Boris Johnson said fellow EU citizens should stop “treating Britain as their own”.

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Boris Johnson said fellow EU citizens should stop “treating Britain as their own”.

This is vile rhetoric, dog whistle politics stoking xenophobia.

From the Times on this:

“EU migrants have been able to “treat the UK as if it’s part of their own country” for too long, Boris Johnson said yesterday as he reprised the core message of Vote Leave’s 2016 EU referendum campaign.

The prime minister guaranteed that migration would fall under his plan for an Australian-style points-based system after Britain left the European Union. The focus on migration, in stronger language, in the last days of the election campaign is intended to appeal to undecided Eurosceptic voters in Labour marginals.

He told Sophy Ridge on Sunday on Sky News: “I’ve said that what we want to do is bear down on migration, particularly of unskilled workers who have no job to come to and I think that’s what’s happened over the last couple of decades or more. You’ve seen quite a large number of people coming in from the whole of the EU — 580 million population — able to treat the UK as though it’s basically part of their own country and the problem with that is there has been no control at all and I don’t think that is democratically accountable.”.

He mentions 580 million which is not net. EU migrants are net contributors and have helped to staff our NHS, look after our elderly and so much more.

Plenty of Brits living in other EU countries at the moment - I wonder how have sent many postal votes against the Conservatives as they have been stuffed by Brexit!

Lovely. I've only been here since I was five...If I didn't have DH and DC, I would have probably left post referendum tbh.

I for one will be glad when the election is over and we can be rid of these tiresome Momentum rants.

Me too. Just boring

Poor Mr Johnson, it must have been tough being in opposition for the last decade wishing EU rules about immigration could be implemented and seeing the government fail to deal with it.

Oh, wait - that’s not what happened, is it? The Conservative government couldn’t be bothered to do anything and preferred to blame everything people didn’t like on the EU.

It’s got fuck all to do with Momentum! It’s vile racist rhetoric - anyone who can’t see that/chooses not to see that is part of the problem

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I for one will be glad when the election is over and we can be rid of these tiresome Momentum rants.

Bore off!

Disgraceful sentiments and language on his part. Sadly it has a considerable appeal. And all this while mouthing pious platitudes about Labour anti semitism...

He completely ignores the fact that huge numbers of Britons live in other EU countries. Also the fact that immigrants are net contributors to the economy - they keep the NHS afloat (with staff who have been educated and trained at the expense of their countries of origin), and the unskilled pick crops that would otherwise for in the fields, assuming they were planted in the first place.

The 'scrounger' narrative has been the go-to theme of the Tories since the 1970s, and it is toxic.

More fake news from Momentum.
Hope Boris gets big majority on Thursday .

Let's just get Brexit done!

Copper, are you saying that The Times have made up the quotes?

If we had applied the rules he wants, would the ancestors of our US born Prime Minister have been allowed to settle in the UK?

EU citizens should stop “treating Britain as their own”.
for too long

You've put your own spin on what he actually said I think - does he use the words, "should stop" and "for too long"?

EU migrants are net contributors and have helped to staff our NHS, look after our elderly and so much more.

He also says:

BORIS JOHNSON: "Sorry, I misunderstood your question. What we want to do is to use an Australian style points based system. I am not hostile to immigration as you know, Sophy, I’m a believer in allowing people to come to this country and I think if they have talents and they want to do things to make their lives in the UK and they can contribute to our country, fantastic, and we benefitted from that but what we’re going to do is have three categories, as you may have seen from what we’re saying. So people who are exceptional talents, they can come in. First violinists, nuclear physicists, prima ballerinas, whatever, they are going to come up, start-up kings and queens, they are going to come in simply by virtue of what they can contribute. Then there will be skilled workers and we’ll have a system so that people can come in to work in the NHS or whatever "…

SR: "My question is if you want to see" …

BORIS JOHNSON: … "and another sector which is a sector specific group who won’t have an automatic right to stay but will come to do particular jobs and stay for a while, and that’s the third category".

The focus on migration, in stronger language, in the last days of the election campaign is intended to appeal to undecided Eurosceptic voters in Labour marginals.

I think Labour voters are quite aware that the Labour party are planning an 'open door' immigration policy:

SR: "So can you guarantee that numbers will come down?"

BORIS JOHNSON: "Yes, I can make sure that numbers will come down because we’ll be able to control the system in that way and what I don’t think is right is to have an uncontrolled and unlimited approach to that.That’s what Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party are offering, they’re saying they are going to have complete free movement and I think that is absolutely not what people voted for" …

SR: "They said that would be up for negotiation in the discussions with the European Union".

BORIS JOHNSON: "Well actually they said they are going to keep free movement if you read what they’re saying and I think that’s wrong. I think people want to see democratic control. I don't think people in this country are hostile to immigration at all, [not] being hostile to immigrants, but they want it democratically controlled and that’s what Brexit allows us to do.That’s why we need to get this thing through which we can before Christmas and then come out on January 31st."

www.skygroup.sky/corporate/media-centre/articles/en-gb/Sophy-Ridge-on-Sunday-Boris-Johnson

In the Sky News interview referenced by The Times, BJ also said “So people who are exceptional talents, they can come in. First violinists, nuclear physicists, prima ballerinas, whatever, they are going to come up, start-up kings and queens, they are going to come in simply by virtue of what they can contribute. Then there will be skilled workers and we’ll have a system so that people can come in to work in the NHS or whatever …”

He is disgusting. Conveniently forgetting the fact that he himself has Turkish ancestry, how dare he think Britain belongs to HIM!?

The Tories should never be forgiven for their descent into the Far Right hateful, disgusting level of politics.

Sorry, cross posted with Clavinova

He's disgusting. EU citizens have just as much right to be in the UK as Scottish people have to be in England and vice versa.

I for one will be glad when the election is over and we can be rid of these tiresome Momentum rants.

That's all you can say? Momentum rant? Is that how every person dismayed at Johnson gets dismissed as?
It's yet more xenophobic vile rhetoric from this disaster of a man, at a time when this country is on a bloody knife edge as it is, and that's the level of interest? This is our current serving PM ffs, and his behaviour falls so far below what it should be that I don't even know where to begin, and apparently half the country don't give a flying fuck

We definitely need prima ballerinas and violinists ahead of Doctors and nurses

Lunaballoon I highly doubt anyone of that calibre would have the UK as their first port of call now.