Tuesday 4 November 2014

Response to The Rant Mistress blog

This post is a response to another blog item by The Rant Mistress: http://therantmistress.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/ukip-and-man-behind-green-door.html?spref=tw

If you haven't read the above blog first, this post won't make sense.

First and foremost I'd like to be upfront, I'm a UKIP member and at election time, I put the same poster in my window. I'm 31, married with children, white, British, with 3 siblings who share the same father as me, but their mother is an Indian lady he met before my mother. I'm only educated to GCSE level, but have industry qualifications I took as an adult and was once upon a time a Tory voter, but never a member and had literally no idea what their policies were.

Next up I'd like to address your assumption that you being an "Immigrant we like" means that "you're white, English speaking and not wearing a Hijab". Not only is that insanely judgemental (Something you appear to realise you are, from your own realisation that you judged him on the poster and then his family on the state of his house), but it's also wrong. As someone who has been an immigrant myself, I can tell you that most countries around the world have something called an 'immigration system', this system deals with all requests to live and work in the country that it's responsible for. In most cases, the system has requirements that need to be met and in most cases, those requirements are not that you need to be white, or that you need to be of a specific religion.

What the system does usually require however, is skills, experience, health and the ability to support yourself. Degrees, or industry qualifications help to prove to some degree at least, that you can do something useful. In many cases, the system will change from time to time, to reflect the skills shortages that the country is facing, so for one 6 month period of time, the country might be short of Doctors and so it looks for Medical Doctors in it's immigration requests and allows some of the best ones in. For another 6 month period though, they might be short of graphic designers and so those with a BA in Graphic Design get pushed to the front of the queue and so on.

This is not abnormal and in fact, is the sensible, responsible thing to do. This incidentally, is what we as a country currently do, with immigrants from everywhere in the world, except the EU, where we have no such requirements, no background checks, no health checks, etc. This, is what UKIP is against. Whilst you've clearly picked up your knowledge of UKIP from the media, who seem to believe UKIP are against immigrants, no matter what, the truth is we're not at all, many of us either are immigrants, have been immigrants, work with immigrants, or in my case, have siblings who are of an immigrant mother, one of whom is married to another immigrant.

Perhaps you might find yourself less judgemental, if you paid attention to the things you see, properly. For example, do you think a 91 year old man, who's of Polish origin and is voting UKIP is just deranged, or stupid? Or do you make the assumption, than an immigrant voting for UKIP is not in fact a Turkey voting for Christmas, but rather he knows something you don't? My first instinct when a Czech chef I met, told me he was voting for UKIP, was to not only ask him questions with an open mind, rather than throwing things at him to prove he was wrong, but also to then go and do my own research. By research, I don't mean reading the papers, or watching the news, or visiting biased news sources on the internet, I mean by going to the horses mouth.

Now had you asked him your ridiculous question, about having come here and needing to have health insurance, you need health insurance to be properly covered in SPAIN! A friend of my mothers has just returned from holiday there with her mother, after her mother had a brain haemorrhage whilst out there and she's had to pay for ALL of her mothers medical treatment. Further more, the girl who fell out of the hotel window a few months back, remember her? There were radio stations and charities here in the UK, crowd funding her treatment! The little boy whose parents were falsely arrested with an EAW a couple of months back, he's not getting his treatment for free, it's being paid for by the NHS! This rubbish certain people spout about us being able to get free health care within the EU, is just that, RUBBISH!

Simply put, you seem like an intelligent person, but someone who is not only judgemental, but someone who is concerned about genuine issues like the NHS. UKIP doesn't have a particularly strong policy on the NHS, other than to keep it free at the point of use, whatever that takes. Now for me, the NHS is not the shining beacon some make it out to be, but I do believe it should be. That said, for now, there are more important issues a foot, do you realise what will happen to the NHS if we surrender our health policy to the EU? It'll disappear completely, that's what! We're fast moving towards an EU super-state, there are already laws we can't pass for ourselves, because there are contradictory or preventative laws from the EU we must obey, there are already regulations that are forcing our companies out of business through sheer EU self-interest, like Tate & Lyle who are fast going out of business, because they can only buy sugar from the EU!

The further down the line we get with the EU, the more we'll hand over and eventually, Westminster will be nothing more than a regional council, for London. If that thought concerns you at all, do some research, stop bashing UKIP and vote for them, at least for now, once we're out of the EU and have genuine control of our own country again, we might be able to start addressing issues with the NHS!

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