Why England voted the way it did
Even though the Bergdahl prisoner swap is dominating the news, there are other things happening in the world.
For example, remember the elections in Europe just a short while ago? Here’s an article that sheds more light on what happened in the UK and why people voted as they did:
The minute you gave drastically poor countries free entry to the UK, the inevitable happened. Since 1997, four million people have come to Britain ”“ the equivalent of a city the size of Birmingham ”“ yet there has been no concomitant expansion of roads, schools or hospitals. It explains why it is now easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to buy a coffee in England from a native English speaker.
It also explains why regions such as my own East Anglia voted Ukip so overwhelmingly last week. If places such as Peterborough turned purple with apoplexy, it is not because its residents are necessarily racist or because they saw in Nigel Farage the finest statesman since Winston Churchill. It is more likely to be because women in labour are often turned away by one of the region’s major maternity units, which has several times actually locked its doors, so difficult does it find a soaring, immigrant-driven birth rate. A midwife friend who was seconded there described conditions as “third-world”.
Until recently, it would have been “racist” to point this out. Four years ago in Rochdale, when Gillian Duffy challenged Gordon Brown on immigration, the affronted prime minister shied away and muttered darkly about that “bigoted woman”. It is quite clear now who was the bigot. Brown was typical of a political class that became shamefully biased against its own people. In thrall to a post-war European ideal, they had scant interest in the difficulties and discomfort it caused ordinary people on the ground. If anyone complained, simply shut them up by hissing “bigot” or “racist”.
A plasterer out of work because Poles living five to a room undercut him? Little Englander!
A mother-of-three hit by the child-benefit cuts, which come into force next week, and expressing disbelief that the UK is still sending £30 million in benefits to the kids of EU workers, who aren’t even living here? Sorry, nothing we can do about it, madam. It’s all for the greater European good, you know. Do be quiet.
A teacher hounded from a school by Islamist hardliners who want girls and boys segregated and treated in a way that is anathema to British values? Racist!
Disgusted at countless male, Muslim grooming gangs treating vulnerable white girls like “chewing gum thrown in the street”? Racist!
Fed up with being required to show cultural sensitivity to customs we find morally repugnant, and getting no cultural sensitivity in return? Racist!
I hope this isn’t our future. It’s perilously close to being our present. At least we don’t have membership in the EU to contend with.
Well it might be our future but with one significant difference: Everyone (native Americans and illegals) here, unlike England, have a lot of guns.
And people are worried about Japan’s low birth rate and lack of sex.
San Francisco Californian information sources, as usual.
I have often wondered why democrats love Mexicans more than Americans, and of course it is because they see wards of the state as a more reliable source of future votes than free-thinking people. Leftists will always be happy destroy their own country if it meant they could keep power.
As an apt illustration of just how far the British have fallen, an event that occurred in India in the 17th century regarding the British having recently banned the practice of ‘Sati’ (the burning alive of the widow upon her spouse’s death) speaks volumes.
Hindu priests met with General Sir Charles James Napier, (the Commander-in-Chief in India from 1859 to 1861) to protest the recent prohibition of Sati by British authorities.
After hearing them out Napier reportedly said, “Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But… my nation also has a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets (hanging gallows) on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to our national customs.”
Remarkably, the practice of Sati declined precipitously after the Hindu priests had met with Napier…
Barack the Great and his loyal horde of multiculturalists have done a tremendous job at tearing our culture apart, destroying jobs, and swelling the ranks of those chained to the government plantation. We have CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood feted at the White House, the black on white knock game phenomena, hispanic and black gangs fighting one another at high schools, etc. Divide and conquer is their motto.
You know it is automatic that you only like people who like you. What are dems going to do when non-dems realize it is ok to not like them back?
I lived in the UK for three years (10 years ago). By then it was already nearly lost. It’s gotten worse and worse.
“England” is no more. There is an oligarchy run by socialists there who have out 1984’s even George Orwell.
The place will soon be an island prison camp or a staging area for a new Islamic Maritime Empire.
We need a USIP.
Milton Friedman explained a generation ago: you can’t have a welfare state and open borders.
Barry is not only undoing Bush… he’s undoing LBJ and FDR.
He’s destroying the Democrat party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhEwX18u7To
RE: “At least we don’t have membership in the EU to contend with.”
We don’t? Just wait until Obama is Secretary General of the UN, with Hillary or some other One Worlder as POTUS. Americans will start looking at the members of the EU with envy.
This paragraph from that Telegraph article says it all, for me.
During the campaign for the Euro elections, I saw an elderly couple being asked by a TV reporter to explain why they were changing their vote from Labour to Ukip.
“We liked the old Rochdale,” they explained meekly.
Those pensioners are as entitled to their views as Nick Clegg is to his. Calling them “racist” when you have altered their town without consulting them is outrageous.
OUTRAGEOUS.
Besides immigration, the stupidity of European regulations is probably also a factor. I read a short while ago that the EU is considering banning the thin little plastic bags yo get in the produce department to collect your lemons, apricots, and tomatoes because they end up in the oceans and kill fish. I have 3 garbage containers (paper, compostables, and all remaining garbage). I get a roll or two of very thin big garbage bags for plastic, metals, etc. I take glass to public containers and sort it there by color. Now some idiots in Brussels want me to have the leaves on a bunch of radishes foul up my canvas shopping totes to save a fish. This kind of nonsense also gets to people. They know there can be no popular pressure put on the Brussels crew to show common sense.
Are we getting there? Think of the EPA.
The problem is, like the US, we now have a class of professional politicians who are completely unable to connect with real people, or understand how they think and feel. They live in their own “Westminster Bubble” (our equivalent of “Inside the Beltway” and never have a “real” job outside the world of professional consultants, human rights lawyers and all the other “jobs” an aspiring politican goes through whilst he or she is waiting for the the right opportunity. So you have a President who thinks regular folks are interested in the price of Arugula, our probable next prime minister can’t even eat a bacon sandwich without making himself look a complete idiot. It’s a strange old world in which a former stockbroker like Farage seems more ” a man of the people”.
Expat, Marin already banned plastic bags.
America’s two party system is nice when the other side is the Loyal Opposition that helps the majority party rule.
In parliaments, you have a lot of different factions that aren’t united, such as the Nazis, socialists, communists, Greens, democrat socialists, and so forth. The system puts them in the light to keep track of them, but it’s difficult to work with such a large group of factions.
Now with the Leftist alliance, those factions have united, in the US at least. And when there is no loyal opposition in a two party system, it gets more and more likely that the majority party becomes the party of successful treason as time goes on.
Parliaments may have a few traitors here and there, because a minor party can get a portfolio slot in the cabinet due to their representation votes. In the US, it is one party takes all. And if that party is the party of treason…
So it is much easier for the Brits to start a UKIP alternative party, as there is no or little procedural barriers to them, even though they were considered a useless and extremist party. That party will still have to work with a majority coalition, but they will be able to contest almost half of the bureaucrats in power because of that. The socialists or status quo boys may be able to get their defense minister, but the treasurer and environmental slot goes to UKIP. In the US, we get John Kerry and H Clinton. More Democrats to rule over more Democrats, voted in by more Democrats, for a Democrat President.
The problem is, like the US, we now have a class of professional politicians who are completely unable to connect with real people, or understand how they think and feel.
That uses the assumption that politicians think you are humans.
When they don’t, it’s easy to see how they don’t socialize or connect. What kind of relationship does a human have with a dog anyways? A pig? A roach?
America circa 2018 looks to be a real party.
Politicians in both the UK and the US have learned that they can get support from businesses by debasing the labor market.
By importing millions of foreign laborers, the politicians create an artificial oversupply of labor against a relatively static demand, which artificially increases competition for jobs. When jobs are so hard to come by, companies have no incentive to offer better working conditions, higher pay, or more benefits to their workers.
Meanwhile, the taxpayers are subsidizing medical care for the populations of entire cities, or in the US’s case, whole countries. Then there’s the food benefits, and dealing with increases in crime for the privilege.
They want to call us racist. There’s a word for that: Gaslighting. They want to try to discredit us by claiming that we’ve got some mental baggage that distorts our inner reality. The problem is the actual reality that their actions have distorted, and there’s a simple solution, though as Ronald Reagan may have said, not necessarily an easy one. That’s to crack down on illegal immigration, then tighten legal immigration guidelines until such a time that the economy is balanced and actually needs more workers again.