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Reader says Labour's immigration ideas are 'inhumane, racist and will inflame our race relations'
When Tories, particularly right-wingers such as shadow home secretary Chris Philp, and even further-right Reform MPs, such as Richard Tice, even tentatively welcome the government’s awful immigration proposals, it’s probable the proposals are inhumane, racist and will inflame our taut race relations.
It appears the Reform tail is definitely wagging the Labour dog!
People arriving by boat have already been unfairly labelled ‘freeloaders’ when, in fact, they aren’t allowed to work or to receive full formal benefits or even to apply for secure accommodation until their claim is approved.
It is so ironic also that around 100,000 asylum seekers have still not been able to contribute to UK plc (despite wanting to) and yet we have imported economic migrants who inevitably bring with them non-contributory family members! Clive Alexander, Sheffield
Have Labour been ‘backed into a corner by Reform and public opinion’?
Regarding the latest immigration policy proposals from Labour. When in opposition, they opposed every single attempt by the Conservatives to deal with the issue and now, backed into a corner by Reform and public opinion, they are effectively forced to put forward proposals which in some cases go even further.
It must sting that they will likely need Conservative votes to get these policies into law. Jeremy, via email
‘The threat to this country is the rise in racism and fascism fuelled by lies’
It is alarming and shameful how this Labour government has failed this country and doomed it to a dark future.
Immigration is not the problem threatening this country – the threat to this country is the rise in racism and fascism fuelled, as it always is, by lies, distortion and malevolence.
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Instead of confronting the real problem dividing this country, Ms Mahmood and her cowardly government have capitulated and handed the country over to the bigots.
I am elderly. I hope and pray I don’t live to see the day when Tommy Robinson is the British prime minister. Shame on Labour. Shame on all of us. Saif Deen, Luton
The government ‘seize our heirlooms via inheritance tax so why should migrants be allowed to keep theirs?’ says reader
Unlike your columnist Sharan Dhaliwal, Tara (MetroTalk, Wed) doesn’t see why immigrants shouldn’t have to use family jewellery to pay for accommodation bills.
I’m with Tara – who says she has had to sell her grandma’s jewellery when times were hard.
Also, our chancellor is happy to seize our heirlooms via inheritance tax so why should migrants be allowed to keep theirs? Ian, via email
‘Please, can’t we stop flag waving and just be nice?’
Tony, the self-described ‘Anglo-Norman, invading ass’ (MetroTalk, Tue) is absolutely right about Reform’s Alexander Jones’ dodgy take on British history.
The Doncaster councillor wrote on Facebook that unless you descend from the ‘Angles, Saxons and Jutes’ circa 927AD you are not ‘English’.
The thing is, the English were relative latecomers to Britain, when they crossed the seas in their small boats from mainland Europe.
DNA research from 2019 tells us that the people who built Stonehenge were genetically from Turkey via Iberia – and they were almost entirely genetically replaced by the Beaker people, whose inhabitants came from what is now from Ukraine.
Our original hunter-gatherer inhabitants, meanwhile, have DNA that suggest they had blue eyes and darkish skin.
If you are searching for a pure English, British, Anglo Saxon, Celtic or ‘indigenous’ race to identify with, then you are on a hiding to nothing – it’s genetically a nonsense. There’s nothing wrong with our need to have an identity – it’s in our DNA! – but, please, can’t we stop flag waving and just be nice? Debbie Mortimer (Another Not So Badass Anglo Norman Invader), Currently residing In London
Reader calls out ‘wealthy people fleeing to Dubai’
These wealthy people fleeing to Dubai – whether it’s tech mogul Herman Narula or former footballer Rio Ferdinand – are the kind of people who will ditch their partners for a richer one. They still try to keep their UK links, though. Shameful. Red, Ruislip
‘The simplicity of Trump’s insults doesn’t improve his image’, says reader
President Donald Trump was asked by a female journalist why he hadn’t released the Epstein files if they contained nothing incriminating and responded by telling her, ‘Quiet, quiet, piggy’ (Metro, Wed). This is wrong in so many ways.
The first is the attempt to silence a journalist. Without a free and reliable news media, a democracy won’t be able to operate safely.
The second is the use of words to insult an individual. He has labelled so many people as being of ‘low IQ’ even though they might be lawyers or politicians.
The simplicity of his insults doesn’t improve his image. It is OK to criticise what reporters write, not the reporters themselves. Dennis Fitzgerald. via email
Reader points out that usually Trump has ‘no problem doing whatever he wants’
Why does it take the passing of a bill in Congress to release the Epstein files?
Surely if the US president (who seems to have no problem doing whatever he wants) has no objections, and ‘nothing to hide’, it can just be released. Am I missing something? Agatha, Surrey
Are people who press the train door button before the train has stopped ‘morons’?
I have the reason for Ann (MetroTalk, Wed) who can’t understand why people press the train door button before the train has stopped and ring the bell on the bus when it’s already been rung.
It’s simply because these people are morons. Martin Lawrence, South Croydon
A sweet joke from a reader
I was bored last night, so I swapped some wrappers around in a box of Celebrations chocolates.
My wife was not amused – she got her Snickers in a Twix. Dave Hughes, Chigwell
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