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.

Here we go: labourlist.org/2019/09/labour-conference-approves-motion-to-extend-free-movement/?cf_chl_jschl_tk=a3f8e8f9f4123d3ec2ee6252de16af828e2c994a-1575981408-0-ASmZ0yx8auisG4UUyT0Ujw81dnBalFrR2PGICGnFRJMk7thbqHxALnjjdKjZd5Qq_SrWF-x3lcFTo9jKE_YsPBjSEn4QJn1JGpuXFH9IWKRq_odv_qJeXNNm9mTPavSKVic9LzqTad2PnY2kSFOOci3gsEZcFVe6rWv4bPoF_wp3fGmIQ-ju70ZAJcj_MsytqUBCIyZCTLx5gQWOeSf5MME6-XPAvyD5hHvIeuETWFny93inxuV1v82qoA61o3aaxCdQqN88OAYaS9SDSyXfjN6jMd1pcu9-KCXdUZWp0e3nFI83Umbn3q0qzHS2SxvCpoMG2s3c6XuwZKLTklh1X0p4vZugIQYsL0D6oesxElKU

This is a motion not a policy at the moment.

So not actually agreed or in the manifesto then? Therefore saying "Labour will..." is hugely disingenuous.

If the Tories had simply implemented the existing rules around EU migremation they could have blocked people coming over to beg etc.

Are momentum still trying to make the word 'racist' stick to anyone who isn't a Marxist Corbyn follower?

It's very tiresome. Please learn what race is, and isn't OP.

Okay xenophobic then.
And please stop accusing anyone less than enamoured of Johnson of belonging to Momentum. It's tiresome.

This was the strategy of Berlusconi in Italy. Whoever pointed out to his shortcomings was labelled "a communist".

And 'nation' is included in the definition of racism so it's racist.

Labour's Manifesto - easy to find on their website;

labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Real-Change-Labour-Manifesto-2019.pdf

"We will scrap the 2014 Immigration Act introduced by the Tories with their Liberal Democrat coalition partners. We are for a levelling up of rights...We will not tolerate a two-tier system for those entitled to be here"...
"If we remain in the EU, freedom of movement would continue."
"We will end the deportation of family members of people entitled to be here and end the minimum income requirements."
"Once here, refugees will have the right to work, access to public services"...
"We will oversee the largest extension of the franchise in generations, reducing the voting age to 16, giving full voting rights to all UK residents"

Labour's sentiments are noble, but in practice it is an 'open door' immigration policy which other EU countries do not have.

Labour also want to give full voting rights (for general elections) to UK 'residents' as well as UK citizens - I cannot think of another EU country that allows this either - correct me if I'm wrong.

This was the strategy of Berlusconi in Italy. Whoever pointed out to his shortcomings was labelled "a communist". Also the strategy of the nazis. The public discourse in this country is horrific - I dread to think some of the people on here are actually responsible for raising children - the hatred and bile and absolute stupidity is off the charts. You know - it should be possible to be appalled at the obvious, quantifiable and clearly negative effects of austerity and other Tory policies without being harangued.