Wow.... I was only expecting a "smilie" in response as you are not the target of my criticism.... but as they say "if you lie with other dogs you will get fleas!"

BTW - I have not any source for that insightful quote either.

OK one more. Its because it is the second time in the last couple of weeks someone has had a pop at me for a comment - in that case accusing me of calling them a racist - which when I challenged them offline got the response that oh no it was someone else they were really referring to.

Hold me accountable for what I say not anyone else. Though you wont need to for a while

If you come to UK from the EU you must have an employer or find an employer within 3 months that does not conflict with the principle of free movement.

On the out of context point - at least the one I was referring to - the words that were attributed to Grant were correct but taking the words out before the ones quoted in the press change the meaning and that was the intention of the journalist so you cant completely dismiss "the context defence" but every situation is different and we are all culpable for giving a free pass to the people we agree with and all over situations where people we don't like say something we object to.

I love the way those on the right who have immigrant-related phobias suggest their extremities are middle ground common sense (not a new conceit in this context I'm afraid)...more like uncommon lack of sense perhaps!

Its a view of the centre in the same way that a goalkeeper stands at the centre rather than at an extremity of the pitch

Though there are times of course when the 'common sense' of the extreme right has indeed become mainstream thought in a country or on a continent..as we know to our cost during the last century