Quote from: whitey on Today at 10:29:11 PMCrackdown is often used when readdressing focus onto an issue. You often hear of a crackdown on drugs, a crackdown on drink driving, a crackdown on speeding etc. there's currently a crackdown on dodgy boxes ffs. It happens in all areas of law enforcement.Quote from: JoG2 on Today at 10:15:19 PMQuote from: whitey on Today at 09:02:15 PMQuote from: Itchy on Today at 08:39:57 PMQuote from: Armagh18 on Today at 08:36:35 PMQuote from: Truthsayer on Today at 07:11:15 PMSeeing millions being spent on housing refugees etc is bound to (rightly or wrongly) piss people off when they can see the state of things like the roads, hospitals, schools etc. low hanging fruit for a protest vote.Quote from: Snapchap on Today at 06:55:58 PMHear hear... is a very useful distraction used by FG and Tories from those other more pressing issuesQuote from: whitey on Today at 06:22:08 PMSo if I understand you correctly, in your view, ALL concerns regarding immigration are driven by either racism or stupidity (or both)?
And if the answer is yes-do you support open borders?
All concerns? Not in the slightest. But anyone who regards it as a priority or anything close to one, or who spends more time obsessing about it than about they do about health, education, taxation etc...Well you have to question their motivation.
After all, other than racism or stupidity, why would anyone be angry enough to take to the streets, or to base their voting decisions in protest about immigration ahead of in protest about the state of the health service, or housing crisis, or tax evasion by the super wealthy etc etc etc?
Screaming far right doesn't help.
Hospitals have been a shambles long before a refugee was about the place. If you blame hospital issues on refugees it's as simple as this, you are a racist.
And we were told that there was no money to fix hospitals..........and yet we have hundreds of millions (if not billions) to house, feed and clothe refugees
There's towns and villages that don't have a single Guard-and yet we have hundreds of millions (if not billions) to house, feed and clothe refugees
38000 people have been waiting for more than 18 months for a scan yet we have hundreds of millions (if not billions) to house, feed and clothe refugees
10,000 disabled kids have been waiting for more than a year to get an appt to see a specialist and yet we somehow have hundreds of millions (if not billions) to house, feed and clothe refugees
People are rightly outraged and it has shag all to do with racism
I hear it's closer to trillions. You forgot to shoehorn the homeless in there. You've a huge heart caring so deeply about so so many
So please explain the "crackdown" for me on people arriving without passports?
Why was a "crackdown" needed if the law was being rigorously enforced to begin with?
Was Helen McEntee a racist for enforcing a "crackdown" and enforcing pre existing laws?
Is Helen McEntee "far right"?
Explain why the welfare payments for Ukrainians were cut in half-if they weren't overly generous to begin with
Was it racist or far right to cut the payments in half?
Quote from: clarshack on Today at 04:22:17 PMIt was. It was the warmest here since records started. But I'd give that stat a by ball if it wasn't also the warmest year globally as well.Quote from: trueblue1234 on Today at 04:14:13 PMQuote from: Armagh18 on Today at 10:45:28 AMGlobal warming my hole, cold wet and miserable March.Except for the fact last year was the hottest on record globally.
Some people need to understand weather and climate.
Not here it wasn't as I can mind debating whether (pardon the pun) or not to put on the fire last Summer which i'd never done in any summer prior.
Doesn't Weather refer to short term atmospheric conditions? cos it's been shite for a good while now.
Quote from: imtommygunn on Today at 10:18:31 PMAh he's a big shot - bound to have minions do that for him
Quote from: Snapchap on Today at 10:35:39 PMQuote from: whitey on Today at 09:02:15 PMQuote from: Itchy on Today at 08:39:57 PMQuote from: Armagh18 on Today at 08:36:35 PMQuote from: Truthsayer on Today at 07:11:15 PMSeeing millions being spent on housing refugees etc is bound to (rightly or wrongly) piss people off when they can see the state of things like the roads, hospitals, schools etc. low hanging fruit for a protest vote.Quote from: Snapchap on Today at 06:55:58 PMHear hear... is a very useful distraction used by FG and Tories from those other more pressing issuesQuote from: whitey on Today at 06:22:08 PMSo if I understand you correctly, in your view, ALL concerns regarding immigration are driven by either racism or stupidity (or both)?
And if the answer is yes-do you support open borders?
All concerns? Not in the slightest. But anyone who regards it as a priority or anything close to one, or who spends more time obsessing about it than about they do about health, education, taxation etc...Well you have to question their motivation.
After all, other than racism or stupidity, why would anyone be angry enough to take to the streets, or to base their voting decisions in protest about immigration ahead of in protest about the state of the health service, or housing crisis, or tax evasion by the super wealthy etc etc etc?
Screaming far right doesn't help.
Hospitals have been a shambles long before a refugee was about the place. If you blame hospital issues on refugees it's as simple as this, you are a racist.
And we were told that there was no money to fix hospitals..........and yet we have hundreds of millions (if not billions) to house, feed and clothe refugees
There's towns and villages that don't have a single Guard-and yet we have hundreds of millions (if not billions) to house, feed and clothe refugees
38000 people have been waiting for more than 18 months for a scan yet we have hundreds of millions (if not billions) to house, feed and clothe refugees
10,000 disabled kids have been waiting for more than a year to get an appt to see a specialist and yet we somehow have hundreds of millions (if not billions) to house, feed and clothe refugees
People are rightly outraged and it has shag all to do with racism
Thanks for demonstrating my point for me. Not once there did you reference, for example, tax evasion by the super wealthy. Why aren't you vehemently posting your outrage about how maybe those "10,000 disabled kids" might have a better chance if the government would crack down on tax evasion? The amount that would save would dwarf what is spent on immigrants. Think of the billions that would be available to improve the the health service etc.
But no..
It's ALL the fault of those bloody immigrants!!!!
Like I keep saying. It's either stupidity, or racism and stupidity.
Quote from: Eire90 on March 27, 2024, 07:56:49 PMP Diddy