Daily Express launches "crusade" against Romanians and Bulgarians

Foxhound38 · 31-10-2013 05:32PM #1

According to their front page anyway. Whatever about the public debate to be had about the limits of immigration - did they not figure using the term "crusade"... with their logo being a picture of a knight in armor, *might* be a tad racisty?

What do ye think? Legitimate campaign or race baiting neanderthals like the English Defence League heads?

ballsymchugh · 31-10-2013 05:34PM

have they run out of Diana stories?

Brussels Sprout · 31-10-2013 05:35PM

The Daily Express is the Daily Mail for Coffin Dodgers. Their front page headlines are always on one of the following topics:

Anti-Immigrant
Your House value has gone up/Down
Miracle Pill to cure Cancer/Heart Disease/Arthritus
Pension Values to Soar/Crash
EU Bashing
Nauseatingly fawning Royal Family Pieces

0ph0rce0 · 31-10-2013 05:35PM

We should be doing the same.

Is that racist?? I don't think so, If you've nothing to contribute other than thieving and scamming, then fúck off.

Of course not all of them, but the ones that we know of should be on the first flight home.

wp_rathead · 31-10-2013 05:35PM

ballsymchugh wrote: »

have they run out of Diana stories?

Aparrently it was the Roma's not paperazzi chasing the car

MadsL · 31-10-2013 05:37PM

Whatever sells papers. Best to ignore the trolls.

Mint Aero · 31-10-2013 05:37PM

Seems grand

Gatling · 31-10-2013 05:38PM

wprathead wrote: »

Aparrently it was the Roma's not paperazzi chasing the car

Have you seen the water problems in Dublin ;-)

MadsL · 31-10-2013 05:38PM

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

We should be doing the same.

Is that racist?? I don't think so, If you've nothing to contribute other than thieving and scamming, then fúck off.

Of course not all of them, but the ones that we know of should be on the first flight home.

Wut?

Last time I looked Ireland had laws on thieving and scamming. And the only Romanian I know is gainfully and legally employed.

Jester252 · 31-10-2013 05:39PM

I sure hope this thread increases its head height for all the high horses.

foxyboxer · 31-10-2013 05:39PM

ballsymchugh wrote: »

have they run out of Diana stories?

The Daily Ex-Princess

Amirani · 31-10-2013 05:43PM

The article and attitude is racist/xenophobic by definition. There's no arguing that.

Whether racism and xenophobia are sometimes justified is another question. I'd generally think not, but that's a more subjective area.

timmy4u2 · 31-10-2013 05:43PM

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

The Daily Express is the Daily Mail for Coffin Dodgers. Their front page headlines are always on one of the following topics:

Anti-Immigrant
Your House value has gone up/Down
Miracle Pill to cure Cancer/Heart Disease/Arthritus
Pension Values to Soar/Crash
EU Bashing
Nauseatingly fawning Royal Family Pieces

You missed out on two
Heatwave set to kill hundreds of older people
Biggest storm in 200 years set to cause unprecedented damage

The Backwards Man · 31-10-2013 05:44PM

The Diana Express in outlandishly xenophobic headline shocker.

I'm shocked. And appalled.*

*Not really.

mcmoustache · 31-10-2013 05:45PM

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

We should be doing the same.

Is that racist?? I don't think so, If you've nothing to contribute other than thieving and scamming, then fúck off.

Of course not all of them, but the ones that we know of should be on the first flight home.

How many times do people need to be told the following?

Roma != Romanian

One more time:

Roma != Romanian

I take my racism seriously and if I'm going to broadcast my bigotry, the least I can do is be properly informed about which group I'm hating on this week.

There's no point in being a racist if I can't tell the various races and ethnicities apart - I'd just sound silly.

timmy4u2 · 31-10-2013 05:46PM

Poor Romanians. The Bulgarians do not want them either.
The UK government does not think a lot of them either
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/bulgaria
And the Bulgarians had the cheek to attack the British forces during WW1
http://www.1914-1918.net/salonika.htm
And they dont forget the war too quickly

Nodin · 31-10-2013 05:50PM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

According to their front page anyway. Whatever about the public debate to be had about the limits of immigration - did they not figure using the term "crusade"... with their logo being a picture of a knight in armor, *might* be a tad racisty?

What do ye think? Legitimate campaign or race baiting neanderthals like the English Defence League heads?

...a tad more than a tad, I'd say. Ye'd wonder if this is a move into Daily Mail territory - will the Daily Heil counter with a "purge" against Romanians and the like, or will they try a coup de main by going for the Ultimate Diana Story....

Galwayguy35 · 31-10-2013 05:50PM

It's hardly worth their while going to Britain anyway, the vote to exit the EU will probably pass and they will have to leave then.

average hero · 31-10-2013 05:55PM

I'm right wing at the best of times but this is flat out intolerance, trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator. If they are trying to raise social issues at the very least they could try and not put it in such a discriminatory, insensitive tone. Idiots.

Menas · 31-10-2013 05:58PM

timmy4u2 wrote: »

Poor Romanians. The Bulgarians do not want them either.
The UK government does not think a lot of them either
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/bulgaria

That advisory is the same as they have for a lot of countries.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/spain

I spent a week in Sofia earlier on this year and found it to be a nice place. The people were hardworking and it resembled Dublin in 1995 in many ways.

But they people I met did moan on about the roma and their organized crime, much the same as happens in western Europe.

Hande hoche! · 31-10-2013 06:10PM

Disappointing lack of Romanian historical knowledge by the Express. Vlad III played an important role in the crusades against the Ottoman empire.

timmy4u2 · 31-10-2013 06:14PM

Trigger Happy wrote: »

That advisory is the same as they have for a lot of countries.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/spain

I spent a week in Sofia earlier on this year and found it to be a nice place. The people were hardworking and it resembled Dublin in 1995 in many ways.

But they people I met did moan on about the roma and their organized crime, much the same as happens in western Europe.

I spend a lot of time in Bulgaria and they are terribly nice people, akin to Ireland 40 years ago.

To be honest the only scammers I found there were some British ex-pats involved in the Real Estate business, along with a few of their Irish friends.
Some of the Roma community got involved in the Bulgarian Mafia and it spilled over when a Roma Mafia boss had the son of a Village mayor run over by a truck.
That started the protests.

Galwayguy35 · 31-10-2013 06:27PM

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Disappointing lack of Romanian historical knowledge by the Express. Vlad III played an important role in the crusades against the Ottoman empire.

He was just as brutal to his own people as any invader.

Hande hoche! · 31-10-2013 06:32PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

He was just as brutal to his own people as any invader.

He certainly was. Still considered a hero by many Romanians.

goose2005 · 31-10-2013 06:35PM

timmy4u2 wrote: »

Poor Romanians. The Bulgarians do not want them either.
The UK government does not think a lot of them either
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/bulgaria
And the Bulgarians had the cheek to attack the British forces during WW1
http://www.1914-1918.net/salonika.htm
And they dont forget the war too quickly

Not to forget that Bulgaria joined the Axis in WW2 (admittedly, they were a bit of a Ringo)

Cee-Jay-Cee · 31-10-2013 06:38PM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

It's hardly worth their while going to Britain anyway, the vote to exit the EU will probably pass and they will have to leave then.

Oh fcuk, guess where they'll all come to then! We're rightly fecked then

Grayson · 31-10-2013 09:40PM

It's hard to believe that a major newspaper can be so openly racist.

timmy4u2 · 31-10-2013 09:45PM

Grayson wrote: »

It's hard to believe that a major newspaper can be so openly racist.

Its not being the paper that it is.:mad:

Lawrence1895 · 31-10-2013 09:49PM

Grayson wrote: »

It's hard to believe that a major newspaper can be so openly racist.

It's hard to believe, that people are buying such a rag

SCOOP 64 · 31-10-2013 10:00PM

Maybe one of our own papers could do a campaign.

"All Romanians and Bulgarians are welcome in Ireland"

Sunglasses Ron · 31-10-2013 10:10PM

NiallSparky wrote: »

Whether racism and xenophobia are sometimes justified is another question. I'd generally think not, but that's a more subjective area.

This is the hitter right here.

There is not one, not one single person reading this, who would lease a property to Roma, or who would not be more suspicious of Roma moving next door than they would be of a family of any other race. There will be hypocrites talking out of their holes in this thread who are uneasy with this fact about themselves.

Daily Express launches "crusade" against Romanians and Bulgarians

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