I love Nigel Farrage's speeches. Althought I do not always agree with him 100%. For example (As an immigrant myself
), I do not think that immigration is a core issue. It is good, much better than globalization. As long as people are coming to your country to WORK there, not enjoy the holidays on the welfare systems, it is what they do: they increase the wealth in the country. They provide their services, they rent their houses (or buy them, when committed fully), they spend their money on living & other ppls services. Simple.
But the real issue is a nanny state, providing SOME immigrants (and not just immigrants, for that matter), with free lunches on f..g everything - "free" housing (what?!), "free" health care, "free" schools, "free" creches for integration, of course, "free" language courses, even their freaking mobile phone bills, for some idiotic reasons, and obviously, all kinds of unearned "benefits". Usually the ones getting this preferential treatment, are the ones with the biggest "civilization gap", so to speak. I haven't been a recipient of none of these goodies, enjoyed broadly by many others. Actually, I moved out of one estate that became nearly a council-sponsored one - I just could not stand that any longer around me, money being spend in truckloads on everybody, who is too lazy, stupid, or otherwise useless, to provide for himself and his family, and having to get up every morning to work, having to say goodbye to wife and kids, one of them crying "don't go daddy, I want you with us". What I am supposed to tell him, why daddy has to leave him every morning, to go to work, to pay the bills - when he'd grow up surrounded by dozens of examples on our own street, that it is not the case, and daddy was certainly stupid, or maybe just wanted to get away from them????
The only immigrants that are getting jobs "away from locals" are: a) experienced professionals, that industry has never enough of, and that industry would definitely fill in with locals, if it physically COULD. These chaps, like my humble self, do not undermine any of their local colleagues, I am actually making more money than my company's median here, so if anything, I am making them more attractive on the job market
. Or b) cheap labor, taking on the jobs that otherwise would NOT be filled in by anyone else from local population - and that's because of nanny state, again - they would not work for such money in such a place, because they don't have to.
That's the reality. But it is easier to be bitching on immigrants in general, rather than try to figure out the real issues - that is, socialism (that ALWAYS leads to deformed, malfunctioning society, and that NEVER has enough money to spend on their socialistic expenditures, and that ALWAYS want to extort more & more control over everything - because it cannot function in a free society), and "global" capitalism, that allows to extract wealth in one place, by exploiting people in other places. All spiced up by fraudulent global monetary system, that ultimately corrupts and sucks the wealth away from the MIDDLE CLASS, that crucial, yet sooo currently undermined and dying out class of the society..
That is how I see it.
But I do love Nigel Farrage's straight talk, anyway. He's a great speaker, and he has integrity. And he talks from his heart, not from the opinion polls. I cannot imagine people like him or Ron Paul kissing arses sitting higher than theirs, every step on their way to the "top". They seem to be one of the very, very few decent and honest (to a degree that a politician can be "honest" person, I suppose...) politicians out there.
REgards,
