Off Topic The Politics Thread

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%

  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%
  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
bobmid said:
I wonder what this number of lazy bastards is? I also wonder what circumstances they might have? My wife can't work, gets very little state help despite being diagnosed with MS and now a blood disorder. There are many who can't work mate and I think that sizeable number you state may not be that sizeable at all when you look at individual circumstances.
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It would never apply to those genuinely disabled, and it doesn't get more genuine than having MS.

Sadly, there are many for whom life on benefits topped up by some work in the black economy is a way of life, sometimes handed down through generations. Needs to change.
 
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Goldhawk-Road said:
It would never apply to those genuinely disabled, and it doesn't get more genuine than having MS.

Sadly, there are many for whom life on benefits topped up by some work in the black economy is a way of life, sometimes handed down through generations. Needs to change.
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I don't doubt that, infact I've come across a few just recently but I don't think it's as big a problem as it used to be, far from it infact.
 
bobmid said:
I don't doubt that, infact I've come across a few just recently but I don't think it's as big a problem as it used to be, far from it infact.
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You might be right Bob, and it might not be as big an issue as I think….however my many visits to the local Estates I cover tell me otherwise.
As always, I only say what I see
 
Staines R's said:
You might be right Bob, and it might not be as big an issue as I think….however my many visits to the local Estates I cover tell me otherwise.
As always, I only say what I see
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I'm not disputing your claims Staines, but short of delving into each individuals circumstances as to why they don't/can't work, then the numbers of true/false claimants is guess work.
 
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bobmid said:
I'm not disputing your claims Staines, but short of delving into each individuals circumstances as to why they don't/can't work, then the numbers of true/false claimants is guess work.
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You're more than welcome to pop up here and watch the junkie scum rolling about the streets and making the local shopping centre look like a scene out of Night of the Living Dead
 
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Steelmonkey said:
You're more than welcome to pop up here and watch the junkie scum rolling about the streets and making the local shopping centre look like a scene out of Night of the Living Dead
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See a few of them in my local town and I'm sure you will agree, they aren't capable of brushing their teeth, nevermind working.
 
Matt Hancock serving his constituents by going on the celebrity jungle show. Yeah brilliant.
 
Willhoops said:
Do you approve or condemn his comments? You’ve not said.
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Controlled immigration can certainly be positive. Uncontrolled, large scale immigration can be highly damaging, imo, because it makes assimilation impossible, particularly with certain groups like Muslims that have a propensity to maintain their culture to the exclusion of all others.

Multi-culturalism only works if it is an adjunct to a common British culture. Where it is not, and becomes like oil and water, resentment occurs in local communities.

Words like "invasion" and "swamp" may be ill-chosen, but they are a response to serious changes occurring in our society. We must have controlled immigration into the UK, and I fully support Braverman in her role to bring illegal immigration to an end. The longer it carries on, the more likely we will see the rise of the far right, which is not in anyone's interests.
 
Goldhawk-Road said:
Controlled immigration can certainly be positive. Uncontrolled, large scale immigration can be highly damaging, imo, because it makes assimilation impossible, particularly with certain groups like Muslims that have a propensity to maintain their culture to the exclusion of all others.

Multi-culturalism only works if it is an adjunct to a common British culture. Where it is not, and becomes like oil and water, resentment occurs in local communities.

Words like "invasion" and "swamp" may be ill-chosen, but they are a response to serious changes occurring in our society. We must have controlled immigration into the UK, and I fully support Braverman in her role to bring illegal immigration to an end. The longer it carries on, the more likely we will see the rise of the far right, which is not in anyone's interests.
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Especially ill-chosen a day after a petrol bombing.
 
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