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George Carty

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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 25d

Let's shut down this fascist bastard's megaphone in the UK and EU!

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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1m

There's someone in one of the web forums I frequent who is certainly like that (thinking Britain is overpopulated).

I guess it's no coincidence that his chosen screen name there is of a land feature in the Lake District: don't some places there suffer from acute over-tourism?

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 5m

I've noticed that just as there's an economic Impossible Trinity (fixed exchange rates, free movement of capital, national monetary sovereignty: pick two!) there's also a demographic Impossible Trinity (high life expectancy: high workers/retirees ratio, stable or falling population: pick two!)

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 6m

My original point is that someone (like Powell in 1968) who opposed immigration _in spite of net immigration being negative at the time_ is clearly motivated by racism rather than fears of overpopulation.

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 10m

Powell was indeed a racist, who believed that non-white immigration would lead to inter-community violence because (in his view) non-white immigrants could never truly become British.

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 11m

Powell was an ethnonationalist who fundamentally believed that no non-white person could ever truly be British.

But my point in labelling him a racist is that he opposed migration for changing Britain's ethnic make-up, not for simply increasing its raw population size (as it wasn't at the time).

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 22m

Why would (overwhelmingly white) Eastern European immigrants meet with hostility from racists, as opposed to from White Van Men who see them as direct economic competitors?

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 47m

And Russian soldiers themselves fight for money, as any look at the Russian army's recruitment ads will demonstrate.

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 56m

Was EU Freedom of Movement really so generally unpopular, as opposed to being unpopular with specific voter demographics (*cough* White Van Man) or being seen as a trojan horse that Germany et al would use to flood Britain with Syrian refugees?

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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1h

If by "the last immigration panic" you mean Powell's Rivers of Blood speech, then wasn't that explicitly racist, rather than driven by "Britain is full" overpopulation concerns?

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1h

All transportation to Sakhalin is maritime: it's an island!

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 2h

Britain and Portugal were maritime empires not land empires.

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 2h

Was this largely enabled by the fact that early movements hostile to non-white immigration (eg the National Front of the 1970s) were often also sympathetic to Hitler's Nazis?

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 2h

They're obsequious to wealthy Westerners, but treat their non-Western immigrants little better than slaves.

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 2h

I think "second-class citizens" is too generous to describe how Gulf Arab states treat non-white immigrants.

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 3h

Farage's voters are people who love the Britain of the past while hating the Britain of the present.

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 3h

So mostly the first of my two possibilities then?

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 4h

Is this just a case of Reform making promises they couldn't keep, or is it a case of them actually screwing up and making the council's financial situation worse than it was?

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 4h

I remember noticing how the nearest house to my local golf course had a pro-Tommy Robinson "DON'T FUND TERRORISM" sticker in its window.

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 5h

While university graduates were indeed far more likely to have voted Remain, it doesn't explain the difference between Scotland and the rest of the UK, which was a result of Scotland having superior _school-age_ education (especially for the working class pre-1990).

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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 17h

The Holocaust _killed_ Jewish anti-Zionism, while the expulsions of Jews from the Arab world _buried_ it.

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 20h

Aren't they different in one key respect: if they win a national election there's a reasonable chance that there won't BE any more free and fair elections?

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 20h

Same as the reason he's big in India: "the enemy of our enemy (Islam) is our friend."

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 20h

I'm guessing though that this was pre-Holocaust though?

George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1d

You're saying that anti-immigration viewpoints were marginalized in the past by media self-censorship: what reason did the media have to do this?

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George Carty @gcarty80.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn't Liverpool's anomalously-high Remain vote in 2016 (a consequence of the city boycotting the Sun for a reason unrelated to the EU) demonstrate the influence of the mass media?