| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Mosque Application To be Considered by Ealing | |
| Posted by: | Alan Brainsby | |
| Date/Time: | 01/04/10 17:31:00 |
| Care to explain your remark, Alan Brainsby? Certainly. Rather than just throwing remarks without justification in the vein of "I don't like what you state therefore I disagree with you" there is no attempt at discussion. This is a forum, a place where matters are discussed. Sometimes matters are serious, sometimes they are not. Heckling can be good or bad, and is often quite welcome, but in either case shouldn't be abusive, it is best used to wrong-foot and individual. I am quite sure the venerable, sorry, honourable member for Ealing North would agree. If a poster makes a statement, with or without justification, it is far better to respond with a counter-argument or to ascertain why the statement was made. To merely wave the "racist" card is not enough. I am quite sure that most of us, within the forum and elsewhere, are not against immigration as such. But immigration is comparable to single-parent families. Does one lump a father who lost his wife in childbirth in the same category as an unmarried teenage girl on her third child? I think not. The same is true with immigrants. This government may well have come up with a points system for non-EU immigrants, but did it a bit late. And then there's always the asylum card which is the root of the problem. When a country can't provide sufficient jobs and infrastructure for its existing population (regardless of origin) it has surely lost its way. This is why some of us make a stand because it is a local issue. I think all of us are aware of the economic problems ahead but if this General Election were purely based on immigration policies then the result would be most interesting. |