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Are these points too draconian?
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I was recently repeatedly asked to outline 6 bullet points on the actions that I would take if I was in Number 10.
To which I replied:
Too late now, if you had asked this question 50 odd years ago, then perhaps we could have helped to solve some of today's problems.
1. All British passports to be considered void, on the granting of independence from British rule.
2. Limit immigration to include only self financing skilled persons.
3. Immigrants to learn English, and then to apply for British citizenship.
4. Ban on certain items of clothing that is alien to our culture.
5. No dispensations from the law of the land
6. Restrictions on the type of architecture, that is liable to change the face of English towns, cities and villages.
To which my original taunter was strangely 'As quiet as the grave'.
My points were more recently copied by another ABer to somehow prove his point, but once again all was quiet as the tumble-weed blew down the street.
I now enter these 6 bullet points once again, to ask ABers their opinions on them, and all I ask is for constructive non abusive answers.
To which I replied:
Too late now, if you had asked this question 50 odd years ago, then perhaps we could have helped to solve some of today's problems.
1. All British passports to be considered void, on the granting of independence from British rule.
2. Limit immigration to include only self financing skilled persons.
3. Immigrants to learn English, and then to apply for British citizenship.
4. Ban on certain items of clothing that is alien to our culture.
5. No dispensations from the law of the land
6. Restrictions on the type of architecture, that is liable to change the face of English towns, cities and villages.
To which my original taunter was strangely 'As quiet as the grave'.
My points were more recently copied by another ABer to somehow prove his point, but once again all was quiet as the tumble-weed blew down the street.
I now enter these 6 bullet points once again, to ask ABers their opinions on them, and all I ask is for constructive non abusive answers.
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Personally it all sounds a bit over the top but then as you often say you are form another era so maybe from that perspective these might seem like good ideas. I think were all of these enacted the economy could collapse (not enough Brits willing to do the unskilled / low skilled work resulting in damage to industry, falling tax revenue and pension deficit increases) but more importantly, and I don't think I'm over-reacting, it sounds like the start of a slippery slope towards a fascist state.
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I entered this last paragraph hoping for non abusive answers.
/// I now enter these 6 bullet points once again, to ask ABers their opinions on them, and all I ask is for constructive non abusive answers. ///
Some have adhered to this even though they have been in opposition to some or perhaps all points, for that I thank them for an enjoyable debate.
But I am afraid certain others, just cannot conduct a debate on a subject that they themselves don't agree with, without spewing out the usual abuse and insults.
It is almost always the same ABers, who constantly continue to use these tactics when they are not skilled enough to get their objections over in any other way.
/// I now enter these 6 bullet points once again, to ask ABers their opinions on them, and all I ask is for constructive non abusive answers. ///
Some have adhered to this even though they have been in opposition to some or perhaps all points, for that I thank them for an enjoyable debate.
But I am afraid certain others, just cannot conduct a debate on a subject that they themselves don't agree with, without spewing out the usual abuse and insults.
It is almost always the same ABers, who constantly continue to use these tactics when they are not skilled enough to get their objections over in any other way.
aog,ince the indigenous population is in the vast majority it is unlikely that a law would be framed in such a way as to provide exemptions. However there is the law which requires the Monarch to be of the Protestant faith. There are also twenty-six Bishops who can sit in the UK Parliament but only those from the Church of England. Compare those examples to those of Sikhs being exempt from wearing crash-helmets and being allowed to carry a knife as part of their faith. Which examples have the greater consequences?
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/// there is the law which requires the Monarch to be of the Protestant faith. There are also twenty-six Bishops who can sit in the UK Parliament but only those from the Church of England.///
Surely that is our privilege taking into account we are primarily still a Christian country.
Where is this "last by" button, I have not yet discovered it also?
/// there is the law which requires the Monarch to be of the Protestant faith. There are also twenty-six Bishops who can sit in the UK Parliament but only those from the Church of England.///
Surely that is our privilege taking into account we are primarily still a Christian country.
Where is this "last by" button, I have not yet discovered it also?
http://www.dailymail....homes-immigrants.html
Another good example of why there should be certain restrictions on the type of architecture.
Another good example of why there should be certain restrictions on the type of architecture.
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