Must not tell illegals to go home?
British Liberals heart illegal immigrants. Vince Cable is a prominent British Liberal
Vince Cable today attacked Tory colleagues for launching a 'stupid and offensive' crackdown on illegal immigrants and accused them of being obsessed with migration figures.
The Business Secretary said Immigration Minister Mark Harper's decision to send vans bearing the message 'go home, or you'll be picked up and deported' round London was designed to create fear among the public.
He rubbished 'misleading' targets to reduce net migration and insisted Britain did not have a 'vast problem' with illegal immigrants.
Mr Cable told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show the Liberal Democrats had not been consulted about the van campaign. 'It was stupid and offensive. I think it is very unlikely it will continue,' he said.
He questioned whether illegal immigrants would have enough of a 'sophisticated grasp of English' to be able to read the posters on the vans at a distance.
'I think it is offensive. It is designed, apparently, to sort of create a sense of fear (in the) British population that we have a vast problem with illegal immigration.
'We have a problem but it's not a vast one. It's got to be dealt with in a measured way dealing with the underlying causes.'
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Liberal Brits, who have an infamous history of appeasement, will find that their appeasement doesn't work well against the sharp swords of radical Islam. But it sure will be fun for the rest of us to watch them try.
"The Business Secretary said Immigration Minister Mark Harper's decision to send vans bearing the message 'go home, or you'll be picked up and deported' round London was designed to create fear among the public."
Exactly the message that needs to be sent!
Unfortunately immigration policy is not an area of politics which can handle subtleties and nuances.
The message must be clear and strident or it is perceived as weak - and illegal immigrants respond accordingly.
Is 3:00 AM meaning Brits who are liberals or who are members of the Liberal party, or did 3:00 mean that all Brits are liberal in the left-wing sense. Well the latter is clearly nonsense. And the British nation as a whole clearly never had "an infamous history of appeasement". If 3:00 is referring to the Chamberlain government which tried its best to prevent a repeat of World War I, I would like to ask what the US government was doing at the time. In fact the US position was at best ambiguous and of course never committed itself to oppose Hitler until he declared war on the US. The US was strongly neutral and was doing a lot of business with Nazi Germany. FDR had great difficulty even getting the lend-lease program through to help Britiain when it stood entirely alone against the Nazi war machine. Some appeasement - more like the US was doing the infamous appeasing!
3:09, you cannot escape the fact that at this moment Britain and the US appeasement efforts have been huge failures in the decades since ww2. So stop doing it.
Anon 3:09 said;
"I would like to ask what the US government was doing at the time."
If you are a member of the left, no explanation is needed. If you are not, then please explain your nations addiction to all things leftist, such as your obsession to political correctness.
As for what the US was doing, mostly, we were laughing. Unfortunately, we were conned into spending Billions of our dollars, and more importantly, tens-of-thousands of very valuable lives protecting and saving you. Looking at what you have allowed to happen to Britain, or should i say, Britain'istan, many, many believe it was a waste of time.
As for Britain's reputation for appeasement, that is a fact known the world over.
6:37: what appeasement are you talking about?
The US only entered WWII because it was forced to by being attacked by Japan and by Nazi Germany declaring war on it.
It only "helped" Britain and Europe in its own interests to defeat Germany and afterwards to contain the Soviet Union. The Marshal Plan was mainly to open up markets in western europe for the benefit of the US. WWII gave the US a huge opportunity to dominate the World as never before, and that is what all those young men died for.
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