7) A politically intelligent discussion about Theresa May? You seem to have gone a bit off subject here. But it’s quick & easy to cover. She’s nuts. Mentally incompetent. Unable to communicate. To whatever minimal extent she is able and willing to weigh up pros & cons, her default conclusion, ignoring memorised near-random platitudes, is fundamentally devious, immoral and despotic. So what it is you want to discuss about this walking, talking, living corpse?
“Feeding pigeons” vs “milk & honey for immigrants”: you don’t appear to understand the connection. Or you understand but disagree with it. Or you’re just playing dumb. Pigeons give me the creeps and besides, which, they are vermin. I’ve pretty much come to the point where I don’t want to feed words to you any more than I want to feed bread to pigeons.
9) Yes of course you’re right, I’m just guessing that we don’t have enough land space or resources for a never-ending flow of immigrants into Britain. Nothing to do with reality. Just a dream I had.
10) Changing face of Britain/towns that are no longer recognisably British: yes, you got it in one, ethnic characterisation. I love your remark ….
“as this is a relative statement (generally) it doesn't open up the possibility of any meaningful discussion”
You should give this remark to Theresa May; she could use next time she’s being interviewed or answering a question in the house. No one will question it from her because they know she’s got screws loose
11) As for your query about North versus Southern hemisphere inhabitation populations, while I’m just about prepared to believe you’re not suffering from a bi-polar condition, you do seem have your poles mixed up, You say 10% live in the Northern hemisphere, with the remaining 90% living in the Southern hemisphere. Wrong way around. The Northern Hemisphere is home to approximately 6.57 billion people which is around 90% of the earth's total human population of 7.3 billion people. Granted, the Northern hemisphere has 70% of the world’s total landmass and the Southern hemisphere 39%. But that still makes the Northern hemisphere twice as crowded as the Southern hemisphere. So why this mass migration to the crowded North? Because they’re lonely? They take long holidays, lasting a lifetime? Because white girls are easy (and easily groomed). Ran out of fly spray? Sunscreen too expensive? (What’s the point of getting a tan if you’re not white? Maybe we should all swap hemispheres?!). Admittedly the Northern hemisphere is more fertile and give or take a couple of Word Wars and a few acts of terrorism, we seem to be better at not completely dumping on our doorstep in so many ways, such as tribal wars, despots (give or take Theresa May!), democracy, anti-corruption, education, agriculture, exporting for a living, industriousness, treatment of women, disease control …… and so on and so forth
By the way, when you say in your breathless unpunctuated stream of semi-consciousness “I must be missing the point if you could fill us all in I'm confused”, who is “us”? Who do you imagine you are speaking on behalf of? If it’s Forum Box, and that is with their knowledge and consent, then I’m outta here forthwith. I can live with and even sympathise with FB’s take-no-prisoners attitude to Brexit, but this is something else again and I find it very creepy
Horizon: please tell me what’s in the above paragraph isn’t true!!
12) Am I, as you believe, confusing a dislike of Muslims with my concerns about immigration? If you want to make it seem that simple, then I suppose my answer is a hesitant “yes”. And yet, I do take individual people as they come rather than stereotype them. So if I see a Jew walking along a British high street with a long black beard, long black gabardine coat, skullcap, and a prayer shawl sticking out of his trousers, I don’t think he and I are going to find much common ground and nor do I think assimilating with his host country is top of his list of things to do. Likewise, if I see a Muslim with his wife wearing a veil or a burka, walking behind him, I will judge that there is a much better than 50-50 chance that he will think that the Americans “had it coming” with 9/11 and that Sharia Law should be somehow included in British Law. We are all guilty of profiling but only if we are entirely and unthinkingly racist do we make up our minds on the basis of a profiled stereotype. If we are fair, we remain cautiously open-minded to exceptions to the rule, and with enough such exceptions we form a new and better rule. Why on earth wouldn’t I care about Britain curbing and carefully filtering immigration intake to exclude immigrants who, at best, don’t want to assimilate within their host country and, at worst, want to change or even conquer it to suit their own beliefs and values?
13) In theory, you could be right that having negative views about Muslim immigration could aggravate rather than repel Islam extremism and radicalisation. Indeed, that’s the standard response from gutless politicians about letting sleeping dogs lie. It’s a sweet but sad Christian belief that that the meek shall inherit the earth. I veer towards those who believe the only way to extinguish an oil fire is to explode it. To the extent that you represent the Islam point of view that thieves should have their hands cut off and rapists should be executed (and so on and so forth) does not remotely offer a bridge of live & let live between Islam and Christianity.
14) Muslims and terrorists: you say my view looks like being that all Muslims are immoral terrorists that we need to keep out. I guess you don’t recall my saying that about 70% of all terrorist attacks in the UK and probably Europe as a whole are by Muslims, or were Muslim inspired or Muslim radicalised. Do you not see the difference between that statistic and one that says all (or even most) Muslims are terrorists? Such a shame that 2000 or more years after the Arabs invented numbers they still don’t know WTF to make of them.
15) I won’t comment on your last 3-4 paragraphs because, although you write pretty well. I get the feeling you are starting to foam at the mouth and, like an aeroplane, you seem to be gaining speed but losing altitude.
In conclusion: it won’t surprise me in the least if you carry on arguing about my posts. However, do be aware that I won’t reply. I don’t want to explain why beyond saying that it has become ugly