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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 08:23 AM Jul 2019

Racist, Populist, Dog Whistle Bollocks [View all]

The next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (unless we have a bloody miracle), demanded yesterday that immigrants to the UK learn English because 'there are too many parts of the country where it is not the first language.'

What complete and utter bollocks.

Which part of the country is it where a majority of the residents cannot speak English? Or is that if you are not native born but can speak English, he is lumping you into this othering of our communities?

Heh. Has he not done enough to heighten the racist tendencies, and therefore tensions within certain sections of our community with his nasty Johnny Foreigner Brexit Bollocks? Apparently not. So desperate is he to be the next Prime Minister he has decided to build on that othering during his campaign for PM. Plays well in the Shires I suppose where they likelihood is, they have never sat down with a person for whom English is their second language, or from second of third generation settled communities.

The hoards are coming…man the barricades…bar their entry…

Racist, Populist, Dog Whistle Bollocks. I want to hit something.

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