Ok Hakluyt
Lets explore your allegations of racism.
I think its worth doing because there are still some silly sods out there that think that by screaming Racism they can shut down all debate.
Ukip is primarily an anti-EU party that has the prime objective of leaving the EU.
In recent years the party has also developed a portfolio of foreign and domestic policies, including an immigration policy.
Cameron recognised that net migration into the UK was at a level that could not be sustained and promised to reduce immigration to tens of thousands.
Cameron knew that he was totally powerless to stop any EU citizen coming to this country to live, while we are still members of the EU. As he therefore had no control over EU migration he tightened up the rules on immigration to the UK from non-EU countries.
That meant that the UK could import as many Polish plumbers that wanted to come here, but had to refuse entry to a highly qualified brain surgeon from outside the EU, as non-EU migration was the only form of migration that Cameron had the power to reduce.
Do you think that the Tory immigration policy is racist?
Having said all that, the figures published last month showed that Cameron had failed to reduce immigration and that net immigration last year had actually risen to 260,000, or a city the size of Plymouh in just one year, putting additional strain on housing, health care, transport and an education system that was not designed for an additional 260,000 immigrants this year, and next year and the year after that.
The Tory policy on immigration is stupid because it denies the UK very highly qualified non-EU immigrants that our public services and industry needs. But while we are in the EU and cannot control our EU level of immigration then barring these skilled people is the only option available to Cameron (and it doesnt work anyway).
So Cameron is saying that hes rather have EU immigrants than non-EU immigrants.
Do you think that the Tory immigration policy is racist?
Labours policy appears to have been to permit anyone who wanted to migrate to this country to do so. Didnt Peter Mandelsohn boasts that labour actively went looking for immigrants to tempt to the UK?
Ukips immigration policy is to have a points-based system similar to that operated by Australia and other countries. The UK would then permit the immigration of those who would benefit the country and the number of migrants coming into the UK could be actively managed. As Ukip would have left the EU, the UK would no longer be under the EU mandate to accept every EU citizen who wished to migrate here. Ukip would therefore be treating people from the EU and from non-EU countries equally, and would be importing them based on their skills.
I see nothing racist at all in that.
Or are you trying to claim that trying to reduce the net level of immigration into the UK by EU citizens is in some way racist?
And this is what really annoys me about this stupid Racist shout. I presume by racist you mean that that Ukip is in some way objecting to immigrants based on the colour of their skin?
The racial majority in most European countries is Caucasian i.e. white with non-Caucasian racial minorities.
What on earth is racist about objecting to an influx into the UK of a large number of people from EU countries who are also predominantly of the same racial composition as your own country? Nothing. Race does not come into it. Its purely the high levels of immigration that the UK cannot support with its existibg infrastructre.
You could argue that Cameron, in restricting non-EU immigrants has a bigger claim to being called racist than UKIP which just wants those people regardless of race, creed, gender, sexual preference etc to come here to being essential skills the country needs.
And as that probably has not convinced you that Ukip is not Ray-Cist, then I suggest you take a good hard look at some of Ukips MEPs, some of whom have first / second generation Bangladeshi, and Turkish origins, or look at the swathes of councillors of every racial group that have joined Ukip, many of whom will be standing as PPCs at the general election.
So, would you kindly explain to me just what it is that makes you feel justified to shout Racist at Ukip?
Or are you just a performing seal? Dave and Ed clap their hands and you bark. Use your brain occasionally. Its quite useful.
I really dont know why I bother.