Well, that lit the blue touch paper!
Good posting, though I suspect you’ll be taking a fair few hits on Facebook from the fuckwits
Brits are racist! You’re fucking joking aren’t you? We are the most tolerant country in Europe if not the world…
Try living in Germany if you think we are racist…
Let me put a question to you, who are less racist then?
Sorry mate you’re well off track with that rant imo…
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While logically it might be selfish to do anything but earn loads of money and then give it all away, I don’t think that is a plausible human behaviour. We should, however, aspire to raise everyone to our standard.
It’s also worth noting that the EU is quite selfish about keeping out those pesky migrants. Better to have them in Turkey at our expense than in the EU itself!
The problem is, there are very many demographic and geographic pockets of xenophobia (if not outright racism) in this country, that led to the Remain vote being lost. It stems from a misguided belief that foreigners have made things worse. It’s very difficult to educate people from our lofty position in middle-class England.
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I disagree with your assessment of why we lost the vote, and I voted to stay in…
So you’re happy to be called a racist then?
They’re either racist or utterly retarded.
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I’m not saying it was the only reason, but it contributed substantially, imo.
I understand what a generalisation is, if that’s what you mean.
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It’s exactly the sort of statement that was made by the Labour Party anytime anyone mentioned Brexit or immigration, and look what good it did them…
I honestly can’t remember a single thing the Labour Party contributed during the campaign, so well done!
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- We are leaving, it won’t be changed by a facebook rant.
- We are a lot more tollerant than many EU countries of cultures, religion, race etc… Working regularily in Germany & France we are a lot more tollerant than Germany or France.
- Every country has it’s nutters.
- Looking forward to the circular arguements.
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The devil is in the detail there, and there are about a gazillion details.
Looking at just one of them, our ‘standard’ is currently underpinned by an annual per capita energy usage of about 3000 kgoe (kilogrammes of oil equivalent, 2013 data List of countries by energy consumption per capita - Wikipedia). We’re not unusually high for the first world. In China the number is now up to about three quarters of ours (2200 kgoe) but in India it’s still only a fifth (600 kgoe). However there are 1.4 billion Chinese people and 1.3 billion Indians so increasing their energy usage even by a small amount would have a dramatic impact on energy prices (supply/demand) and, much more seriously, on everyone’s environment.
The fact is that we’re going to have to find ways of being more efficient/productive with our energy (and our food and water supplies, in all likelihood). Given enough time we may be able to do that. But thinking that we can maintain our current standards and share them with a worthwhile fraction of the rest of the earth’s population any time soon is unrealistic I’m afraid. The idea that we can do a lot of global good by actually encouraging folks to relocate here in any number* is even more unrealistic.
VB
*EDIT To be more clear, the critical thing here is the numbers. We might well be able to do a disproportionate amount of good by encouraging a manageably small number of people to relocate here and to connect their home country into the ‘standards’ of the UK. China, notably, has made the economic progress it has by a combination of political control and popular aspiration based on being able to experience, at least at second or third hand, the sorts of lives that the luckiest of us are living.
So, in which country is this…?
Major public company, head office has over 2,000 staff, and none of the desk bound employees are black…
I’ll give you a couple of clues, it’s not the UK, but it is in the EU… 
The Vatican?
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Nope…
Another company formed in 1885, 25,000 employees (85% women), never had a female director until 2013… Any guess on that country?
Not The Vatican
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The point I’m trying to make, and one that others might realise if they were better travelled or lived abroad, is that the EU is primarily formed with countries that are far more racist and sexist than our own…
And I repeat the point, which country is more tolerant that ours?
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Recently gave an immigrant its top job.
If you look at the makeup of the top bishops etc, you’ll see they’re pretty multicultural. However it’s not in the EU either afaik…
Yeah, so that makes our racism and sexism just fine 