Perhaps we don't deserve free movement of persons

So for the European elections the far right has made definite gains. whilst the turnout was shit as always, both UKIP's rise in here and the National Front's gains in France suggests a few things. Namely, we can't have nice things, and secondly: is freedom of movement between borders worth it?

From my perspective, that's a definitive yes. However, it's undeniable there's a big swell of thought in Europe right now that we have too many foreigners wanderin' around.

When I talk to people, there's constant fear and anger about people in this country walking along the street talking a different language, or wearing different clothes. And I was be the only person who doesn't give a shit. Whatever. You're talking something that's not English. You're wearing non-English traditional clothes. I'll be over here, looking for my fucks to give.

I don't even give a fuck about the lack of apostrophes in this picture.

Tragically, my incredible tolerance / incredible apathy isn't a universally shared thing. UKIP and the National Front has been making their gains of the back of an anti-immigration stance, with many comments levelled at the stance 'they're finally saying what we're all thinking!' Well, awesome. But you know why the Big Three parties (well, Big Two after the Lib Dems dismal showing) have never got round to doing anything about immigration? It's a boring answer, I'm afraid. It's because we gain a net economic benefit.

That's not the story that every newspaper, and every 'everybody knows' story that's been doing the rounds for god knows how long. And the stories that are wrong, or blatantly false, like Farage's '29 million Romanians and Bulgarians are totally going to come here,' (even though there's only 27 million of them, and god damn is that stupid to suggest) are never really challenged, or called out for the scare-mongering lies that they are. But whatever. Clearly we just don't like immigrants.

So what's next? Perhaps we should have tiered freedom of borders, like the big players in Germany, France and England can wander freely, but everyone else in the EU can wander around themselves but need border checks coming into the big three. It is admittedly not a good system, and is brutally unfair, but hey, it lets me dodge getting visas when I go on holiday. It does somewhat stop the 'takin ma jobs' cries, as look everyone - we're all just well off white people wandering around, amiright? Non of those, poor, ethnic chaps!

Excuse whilst I go puke for writing that.

How I feel about myself right now.

However, this, whilst politically perhaps more acceptable to the public, would be immediately challenged as other countires would want to get into this tier of free movement. Then you have the problem we don't have any internal borders, so you'd just have to walk around to get it. And thirdly, the big three want immigration, to do those jobs cheaply we don't to do or fill skilled roles we don't have, and not having it would make us exceptionally uncompetive. Also, I have friends who live here but aren't from Germany and France, that I'm basically determining that they gotta be deported. Er. I don't want to do that. I did say this idea was fucking terrible, right?

Perhaps we should have a leaflet to anyone turning up, quietly saying, 'Welcome to Britain! We fucking hate you. Please do us a favor and hide your unquie cultural hertiage and pretend to be just like us until we decide we're cool with you. It will only take, twently, thirty years, tops. Peace out!'

Or we could have the media stop fellating Murdock's wrinkled cock, and actually tell the truth about immig-

Heh, I made a funny.

Yeah, fine, that's not going to happen.

You know, immigration is never going away? It's never going to end? It's been with use for-fucking-ever? And that some of our best people were from abroad? Oh, hey, the big man, Winston Churchill's British, right?

FUCKING WRONG HIS MOTHER WAS FROM AMERICA.

What about Brunel, our famous engineer?

NOPE, HE'S FROM FRANCE, A FUCKING FRENCHIE.

T.S. Eliot, poet?

AMERICAN AGAIN, FUCKFACE.

Okay, the guy who designed that weird twisty thing in the Olympic park? That weird thing is the British thing ever. It even stands like it's embarrassed at itself.

KEEP LOOKING, ANISH KAMPOOR'S WAS FROM INDIA.

Fine. The Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon, he's as English as you get, right?

AS ENGLISH AS A FUCKING IRISHMAN. WHICH HE WAS.

Dame Helen Mirren, the quintessential English-

DAD'S A RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT, YOU. UTTER. FUCKTARD.

This, this! Is what people who bitch against immigration stand against. One generation, two generations, and they are British. One of us! Even earlier, if they want to be. Whatever. Fine. No immigrants. Woo.

I'll be over here, watching Eddie Izzard's Mongrel Nation again.