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Originally Posted by nffc
I disagree. Everyone should be allowed to wave their flags or no-one should.
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If you think that everyone should be allowed to wave their flags or no-one should, then you are not disagreeing with me. That is what I meant when I said:
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They should not be banned from waving flags, and nor should anyone else.
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I was referring to them using it as an excuse to ban OUR flag.
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Originally Posted by nffc
Fact is they have CHOSEN, or their parents have, to live in BRITAIN- so they should abide by the customs there and not impose their lifestyle on the inhabitants. When in Rome...
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Right. So now I live in Scotland, do you think I should not be allowed to wear an England football shirt or fly St George's flag should I want to? Or that a Scot living in London should not be allowed to wear a kilt in Oxford Street on St Andrew's Day?
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slightly different. Look in places like Oldham, Burnley, etc, some parts they've even reflected the ethnic mix by having signs in Urdu. In some parts of England you can't fly the St Georges flag without being told to take it down because it's either "racist" or "inciting racial hatred". I'm not against people flying flags, it's slightly different to alienating the "natives" by demanding their lifestyle, laws, customs are changed. Slightly different to wearing a football shirt, kilt or waving a flag.
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Originally Posted by nffc
I have no problem with asylum seekers or immigrants if they INTEGRATE and CONTRIBUTE. If they upset the harmony in the country and sponge off benefits they can sod off IMO.
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The overwhelming majority of 'immigrants' and their descendants have done just that. Or are you claiming that the majority of the 3.6 million people in this country who now live here but were born outside the EU are 'spongers'?
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Done what, integrated or sponged? Immigrants from Eastern europe 1940s-50s worked hard for the country, as did later immigrants from the Commonwealth eg Asia, Africa, Caribbean. Same can be said for the Turkish "Gastarbeiters" who helped rebuild Germany after WWII.
Immigration is not a problem, it's the people that abuse the immigration and benefit system I have a problem with.
I'm not anti-immigration and I'm not racist. I just think people should be fair and treat others as equals with the right to their opinion.