Another example of political correctness gone mad

That's a difficult one. The law states it is illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation. Which they did. Their defence is that they reserve the right of admission to their home/business as they see fit.

 

I dont think anyone who made this decision had an agenda or was being politically correct. It seems to me that someone just thought perhaps immigrant children shouldnt be fostered by people who dont want immigrants. right or wrong? you decide. but it isnt politically correct or anything like that. They arent saying they arent fit to f9ster, just that maybe immigrants arent the best fit for an anti immigrant couple.

Dont UKIP want all illegal immigrants sent back? Perhaps these kids are illegal?

Would you put a gay kid in the foster care of someone who thinks gays should be banned?

Or an innocent young boy in the care of a wednesday fan?

 

I think you're spot on Dyson. If things continue as they are it won't be too long before they really start to eat into the main right wing vote.

 

And that scares the **** out of me. A Tory/UKIP coalition.

 

Aren't they more of a pressure group or a single issue party though?

 

They are but like ark sez they're trying to become more mainstream and steal the moderate BNP vote and the more extrer/euro sceptic Tory. If Dave comes back having given more/same money to the EU he's got a problem. I reckon he'll have some MPs leaving shortly.

 

Let them implode. But your image of a coalition is scary,

 

A grimethorpe couple a few years ago were stopped fostering simply because the voted BNP.In my view this was completely out of order,we are supposed to live in a democracy with freedom of speech.

 

Being homophobic and racist can and will stop you being a "good parent".

 

No chance of a Tory ukip coalition. One will take votes from the other.

 

not everyone who has voted bnp or ukip are homaphobic or racist,its more of a case that they've lost all faith in cons/labour.

just because someone has issues with the immigration doesnt make them a racist.

 

I think UKIP say that immigration at the rate we have endured should stop for the benefit of our country as its not sustainable for services such as the NHS. It is also effecting jobs the economy as a whole. That is different to saying immigration should stop for racial issues. I think it's wrong to take these children away because their foster parents are members of a recognised political party. A lot of UKIP's politicians are just Tories who don't bother to put the sheeps clothing on IMHO

 

Kanecat is correct, as far as I'm aware the UKIP position would be an immediate freeze for five (?) years to enable the obvious mess that has been created by the previous governments disastrous and quite deliberate mass immigration policies to be sorted out, followed by a points based qualifying system along the same lines as that used by Australia/Canada etc. Seems eminently sensible to me.

Given this I can't help but wonder where people might have got the idea from that UKIP are a racist party, could it be because those on the left have sought to paint them as such to shut down the immigration debate? Sound familiar?

 

I think its the language they choose to use to get people to buy in to their message. Listen to how Farage will criticise the EU. He plays on people's stereotypical views of foreigners. IMHO that hijacks the debate just as much as the left and prevents any proper assessment of their ideology

 

Yes, it's a huge left wing conspiracy, which is odd given the complete lack of left wing politics in the uk....This is being confused with neo-liberalism, which is pro-capitalism in nature and needs cheap migrant workers to fill it's gaps in labour supply.

If you dont like it, dont keep voting in capitalist parties.

 

do you include labour in your category of capitalist parties?.seeing as there was a big influx of cheap migrant workers under their watch.

 

New Labour - yes, of course they are neo-liberals and that's the reason they 'modernised' under Blair. They evolved to match the broader economic landscape as they had become unelectable.

 

they evolved to a point wheres theres not much difference between them and the tories,which has taken many away from their traditional vote to a vote for ukip or bnp....

the original post is one of the examples as to why more and more are becoming disilusioned with the mainstream parties......its nowt to do with racisim of not liking gays.

 

Whilst there are obviously economic and social policy differences between New Labour and the Conservatives, they broadly push the same neo-liberal - CAPITALIST message, the differences being on how they suggest it is managed. They are not ideologically opposed to each other as say the Old Labour party would have been.

They all know immigration is needed, but they all play a different tune to different section of voters.

 

Ive had the view for years that we don't have a democracy, we have an over arching political direction that has been decided for us, and we are left to change the gears on the machine every few years. To some people that gives the illusion of a democracy, but in reality it's far from it. Choice is available, but due to money, power and the effects of the main stream media the options are limited because the 'big beast' political parties take up so much of the available news time.