So, let's leave Conference behind, onwards and forwards ...

It's not compulsory you know if its causing you such boredom.

Thank you Lemongrove, I did mean gentle. Regarding racism, in every culture there is racism. Don’t get me started on honour killings. How was my post racist when it is a fact that we as a small island cannot cope with unlimited immigration, it does not take a brain of Britain to work this out. I am bored with this boring debate. Thank you Lemongrove for being kind and a voice of reason.

I read it as a simple spelling mistake Gill it makes more sense that way.

lemongrove

Yes, you have got it wrong trisha ?
The poster clearly means gentle

I think we can all be forgiven for thinking gentiles was deliberate Lemongrove based on the somewhat inflammatory opinions expressed by the poster. My comment, which backfired and was pulled by the moderators after someone reported me, was an attempt to lighten the rapidly escalating pattern. Best stick to my day job eh? I still heartily dislike ignorant and ill informed and racist posts though, as we all do.

Yes, you have got it wrong trisha ?
The poster clearly means gentle

And why use the word "gentile" anyway?

I can only think that you lovely gentile people do not live in areas that are affected by mass immigration.
Wow, just WOW! My family, East End born and bred, have lived, breathed, welcomed and supported a multi-cultural society from the early days of immigration into London back into the early 19th century. How dare you accuse me and others of racist leanings when you are yourself use such antoginistic language? I am truly speechless Have I got it wrong here?

"I phoned two different companies recently and a recorded message said ‘press 1 if you want to speak to an English speaking operator’. I am in England!!!"

Perhaps the companies weren't in England.

ajswan I think maybe the problem you're coming up against here is that a lot of people are pro immigration. They might be friends with immigrants, be employed by immigrants, employ immigrants, be friends with immigrants or married to an immigrant. Their child might be taught by an immigrant or their bus driven by one.
heir life might have been saved by an immigrant working in an NHS hospital. Heck, they might even be an immigrant themselves!

Immigrants are net contributors to the UK economy so they can fund themselves. Generally speaking we do not have to put them up in our back bedrooms as they and their children and grandchildren do pretty well under their own steam - just ask Rishi Sunak

There are lots of reasons why people think immigration is a good thing. You obviously have very strong views on this and will no doubt understand how others feel about their own views.

Gentiles? What on earth are you talking about?

I don’t think anyone is Lucca but theres’s a difference to the odd sarcastic remark and a whole sarcastic pile on, which is what happened here.
As for ‘angered posters’ how about a post such as vegansrock
Above, that’s a good example of how to challenge a comment
Without all the usual angry rhetoric...and works much better than calling someone names.

ajswan I live in an area of high immigration and I guess you’d call me a do-gooder in that I like the fact that I live in a diverse community, I donate to refugee amongst other charities and wouldn’t give a cent to Farage and his ilk. Plus I have had a refugee living next door and a very polite and pleasant young man he was. So your theory about nimbys falls short of any actual evidence.

Auf Wiedersehen Pet!

Lemongrove forgive me I don’t think you’re a stranger to sarcasm !

Ajswans post was very prejudiced and that’s what angered posters.

Goodness! I see someones been on the hotline to the mods again.

ajswan One thing I do agree with you on is the level of sarcasm, insulting and generally unpleasant posts by a group of ‘mature’ people, when they come across comments they don’t like.It’s not edifying at all.

Satire is alive and well, cartoonists all over the world are having a field day - and the sarcasm is so well expressed, Old biddies are even taking to poetry

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqSc9v6WrOI

oh, sorry, yes, got it!

Vera has been making the headlines again today- I wonder if she is on GN?

www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10220128774591709&set=a.10201370893256399

Kali2

Why? I am not a Catholic, not a Muslim, not a Methodis, not a Hindu - why is it rude to state so?

I meant to respond to ajswan's post about lovely gentiles.

Today 13:08 ajswan

I am talking about the so called refugees who are in fact economic migrants who come to this country to milk our welfare system. I worked for 56 years paying tax and insurance. I recently saw videos where fit young men wearing designer clothes being interviewed outside a hotel that had been totally given over to Afghan refugees. They said that they were waiting for housing. Why were they not put up in army barracks instead of four star hotels. We should house our homeless and forces veterans first.


Firstly, it’s not a crime to be an “economic migrant”, us Brits have done it for years, secondly it’s not and either or situation, we can, and do, help both ! More importantly you clearly understand absolutely nothing about how our welfare system works (yes, I do having worked in this area for 12+ years) and finally stopped believing all the right wing racist trash about “Jonny Foreigner” you see or read in the media and understand that MANY migrants, refugees or otherwise, are highly educated or, in your world do they have to be young females or wizanded old men to be genuine ???

Why? I am not a Catholic, not a Muslim, not a Methodis, not a Hindu - why is it rude to state so?

Alegrias1

I'm not a gentile. I'm an atheist.

It's a bit insulting to all the lovely Jewish posters.

GillT57

Forumites? That's a new one on me.

Forumite sounds like some kind of building material - maybe a bit like laminate.

I'm not a gentile. I'm an atheist.

So what are we meant to debate ajswan?
Or did you expect us to agree with you?

GillT57

Ajswan. I was just throwing you a lifeline but never mind. You obviously have a sense of humour about as good as your debating and discussion skills

How was you throwing me a lifeline by saying don’t feed the troll. I can only think that you lovely gentile people do not live in areas that are affected by mass immigration. I can imagine that you are NIMBYs, If you don’t know what that means, it means, not in my back yard. I can debate and discuss without calling someone a troll. Do you actually know what that means, shame on you.