A Sorry State
I’m becoming re-politicised.
The UK General Election is fast approaching, and for the first time since that smug bastard got in in 1997, I feel that the race and its outcome won’t be as sure as everyone thinks. With this in mind, I have renewed the Party membership which I let lapse in 1999 or so, and feel a renewed vigour in my support for my party of choice.
Strangely enough, it’s been living near the intensely right-wing stronghold of Romford that has inspired my political re-awakening. A few months ago I happened to be in the town centre when the BNP were holding a rally. Watching those fuckers shouting through a megaphone about ‘dirty blacks’ and ‘do you want Romford to be another Ilford?’ while black and Asian families were walking around with their kids trying to do some Saturday afternoon shopping made me feel almost violent. And people were stopping to listen!
What kind of person do you have to be to support a party who are basically the UK equivalent of the Nazi party? Has hatred really reached a point where people honestly believe the best way of improving Britain is to persecute and expel everyone who isn’t pure Anglo-Saxon?
What does it achieve? How does hating and blaming make your life better?! How does referring to the family down the road as “that lot of fucking paki’s” make your life any easier? Make your area any nicer? These bigots reckon that the way to cure racial tension is to kick racial minorities, immigrants and asylum seekers out. Oh yes, great plan! Why not make hatred and intolerance worse by reinforcing the idea of white supremacy?!
Surely we should be trying to make everyone in society feel equal. Give everyone in Britain the right to have a job, support their family, and contribute to the economy and to society. Get this: under the current government, asylum seekers are allowed into the UK, but are not allowed to work. So basically, they’re let in, but then public money is used to house, clothe and feed them. What better way to incite intolerance and anger against them?! Meanwhile, we’re crying out for qualified professionals, especially in the health service, but if an asylum seeker is a qualified doctor, for example, rather than letting him work both to feed his family and add to the UK economy, we keep him at home and use more public funds to support him!
In my view, the government – whoever that ends up being – should be concentrating on promoting integration, tolerance, and understanding. Not increasing the divide between cultures or ‘classes’ of citizens, and certainly not handing out excuses for intolerance.
Here endeth the first rant.
The UK General Election is fast approaching, and for the first time since that smug bastard got in in 1997, I feel that the race and its outcome won’t be as sure as everyone thinks. With this in mind, I have renewed the Party membership which I let lapse in 1999 or so, and feel a renewed vigour in my support for my party of choice.
Strangely enough, it’s been living near the intensely right-wing stronghold of Romford that has inspired my political re-awakening. A few months ago I happened to be in the town centre when the BNP were holding a rally. Watching those fuckers shouting through a megaphone about ‘dirty blacks’ and ‘do you want Romford to be another Ilford?’ while black and Asian families were walking around with their kids trying to do some Saturday afternoon shopping made me feel almost violent. And people were stopping to listen!
What kind of person do you have to be to support a party who are basically the UK equivalent of the Nazi party? Has hatred really reached a point where people honestly believe the best way of improving Britain is to persecute and expel everyone who isn’t pure Anglo-Saxon?
What does it achieve? How does hating and blaming make your life better?! How does referring to the family down the road as “that lot of fucking paki’s” make your life any easier? Make your area any nicer? These bigots reckon that the way to cure racial tension is to kick racial minorities, immigrants and asylum seekers out. Oh yes, great plan! Why not make hatred and intolerance worse by reinforcing the idea of white supremacy?!
Surely we should be trying to make everyone in society feel equal. Give everyone in Britain the right to have a job, support their family, and contribute to the economy and to society. Get this: under the current government, asylum seekers are allowed into the UK, but are not allowed to work. So basically, they’re let in, but then public money is used to house, clothe and feed them. What better way to incite intolerance and anger against them?! Meanwhile, we’re crying out for qualified professionals, especially in the health service, but if an asylum seeker is a qualified doctor, for example, rather than letting him work both to feed his family and add to the UK economy, we keep him at home and use more public funds to support him!
In my view, the government – whoever that ends up being – should be concentrating on promoting integration, tolerance, and understanding. Not increasing the divide between cultures or ‘classes’ of citizens, and certainly not handing out excuses for intolerance.
Here endeth the first rant.
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