Others said the campaign had a darker side and stirred up fear of newcomers. Some backers of the Piddington referendum compared their fight against the asylum accommodation to the 1940 Battle of Britain against Nazi Germany.
Villager Herbert Owen, 76, said after voting on Tuesday that the independence referendum “isn’t just about Piddington,” adding: “It means everything our grandparents, our parents fought for. Today is the Battle of Britain.”
Comparing unauthorized immigration to an invasion has become increasingly common among politicians including Nigel Farage of Reform UK, and far-right groups that have been active in organizing and attending anti-immigrant protests.
What a bunch of assholes. From earlier in the article:
Residents of Piddington, which has a population of about 350…
That makes sense. Small town people need to have no say over issues pertaining to classes of people who are “different” from themselves. They’re too insulated and lack exposure to those who aren’t like them to properly recognize that they’re human beings in all the ways that they’d recognize if they knew someone from said class.
Brief story: decades ago, while I was on excellent drugs at a rave, my homophobia (thanks, Mom!) instantly disappeared when I realized the hilarious gay guy, in a group of us smoking cigarettes, was no different from me. “He just wants to take his drugs and have a good time on Saturday night,” I realized. He was no different from me!
Small town people need drugs and a good time with people unlike themselves.
Good for them. Still havent understand why western society push infinite migrant into their country without any precaution. Mb cheap labor or new consoomer ? Anyway if the gouvernement deem necessary to create flyers to tell migrant rape is bad I dont want them as neighbor. I wander how Lemmy would react if it were Britain going to another country and local were reacting like this. The double standard is unreal and behind all of that nobody can even answer the simple question why do they have to accept infinite migrant and most important who vote for it ? Nobody ever vote for having migrants in thoses enormous proportion, yet western gouvernement keep pushing for it. And ppl still play dumb to explain why all of sudden anti migrant sentiment is on the rises and capitalize by the right. And everywhere the right is on the rise. Hope the next gouvernement prosecute the one that took thoses decisions that never had the best interest of their citizen
It’s actually quite sad. We have so many major political issues that needs fixing. Just look at what’s happening in New York after they finally got a decent leader. But leftists are basically choosing to lose and give it all away in the name of defending immigration, which 80% of the population in pretty much any country stands against. Imagine losing so much development because of not choosing your fights properly and basically fucking it all up just to defend someone who ran away from his home
Self proclaimed social media geniuses everywhere (especially on Lemmy, I know this will get downvoted)
That “infinite migrant” thing is a far-right propaganda talking point. Nice job falling for it…
Funnily enough, that’s also a common talking point amongst outright Nazis. Kinda weird how a certain group of people dreams of punishing elected leaders for doing what they were elected to do. Like upholding the law.
I believe that, based on the rest of your comment.
They didn’t.
Which was a stupid, patronising racist bit of imbecility.
Post-Brexit, the Spanish took measures against the tax-dodging parasites in the Costa del Sol and it failed to cause an international incident.
You can look at party manifestos before you vote. All the parties have policies regarding immigration.
Hundreds of millions spent on propaganda and funding fascists, of course, had no impact on the sentiments of the easily brainwashed.
No, not everywhere. And when you look at who’s funding the right, it’s largely foreigners or people serving as fronts for foreign money (like crypto billionaires, more correctly called money launderers), but the same xenophobes who rant about immigrants don’t seem to mind rich foreign fascists interfering in our politics.
The government saying something isn’t a smart thing to base your decisions on. The government can say whatever propaganda they want. Hell, in the US, the government said immigrants were eating people’s pets. It’s a bold-faced lie, but it’s far from the first lie a government has made to influence their population.
I take it you’ve never been to Spain. Or seen a history book.
I’m aware they did and im aware how your react that s why I made that statement…
Nice edit.
Regarding Spain tell me how the situation in Ceuta ?
What is your point?
I edited it while you were replying. Probably like this one.
Dont import massively migrant against the will of your population and specially when this policies put your population wellbeing and safety at risk. U know kinda simple, specially when no citizen at all vote for these policies
Can I ask you where you are from? From your writing style I’m guessing it’s not the UK.
It’s also apparently not from a place where education is to a particularly high standard.
Cause ? Try to avoid ad hominem and just talk about ly argument should be easy
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