09/04/2017 00:00
As regular readers of this column will know I was raised on Majorca but it was very much an "English upbringing". My father had served in the Royal Air Force during the war and his father had been at the Battle of the Somme. My mother would recount to me the story of how she watched the Battle of Britain being fought out over the skies of Kent as a child.
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You are wrong Jason, the media made it out to be immigration, but it was actually about "world trade" and no longer being controlled by an outdated and slow bureaucratic EU.
Jason, you do realise that England and Britain are not the same things - don't you?
Does she (and you ) realize that your jobs and presumably, future, depend on the very people she criticizes, eg the readers and advertisers in your newspaper ?.
When your Spanish colleague has to pay higher taxes and have a lower standard of living due to the UK´s lack of contribution to the EU kitty, which will have to be made up by the other remaining countries, most of which have benifitted greatly from our largesse, she may have a different opinion about the reality of things, especially if France leaves if Ms Le Pen wins the next election.
The English so called "fair play" only originated in the 20´s and 30´s of the last century, when people thought that WW I had been the war that ended all wars. Behind the scenes though there wasn´t much fair play at all, especially with the Bolshevics planning on spreading their convictions world wide, not to mention a german politician who had the same idea, probably worried about the formers plans.We only took in and gave shelter to people ( not a huge amount ) under duress, many times having to be forced to do so when there was no alternative. When WW II finished over 8 million people of german extraction who had been living for centuries in the eastern part of Europe were forcibly removed from their homes and lands. We left them to it.And it would be wise not to mention how we "solved", amongst others, the Cossack problem.To end, if fair play still does exist, it is currently being taken advantage of by people who couldn´t really care less about the future of the UK, and even more sadly, we are letting them get away with it.
First and foremost,Howard was soundly ridiculed by the UK media,press,T.V.and radio so you can tell your anti-British colleague that for a start along with the fact that Howard is no longer in Government,thank God and his views are totally out of touch with most people in the UK. Secondly,immigration was part of what Brexit was fought on but there were other matters such as loosing our sovereignty to unelected EU politicians and bureaucrats,the feeling that we were being screwed by them and treated as a cash-cow. There were other reasons that tipped Brexit as well,not just immigration as you seem to believe.