'Libertas call to close borders sparks race row'

dr.bollocko wrote: »

He's a ****ing idiot.

I would not totally agree with you that he is an idiot.It is practically possible that some people would miscontrue his statements as been racist but given the current economic crisis it would only be natural for a normal thinking citizen or resident who has vested interests in this country to be apprehensive about the current state of affairs.

In my opinion I think the problem was the lack of judgement and oversight by the current government in regards to their immigration policies.For instance in 2004,only Ireland and the UK accepted members of the new accension states without any work permits or predetermined criteria to be met (even though in the UK they were required to go through a registration process known as the EU registration certificate system) so essentially it was only Ireland in the whole of the EU that for instance a Polish citizen could travel to and start working the very next day if he had a job arranged for him or her.Honestly ,at the time it seemed beneficial as it improved productivity,enhanced economic growth and increased the disposable income of an average individual,household and firms as a result of the various multiplier effects.

In retrospect,any responsible government should have considered the negative effects and impact it would have on infrastructure like schools,hospitals and other social ammenities( as they say, nothing goes for nothing) and most importantly they never envisaged the current turmoil( and I am fed up with politicians using this as an excuse because that is why they were elected in the first place and there had been various warning signs both statistically and from professionals since 2006) but the percieved boom era was just too tempting for them to take any precautions.

The Libertas politician ,no matter how he feels cannot stop any EU citizen from coming to this country and apply for jobs or for those who have worked here to access social welfare as they are constitutionally entitled to those rights( although I have very serious concerns and reservation with the EU constitution that allows a worker to come to another fellow country and claim for child benefits for 4 of his kids that are not physically resident in that country-but that is another topic entirely).

Any responsible government in this new world economic order has to take proactive and definitive steps to design a robust blueprint to BOTH(being the operation word) encourage direct foreign investments,globalisation etc and also take adequate care of its own nationals.

Puddleduck wrote: »

Yes, because agreeing with all of the other parties has done us well so far..

Oh hey so lets go for another one of the same kind of things that have consistently fvcked us over so far. Lets have another party funded by the oligarchs. Good idea

markopantelic wrote: »

Sweden as well.

My apologies...but Markopantelic if you would like to know the honest truth,most immigrants would be very very reluctant to go to sweden or any other EU country for that matter except Ireland and the UK, the reason is simple,if you do not speak swedish in sweden(and this applies to most countries in the EU) you have very little chance of getting employed as this is a very fundamental pre-requiste to access to the job market,but the reverse was the case in Ireland,when most of them arrived in 2004,a lot could not utter a word in English and yet were succesful in getting employed in building industries and sites ( and even in frontline duties like checkout assistants - and I read a lot of complaints on boards.ie that they could not comprehend them) .

Most EU countries use this as a weapon to discourage immigrants and it works ,so essentially most eastern europeans would consider working in Ireland before enquiring where Sweden is on the map of Europe.