Originally Posted by
wendun
My dear raging you are a card. A lion is an animal, an elephant is an animal but they are not the same animal. I think the four freedoms are wrong; wrong in the sense that, for example, capital can move without the baggage that the movement of people entails; so to equate them is nonsense. That said I can live with it for two reasons. Firstly, membership of the EU to me outweighs it. Secondly, after Brexit the ruling class will anyway conspire to allow EU immigration anyway; it will simply be massaged, hidden or disguised.
The immigration I object to (elephant not lion) is explicit in the last line of my post. It is the entry of the sullen, homophobic, misogynistic, medieval monotheists that to me despoil this country, undermine the gains of the Enlightenment and are the biggest self-inflicted disaster Europe has allowed since August 1914.
It didn't have to be like this and it wasn't in the early days but the influence of Saudi financed Salafi Islam has imo got a hold that will take a great deal of work by progressive Muslims to dislodge.