| red_rebel2 Posted on 15/11 12:50 | |
| Tory MP in anti-immigrant blast | |
The following inflamatory speech in the House of Commons by a Conservative MP railing against 'foreign invaders' whom he claimed were displacing native Britons caught my eye: "Not a day passes but English families are ruthlessly turned out to make room for...Romanians, Russians and Poles. Rents are raised 50 or 100 percent...It is only a matter of time before the population becomes entirely foreign...The working classes know that the new buildings are erected not for them but for strangers from abroad; they see schools crowded with foreign children, and the very posters and advertisements on the wall in a foreign tongue." The date of the speech? Er, 29th January 1902. Its author, one Major William Evans-Gordon was demonising Jewish people looking for refuge from anti-semitic pogroms in Eastern Europe. Thank goodness British MPs today would never stoop so low as to make a bid for political power by playing the race card against migrants. | |
| Trotsky4u Posted on 15/11 12:55 | |
| re: Tory MP in anti-immigrant blast | |
History repeating itself? Farcical notion... | |
| YodaTheCoder Posted on 15/11 13:38 | |
| re: Tory MP in anti-immigrant blast | |
"It is only a matter of time before the population becomes entirely foreign" Fooking long time then. 100+ years and it still hasn't happened. "pogrom" good word! edit: well, obviously not a good word, but one I've not encountered for a while. --- Post edited by YodaTheCoder on 15/11 13:39 --- | |
