David Blunkett in riot warning over Roma migrants

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Even out of office, the ignorant homophobic fucker is still spouting bullshit and fear.

Tensions between local people and Roma migrants could escalate into rioting unless action is taken to improve integration, David Blunkett has warned.
The former home secretary fears a repeat of race riots that hit northern cities in 2001.
His concerns centre on the Page Hall area of Sheffield, where Roma migrants from Slovakia have set up home.
But he also accused the government of "burying their head in the sand" over the scale of Roma settlement in the UK.
In an interview with BBC Radio Sheffield, he said the Roma community had to make more of an effort to fit in with British culture.
"We have got to change the behaviour and the culture of the incoming community, the Roma community, because there's going to be an explosion otherwise. We all know that."

(Full article here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24909979)

[Return_Of_The_Mac]

Hmmmm...

[Blake's Baby]

Roma migrants in riot warning over David Blunkett


Tensions between normal people and David Blunkett could escalate into rioting unless action is taken to stop him stirring up hatred, Roma migrants have warned.
The Roma migrants fear a repeat of race riots that hit northern cities in 2001.
Their concerns centre on David Blunkett's face, where words come out, and near where his brain is reputed to live.
They accused the government of "burying their head in the sand" over the idiocy of Mr Blunkett.
In an interview with BBC Radio Spoons, they said David Blunkett had to make more of an effort to fit in with being human.
"We have got to change the behaviour and the culture of this utter toxic twit, because there's going to be an explosion otherwise. Someone will end up losing an eye."

I'm sorry but he's a piece of human sewage, he really is.

[brigadista]

this makes me so angry all I can say whilst spiuttering is that David Blunkett is a fucking fool

[Ceallach_the_Witch]

i do question the extent to which this is actually news, I think we all pretty much knrew Blunkett was a filthy piece of work :glare:

Jokes aside, I'm angry but not terribly surprised, although perhaps Mr. Blunkett should take a step back and re-evaluate his life (as anyone should in the position) now that he's been endorsed by Nigel Farage - "Mr Blunkett should be admired for the courage he has shown by speaking so plainly on this issue. Of course, the type of language he has used I would have been utterly condemned for using... The fact that he is talking of the significant difficulties with the Roma population already in his constituency should be taken seriously by the likes of Cameron, Clegg and Miliband... My question is if they won't listen to the dangers of opening the door to Romania and Bulgaria next year when UKIP speak out on it, will they listen to David Blunkett? I certainly hope so."

[ed miliband]

the cover of tomorrow's daily star ffs:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BY6FD6YIYAAaQZO.jpg:large

[Futility Personified]

Words can't express my contempt for the star or Mr Blunkett.

[ed miliband]

clegg's started attacking roma too:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/14/nick-clegg-roma-community-sheffield-migrants-britain

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

clegg's started attacking roma too:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/14/nick-clegg-roma-community-sheffield-migrants-britain

Ah Cleggers, bandwagon rider extraordinaire (if he's not eviscerated by the voters and his party come 2015, I'm a giraffe's crank dealer)

[hatzel]

clegg's started attacking roma too:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/14/nick-clegg-roma-community-sheffield-migrants-britain

I think it's ridiculous how he jumps from...


There is a real dilemma when you get communities coming into part of our country and then they behave in a way that people find quite difficult to accept. They behave in a way that people sometimes find intimidating, sometimes offensive. We have every right to say if you are in Britain and are coming to live here and you are bringing up a family here, you have got to be sensitive to the way life is lived in this country. If you do things that people find intimidating, such as large groups hanging around on street corners, you have got to listen to what other people in the community say

...to...


I am a liberal. I think one of the great things about our country is that we are open-hearted and generous-minded. The NHS would keel over if it did not have people coming to this country to work for it. Of course we should welcome people that want to play by the rules, pay their taxes and contribute to public life

Beyond the stuff that doesn't even make sense (since when did 'the way life is lived in this country' involve not 'hanging around on street corners' ffs?!) and the obvious inconsistencies ('we're open-hearted and generous-minded but we're deeply offended by your minding your own business over there so sort yourselves out'), it's pretty obvious he's just trying to soften the edges by slapping a couple of pretty words on the end. He knows full well these people aren't coming in as doctors and nurses to prop up the NHS, and he's literally just said that they don't 'play by the rules' or 'contribute to public life' (and therefore, presumably, shouldn't be welcomed), so that whole second section can be read as some kind of 'well, immigrants are fine, but not those immigrants.' He's picked his words in such a way as to appear all lovey-dovey to immigrants, to pander to that crowd, without alienating the anti-Roma brigade in the slightest...blargh...

[Arlekino]

Well more and more attacks on East Europeans, I feel it myself from some English society. The questions how asking me " are you from Bulgaria, are you from Romania, when you go back to your country, are you staying here forever" when their understand I am not English. Not long time ago I was on holiday somebody asked where I came from as I explained I am from Lithuania, straight away telling me horror stories how Lithuania's are robed somebody, yes is not very nice feeling. Oh and Daily Mail readers we are bastards we are uneducated and we are dangerous people.

[RebelDog]

Of course we should welcome people that want to play by the rules, pay their taxes and contribute to public life

Except for corporations of course............

[brigadista]

Well more and more attacks on East Europeans, I feel it myself from some English society. The questions how asking me " are you from Bulgaria, are you from Romania, when you go back to your country, are you staying here forever" when their understand I am not English. Not long time ago I was on holiday somebody asked where I came from as I explained I am from Lithuania, straight away telling me horror stories how Lithuania's are robed somebody, yes is not very nice feeling. Oh and Daily Mail readers we are bastards we are uneducated and we are dangerous people.

well im happy you are here

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

More than a whiff of Enoch Powell about Blunkett's rhetoric. Surely this kind of thing falls under the definition of incitement?

[Entfremdung]

More than a whiff of Enoch Powell about Blunkett's rhetoric. Surely this kind of thing falls under the definition of incitement?
I think so. Surely he is in no condition to start rioting at his age. He should be arrested for his own safety, if nothing else.

[hatzel]

More than a whiff of Enoch Powell about Blunkett's rhetoric. Surely this kind of thing falls under the definition of incitement?

It is a fact universally acknowledged that the same rules do not apply to all communities; if somebody claimed to be offended by young black or Asian men socialising with other young black or Asian men in public, Clegg and his ilk wouldn't hesitate to call them out for their racism - in this case, however, we are assured that 'we have every right' to react negatively on seeing a group of Roma on the street. A lot of this may have to do with the fact that black, Asian and other communities have spent decades fighting against discrimination, whereas the Roma are - as of yet - less organised, and as such cannot exert the necessary pressure for incitement against them to be recognised as incitement; nobody ever got recognition without tearing it from people's hands, and the Roma are unfortunately ill-prepared to force the issue.

In a similar vein, check the snippet from that front page up there:


Tensions caused by Roma migrants in Britain could explode into riots, ex-Home Secretary David Blunkett warned yesterday.

Some Brits are so concerned they have started street patrols.

I don't think even the most committed bullshit merchant (in the mainstream press, at least) would talk about 'tensions caused by Muslims' and then jump straight to the EDL, or refer to this recent 'Muslim Patrol' incident as 'tensions caused by homosexuals,' or worry about the lasting impact of 'tensions caused by Stephen Lawrence's foolish decision to get stabbed.' Yeah, they might think it, they might imply it, they might believe that the solution to various bigotries and social disharmony is to deal with the presence of the victims rather than the perpetrators, but I have a gut feeling that it is only with the Roma that you can be quite so brazen in claiming that the formation of anti-Roma street patrols is a problem caused by the Roma, - not 'naive immigration policy,' not 'failed multiculturalism,' but the Roma themselves and the Roma alone - knowing that any backlash will be entirely toothless. Maybe people will prove me wrong by throwing all sorts of articles my way that do in fact lay the blame squarely at the feet of the victims in such a candid manner, rather than hiding it behind all sorts of vague assertions and scaremongering, but I don't know, for some reason I don't think I'm far wrong on this one...