TopGun wrote:Things like this pee me off....Khan wants to be British when it suits him. But deep down doesn't give a sh@t about England that have helped his family out. We get used and abused. No way would I sell out to represent another country. Thats the reason why this country is in such a bad way, ultimately the immigrants that come over here do not give a dam, people like Khan who sell out show no loyalty at all to a Country that has made him millions.
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Why are you getting your knickers in a twist about it. The guy has already represented Britain and won a medal for them. As far as I am aware, Khan's family settled here, worked and paid taxes, their son then boxed for Britain and won a silver medal. How is Britain 'helping them out' given that they've contributed to the exchequer, or do you have some evidence of tax dodging or other nefarious activity? You think Khan, a british-born man of Pakistani heritage, doesn't give a toss about the country he was born in, grew up in, and represented at the Olympics? I think you're filled with hatred. You clearly struggle with many things, amongst them the idea of having dual identity, or even multiple identities. Being British doesn't mean you can't also have an affinity for another country where your parents are from.
Nice sweeping statements about immigrants there, you know them all intimately do you? It's baffling to me why you'd think that people who've spent the majority of their adult lives living in a country, wouldn't give a damn about the place, kind of counterintuitive wouldn't you say?
The reason this country is in such a bad way is nothing to do with immigrants, it's to do with the fact we have an economic system which supports the wealthy and redistributes money from the less well off to the better off.
When the banking crisis hit, the taxpayer had to bail them out, and we are now being penalised further with austerity, which is just a thinly veiled attempt to further enrich the rich. The divide between rich and poor is at it's highest level since Victorian times. Tax breaks for the rich, benefits being ripped away from the weak, the infirm and disabled, zero hours contracts for the benefit of employers, erosion of trade unions, everything geared towards enriching the haves at the expense of the have nots. Immigrants are just one more cog in the machine, and they'll be fed into it like everyone else, working for peanuts.
You might like to do some reading before you spout such gibberish. My own family were immigrants in the 1950's, and had to put up with this kind of wooly-thinking bollox.. People like you like to blame immigrants for their woes, because it's easier than self-reflection and self education about what's really going on out there. The world is a scary place, get over it.
