A little poem which i find sickening

I cross ocean, poor and broke.
Take bus, see employment folk.

Nice man treat me good in there.
Say I need to see welfare.


Welfare say, "You come no more, we send cash right to your door."


Welfare cheques - they make you wealthy! NHS - it keep you healthy!

By and by, I got plenty money.
Thanks to you, British dummy!


Write to friends in motherland.
Tell them "come fast as you can."


They come in turbans and Ford trucks.
I buy big house with welfare bucks!


They come here, we live together.
More welfare cheques, it gets better!

Fourteen families, they moving in,
but neighbour's patience wearing thin.
Finally, white guy moves away.
Now I buy his house,then I say,


"Find more aliens for house to rent."
And in the yard I put a tent.


Everything is very good,
and soon we own the neighbourhood.
We have hobby, it's called breeding.Welfare pay for baby feeding.
Kids need dentist? Wife need pills? We get free! We got no bills!
Britain crazy! They pay all year, To keep welfare running here.
We think UK darn good place.
Too darn good for the white man race!
If they no like us, they can scram. Got lots of room in Pakistan!

 

Remember this from the 1960s:
It then read, "Arrived in England, poor and broke
Went on dole saw labour bloke
We then had some useful natters
Then he gives me plenty ackers.....

 

I find both of those poems fairly sickening - although I daresay for different reasons...

The irony of it is that, by quoting the second poem, you go a great distance in defeating your own argument. Immigration has been encouraged by various governments over the years (the Irish to help build the country's industrial infrastructure last century, Afro-Carribeans to assist with rebuilding after the war, Asian doctors and nurses to serve in the NHS and Eastern Europeans to do the low-paid, donkey work vital to our current economy) and yet those very immigrants have always been made the scapegoat for all society's ills despite the useful work they have, and still do, perform. As the second poem suggests, EXACTLY the same stereotypes were formed about the first three groups I've mentioned as are now been used about the last.

The first three groups, after facing much abuse and discrimination over the years, have proved valuable contributors to our society both economically and culturally. In twenty years time you'll probably find the same about the last group and we'll have found some other racial / social group group to blame for all our problems.

Coincidence? Doubt it...

 

I posted that ages ago and site admin deleted it! Not fair...

 

You'll have the Indians after you.

Turbans indeed.