Isn't It Time That More Listened To Nigel Farage?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32510915

Is he just being scaremongering or racist, when he predict that Islamic extremists could cross the Mediterranean and gain access to the UK?

What better way could they 'invade' Europe, and if they did wouldl we see the return of another 'Battle of Britain'?

[RandyMarsh]

What better way?, how about getting aids and coming to get treatment?

[sandyRoe]

The London bombs were planted by people born in the UK. Farage is just scare mongering.

[VHG]

>The London bombs were planted by people born in the UK

So its a pity we did not have people scare mongering in the last 10 or 20 years or so.

Then we may not have let in so many Muslims, and allowed so called clerics to stand on the streets spouting their hate and encouraging people to kill the queen, or policemen, or army personnel.

We have been so soft over this whole Muslim thing.

When WW2 was declared ALL people of German decent in the UK were put in camps for some or all of the war.

What do we do now, allow enemies of our country to stand on street corners spouting out their hate for our country, and while living on our benefits as well.

We have become so soft.

[Svejk]

There are plenty of home grown terrorists, 1 a day, on average, being arrested. However IS have claimed they will infiltrate Britain using bogus asylum seekers. So scoff away but just hope your family aren't caught in the terrorist carnage which, inevitably sometime, must get through.

[anotheoldgit]

sandyRoe

I suppose this is just scaremongering also?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11418966/Islamic-State-planning-to-use-Libya-as-gateway-to-Europe.html

Thank goodness that the Nazis didn't come up with this plan in 1939, sending over their SS storm troopers over in boats of refugees fleeing Europe.

But then in those distant far off days Britain had a back-bone.

[naomi24]

I don't think he's the only one to have thought that - it's obviously likely - but he's the only one who has the courage to say it.

[jim360]

"
When WW2 was declared ALL people of German descent in the UK were put in camps for some or all of the war.
"

Why was that a good thing? They did the same in the US with Japanese internment camps, locking up over 100,000 people for the sole "crime" of being of Japanese origin. It's a pretty awful situation when we start locking up people to pander to paranoia.

[jourdain2]

It was weeks ago that we discovered that Isil was planning to send people across to Europe in the immigrant boats and cause mayhem in southern Europe, so it's no great stretch of the imagination to foresee some joining the queues at Calais, or even acting as immigrants and getting through legally.

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

I don't know if you were around at the beginning of WW2, but if you were would you have treated all Germans with open arms, especially if you had seen your neighbour or family killed in an air raid.

And I don't suppose that the Americans were all that loving towards the Japanese after they had witnessed the cowardly attack on Peal Harbour.

[mikey4444]

I'm with Sandy here...just more scaremongering by Farage, in the run up to his Party's defeat next week.

[naomi24]

Jim, when does paranoia cease to be paranoia? Let’s hope we never find out.

[mikey4444]

I hope nobody on here is advocating that we lock up every person that is a Muslim, just because they might be a terrorist !

[Jackdaw33]

Desperate times call for desperate measures.How would we have coped in 1940, had the Human Rights Act been in full sway?

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// I'm with Sandy here...just more scaremongering by Farage, in the run up to his Party's defeat next week. ///

After all the pre-election speculations you have made mikey, you may have to go into hiding after the election,

[Svejk]

Perhaps we could lock up everyone with a straggly beard.

[Baldric]

///Is he just being scaremongering or racist///

I would say Realistic would be a good word for it!

Anyone who can't or won't see the possibility of it happening needs to remove their blinkers!

[jim360]

Let's hope so too, Naomi. Still, the thought of locking up everyone who is Muslim just to be on the safe side ought to be abhorrent to all. It's pre-crime. We don't have that, and never should.

Same as with the Germans/ Italians here in WW2, or the Japanese in the USA. I can understand your point, AOG, in terms of what mood of the time was -- but that still doesn't make it right.

[naomi24]

Jim, whilst I agree it’s an unsavoury prospect, we can't compare the situation we face now to WWII. It's a whole different ball game.

[brionon]

Yeah they shoulda listened to Hitler too innit !!

[jim360]

I suppose not. For starters, as opposed to a few tens of thousands at most, you'd be obliged to lock up a couple of million people...

Mainly I was just amazed that VHG was referring to the internment of Germans/ Italians (and Japanese) as apparently something to look back on with pride, or to try to emulate, or to regret not having done the same since.