Over the period of the referendum, there has been an
increasing tide of racism and unashamed refugee and immigrant blaming. This would not have happened without the referendum.
It’s been open season for any idiot to come out with the schrodinger’s refugee
who both stole jobs and claimed benefits.
The BBC have run programmes focussing on how some migrants
are working for lower than the minimum wage. When people have highlighted the
illegality of the people employing them and their blatant flaunting of the law
or the links with human trafficking. The torrent of abuse has been relentless. They
include calls for my own deportation. Not sure where to, since I was born in the
town I live in.
The local press have run stories of European migrants paying
thousands of pounds for advice that they could have got for free, only to have
a stream of comments from people saying that they should not be entitled
anything and the should simply go back.
When I joined other local people to protest about chief xenophobe
and hypocrite Nigel Farage coming to the town I live in, the town I was born
and brought up in, I again faced abuse from those from the left, the right and
people who badged themselves as coming from faith communities because this was
challenging mainstream politics. Friends of mine have had their houses attacked
for standing up for the their town not to be invaded by one more racist that
wants to halt immigration but also wants the freedom to employ immigrants when
he chooses to. Despite my taking this action on my own time, UKIP continue to
want to bring my employers into this. That’s nothing new since they distributed
leaflets to EVERY household in Kettering where they were standing citing the
fact that the council gave money for a discrimination service (my employers) as
a waste of council resources.
When talking about the level of racism in the country at the
moment, a colleague said that the genie was out of the bottle and it wasn’t easy
to put it back.
With the news of Jo Cox’s death, it’s time to say enough is
enough and the hate must stop. Regardless of the actual motives of the
perpetrator, she died because she stood up for what she believed in and the
included challenging hate. The hate has to stop right here, right now.
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