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Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by Wandering Yid, Feb 9, 2016.

  1. PleaseNotPoll

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    London transport staff warned of razors inside Covid conspiracy posters:
    https://www.theguardian.com/society...ned-of-razors-inside-covid-conspiracy-posters

    This is an old far-right tactic. The NF and their various offshoots used to do it.
    I've seen quite a few of the anti-vax stickers and posters on and around public transport recently.
    Nothing booby-trapped, though. Similar stuff to the Brexit marches. Probable crossover.
     
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    I've been tempted to take a paint scraper with me when I leave the house to de-sticker a few lampposts around my neck of the woods, as they're covered with the things

    The stickers, that is, not the razor blades
     
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    Is it that White Rose bollocks or just the usual, standard stuff?
     
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    Quite a few White Rose ones dotted around
     
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    All them desperate migrants that are willing to risk their children's lives in a rubber dinghy to escape the tyranny of France and the EU.
    You have to feel for people in a situation like that.
     
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    No.


    Why are the EU French attacking him :huh:
     
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    That would be the police who Priti Patel is telling to mistreat them, while also threatening to cut British contributions to them if they don't mistreat them so badly they can't make it to the Channel
     
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    Ahh right, so the UK still has power over EU countries <ok> :emoticon-0105-wink:

    Seriously, we are accused by the few of being a seriously racist/prejudiced/insular country so why would France (and other parts of Europe they have travelled through) be so hated by migrants ?
     
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    No, just financial contributions to the French side of the Channel which Priti Vacant is threatening to cut as if that wouldn't further encourage the French to just shrug and point them in the direction of Dover

    This also underlines how she believes that there should be gendarmes the entire length of the Normandy coast as if that is financially or logistically feasible, or that the French would be willing to deploy hundreds of officers to that neck of the woods to help the Tories dogwhistle about immigration to distract the easily distracted from that tax hike which breaks two election pledges at the same time they bulldozed through yesterday

    As for why migrants don't stay in France, it's quite simple: they deport around 30,000 illegal immigrants a year, which is around 1/3 of the estimated migrants entering the country a year - while the UK only bothers to keep track of the numbers for when the government needs to distract the population
     
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    But they do that now so what are we paying for?
    Does anyone pay us for policing our own borders?


    Oh, hang on, EU country right UK wrong. Got it now <ok>


    Shame the French can't seem to stop the influx from the rest of the EU :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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    Because it's a treaty between the British and French governments and has nothing to do with the EU

    In other words, it's an example of that "sovereignty" that everyone is so determined we have...which was signed in 2004. With the French paying us. Which wouldn't be an issue if the UK Border Force had more than three vessels to cover 7723 miles of coastline

    And that last statistic really says a lot when you compare the various border forces listed in government documentation
    Italy: 600 vessels for 4722 miles
    Greece: 240 vessels for 8497 miles
    Spain: 147 vessels for 3085 miles
    Turkey: 107 vessels for 4473 miles
    Netherlands: 16 vessels for 280 miles
    Croatia: 9 vessels for 3625 miles
    UK: 3 vessels for 7723 miles of coastline

    That is why we are paying the French. Because we can't be arsed to fund our own Border Force, but nobody notices because that detail is perpetually left out of all the dogwhistling about migration
     
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    This is probably an outlier poll, but I really hope not
     
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    5% Reform UK, which is UKIP. Who's still voting for them?!
     
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    Reform is Farage's lot, not UKIP
     
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    Unfortunately it appears to not have yet reached the inhabitants of South Tyneside...
     
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