“From Epping to the sea, let’s make England Abdul free,” proclaimed the former Conservative and Ukip MP Douglas Carswell last week.
Catchy.
I wonder how far they're really prepared to go with all this anti-immigration slap-chat. James Catton, the donor manager of Reform UK, has advocated forcibly
deporting 10 million people. Nigel Farage has appeared to
exclude women and children from his plan to deport 600,000 people in the first term of a Reform government (God forbid). But he's also on record saying; “At this stage it’s not part of our plan for the next five years,” he said, leaving himself plenty of room for constructive ambiguity, and as recently as last September Farage was rejecting mass deportations as “a political impossibility”.
The idea of mass deportation would've been unthinkable twenty years ago, who can say where the latest barrage of bullsh!! from Farrage will end?
It all has the potential to become very dangerous, depending of course on ones opinion and view.
For example, if Carswell did proclaim as per your post, what exactly does he mean by that? Is he using Abdul as a catch-all name for illegal migrants? Or does he mean his preference would be for every non white person to be shown the proverbial door? For all those actually named Abdul who live here, were born here, who positively contribute etc, what are they to make of such a statement?
If you look just a bit more closely at some of the rhetoric, it doesn't take an expert to unpick what's actually going on.
Did anyone see the news clip yesterday of the youngish chap and his mates putting up union jack flags in a small English town? At first he was asserting it was all him, a truly grassroots thing. But then, with a bit more pressing from the reporter, he admitted he had been in the company of Yaxley-Lennon the night before and it was him that provided the flags to be erected. Whether this part was true or he was (trolling?) I can't say.
He also said something like 'these people need to bow to the flag as we do.' Do we? I certainly don't bow to any flag. Then, of course, the line got trotted out about them needing to understand we don't stand for things like girls and women being targeted, raped etc. Eh? Tell that to the thousands of Brits who do abuse women each year.
As we've touched on before, if Reform do get in and manage to remove all the illegals, who gets targeted next if we're still not living in utopia?
I suppose if they do get in and ramp up things like stop and search again, I'd better get ready (as a dark skinned male) to get stopped now and again to show my papers.
So yeah, whilst I'm all for much tougher controls around immigration, there could be a real risk to some of our hard fought for freedoms. And, if I'm being honest, I would trust Reform even less than I trust the established parties, and that's not saying much
