Yeah, you read that right:
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/186563

Pretty poor scaremongering from the Express. And of course, the picture is:

Jeebus! Even the baby's wearing a burqa!

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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.

Er...



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10607480.stm

And?

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The only party who could be accused of scaremongering here would be the University of Leeds who produced the report which has been covered extensively in this morning's bulletins and websites, being the lead item on the BBC's editions of both, for example.

So you don't think the Express headline is inflammatory?

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Not especially. It appears to be based on fact.

OK. I'm just off to slam my head repeatedly in a door...

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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.

How can a prediction be based on fact? And given the following-




why did The Express think it necessary to post a photo of some burkha clad Muslim women rather than one of some corked-hatted white Aussies at a barbecue?

You really don't think

Quote:

1 in 5 Britons Will Be Ethnics

is more inflammatory than

Quote:

UK's ethnic minority numbers 'to rise to 20% by 2051'

Not to mention "will be "Ethnics"" is a cuntish phrase to begin with.....

Shorthand for 'ethnic minorities'

As to the headlines, the information contained within them is absolutely identical, therefore to accuse one of 'scaremongering' and not the other is irrational.

Futhermore, worries about the impacts of a population of nearly 80 million on the UK's infrastructure and social cohesion are perfectly valid, on economic and environmental grounds alone if nothing else.

In the same way "paki" or "nigger" are shorthand?



It's not even possible for you to think that. The fact that one shows a date of the prediction while the other does shows that it's missing info from one of the headlines.

Moonshien
Absolutely not, and I suspect you know it very well.
'Ethnic minorities' is a neutral, if unlovely, phrase. 'Ethnics' is a pejorative term, much loved of the BNP, codeword for 'black or asian'.
Especially so given that a large part of the increase by immigration will be 'other white'.
Other 'ethnics' born here will, of course, be as British as you or I.

Instead of weasel-wording, perhaps we could turn our undoubted intelligence to successfully integrating these new Britons, and not alienating them by, for example, referring to them as 'ethnics'.

And what Kobel said.

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5CC has blogged on this, and it's worth a read.

So is this.

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Exactly.