cities in the world all in all.

Really? I thought the streets in both places were awash with white suprematists.

 


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Kermit8 Flag Hevon 19 Sep 17 4.51pm Send a Private Message to Kermit8 Add Kermit8 as a friend

Originally posted by hedgehog50

Really? I thought the streets in both places were awash with white suprematists.

No. That's Tewkesbury on pension day.

 


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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 19 Sep 17 4.59pm

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

Fair to whom?
This is just one emotional choice against another. Who is making these moral decisions on our behalf and how wise are they really?
I'm all for a much more selective process but how effective can that really be? How do we determine who is a risk other than by blanket bans on specific groups? That policy would surely irk the least altruistic person. Better to try and resolve their problems remote from these shores. At least that is the same for all and protects the tax paying citizens of Britain. And the thousands of scroungers.

Everyone. The same rules apply. On a fundamental basis the UK has obligations to the UN on refugees, that we signed up to, and I think that's right; we should offer protection and sanctuary to valid refugees.

There are preferable alternatives, definitely, but blanket bans such as no Muslims is absurd - because the problem really is only with a section of Sunni Muslims - Turning the idea that somehow we should ban all Muslims is absurdly out of step when we know that only one sect of Islam, and then really only sections within that, are a risk.

We, as a country that represents the rule of law, freedoms and democracy, should act in a manner that represents that, and stand to protect those at risk from tyranny from tyrants.

 


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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 19 Sep 17 5.01pm

Originally posted by Stirlingsays

They are much better in their attitudes towards immigration.....As for your suggestion that I move there....I think perhaps you are missing a trick there.

Besides I'm English and have always lived here....A nationality you can't even call yourself. This is my country and my fate is sealed within. I argue for the rejection of progressive attitudes and ideas that are damaging it. Ethnocentric ideas are in the majority anyway amongst the actual population.

To say that I don't like my own country is just more crowbar logic from you.

Its our country, not specifically mine or yours, but it belongs to all British Citizens - not just those who can fit into certain criteria. Me, you, the bloke next door, his wife and his kids - it belongs to all of us.

 


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Originally posted by jamiemartin721

Everyone. The same rules apply. On a fundamental basis the UK has obligations to the UN on refugees, that we signed up to, and I think that's right; we should offer protection and sanctuary to valid refugees.

There are preferable alternatives, definitely, but blanket bans such as no Muslims is absurd - because the problem really is only with a section of Sunni Muslims - Turning the idea that somehow we should ban all Muslims is absurdly out of step when we know that only one sect of Islam, and then really only sections within that, are a risk.

We, as a country that represents the rule of law, freedoms and democracy, should act in a manner that represents that, and stand to protect those at risk from tyranny from tyrants.

I think the problem is defining exactly what that means. I'd say our priority should be to uphold those principles for our on citizens first.

 

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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 19 Sep 17 5.26pm

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

I think the problem is defining exactly what that means. I'd say our priority should be to uphold those principles for our on citizens first.

I think you can have more than one priority though. I do believe we should be selective in granting Asylum - We certainly shouldn't be granting Asylum to the kind of people who committed crimes under say an ousted regime, or to people who are effectively 'rebels' without very careful consideration (we made that mistake in the 90s, and granted asylum to a number of militant Islamists, as they were convenient allies in the UKs middle east foreign policy).

 


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Originally posted by jamiemartin721

Its our country, not specifically mine or yours, but it belongs to all British Citizens - not just those who can fit into certain criteria. Me, you, the bloke next door, his wife and his kids - it belongs to all of us.

Mmmmm...

Let's just say that it's a shame that allegiance to the state isn't rewarded.

 


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