Hoo boy, the comments below that article are a gold mine.
"We are being taken for mugs by the political class while they move to eradicate the English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish gene pool with mass immigration and multiculturalism.
Stop paying your Taxes people, bring the LibLabCon government to it`s knees."
"Is it any wonder when we are shackled to all of those lame EU economies?"
"The question is whether the English people want non-white populations domiciled in England. Let us be asked, and if the answer is no, then they leave. The race-replacement of a people is a genocide if that people are prevented from defending their existence and their birthright, either through the political process or through civil action.The deliberate replacement by endless minoritisation of a people against its will by government diktat is a genocide under the terms of the Convention."
"Why is it only non-European immigrants seem to take great delight with the idea of us becoming a minority in our own homelands? It's only with the non-Marxist Europeans that I've spoken to where I find any sense of empathy for our plight. I find it most unusual to see how ungracious guests can show such open hostility toward their host immense generosity."
"Our problem is not with authentic (north) EU immigrants which are the smallest lot of all immigrants and tend to be highly educated and skilled. Our problems is with the enormous volume non-EU immigrants, asylum seekers and the criminalized and corrupt southern and eastern EU member states who have been permitted open border policies, and hand out residency to anyone (Muslim, Asian, African) who enter their country. Not to mention the problem called Brussels who don't permit southern countries to just shoot illegals who force their way in even after warnings. Yes, they SHOULD be allowed to shoot them."
""The Telegraph: “…50% of Muslim men and 75% of Muslim women are unemployed“.
October 10, 2010 in the article titled: "Britain's coping classes at breaking point".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
I know your difficulty because if you actually try and find these figures from the government, the links are magically dead to any statistics that include musrats."
And that's just the first page of comments. There are 68 more. And if just the first page starts out with a few somewhat legitimate comments (namely the one on the EU, even if I wouldn't exactly call two countries with higher GDPs than the UK (Germany and France) 'lame economies') and ends in such delightful displays of intelligence, 'musrats' and all....I shudder to think what I'll find on page 69. Most of those comments also add 'Vote UKIP!' to the bottom, with one particularly enlightening comment calling for 'putting love back into your hearts' by voting UKIP, presumably the same love that manifests itself as diatribes against 'musrats' and race extermination further down.
I will not wade into puerile debates, but I'd like to leave a few facts here:
The UK is 86 percent white, comprised of 80.5 percent of people who consider themselves 'white British' and 5.5 percent who consider themselves 'white other' (presumably mainly those delightful Northern European immigrants). (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20677321)
95 percent of the UK is monolingual, speaking only English. That's nineteen out of twenty people, on average, who can only speak English, and I'd wager a significant chunk of the remainder can speak more than one language while still remaining fluent in English. (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/european_languages/countries/uk.shtml)
Atheism is a much faster-growing sector, religion-wise, than Islam. (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20677321)
Moving on to immigrants, (who, after all this 'unparalleled' rush to grab British jobs and benefits, still make up only about 14.5 percent of the working population) a little above 70 percent of those entering the country find employment, with those originating from India and Africa (presumably two of the bones of contention) averaging 65-70 percent employment rates. Hardly a sponge of epic proportions, especially when considering that a large proportion of 'working-age' immigrants are likely to be non-working spouses or people trying to finish up higher education before entering the job market. (
http://byline.timetric.com/2010/10/07/immigrant-employment-in-the-uk/)
And immigrants, on average, are less likely to be in social housing than people born in the UK, even when the immigrant is from a developing country. (
http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/pa014.pdf)
Long story short, please do debate the validity of NHS tourism and the abuse of the benefits system all you want. They're certainly sensible topics to talk about, even if I don't really see the point in doing so when you break down the numbers and examine what percentage of the UK's population and short-term visitors actually indulge in either. But don't claim that the poor ickle white population in the UK is being subjected to 'genocide', or that 'musrats' are rapidly taking over the UK in their quest to live indolent lives and impose Sharia law, or that no one speaks English anymore. I'm sure 99 percent of the people on this forum don't do that, but it seems a large proportion of UKIP's delightful support base derives from exploiting these very falsehoods to engineer a ludicrously demented (and quite possibly significantly evil) narrative on the perils of Britain today. And that needs to be fought, tooth and nail, especially when it moves from the pages of tabloids like the Mail into the comments of even stuffy establishment papers like the Telegraph.
