With Brown’s ‘Bigot’ Gaffe, Immigration Issue Front and Center in UK, Too
Such political correctness plays into the hands of the neo-Nazi British National Party (BNP). They routinely claim that people are being ignored by the major parties and that their views are being discounted:
The simple, unfortunate fact is that the British National Party is gaining in popularity, and 53 percent of those quizzed worry the racist party is capitalizing on this issue.
Currently unclear is whether or not UKIP, a party similar to U.S. conservatives, will get a boost from this gaffe:
UKIP’s manifesto states their immigration policy as a five-year freeze on immigrants settling in Britain, workers’ permits, border control, and leaving the European Union. It makes sense. Yet, the three parties: Labour, Tory, and Liberal Democrat, have voted years ago on this open-door policy.
The polls taken since the gaffe do not hold good news for Labour. The latest YouGov poll puts Lib-Dems up three points and Labour down two.
In the U.S., politicians and pundits of all stripes are looking to make sure people know they are not keen on Arizona’s solution to the immigration problem. Obama has reacted in a similar (if less clumsy) way than Brown did.
The political elites are utterly paranoid about anything related to immigration. A woman simply asking how the country could afford the high levels of immigration Labour has encouraged is called a bigot by the prime minister, and Arizona is threatened with boycotts for looking to stop an out-of-control situation. We shall see what affect “this gaffe” is going to have on Labour’s electoral fortunes, but we can be sure the subject of immigration is not being debated well on either side of the Atlantic.
If Nixon were dead for a lot longer I might have converted to Buddhism now because of this then irrefutable proof of reincarnation!
It’s pretty easy to blast others who have to live with the consequences of your bad decisions when you don’t. That’s not to say that every person who complains about immigration does so because of a negative personal experience which is not merely anecdotal, but actually a broad-based trend, but one should be cautious about imputing any motives to others beyond a simple desire to live a relatively peaceful life in the country of their birth without having to worry that others who are there primarily to take advantage of the various systems are going to undermine the ability to live that peaceful life.
My guess is that if you offered a person who thinks like Gordon Brown $100K or the British equivalent to move themselves into a neighborhood where immigrants were pushing the people who’d been born in Britain out, he wouldn’t take it. In other words, he is merely mouthing rhetoric about “bigotry” because he knows he’d never have to actually experience what this woman has experienced.
In the 1960′s and 1970′s, Enoch Powell, a man of great accomplishment (professor of classics, youngest brigadier in the British Army, MP) was vilified for suggesting that folks from some parts of the world would not fit civilly into British society.
Let us jump forward to the 2000′s, where a large part of British society–yes, the British born kids of the folks from parts of the British Empire let in indiscriminately during the 1960′s and 1970′s,– would like to establish a Muslim caliphate, calling a pensioner a racist for asking about immigration is the height of stupidity.
Oh yes, there is that “blow up the Underground” business of September, 2005…
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The entire Western world is self-destructing because of political correctness. We can’t even speak the truth about the harmful effects of massive immigration from non-Western countries without being called racists. Are we not allowed to preserve the unique character of our nations and our culture? What if whites were immigrating illegally by the millions to a non-Western country? The Left would go absolutely apoplectic in its outrage. If we don’t rid ourselves of the white, Western guilt that is crippling our nations and our culture then the immigrants that replace us will do it for us as they smother us demographically.
And that is bad because?
And you’re alive because?
Allahu akbar me!
In order to change a Western country, millions of individuals have to be brought in that love Marxism, and be counted on to vote for the party that helps them stay on the sugar tit.
Any American helping the illegal alien invasion should be tried for treason.
Would that include the Kenyan/Indonesian in the WH, too?
Enoch Powell was prescient on the subject of Muslim immigration especially. But other greats, including Churchill and Jefferson hit the nail squarely on the head as well.
Ceteris paribus, when a man who’s not willing to fight to death is confronted by a man who is willing to fight to death, in the ensuing dynamics the second man always prevails.
Likewise, when a man with tolerence is confronted by an intolerent man, the second one prevails.
Both of these dictums point to an inevitable outcome in the fight among Christianity (and the West) and islam (and the East).
In that broader scheme of things, the above reported incident is just that: a minor event in the inevitable long-term dynamics. The fact that this exchange was “reported” as a comment regarding East European immigrants in Britain, is in fact irrelevant.
PC just doesn’t magically happen. PC happens because mostly, White Women want it to happen. Support it, create it, nurture it, defend it when it is under attack, and promote it at every level.
Here is a post on Alternet by a woman, who went down to Haiti, to write about “the White Man’s Oppression of Haiti” (or something), and was sadly, raped by a native. Now, who does she blame?
White men! Bingo!
The reason? “Nice” supplicating, White-Knight, romantic beta men, and nobody does that “Lloyd Dobler” stuff better than White guys, make her sick. Revolted. Far more than, I must point out, her assailant. Really, who nurtures PC? White women!
Consider your average White guy. He faces at the top end, competition from H1-Bs, from programming, to now legal and accounting work, or certainly outsourcing. Life in the cube farm is tough, and fraught with PC danger. He’s not friend to it, it is his constant environmental enemy, and immigration and all the “diversity” it brings has a bottom line negative effect on him — more labor competition on a cheaper level, and with lower status for the job, and with ethnic nepotism inevitably in hiring. Your lower end White guy ends up selling his skilled/semi-skilled labor against a huge pool of labor, with also ethnic nepotism. I.E. the Drywaller’s Union, once mostly White, was broken by Day Labor scabs more than thirty years ago, and now is a “no Anglos need apply” union in California.
Consider your average White women. Surrounded by guys who are “nice” (and not Charlie Sheen or Brad Pitt, real Alpha males). She has no competition at the top end, in marketing, or finance, or “creative” jobs where women often go. Nursing of course has competition with lots of imported labor from the Philippines. But on the lower end, such as waitressing and the like, not so much competition from day labor.
Pols would dump on PC in a heart beat if it paid off. But it does not, indeed women VOTERS punish anyone who doubts its orthodoxy. Because for them, PC is a way to exile icky Beta Males (most White men, in other words) and construct a paradise of no icky White guys in teaching, social work, marketing, corporate finance, HR, and so on.
Yes PC kills. But who defends it and why? The answer is women, and their dislike of Beta Males.
I know not whether Brown gave a personal, sincere undertaking to make amends and not to offend again to the woman whom he calumniated, but Brown’s reported public statement was not “a grovelling apology” but the standard, conditional non-apology:
How could calling a kindly supporter a disgusting bigot possibly be hurtful?
It’s so easy to apologise for previous calamities wherefor people bear no real responsibility—I myself often apologise for the War of the Spanish Succession, the desuetude of relative adverbs, and classical and post-classical slavery (though not for all modern African slavery)—but modern leaders seldom follow their alleged regrets and sorrows with meaningful acts of redress thereto, and our proskynetic, proctoleichous media allow pollies to continue to mouth insincere, fake apologies.
(I am, however, really sorry for using naughty words in my song, When I say “I’m sorry,” I mean “Screw you” and apologise if anyone be offended.)
Yes, she is a simpleton. She is a bigot…who let all these Europeans in here?…hilarious ignorant crap. I don’t know what these elderly tea baggers expect, when they disrespect people to the degree they do. Insulting someone for five minutes and expecting them to kiss your a$$ because you’re the representative of some prized demographic of easily manipulated bigoted idiots…sorry, he went easy on her.
Yes being English in England and expecting it to remain so is bigoted.
Pretty soon the only thing the British will be able to say without having to grovel is “Allahu akbar!”
olg: Immigration is fine, but the rather uncontrolled and unplanned for version that has happened in the UK over the last decade has been a problem. Then there is the fact that all of the EU can live in the UK if they wish to. Its a small island yet they are not allowed to restrict numbers.
And many people have left neighbouring France specifically because the barriers to starting your own business are much lower in the UK. This has created an unprecedented brain drain of skilled/educated workers who have to leave their own country to become entrepreneurs; since this word is of French origin is a nice touch of irony.
The problem in Britain is that they are a soft touch when it comes to unskilled migrants and those that do not want to become a part of their host country. I lived in England twice, and often those who want to challenge haphazard immigration policies are immediately branded racists and bigots when that very often isn’t the case. Most British people have no problems with legal migrants that add value to society. I was one and I was treated with respect. It is not racist to point out that some people can and should be allowed to come in, but others should not be. That is both reasonable and logical. Unfortunately, they are just not able to enforce border controls at all, meaning, almost anyone who makes it to Britain and is determined to tough out a couple of pleading letters from the government can stay and enjoy the benefits of a state they do not contribute to.
Then there is the fact that all of the EU can live in the UK if they wish to.
If you had a few more brain cells, you could have gone to the next step. All of the UK can live in the rest of Europe and they do. And they’ve made it into their own puke saturated party zone. You can’t go anywhere in one of the poorer European countries without falling over some drunk Brit making an A$$ of himself. The difference Europeans from those countries are smart enough to see how they benefit their economy. Bigoted british idiots, who like they’re American counterparts get cheaper goods and services along with their unsightly immigrant problem, remain clueless.
I dispute that Neo-Nazi means anything much these days.
To be a Nazi you have to
(a) be German
(b) believe in the superiority of the Aryan race
(c) want to invade Poland and have all German-speaking lands under one administration
The BNP (of whom I am a member though I am non-white) is a different kettle of fish. In fact, this party which Andrew fears and hates are themselves too pussywhipped to say anything against feminism. This is because they are a working class movement and, as we all know, the working classes are riddled with illegitimacy.
To condemn illegitimacy – the consequence of female promiscuity – means that one is condemning the morals of virtually every other person in one’s life – and therefore only the brave dare do so.
Only the Muslims whom they fear and hate dare challenge feminism.
Whisky is quite right about white women propping up political correctness.
Men, in order to get sex from these women, pay lip service to PC.
Once they are married to these women, they know that they are vulnerable, in the Anglosphere anyway, to a capricious petition for a divorce which will mean their losing half their property and being possibly deprived of their children if his wife accuses him of paedophilia.
There is a good reason why we know of no matriarchal societies: they invariably destroy themselves.
The men go on a marriage strike and the women either go on a sex strike or have to content themselves with breeding with lowlife losers who cannot provide for them, degrading the quality of the next generation.
Only whole-scale conversion to Islam (said to be the middle way between feminism and the patriarchy as well as communism and capitalism) can save Western civilisation, which is a bit of a paradox really, since it is Western civilisation which perceives itself to be most threatened by Islam.
The enemy, as ever, is always within.
The enemy is of course the morbid over-feminisation of Western society under a matriarchy. A matriarchy is a society which condones female promiscuity while a patriarchy is one which condones male promiscuity.
We should always choose the lesser evil, should we not?
A few weeks ago it was revealed that the Labour Party made a conscious but unannounced decision in the ‘Nineties to alter the nature of British society to put a stop to the electoral back and forth between it and the Conservative Party. This involved opening the immigration spigot in the belief the newcomers would be reliable Labour voters. And so they have been, so much so that the party came to believe it now had the luxury of turning its back on the old base. This calculation appears to have been in error. The unintended consequence, one that will never go away, was the Islamization of Britain and the freedom-killing chokehold of political correctness..
I do not want to get into the debate about immigration, but for me this gaffe is poetic justice, because people like Gordan Brown have used the false charge of racist and bigot to destroy so many people and now the exposure of their corrupt thinking is exposed to all, wonderful…
Hi Andrew, its not just about immigration, but also the relationship between London and Brussels. Take a gander over here: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100037215/is-nick-cleggs-dismissal-of-euro-sceptics-his-equivalent-of-gordon-browns-bigot-remark/
Anyone who would like to know where America is heading need only look at Europe in general and teh UK in particular for a glimpse of what is in store for us. The UK is going down the tubes at a rapid rate. Their culture is dead and buried and the young people today in the UK seem more than happy to bury mom and dad as soon as they can get the NHS to declare them no longer useful. The Death Panel that we are debating today in America (is it real? is it in the legislation?) is alive and well in the UK. Their society is NOT where we want to go–claiming a benefit here, getting a freebie there, all the while celebrating the demise of their culture with political correctness and self righteous preaching to the rest of us about how greedy and capitalistic we are. I can assure you the average EU citizen gives almost nothing to Charity since like most perfect societies they leave this to the government and of course they cannot be bothered with such tasks. We are on a road leading us off a cliff in the US under Obama. Elections have consequences and this guy is taking us where we do not want to go. I feel sorry for the average punter who deserves a better government than the miserly punks running the UK at the moment. Note too that the National Health Service will not be criticized by any of the Contenders. They are NOW a powerful group of voters and have tremendous power as a result even as they preside over the worst, most rotten, destructive, and piss poor health care system on the planet. Obama Care will achieve the same crappy result if we let it.
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However, it goes against the grain of what the US is. Let’s face it, Eurabia is highly tribal. How? Because Islam is highly tribal and Europe as well.
Wow. Two truths and two Kinsley gaffes packed in three gaffes. That must be record.
Jon Stewart on Bigotgate and its actually hilarious.
It’s gotten to the point where I no longer believe the international liberal establishment is primarily motivated by compassion for impoverished immigrants. I now honestly believe it’s part of a sinister plot to destroy Western Civilization from within. If you want to get an idea of just how pathologically self-loathing the Western left has become just look at that human rights actvist in Haiti who thanked her rapist or that father who forgave al qaeda for beheading his son in Iraq or cindy sheehan who supports the islamist insurgents who also killed her son. Don’t ever underestimate liberal white guilt. I truly believe leftists in both the UK and America are welcoming in hostile 3rd world immigrants as a kind of giant reparation for past colonialism and other historical grievances. They want the West to be knocked down a peg on the international totem pole and are primarily motovated by self-hatred. Prove me wrong.