London Mayor Elections

[badcompany]

That man is just appealing to an untapped voting base, doesn't matter on their colour or creed, he knows just what to say. He used to rub up with Sinn Fein in the 80's. The absolute definition of champagne socialist.

i know but where is his integrity and morals? its shameful.

 

[RomanNose]

Official figures for January show that nearly 17 per cent of pupils in state-funded primary schools did not speak English as a first language
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/8666450/If-you-dont-speak-English-you-cant-belong-in-Britain.html

I can't find any adult figures.

 

[Muffin`]

i know but where is his integrity and morals? its shameful.

At the heart of the labour party, he is their candidate.

 

[Duke]

I agree, Labours open door policy was a terrible idea

It was more of a conveyor belt.

 

[badcompany]

thankfully i don't live in london and will never go there again.

 

[badcompany]

It was more of a conveyor belt.

but it brought in millions of labour aspiring voters!

 

[Danthus]

but it brought in millions of labour aspiring voters!

And tuberculosis.

 

[badcompany]

And tuberculosis.

yep and aids from north africa ¬! lubbly

http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/5/620.abstract

Results: Of 75 021 AIDS reports over 1999–2006, 35% were migrants. Of 2988 heterosexual AIDS reports in 2006, 50% were migrants, largely from Sub-Saharan Africa

Conclusion: Migrants, largely from Sub Saharan Africa, represent a considerable proportion of AIDS and HIV reports in EU, especially among heterosexual and MTCT infections

 

[LordSplodge]

If they have the right to vote isn't it in the interests of democracy to ensure they can understand the issues? If the government doesn't someone else will.

Why let logic and reasoning spoil a good old immigrant bashing thread?

 

[Muffin`]

Why let logic and reasoning spoil a good old immigrant bashing thread?

Why do they have the right to vote if they cannot read and write the country's language? It's something we expect of our own citizens; yet we accept it from people we expect to prove their worth to enter the country, seems a little unfair, no?

 

[Dave M]

It's something we expect of our own citizens

Really?

 

[TJM]

A racist who supports Ron Paul. I'm shocked.

 

[Rich_L]

You don't have to be a British citizen to vote in the London Mayoral election and quite right too given the number of people working and living in the city who will be impacted by the election of that person. The only oddity really is that it's a strange group of eligible voters where Indians, Pakistanis, South Africans, Canadians and Australians (and any other Commonwealth citizen) can vote in their massess but any US Citizens living in London, for example, get a resounding no

Personally I think citizenship or qualified residency should be more than enough to be eligible to vote, it always strikes me as a little unfair that you have people who work, pay taxes etc, yet get no say in their governance.

 

[The Halk]

We were bad enough to let a great number of people in who don't speak English, we now need to deal with the consequences, which is either teaching them English or printing lots of stuff in various languages.

My understanding is that people aren't getting in now until they speak English, but it's too late.

In my opinion someone who doesn't speak English is at a serious disadvantage in society, and needs to learn. And yes, there's a cost involved in that, however it should ripple back into benefit the economy.

 

[badcompany]

London / Britain in name only nowdays.

 

[Muffin`]

You don't have to be a British citizen to vote in the London Mayoral election.

But to be fair you don't have to exist to vote in the Mayoral elections, but Ken's onto that one already.

 

[Dolph]

Only British citizens should be eligible to vote, someone who has just arrived here and doesn't speak English isn't likely to be a British citizen. Why we allow people to become British citizens who can't speak or read English is beyond me.

Because we have many home grown oxygen thieves who can barely speak or read english?

 

[badcompany]

We were bad enough to let a great number of people in who don't speak English, we now need to deal with the consequences, which is either teaching them English or printing lots of stuff in various languages.

My understanding is that people aren't getting in now until they speak English, but it's too late.

In my opinion someone who doesn't speak English is at a serious disadvantage in society, and needs to learn. And yes, there's a cost involved in that, however it should ripple back into benefit the economy.

they just don't bother to integrate and they actively segregate themselves in enclaves.

 

[badcompany]

But to be fair you don't have to exist to vote in the Mayoral elections, but Ken's onto that one already.

+1

 

[albert]

If i claimed asylum or wanted to live in Somalia would i as a UK citizen be able to vote in their elections? And if so would they print out all the information in English just for me?