On 15 April, Britain had her first TV live election debate. This was billed as a must not miss - TV audience were expected to be in their millions. David Cameron was expected to come out on top - after all he had worked on TV before turning to politics.
The first question was on IMMIGRATION - a word the British always invoke when they perceive their economy/country to be in crisis - the 'other' have to be blamed for the mess that their country is in - in this case, RECESSION. I was puzzled as to why the TELEVISION station - ITV chose immigration as the first question of the evening. Like the rest of the UK media, ITV seemed to be joining the bandwagon in favouring Mr David Cameron (I hope that they - ITV will forgive me if my assumption is wrong). Immigration has been Cameron's poker hand since he was elected the leader of the Conservative Party. It could also be his nemesis. I was expecting the economy to be the first question though - considering how the media had attacked The Prime Minister, Mr Gordon Brown prior to the debate on his handling of the economy and the recession that befell us. Although this crisis was GLOBAL, living in the UK, one would think that Britain was still an empire. It took Cameron almost a year to acknowledge that the recession was global. Nonetheless, all the political parties, I assume were prepared and knew that immigration was one of a number of topics on most white voters minds. Britain, I am told remains at least 90% white - but you wont believe this living in the country.
Cameron was the first to answer the question on immigration put to him by a member of the studio audience (most sat there like gnomes), I was and still is appalled by Cameron's racial politics. He had, since he was elected the Conservative leader, to be quietly planting in the public's mind his fear of the 'other'. He did not disappoint in his answer. He started by reminding us that he met a "black man" who came here when he was "six" and that even this man was against the influx of people into a 'FULL' Britain.
What exactly does Cameron mean? For anyone who had watched the TV documentary "posh at the top" a few years ago, this documentary depicted David Cameron as extremely right wing and this position had blighted (shortly anyway) his political ambitions. To address this set back, he quietly began to reposition his political views until he got himself elected as the leader of the Conservative Party-coining the nonsense we know today as "compassionate conservatism". Once more, a thorough analysis of Mr Cameron's comment on Thursday 15 April 2010 revealed his real politics - one of fear and hate. Mr Cameron seemed to be saying that although he does not like non whites into the country, he is tolerant of those who are already hear and settled BUT have now come to accept his view that Britain is full! But Mr Cameron is against the brain drain that many third world countries have witnessed - so he is willing to allow those who possess qualifications that are so desperately needed by the Britain.
This black man if he ever existed, reminded me of an article in New York Times (see earlier blog on the Tea Party) about blacks and Hispanics seen in the Tea Party. Many black people in the UK are indifferent to people who arrive into the country in search of better life. The UK owes most countries. This is a country built on the backs of the great great grandparents of those they are trying to keep away today. And the brain drain will not help to stem these people from trying to come over to the UK.
The mass immigration witnessed over the past 13 years are as a result of EU expansion, the war in Bosnia and the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars which the Tory party supported!!! Mr Cameron will do best to remind the public of the number people who emigrate. Mr Brown of the Labour Party and Mr Clegg of the Liberal Party were quite right to avoid Mr Cameron's political mischief.
Every time I think that it is time that I returned to voting the Conservative party, Mr Cameron continually reminds me that his party is not quite the Party of Michael Heseltine and Kenneth Clarke (intelligent, honest and blunt)that I once admired. At least with Mrs T, we knew what we were dealing with. With David Cameron, it like playing on a quick sand.
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