Why Didn't They Listen To Our Nigel, Two Years Ago?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/844821/Nigel-Farage-twitter-terrorist-ISIS-europe-migrant-crisis-Libya

[ichkeria]

If you analyse these quotes from Farage closely they don't make a lot of sense. One concerns "migrant terrorists", and seems to imply that in the two years since his words of "wisdom" there has been a spate of terror attacks by migrants, and I see no evidence for that.
Another seems to suggest that IS has succeeded in secretly importing 500,000 terrorists to Europe, and unless he has inside information, that seems a little unlikely.
A lot of people have come across the Med by boat, certainly, causing a huge humanitarian crisis, but of course all he cares about is how it makes him look. The answer to that question, if you look only a little beneath the surface, is "attention-seeking politico"

[youngmafbog]

And its an even bigger pity we didnt listen to good old Enoch even longer ago.

[Khandro]

Zacs; Stop wriggling, here's one from the EU parliament itself;
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2015-015092+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=it

[fender62]

ichkeria, a lot of migrant rapists murderers thieves arsonists, and not to mention carrying diseases, then their is housing feeding schooling
re-education if possible of that i doubt, cultural and tribal problems.
how many for instance from sub saharan africa have work in the uk and are not on tax payer benefits inc housing medical schooling etc etc 99%, they are a drag on the economy and should have never been allowed to settle here, they add 0 to the uk, but take out of it.

[sp1814]

AOG

How many terrorist attacks have been carried out by refugees/migrants?

And how many have been carried out by those already in Europe who have been radicalised?

As a percentage.

[Peter Pedant]

Mickey - I checked my facts - he did
'I would never have said that ...'

[Peter Pedant]

// If you analyse these quotes from Farage closely they don't make a lot of sense.//

his £350m claim made perfect ssense and people voted on it
and as he said later
I would never have said that

well that's OK then !

[fiction-factory]

> "a lot of migrant rapists murderers thieves arsonists, and not to mention carrying diseases,...... ,how many for instance from sub saharan africa have work in the uk and are not on tax payer benefits inc housing medical schooling etc etc 99%, they are a drag on the economy and should have never been allowed to settle here, they add 0 to the uk, but take out of it."

Do you have a link for that 99% figure please, fender?

[Khandro]

Peter pedant; //listen to our nige ?the one who said before THE referendum - £350m a week would go to the NHS and after the referendum - oops I shouldnt have said that!//

The remoaners never want to give up on this, but the fact is that the UK will be 8billion per annum better off after Brexit. If someone had put a ladder against that bus and had changed £350m. to £250m. and changed, would go to the NHS to could go to the NHS, then it would have been correct.

[Old_Geezer]

As we all know, £350M was the accurate figure we are down to pay, prior to any temporary 'rebate' which, for now, is removed from the total first. By now one would have thought even the most ardent remainer would have given up on their lie that the £350M wasn't true. Surely no one is being fooled any more ? Save perhaps themselves.

[Zacs-Master]

Can we forget the £350m a week cos it's cobblers.

In 2016 the UK government paid £13.1 billion to the EU budget, and EU spending on the UK was forecast to be £4.5 billion. So the UK’s ‘net contribution’ was estimated at about £8.6 billion.
https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-membership-fee-55-million/

This is a little over £165m a week for 2016.

[Old_Geezer]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36110822
Never reasonably disputed. In fact it seems it was rounded down from £361.

[Old_Geezer]

Indeed, the link you provide states, "£350 million is what we would pay to the EU budget, without the rebate." i.e. it is what we are down to pay barring any temporary rebate; and obviously not making ludicrous claims about getting a share allocated to UK projects means that part ought not count. So presumably case finally closed.

[naomi24]

Why people think that radicalisation only happens once migrants are in Europe is beyond me. The whole culture is imported.

[anotheoldgit]

fiction-factory

/// Do you have a link for that 99% figure please, fender? ///

That figure is not to be taken literately is is the figure used to empathise the vast majority, such as "kills 99% of known germs".

[Khandro]

Zacs; //Can we forget the £350m a week cos it's cobblers.//

True, £350m per week isn't correct, but £250m is nearer the mark, (do the maths) and what it gets spent on is up to the government, but it could conceivably go to the NHS.