nino_savatte
No pasaran!
torres said:Unhealthy obession nino.
Hardly and there is abundant evidence to support my claim. But then, it would suit you to engage in smears wouldn't it? After all, you are a returning poster, are you not?
torres said:Unhealthy obession nino.
dash_two said:On a scale between Rod Stewart and a Chinese-made sporran, how Scottish are you really?
JimPage said:but cant you see the train of thought though, which is exactly how the BNP start poisoning people`s minds
1. British jobs for british workers (G Brown,2007) turns into
2. British houses for british people ( P Hodge,2007) which turns into
3. Britain for the british (N Griffin, 2007)
If you believe in 1 and 2, its not much of a step to believe in 3 -which is the core of what the BNP stand for.
nino_savatte said:Durutti, stop playing games. Have you ever worked for a local authority or are you still swallowing the bigoted myths put about by soi-disant 'experts'?
You refuse to acknowledge the lies and the myths put about regarding social housing provision. Read this carefully: THERE IS NO QUEUE JUMPING. IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT GIVEN PRIORITY TREATMENT.
There is no confusion, other than the one that you have deliberately constructed for yourself.
MC5 said:1)In response to your "the right of communities to decide who and how people should live in those communities" I said: that ain't gonna happen under the present system.
2)You might think it's gonna happen with your "one step at a time" reformist approach, but for people to be able to make a decision like that, first there will first have to be a seismic shift in power away from the present set-up.
3)As I said, workers putting pressure on bosses to employ locally is divisive and will pit worker against worker.
As for your:
4)Yes you are wrong. I was active around the Grunwicks dispute (and others)and had no problem opposing the bosses there bringing in cheap, scab labour. That dispute created unity, particularly from miners and postal workers, which was then sabotaged by the then leaders of the TUC and some in the Labour party.
5)No one here is arguing that local kids should not get jobs, but there is a difficulty here with your proposals. What about kids who are not local to where these jobs are? Who in the 'community' will be making these decisions? What criteria is to be used to say yes to some and no to others?
6)It would be problematic if:
7)It all depends who you mean when you say "the left"? Some on the left oppose further immigration controls. Others say let local kids do these jobs.
nino_savatte said:Go fuck yourself, trollboy.
Your style is pretty familiar. Another returning poster?
durruti02 said:1)?? who said its going to happen in this society .. it is a case of starting somewhere ..
and 2) a seismic shift will only happen from the base .. we need to start from the very base .. you propose nothing usefull in this ..
3) how is it devisive??? is it devisive too, to campaign against exporting jobs?? thats essentialy what you are saying .. it is ludicrous to say it it is devisive to campaign for local jobs for local people
4)good to see we agree on this .. but what is the differrence then between the specific .. grunwicks GG Irish Ferries and the general?? ... the implications/affects are the same .. this is why i have always said immigration is NOT a stand alone issue .. it is part and parcel of neo- liberalism CCT/outsourcing etc
5) good questions .. the process is actually as important as the end result .. it is the demand and exactly the questions yo put that will help rebuild communities and ultimately the class as a revolutionary class .. this is NOT a fudge .. i am serious .. these are the very questions we should be asking .. shold be puting out there ..
6)youre not right here .. SW has said similar .. as i posted on the Marx thread .. tbh mate i have not seen any one .. actually accept john cruddas .. talk about these issues .. SP have said some half sensible stuff ..
becky p said:I guess your little black book must be running out of pages soon,nino.
durruti02 said:no games .. but you ARE evading the question .. to repeat what i asked you in 436
" .. i see nothing that contradicts the assertion that a young local couple with secure (if cramped) accomodation at their mums and dads will NOT get housed and will see immigrants ( from wherever) get housed IF they are in 'greater need' e.g. childen .. in fact you actually back up this assertion in your second paragraph .."
you say you work in housing managment .. i most definately do not .. so show me where i am wrong ..
p.s. you are also being ( deliberately?) disingenuous by suggesting that ANYONE is suggesting immigrants get given flats just for being immigrants .. the argument is about what priority needs to be given, what balance needs to be set, between NEED and LOCAL CONNECTION and LENGTH of residence
MC5 said:..and you can fuckoff an' all with your pathetic attempts at comedy.
nino_savatte said:I'm not "evading" anything" You refuse to understand, despite the evidence that I have given as a former local authority housing worker, that there is no priority given to folk because they are immigrants. How many times do I need to say it? You have already made up your mind that immigrants are being advanced up the housing list at the expense of "natives", so why should I bother even discussing this any further?
Are you being deliberately and wilfully ignorant for the sake of it?
tbaldwin said:Your lying again nino.
The fact? that you worked as a housing officer for Lambeth and Islington does not exactly make you a fountain of knowledge on the subject......
But you do know that the homeless persons act effectivelly means it is often easier to be housed if you come from outside the UK.
a fountain of knowledge
MC5 said:Starting somewhere? Yeah, and your focus at the mo is a full on attack against immigration and by implication this obsession of yours can only lead to division between workers. Workers of the world unite, unless of course you happen to be an immigrant, migrant, refugee.
I'm at the base, fuckin' born there matey. From immigrant ancestry too. Gonna appeal to my boss to sack me and employ somebody "local" are you?
It's divisive because your rhetoric can only add to divisions already there.
Grunwicks, GG, Irish Ferries, involved unity in action, not divisions.
Help rebuild communities and ultimately the class as a revolutionary class? How does appealing to bosses, trade union leaders, the state, coupled with a full on attack against immigration lead to a 'revolutionary class'? More a reactionary class if they were to follow your lead.
You've bottled it durruti02. You've decided you cannot beat the BNP by notions such as unity and internationalism, so you adopt the rhetoric of an anti-immigrant.
To be clear, not a fascist, or racist anti-immigration message, but a phoney, ultra-leftist one.
nino_savatte said:I'm not "evading" anything" You refuse to understand, despite the evidence that I have given as a former local authority housing worker, that there is no priority given to folk because they are immigrants. How many times do I need to say it? You have already made up your mind that immigrants are being advanced up the housing list at the expense of "natives", so why should I bother even discussing this any further?
Are you being deliberately and wilfully ignorant for the sake of it?
MC5 said:..and you can fuckoff an' all with your pathetic attempts at comedy.
durruti02 said:I ACCEPT THIS THAT IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT GIVEN PRIORITY .. NOW ANSWER MY QUESTION WHO GETS PRIORITY HERE????
" ..a young local couple with secure (if cramped) accomodation at their mums and dads will NOT get housed and will see immigrants ( from wherever) get housed IF they are in 'greater need' e.g. childen .. "
Help rebuild communities and ultimately the class as a revolutionary class?
treelover said:When did this 'revolutionary class',exist MC5, 1917?, what about the here and now, not the utopian never future...
durruti02 said:good questions .. the process is actually as important as the end result .. it is the demand and exactly the questions yo put that will help rebuild communities and ultimately the class as a revolutionary class .. this is NOT a fudge .. i am serious .. these are the very questions we should be asking .. shold be puting out there ..
brasicattack said:Distinctly end of peer one thinks though becky...end of peer
durruti02 said:I ACCEPT THIS THAT IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT GIVEN PRIORITY .. NOW ANSWER MY QUESTION WHO GETS PRIORITY HERE????
" ..a young local couple with secure (if cramped) accomodation at their mums and dads will NOT get housed and will see immigrants ( from wherever) get housed IF they are in 'greater need' e.g. childen .. "
nino_savatte said:I answered your question but you decided to ignore it. I am not going to repeat myself for the sake of your ego. Go back and read the post, there's a good boy.
MC5 said:durruti02, I dealt with someone the other day (middle class and a home owner) who believed that he couldn't get a place for his Mother in a care home because of immigrants getting priority!
He also spoke about "ethnics" and because of monitoring believed that this was part and parcel of giving preferential treatment to immigrants and by implication black people! Absolute and complete nonsense.
The vast majority of people in care homes are white and born in this country, overwhelmingly so in fact. You'll find very few people from the Black community in care homes and hardly any Asian people (even those born in the UK) and definately no immigrants.
I told him that was an utter and complete myth and explained that "ethnic monitoring" was a tool to enable independent bodies to monitor any discrimination against any group by organisations and to ensure that people were fairly treated and represented.
It is important to dispel these myths and not add to them like recent statements from Hodge, who failed to mention that under Housing Law an assessment has to take into account a local connection to the area like family, or employment.
What Hodge also didn't mention was the 'dispersal programme', an emergency measure brought in by her Government some years ago. This was an attempt to deal with extra demands on resources in the South of the country with regards to asylum seekers.
This was causing real problems for some local authorities. Those granted refugee status, were in some cases given a high priority after a homelessness assessment. This took place when individuals came to the end of their temporary NASS accommodation. Mostly, those granted refugee status, were placed in low demand, high rise properties. These were so difficult to let that there was even talk of turning them into student accommodation, or sheltered housing for the elderly (floors ripped out and care provision placed on-site).
That's why you get the perception that somehow "immigrants" are given priority.
We have heard all this nonsense before. Instead of pandering to it we should be opposing it for what it is.
durruti02 said:I agree almost 100% with your post MC
but i am afraid that you are missing out a key fact .. every year over 100k migrants get given secure status ( i gave the link a few days ago .. mostly after 5 years etc ) and most of these qualify for and receive social housing ..
p.s. where i live the majority of care home residents are afrocarib
MC5 said:I need to see that link again for accuracy like.
Is that just the one care home?
durruti02 said:i do not think you did .. if you did ... apologys .. what post was it in?
if you mean you repeated again that no priority is given to immigrants than i accept that .. what you did not answer is my specific instance .. could you do that now as it is the most common bnp type accusation and we need to be clear on it?
" ..a young local couple with secure (if cramped) accomodation at their mums and dads will NOT get housed and will see immigrants ( from wherever) get housed IF they are in 'greater need' e.g. childen .. "
durruti02 said:no all of them!! .. high % afrocarib where i live ..
the link is http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs04/hosb1204.pdf
see e.g. paragraph 21
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3621964.stm
"There was an increase of 29 per cent in the number of people settling in the UK in 2005 to 179, 120, with employment-related grants of settlement rising by 49 per cent to 63,015"
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:...+of+settlement"+2006&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=uk
p.s. i assume you accept what i say that we should not accept being the flotsam and jetsam of capitalist economics!???
You really are an example to us all. No wonder nobody wants to go to your union meetings.MC5 said:You can play the numbers game if you want, but I'm more a humanitarian.