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Thread: Poll: 72% want reduction in immigrant numbers

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    Quote Originally Posted by hiding behind a poster View Post
    Name a barrister in Leinster House who's making money from free legal aid given to asylum seekers. Just one.
    I know of none but that doesn't take away from the fact that many barristers in this country are creaming the asylum-system. Appeals that take 4 years (you know which one) must be making people very rich.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FutureTaoiseach View Post
    Are you calling 72% of the Irish people racists? This has nothing to do with racism. Another PC-brigadier on my list. It's not about race it's about what the country can cope with. We can't cope with the floods in Cork for example where half the city is without water. So how can we be expected to provide for another million people projected in the next 20 years? In any case, the numbers you are talking about were nothing on this scale. A study by TCD referred to on an RTE series called "Blood of the Irish" found that 80% of us are descended from the first inhabitants of Ireland from 11,000 years ago, despite centuries of intermarriage.

    I have nothing against people who have a right to be here. I have plenty against those who abuse the asylum-system by crossing several safe EU countries and then claiming their life depends on staying in Ireland.
    So how many are here abusing the system?

    I'm no PC- brigadier...

    We have a population of 4.2millionish, prior to the famine we had a population of 8million plus, prior to that most of those 8 million had a life, not a great one but a life...

    Are you now advocating that all those who have nothing to contribute be shipped away?, Hmmmmm....

    And explain how the water issue in Cork has any relationship to immigrants... just for balannce..

    Your Avatar might have something to say about that......

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    Quote Originally Posted by FutureTaoiseach View Post
    I know of none but that doesn't take away from the fact that many barristers in this country are creaming the asylum-system. Appeals that take 4 years (you know which one) must be making people very rich.
    So as usual, you've made an allegation that had ZERO basis in fact. Withdraw the false claim you made about barristers in Leinster House, FT. You know you're lying.
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    The majority cannot therefore be the elite.

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    Quote Originally Posted by liamfoley View Post
    What's a racist?
    Ask the people lining up at the dole ques.

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    Quote Originally Posted by liamfoley View Post
    What's a racist?
    Now [there's] a question.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fing Fers View Post
    Ask the people lining up at the dole ques.
    Why would they have a better idea than the users of P.ie?
    It's a word that is being thrown around here, I would like a solid definition. For some it's racist to be pissed off that you do not have a job and think that emigrants are taking jobs. I would also like to make a distinction between people who are from the EU and have a right to live and work in Ireland and people claiming 'refugee' status. Not to mention what are euphemistically known as students.
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    Quote Originally Posted by liamfoley View Post
    What's a racist?
    One who believe's" that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority, and, abusive or agressive behaviour towards members of another race on the basis of such beliefs "

    And that's the Concise defination

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    After decades of dumping people on the four corners of the world, which we'll no doubt do again, we have no bloody right to whinge about the numbers of immigrants here trying to earn a crust themselves, it's rank hypocrisy. I, for one, love seeing them here, hope they stay, and welcome their genes into our pasty and freckly pool. Arguing for sensible immigration policy is one thing, arguing for repatriation, forced or voluntary, quite another. It sickens me to see it, quite frankly, but it doesn't surprise me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by toxic avenger View Post
    After decades of dumping people on the four corners of the world, which we'll no doubt do again, we have no bloody right to whinge about the numbers of immigrants here trying to earn a crust themselves, it's rank hypocrisy. I, for one, love seeing them here, hope they stay, and welcome their genes into our pasty and freckly pool. Arguing for sensible immigration policy is one thing, arguing for repatriation, forced or voluntary, quite another. It sickens me to see it, quite frankly, but it doesn't surprise me.
    But shur the Brits did nothing for us either.....

    WE NEED TO GROW UP A LITTLE

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