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to want to share a website with an ignorant colleague

35 replies

mrskeithlemon · 21/10/2011 12:13

An n ignorant racist colleague has been ranting all morning about how all asylum seekers should go home.

WIBU to email her some facts about asylees and refugees, or should I leave her to it?

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Beaverfeaver · 21/10/2011 12:17

do it!

SnapesMistress · 21/10/2011 12:39

Yeah do it.

OldGreyWassailTest · 21/10/2011 12:41

Perhaps she thinks this country is 'full' and can't take in any more? Let her rant.

DesperatelySeekingPomBears · 21/10/2011 12:47

Send her to the firm where I work and she can chat to some of the unaccompanied asylum seeking children about what they've seen/been subjected to in their home countries.

mrskeithlemon · 21/10/2011 12:54

No, she is not going on about capacity, she is talking about money and how bad we have it because of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.......

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Tianc · 21/10/2011 12:58

Please do it.

Or send her to me and I'll introduce her to some lovely taxpaying teachers, nurses, IT consultants and plumbers who came here as asylum seekers.

fuzzynavel · 21/10/2011 13:02

The "open door policy" for immigration has left us struggling though has it not.

DesperatelySeekingPomBears · 21/10/2011 13:07

fuzzy you, like most others, are confusing 'asylum seeker' with 'immigrant'. An asylum seeker is someone who cannot return to their home country or is forced to flee their home country because they have a genuine fear that they will be killed/tortured if they do so. We have a legal obligation to offer such people a safe haven.

StoneSoup · 21/10/2011 13:08

Um, we don't have an 'open door' policy, either

loveglove · 21/10/2011 13:09

leave her to it, her rantings are her business really unless she's stirring up a hate crowd of doom.

loveglove · 21/10/2011 13:09

which she won't be, she's just making herself look stoopid.

Tianc · 21/10/2011 13:20

If she STFU, it might be just her business. But she's choosing to make it your business by ranting at you.

fuzzynavel · 21/10/2011 13:20

That was a figure of speach for allowing too many in StoneSoup

BupcakesandHaunting · 21/10/2011 13:23

fuckn immigrunts steelin all are jobs and taking all are dowl.

fuzzynavel · 21/10/2011 13:37

Now now bupcakes, was that necessary. Yes, we do have a problem due to sheer numbers, its a fact.

StoneSoup · 21/10/2011 13:38

Its a misldeading an unhelpful figure of speech. How many is 'too many' asylum seekers, btw?

BeeMyBaby · 21/10/2011 13:38

there are plenty of false asylum seekers who try to twist our immigration system for their own benefit - perhaps she was meaning them? Cases can take years to resolve and although I believe those with pending cases are not allowed to work and get little benefits (if any) it doesn't stop cash in hand employment, educational benefits etc being given.

BupcakesandHaunting · 21/10/2011 13:39

Well, my solution would be (if it's a number-based problem) ship out all of the career doleys from Great Britain then replace them with hard-working immigrants.

fuzzynavel · 21/10/2011 13:42

Stop trying to split hairs StoneSoup.

I didn't mention asylum seekers by the way.

Cassettetapeandpencil · 21/10/2011 13:52

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Whatmeworry · 21/10/2011 13:56

Well, my solution would be (if it's a number-based problem) ship out all of the career doleys from Great Britain then replace them with hard-working immigrants

Yup, let someone else have our uneconomic migrants :)

porcamiseria · 21/10/2011 13:57

she wont give a shit whatever you send her
maybe send her links to the EDL instead ?
On facebook 17,878 people like English Defence League EDL

and in finding you this data I also inadvertantly "liked" them on facebook myself!!!!!

BupcakesandHaunting · 21/10/2011 13:57

You misunderstand me.

I was thinking ship them off to a South Pacific island.

MoaninMinny · 21/10/2011 16:09

An asylum seeker is someone who cannot return to their home country or is forced to flee their home country because they have a genuine fear that they will be killed/tortured if they do so.

not always. The guy i work with comes from Zimbabwe and was offered asylum. He goes back there annually for his hols.

fuzzynavel · 22/10/2011 14:26

yep, the bloke upstairs brings Nigerians over to go get free treatment on the national health.

Bupcake and Stonesoup - what ridiculous comment you have made. Do you live in upperclass bubbles? Enjoying what fruits (undercutting) cheap labour can bring?

Come to where I live for a day in working class Britain. You may change your tune.