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NIGEL FARAGE, LEADER of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), sparked outrage today for saying Britain should scrap laws on racial discrimination at work because it was no longer a problem.
In a documentary to be screened next week, the head of the anti-mass immigration, anti-European Union party said he would repeal “much of” the legislation introduced a generation ago to stop employers hiring staff on the basis of ethnicity and gender.
He said businesses were burdened with regulations and scrapping such laws would allow them to hire British workers – from any ethnic background – rather than immigrants to address the issue of unemployment among young Britons.
“Moved way beyond that”
In a BBC radio interview, Farage said discrimination legislation had been necessary in the past but “I think we’ve moved way beyond that as a society”.
Asked if there should be redress for victims of racial discrimination, he said: “Yes of course, if people are being blatantly racist, but they’re not.
“Let’s stop beating ourselves up and saying we’re a racist country, we’re not. We’ve moved way, way, way beyond that.”
He said: “I think employers should be able to employ people on ability… Let’s try please to put the interests of unemployed black and white British youth first.”
A spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron, whose Conservative Party risks losing some of its lawmakers to UKIP in the May general election, said Farage was “wrong”.
“The laws are there to protect people from racial discrimination. It’s deeply concerning he doesn’t understand that,” he said.
Opposition
Opposition Labour justice spokesman Sadiq Khan said Farage showed “breathtaking ignorance” and said his proposal would take Britain back to the days when businesses put up signs saying they would admit “no blacks, no dogs, no Irish”.
“We have made huge progress on tackling racial inequality and discrimination in this country… but things are still far from perfect,” he said.
The Labour Party this week released figures showing that long-term unemployment among black and minority ethnic young people had increased by 49 percent since 2010.
Overall the number of 18 to 24-year-olds unemployed for more than a year fell one percent in the same period, according to The Guardian newspaper.
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Why do hacks always portray a grotesque close-up, of someone they wish to vilify, – it’s getting childishly obvious at this stage..
I can’t say that I noticed. I’m no oil painting. I suspect that Farage is no oil painting at the best of times.
Remember ….”NO DOGS, NO BLACK, NO IRISH” signs from the 50s/60 ….. but like many great ideas (discrimination legislation) its gone too far the other way, today almost everyone is offended by something….
Discrimination does not address mere offence. It’s not about mere offending.
Wonder why that old marxist mantra was not rolled out before we had mass-immigration, were we not racist and full of hate then before the 90′s? Obvious emotional blackmail mantra
EireWarning I discount your views because they are prejudiced and obvious and based on pure prejudice.
Anthony,
you discount views you can’t counter
I discount comments motivated by pure racism and irrationality.
Define what you mean by racism, and show the irrationality, because so far you are the one with the monopoly on that
Wire warning, I can describe racism by holding you up as a specific and striking example.
It must be shit being a minority in your own country, though as a Brit whose nation conquered the world, he must deal with that legacy. Ireland on the other hand has no such obligation.
We did a lot of butchering for them though Eric …
2 million Irishmen are estimated to have lost their lives from 1700 to 1900 in redcoats and their subsequent change of uniform !
The majority of people living in Britain are British.
And British born.
Think the arabs conquered just as much territory as Brits, they certainly did more damage and enslaved over 100 million Africans, don’t hear anyone complaining about them
EiteWarning, we know what you are from your Twitter site. Your comments and attitudes are offensive to me and to many others.
Anthony,
yea now deal with the comment made about arabs who took 100 million slaves instead of trying to divert attention from something you can’t counter
EireWarning, that’s not the topic of the article I am addressing in my comments.
anthony,
but that was my reply to a person talking about brits conquering the world, and that was your reply to my reply, so now, my little angry multicultee friend, deal with the issue about arabs enslaving over 100million africans, over 1 million europeans and yet rufus up there is going on about brits conquering the world as a justification for why they have to have open borders, but then this means Saudi Arabia and all arab countries as well as persia and china need the same treatment. As you can see, past colonialism is no excuse for modern opening of borders
Am Eire – The British empire included America and India and a large swathe of Africa …. in fairness to the muslims they didn’t quite cast their net that far !
@Hermes Maybe not quite so far but the Muslims sure killed a lot more fish in Jihad against the kafirs -270 million+ and still adding more by the day.
For the breakdown-
https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/video-noni-darwish-givs-an-insight-how-it-is-to-live-in-a-secular-islamic-society/
Not yet.
I’m not sure if i like this guy but he’s right, any legislation that stops a company from hiring native locals is patently ludicrous.
Thereby proving exactly why discrimination legislation is so necessary.
So Mr Lang would you support a blow in who may have just stepped off a plane with no skills getting a job before your child in the local area?. What is the point of that?.
Of course not, but that is not a reality. Many immigrants do work which locals prefer not to do.
The reality is that we don’t owe anything to anyone, it was Irish people who shed their blood in the formation of this and we did that without oppressing anyone else, England’s history is different. We don’t owe the world a living just because we are a white country.
*state
we are a green country!
When was legislation brought in stopping companies from hiring “native locals”
You are not allowed to discriminate based on race when hiring, seeing as native Irish people are white this legislation actively discriminates against us as a people in our own country.
Meaning that the best candidate gets the job.
It’s about equal evaluation regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation etc.
Nope, it means people are hired based on race, plenty o’ talented white people turned away because “diversity” has to be increased. Hardly an objective way to hire people.
Jack, that is legally and factually incorrect. I can’t do anything about your sense of grievance.
Which part is legally incorrect?. Can you legally hire a white local (native) before someone else or not?.
Yes, you can hire a white, local, native, Catholic , straight person ahead of anyone else if she or he is the most objectively deserving candidate. No preference and no prejudice.
I never said anything about being straight or catholic, there is protestant Irish people too. So you admit it then, you can’t hire a local because they are a local?. A business has to consider people who have no connection to us even at a time when the Irish are facing extreme financial hardship we are not allowed to look after our own.
Jack, yes you can hire a local if they are the best for the job.
So Anthony many native Irish do not want to be postal operatives, or luas drivers or ticket checkers, or work in construction, security guards, warehouse operatives, hmm, how did we fill those jobs before mass-immigration. Oh and btw tons of students are having big problems finding jobs they traditionally did to pay for college.
Apparently Europe was not able to function until we were “enriched”. Europe was incredibly successful long before mass immigration. And it will be successful long after we rid ourselves of this wretched anti-white platform.
EireWarning, many people wrongly consider such occupations menial and beneath them. This includes students.
Jack, there is no anti-White platform except for the one in your imagination.
I can’t make up my mind if your comments are racist, xenophobic or both.
Anthony,
Sources?
Proof of that?
Whereas I can say the opposite, most students are complaining about not being able to get these jobs, and many unemployed have tried over and over for such jobs.
again you ignore what does not fit with your analysis, Ireland always had people who did those jobs. Tell us what construction jobs the Irish think are beneath them for instance? Tell us what Irish think driving a bus is beaneath them or working on Dublins luas? I saw Irish people working on them, so why not more? It is obvious these positions are well capable of being staffed by Irish and there are plenty of Irish who want any job, and the ones I mentioned.
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Anti-discrimination laws needed to help native brits benefit from the resources of their own country.
Migrants DO take our jobs: Britons losing out to foreign workers, says official study July 9, 2014
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/487645/Migrants-take-British-workers-jobs-says-official-study
EireWarning, the Express as your source! Laughable.
It’s a pity to see this naked racism permitted.
The minute I posted express, I said, little boring Anthony will reply, “OMG the express as a source”
voila predictable Anthony’s reply about the source, monotonous and unoriginal, try harder with the multicultee automatic handbook responses.
and if you read the Express article, you will see they report on research done here:
Advisers on the Home Office’s Migration Advisory Committee who produced the research have now urged the Government to limit the impact of migration on local communities.
Naked racism
when the multicultees cannot counter fact or your argument why there should be no mass-immigration they hiss and scream and fall back on the only thing they have done since this scam was started, they scream racism and try to shut up all opposing voices. Folks I present the tyranny of the multicultees, labels, censorship, threats of career ruin and violence by their antifa thugs, mass-immigration is a scam by these people filled with hate.
And EireWarning is off!
Eire warning – so it will be ok for English people to put up “no dogs, no blacks, no irish” signs again – now that racism has ended?
Hey, Eirewarning http://goo.gl/C4K029
Have a nice day.
It your ideology is racist and anti-immigrant, discrimination laws can be inhibiting.
Unrestrained prejudice is what UKIP wants.
Yes Anthony you are right, jesus, how are we so blind, they want to build concentration….no, slash that, death camps and to gas 100 trillion jews, jesus Anthong, we have got to get the word out, but how?
EireWarning, that’s a bit irrational. Actually, it’s completely irrational and incoherent.
Oh yea, what a big racist Nigel Farage is for having the temerity to suggest that a black or Asian British person should be first choice for a job before a newly arrived Romanian or Polish immigrant.
WOW, what a racist
When Gordon Brown was British prime minister he came out with the below slogan and nobody created a racial hoohaa about it.
‘British Jobs For British Workers’
They do need anti-discrimination laws, so that native Brits can get a job and stop being discriminated against in their own country, coming to an Ireland near you.
Nine out of ten people who joined the workforce last year were foreign nationals, official figures revealed yesterday. 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031973/UK-immigration-9-10-jobs-created-year-went-foreign-nationals.html
EireWarning, you are closer to BNP than UKIP in your xenophobic views.
Xenophobia, fear of the alien.
Nope don’t fear any foreigners always get on well with humans from all races, just want our territory to be ours and other peoples territories to be theirs, now that my little friend is the opposite of hate, in fact it is the peak of support for all races, ensuring all have fullest of life, something you oppose with your support for cheap labour exploitation mass movement of people. Which btw keeps the 3rd world in poverty, something i want to see gone.
EireWarning, you are incorrect. People are just looking for better lives, better opportunities in more secure and stable societies. Irish people have greatly availed of emigration to many other countries and contributed invaluably and beneficially to other economies , just as immigrants into Ireland contribute to our economy and society when permitted.
If immigrants are needed for certain professions then yes they should be allowed in. It should not be a free for all and especially not for those who refuse to work and integrate into the society they chose to move to. A points system like Australia have would go a long way to eliminating those who have no interest in integrating with those who have no choice but to accept them.
Our own people are looking for a better life here in Ireland, our only duty is to Irish people. Our ancestors struggled for centuries and built up this country for each generation of their children, they did not make such sacrifices for the children of others, life is tough enough.
All other countries have to do the same, Ireland has given billions in aid money to the 3rd world, milllions in man hours in volunteer work, engineering projects, medical and educational projects, we continue to give 670 million euros each year to the 3rd world, in state aid alone, not including peoples personal donations. We do not owe the 3rd world a penny, let alone for them to come here.
And out trots multicultee mantra #4:
The Irish go to countries we helped built, fought and died for, we have ancestral links to these countries, we have a certain right to still go to these ancestrally linked countries. Also they were at the time seen as the new world, not definite ethnically settled territories (wrongly). However they did build up those countries, and if the Europeans had not gone, then other powers like the Chinese or Arabs would have and the natives lives would have been even worse, today China and arabs are economically stripping and colonising Africa, the Africans recognise that the Europeans at least gave something back.
There is no need for immigrants to contribute, there is no need for immigration, in time each country in the world will simply be a replica of New York, how sht and boring is that going to be. Already accents are dying out, european cultures are being destroyed, the unique distinctiveness of my people is being destroyed and their future attacked both on personal levels and over the long term. Maulticulturalism is a death machine, steam roller obliterating humanity.
Britain doesn’t need Nigel Farage
Brits say different, they are finished with the multicultural scambridge
EireWarning, you don’t speak for all of the British people.
Do you live in Britain?
Anthony,
Most British people, whereas you speak for even less
Eirewarning, you don’t speak for any British people. Partly on the basis that you aren’t one, mostly on the basis that you are a deranged racist fcuknut
Listen to the start of this clip of Richard Harris and what he did when he saw a no blacks , no dogs, no irish sign in London.
Assertive and fair way to deal with discrimination!
and indeed racism, and bigotry and nazis, you forgots demz so yuz didz lord priest Atonee yur highness sir
EireWarning, you are getting more incoherent in your slavering racism.
EireWarning can you speak English?
We are all human beings trying to do the best that we can. We are truly the same.
support for open borders is not the best for humanity, it is the worst that you can do. Cheap labour, destruction of ethnic peoples, destruction of diversity, amelioration of world wealth in the hands of a few, miring the 3rd world forever in poverty, adding the rest of the west which could have got them out of it, into the same sinking boat. How short sighted of you, or maybe you know all this and prefer to spout on about the multicult religion in order to feel smug and like a self-righteous pious fake humanitarian for your own personal greedy gratification.
All human beings are equal. There is room and opportunity for all of us.
You are unduly alarmist and paranoid in your views.
Anthony,
All human being are equal in respect but we are all different. I like diversity, you seem to be afraid of it. Men and women are equal but different.
Paranoid would be ungrounded fears and analyses. My fears are grounded and show a better long term vision than yours, which seem to be based on a paranoia and fear of any country being allowed to be left alone, that it’s ethnicities must not be allowed to do so. My analysis is based on solid evidence both here and abroad as well as actual experience of increased criminality due to immigration. We are not all the same, different peoples with different modes and abilities exist, different cultures exist, or is female genital mutilation the same and just as valid here in the west? But if we are all the same, then there is no need to import people, especially just because they have different skin colour, that seems to be an acknowldegment that you are being a discriminator based on skin colour, ooooohh.
The earth has finite resources there is room and opportunity for a finite number. Have a look at the elephants in Africa, their living space is now seriously curtailed due to population boom in Africa.
He ahs the cut of Cromwell about him – and a little Prince Charles to mount the Throne …
“Gulp!” – Charles .
The funny thing is that he is married to a non – national/non – Briton. What a clown he is!
The non ethnic Brits and older immigrants agree with him to shut the borders.
EireWarning, your views are obnoxious and toxic. Thankfully, your views are in a tiny minority.
Anthony,
which views might that be, the ones where ethnic peoples of all races have a right to exist and not be genocided. which puts me on the side of the amazon Indians vs the capitalist forest destroyers, destroying the territory of the amazon indians. Whereas you are on the side of the multicultees, which means you would enforce the amazon indians having to open up their borders to whites, blacks and asians thus genociding an ethnic people, making this world more impoverished, how the multicultees lie in order to keep their destruction of people going, shame on you Anto.
No, I strongly oppose the invasion of the rain forests and the war waged against indigenous peoples and their habitats.
Then you are contradicting yourself and being irrational, the only logical consistancy is to support all ethnic peoples, and that however unpalatable or unfashionable to you, is to also support European peoples and their traditional territories. If you do not stand up for the existence of European ethnic people which by definition means their right to their exclusive territory, then you cannot stand up for any, the amazon indians will question your ability to defend them when you could not defend your own.
It needs teeth whitening by the looks of things!
Would the man ever just visit the dentist. Teeth shouldn’t be that colour.
Hello Gemma, if that’s your picture above then may I kindly suggest you take a look in the mirror before commenting on others as you ain’t not oil painting yourself.
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