tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post3260113384488264571..comments2024-03-27T21:30:35.824+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: Drop The BaggageLabanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-66140363470739157752009-09-24T08:58:28.456+00:002009-09-24T08:58:28.456+00:00One indisputable benefit of immigration is the sig...One indisputable benefit of immigration is the sight of super hot Polish girls all over the place. Thats probably not the sort of enriching diversity Alibaba was thinking of though, just as there the wrong kinds of snow, there are the wrong kinds of immigrant.<br /><br />Super hottness is not a quality I would attribute to Yasmin either, not now, and not in the past.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-31708009854609254272009-09-23T11:46:19.452+00:002009-09-23T11:46:19.452+00:00Anonymous-
the benefits of immigration are clearly...Anonymous-<br />the benefits of immigration are clearly 'indisputable' and 'manifest'- to the immigrants themselves, and their self appointed spokespersons such as Yazza. If she'd stayed in her country of birth she'd probably be dead by now; if she'd relocated to her country of origin she'd probably be a piddling minor academic noone has heard of.<br /><br />At the height of the boom some S65 BILLION in immigrant remittances was flowing annually from richer countries in the West & the Middle & Far East, to Africa, S America, and the poorer Asian countries. That's some benefit !Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-66775062432662064072009-09-23T04:56:40.079+00:002009-09-23T04:56:40.079+00:00Anonymous - I hadnt actually read that far at the ...Anonymous - I hadnt actually read that far at the time. I just saw Sgt Troy's comment. Didnt know what the ht form is if it'sa commentator on a blog, and a national newspaper article, and Ive ht'ed Laban plenty of times now. But yes, manifest, Ill look out for that one.<br />As I say in my blog a lot, read Christopher Caldwell's Reflection on the Revolution in EuropeEd Westhttp://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/edwest/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-54160613179304781932009-09-23T00:56:36.502+00:002009-09-23T00:56:36.502+00:00Ed - I didnt really think you were taking your cue...Ed - I didnt <i>really</i> think you were taking your cue from me, but you can see why I might affect to think so...<br /><br />It was a comment on <a href="http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2009/09/your-postal-vote-frauds-tonight.html" rel="nofollow">this post</a> of Laban's the other day.<br /><br />My comment was as follows;<br /><br />"the indisputable economic benefits of immigration" - Yasmin Aliratbag Brown<br /><br />A classic! And what are the <b>indisputable</b> benefits of immigration? Pound to a penny she doesnt say.<br /><br />There is, literally, no disputing the word <b>indisputable</b>. The benfits must tower head and shoulders above the those of restrictionists.<br /><br />Another fave Ive heard is the manifest benefits of immigration. So manifest it would tiresome to actually list them - anywhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-26047074817864876532009-09-22T19:23:42.855+00:002009-09-22T19:23:42.855+00:00Yes thanks too Sgt Troy, that's where I first ...Yes thanks too Sgt Troy, that's where I first saw it.<br /><br />Anonymous - what comment did you mal=ke?Ed Westhttp://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/edwest/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-33617184731762340722009-09-22T17:04:14.863+00:002009-09-22T17:04:14.863+00:00It doesnt describe all countries.
Israel, Japan a...It doesnt describe all countries.<br /><br />Israel, Japan and South Korea for instance dont have any desire to replace their own people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-65295257607730368862009-09-22T14:25:27.563+00:002009-09-22T14:25:27.563+00:00Note how the Yazmonster tunes her terminology to s...Note how the Yazmonster tunes her terminology to suit her own point of view. Those who dissent from her wisdom are exhibiting ugly populism, while those who concur are engaging in popular consent. My my, how convivial.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-17035774290862348212009-09-22T11:55:31.310+00:002009-09-22T11:55:31.310+00:00"No, that describes almost all white countrie..."No, that describes almost all white countries."<br /><br />No, that describes almost all countries, period.<br /><br />Numerous examples of African political elites siphoning off wealth for themselves while many of their people live in pitiful poverty spring to mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-9883218057444617592009-09-22T11:14:00.753+00:002009-09-22T11:14:00.753+00:00Ed West read my comment the other day. Yay!
it’s ...Ed West read my comment the other day. Yay!<br /><br /><i>it’s just we’re the only democratic country on earth where the elites basically hate the population. So I guess they decided to switch it</i>.<br /><br />No, that describes almost all white countries. Im sure one could turn up all sorts of Darwinian reasons why an elite class could come to see its own people as a group to be destroyed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-42574565318968976152009-09-22T11:08:30.610+00:002009-09-22T11:08:30.610+00:00"In the 1970s we were told that... there was ..."In the 1970s we were told that... there was no danger of the country’s nature being fundamentally altered. Then, almost overnight...the line changed to ... get used to it’. In so far as we were ever able to express an opinion, through polls, we made it perfectly clear that we didn’t want this to happen. The suppressed anger at having been deceived, ignored and bullied is what now makes this issue so toxic."<br /><br />Just a little editing (see above) and those comments apply to another major issue I can think of - one which is constantly swept under the carpet by all the major parties. <br /><br />When are we going to stand up for our democracy?Weekend Yachtsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262853091154005651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-62843390478406959222009-09-22T09:32:48.357+00:002009-09-22T09:32:48.357+00:00The media class has pretty much buried the importa...The media class has pretty much buried the important - but unwanted - research findings of a 'New Labour' favourite figure about the damaging effect of multiculturalism on communities.<br /><br />Robert Putnam - the advocate of the importance of 'social capital' to healthy communities - found that:<br /><br />"immigration and ethnic diversity tend to reduce social solidarity and social capital. New evidence from the US suggests that in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods residents of all races tend to ‘hunker down’. Trust (even of one’s own race) is lower, altruism and community cooperation rarer, friends fewer."<br /><br />Pretty dismal!<br /><br />And very *important* too.<br /><br />Putnam even apparently himself sat on these findings for a long while, trying to work out a way to take the sting out of them.<br /><br />It's not as if people don't know about these findings (the RSA's Matthew Taylor sometimes mentions them in passing), but they turn the liberal narrative on its head.<br /><br />So - despite Putnam's impeccable liberal credentials, and attempt to spin the findings as positively as possible - they must be excised from public consideration.<br /><br />Putnam's research articles is titled<br />'E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century' - it's probably still on the web somewhere.<br /><br />There is some discussion over whether these US findings carry over for Europe - but no-one's going to discuss that in public, when the original findings themselves have been declared the research equivalent of a 'non-person'.<br /><br />Elsewhere there have been repeated UK findings by Ipsos-Mori on the damaging effects on social capital of high levels of Pakistani population. (Though - interestingly - a high level of Indian population has the opposite effect!)...<br /><br />So, some more findings that won't be allowed on to the BBC...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com