[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Sticks

The real villains are the media.

we are the media

This was a private conversation in private.

So it was a sky microphone, they should still not have broadcast it.

And in the real world...

suppose Sky News had secretly bugged a party leader to catch their private conversations and then broadcast it? They would be rightly condemmed for this invasion of privacy. This case is no different.

intent

As for the old lady, we do not know what she said to ellicit this reaction. How about turning the spotlight on her?

we do and she was not bigoted she was expressing her view and her concerns. She does not have the benefit of an army of civil servants to bolster her world view, she tells it like she sees it and many agree with her

As for immigration, any student of history will tell you we are all a nation of immigrants from the jutes, picts, normans, saxons and vikings et al. And this country is so much richer for it.

No one denies this but the problem is uncontrolled numbers, no idea of who is here, no idea of cost to nation, no idea on impact on local jobs, no idea on impact on unemployment.