http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36569338
On Sunday, 19 June 2016 16:41:24 UTC+2, Cornelius Hamelberg wrote:
...Looka here Kennedy Emetulu :
Many thanks for your painsatking elaborations. I understand that you are another mighty megawatt twinkling in the firmament . Cheers!
I'm not in need of enlightenment and there's no reason for any more tittle-tattle from you to me. There's nothing difficult or extraordinary in your piece and I understood you perfectly the first time; I am used to both meeting and reading some of the best minds in Sweden and Britain etc. endlessly engaged with Brexit - not to mention papers, books and lectures, live forums, used to listening to much more sophisticated stuff live and direct and discussing matters directly, with the likes of minority voices other than that of Mr. Emetulu.
You've said all the things that you have said and now you turn around and ask me (the reader) why do I say that you have said what you just said?
I now understand that both of us read and I suppose hear and understand even the most simplest of issues, differently – hence your laborious, tortuous (like torture) and long-winded explanations of everything that everybody's updated common-sense takes as for granted.
I have followed the complexities about love of your country (the United Kingdom) and what's best for the country in determining how Brits vote in this referendum , so let's call it a day!
On Sunday, 19 June 2016 14:35:46 UTC+2, keme...@googlemail.com wrote:
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"Of course when Nigeria's President Buhari agreed with Prime Minister Cameron that "Nigerians are fantastically corrupt" you can be sure that the cloud of suspicion that has been hovering over Nigerians even before then has still not been completely dispelled from the minds of your fellow British compatriots, through no fault of theirs and that could be an additional cause of the kinds of resentment that we could righteously label as racism." - Hamelberg
My mentioning the Prime Minister's faux pas has nothing to do with the Brexit debate and there is nowhere in my discussion of it that I said or implied that how Cameron or the British treated the matter has anything to do with racism. I explained my limited aim of bringing it into the discussion and stated clearly I was not doing a full analysis. I stated that "the point I wish to make in relation to the issue here is that we still respond to Western impulses from the position and with the mentality of the oppressed with all its psychological burdens".
Indeed, if I was interested in discussing it further from the point of view of the British reaction, I would have simply pointed out that all the matter did was to energise the supposed anti-corruption British press whose only response to the matter was to stridently question why Britain kept giving such a corrupt country like Nigeria, a country its president agrees with Cameron is fantastically corrupt, the yearly sum of over £200 million. I personally don't blame them for seeing it that way, rather than question the fact that British establishment and institutions have supported and welcomed looted money into its system without question. After all, international relations is a zero-sum morality game and you can only look out for number one. So, why should I blame the British press for looking out for British interest, rather than Nigerian interest when those that should be looking out for our interest are thoroughly compromised, intellectually bereft and devoid of any sense of responsibility to the Nigeria people?
I only raised the issue to underscore the neocolonial relationship and the hypocrisy of the West when pretending to fight a moral war, in this case, against corruption. It's all in the context of the musings of Professor Alinah Segobye who I'm sure understands the point I am making.
"In some countries like Ireland , it takes more than a/one generation to become Irish. As a – I assume, first generation immigrant , the description Johnny Just Come/ Johnny Come Lately is not very much amiss, from the point of view of the blue-blooded Brits (British to the bootstraps) who may sing "God save the Queen " possibly with even more emotion. Of course I was not saying that you Emetulu have to be British or Swedish or even German to the bootstraps to take part in any of those nation's referendums , although I do suppose that it could be demanded of those persons who in the near future could want to vote in a possible referendum about a Biafra, that they have more than a residential qualification (within Igboland) to qualify for having a say so. I dare say that some of your Biafran countrymen could even demand that they are bonafide ethnic Igbos to qualify to vote in such a referendum. Right?" - Hamelberg
I'm not interested in whatever point you are making here as it concerns the proposition of what the future might hold with regard to a Biafra. It's enough for me that as a citizen of whatever hue I have equal rights with other citizens of whatever hue in the UK. That is all that qualifies me to talk about this referendum, which is the right I'm exercising in speaking my mind. However, if you are interested in continuing to interrogate how indigenously British I am or seek to continue to make that part of this debate, I don't think I would be joining you further in such a debate after this explanation. I say this not as a sign of disrespect, but because it would serve absolutely no purpose as I clearly pointed out in my original response to you.
"In calling you all the things that you are, "a self-righteous, self-appointed minority spokesperson" you must understand that my freedom to think and to speak goes with the territory. It seems to me that you are deliberately refusing to face other people's reality and that's what you do when you reduce this very important referendum to merely being a contest between good and evil and between what you referred to as being the racists' camp composed of mostly those - evil Brits who like former Mayor of London Boris Johnson want to leave the sinking EU ship and those who want to stay, the good guys comprising the angelic likes of Prime Minister David Cameron and good Muslims such as Sadiq Khan the new Lord Mayor of London and the other good people including good Nigerians like you, Mr. Kennedy Emetulu". - Hamelberg
Obviously, you are here still believing your contrived reality. What I wrote in my original piece is still here in this listserv. You are free to interpret it the way you choose, but I'm confident other discerning people will not read it and conclude that I am simplistically making the Brexit issue a battle of good and evil. They certainly will not claim that I am refusing to face other people's reality because I am not here debating myself as I am debating views opposed to mine on the issue in question. I mean, the fact that I respect other people's opinions or appreciate their position does not mean I have to accept them if in my judgment these are not in my interest or in the interest of the nation. As much as they are entitled to their views, I'm entitled to mine. The question of accepting their reality does not arise when their reality is just another opinion.
"I have been following the Brexit debate and discussing it with various people, since it started - so please don't think that your Sahara Reporters piece is the only minority spokespersons opinion that I have come across, to date. My judgements in this thread are all based on a very careful reading of the concerns and some of the unguarded reservation that you have expressed. It may be that you are not aware of the cumulative effect of your words on even a dispassionate reader. If you don't believe me, then ask somebody else about the effect of these your words : "Nigerians and all other ethnic minorities in the UK, including all progressive and peace-loving citizens of the country, vote to make Britain greater in Europe!" – or do you think that I am taking you in hook line and sinker like one of the gospel writers? If there is one thing that I know how to do it is that I read critically and I'm not easily impressed by outward pious sentiments such as calling anyone who loves his Britain a "racist" ("not that I loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more " etc. was part of Brutus the assassin's funeral oration in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar )"- Hamelberg
I did not write with you in mind, Mr. Hamelberg and I did not post it here inviting you to comment. You are perfectly entitled to a contrary view, but don't make it seem like a crime that I expressed a view you do not agree with. This is a marketplace of ideas and like in a market, people come, read and pick what they want and discard what they don't want. I have stated clearly in response to you earlier that when I wrote the original piece I was writing specifically from the point of view of an ethnic minority citizen in Britain and that I'm entitled to my opinion and my worries, including my suspicion of those on the Leave Campaign who use what I called neo-racialist tones to sell their view. I then said: "I stated clearly in my original piece that Jo Cox's death has at that time left me too sad to muster the strength to make a proper analysis of this future I see if we leave Europe, but now let me explain a little more broadly my position vis a vis the larger debate".
The above was how I introduced a new aspect of the debate with you. Maybe, you didn't see all this because you're curiously claiming to have only read the first paragraph of my post and that this is all you've replied to when it is obvious that this paragraph of yours I'm addressing is actually an issue I raised in the third paragraph of my post. So, if you have only read the first paragraph of my piece and it's supposedly the only part you are responding to, who then wrote the above response to my third paragraph? Hehehehehe! Anyway, all that really does not matter in the great scheme of things. I patiently await your return to respond to the rest of what I said as you've promised.
CHEERS!
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:Dear Mr Emetulu,
Please, let me clear the air.
Perish the thought that I should want to insult you, gratuitously or otherwise.
Most of my family are British citizens and live in various parts of the United Kingdom. One of my great-grandfathers was an Englishman. So what?
Of course when Nigeria's President Buhari agreed with Prime Minister Cameron that "Nigerians are fantastically corrupt" you can be sure that the cloud of suspicion that has been hovering over Nigerians even before then has still not been completely dispelled from the minds of your fellow British compatriots, through no fault of theirs and that could be an additional cause of the kinds of resentment that we could righteously label as racism.
In some countries like Ireland , it takes more than a/one generation to become Irish. As a – I assume, first generation immigrant , the description Johnny Just Come/ Johnny Come Lately is not very much amiss, from the point of view of the blue-blooded Brits (British to the bootstraps) who may sing "God save the Queen " possibly with even more emotion. Of course I was not saying that you Emetulu have to be British or Swedish or even German to the bootstraps to take part in any of those nation's referendums , although I do suppose that it could be demanded of those persons who in the near future could want to vote in a possible referendum about a Biafra, that they have more than a residential qualification (within Igboland) to qualify for having a say so. I dare say that some of your Biafran countrymen could even demand that they are bonafide ethnic Igbos to qualify to vote in such a referendum. Right?
In calling you all the things that you are, "a self-righteous, self-appointed minority spokesperson" you must understand that my freedom to think and to speak goes with the territory. It seems to me that you are deliberately refusing to face other people's reality and that's what you do when you reduce this very important referendum to merely being a contest between good and evil and between what you referred to as being the racists' camp composed of mostly those - evil Brits who like former Mayor of London Boris Johnson want to leave the sinking EU ship and those who want to stay, the good guys comprising the angelic likes of Prime Minister David Cameron and good Muslims such as Sadiq Khan the new Lord Mayor of London and the other good people including good Nigerians like you, Mr. Kennedy Emetulu.
I have been following the Brexit debate and discussing it with various people, since it started - so please don't think that your Sahara Reporters piece is the only minority spokespersons opinion that I have come across, to date. My judgements in this thread are all based on a very careful reading of the concerns and some of the unguarded reservation that you have expressed. It may be that you are not aware of the cumulative effect of your words on even a dispassionate reader. If you don't believe me, then ask somebody else about the effect of these your words : "Nigerians and all other ethnic minorities in the UK, including all progressive and peace-loving citizens of the country, vote to make Britain greater in Europe!" – or do you think that I am taking you in hook line and sinker like one of the gospel writers? If there is one thing that I know how to do it is that I read critically and I'm not easily impressed by outward pious sentiments such as calling anyone who loves his Britain a "racist" ("not that I loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more " etc. was part of Brutus the assassin's funeral oration in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar )
I well remember voting in the referendum about joining the EU. I am as interested in the Brexit referendum as you are , the only difference being of course that since I'm not a dual citizen, I will not be voting on June 23rd. It's widely anticipated that if Britain votes to leave the EU then Sweden and a few other countries will follow. In the UK, Scotland might like to have another bash at holding an independence referendum – Ireland of course would not be happy if you guys decide to make an honourable exit.
Because of the free movement within the EU , many Swedish citizens originally from West Africa, Somalia, Iran have relocated to the UK but on the other hand the UK has not been doing as much as we have ( Sweden took in 160,000 refugees last year)
So far, I've only read your first paragraph and that's what I have replied to. It's now 05.15 a.m. on this early Sunday morning. Please be patient. I will reverentially attend to the rest of what you have to say later in the day.
Yours sincerely,
Cornelius
On Sunday, 19 June 2016 03:10:31 UTC+2, keme...@googlemail.com wrote:..
Mr Hamelberg,
Can we do away with the gratuitous insults, please? I mean, I don't get why you'd call me "a self-righteous, self-appointed minority spokesperson" and accuse me of pitifully displaying "either abject ignorance or falsification of reality and bigotry to reduce the Brexit referendum to being a contest between good and evil" and between what you say I called "the racists' camp composed of mostly those - evil Brits who like former Mayor of London Boris Johnson want to leave the sinking EU ship and those who want to stay, the good guys comprising the angelic likes of Prime Minister David Cameron and good Muslims such as Sadiq Khan the new Lord Mayor of London" and so on. Where did you get all this? Why call me "Johnny just come" or declare me to not be "British to the bootstraps"? Are you Swedish to the bootstraps? Is citizenship now graded by bootstraps or by how nostalgic one can feel? Where did you get the idea that I'm crucifying the whole of Britain for the sins of one man? Honestly, I'm not interested in debating your ad hominem attacks. There are more serious issues in the piece to discuss and around the matter than responding to your insults or getting you to defend them. So, please, focus on the important things here, because I am and intend to continue doing so.
First, let me say you are certainly entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts. That the killer shouted "Britain first!" when he was hacking down the poor lady is widely reported. You yourself have noted that when he was asked his name this morning in court, he said: "My name is death to traitors, freedom for Britain". Now whether or not the killing has something to do with the Brexit campaign is a matter of conjecture and opinion at this point and at no time did I offer my opinion as the indisputable fact. Indeed, I acknowledged that investigations were still ongoing and that it may well be that the fellow has mental issues. But, again, what is not in doubt is that the tone of the Brexit campaign from some of those at the top of the Leave Campaign energises far-right elements, including unstable ones amongst them. I'm not the only one with this view, it's shared widely and reported widely. In fact, I quoted an MP, Mr Neil Coyle right there in the article.
I don't know how well you have been following the Brexit campaign; but if you have been following closely, you will know those spewing hate pursuant to their agenda. It's a matter of public knowledge amongst Britons and people living in the UK. So, no matter what name you call me, it will not change the facts on the ground, because it is what it is.
Obviously, my piece was written from the point of view of an ethnic minority citizen in Britain. I'm entitled to my opinion and my worries, including my suspicion of those on the Leave Campaign who use what I called neo-racialist tones to sell their view. I stated clearly in my original piece that Jo Cox's death has at that time left me too sad to muster the strength to make a proper analysis of this future I see if we leave Europe, but now let me explain a little more broadly my position vis a vis the larger debate.
To me, the myopia surrounding the Leave Campaign is breathtaking. Acontextually quoting documents that Britain signed with the EU since 1973 is like a wife selectively recalling promises made by the husband when they were courting after more than forty years of marriage and after several more agreements and rearrangements later. Ignoring the reality of what had gone on in that period and how the world and their world have changed between themselves and between themselves and others (just so as to insularly hold on to the original promises as she selectively sees them) is akin to asking the husband to restore her virginity after twelve children.
Okay, they are talking sovereignty. I mean, that is their big overriding freedom argument, right? Or is this not why you accuse me of not being "British to the bootstrap" and being "Johnny come lately"? Isn't this why you patronisingly declared that I'm incapable of "harbouring any nostalgic sentiments about former glory or future victory? So, does this mean once out of the EU, Britain would also be making plans to leave the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO, NATO and all those other pesky international institutions that infringe on the majestic sovereignty of Great Britain? In fact, what exactly does the Sovereignty preachers want to legislate on with their full sovereignty that they cannot do now? What exactly is Europe stopping them from doing? Oh, I know! They want to scrap the Human Rights Act of 1998, because, in the words of one of their big hitters, Michael Howard, the nation must be liberated "from the avalanche of political correctness, costly litigation, feeble justice, and culture of compensation running riot in Britain" due to the Human Rights Act. Is that why when they angrily talk about Britain losing votes in the EU, they conveniently forget to mention the thousands of individual Britons winning in the European Court against the UK Government?
Frankly, the hypocrisy is mind-boggling. They live under a constitutional monarchy where the upper house of parliament is unelected and the lower one produces a Prime Minister only voted for by a small national constituency. They have a voting system that allows the House of Commons to be taken with 25 percent of the voting population, while a barrage of laws is constantly being churned out from an unelected Whitehall and civil service covens under a supposed process of delegated legislation. Yet they talk of Europe taking their democratic right?
Here is the thing, no one denies that the EU needs serious reforms, but even in its present state, it is a force for good for its individual members, including Britain. From the end of the Second World War through the Cold War to the present age of fighting amorphous, stateless terrorism, the genius of European states pulling together cannot be over-emphasised. The EU is not a superstate and is not usurping the sovereignty of Britain or any other member state. It's an association of states pulling together to practically do things collectively in a way as to get the most from their geographical and cultural relationships and their natural interdependencies. Of course, that requires that states willingly surrender certain powers for the effective operation of such a union. So, since when did that become a loss of sovereignty? Or has there been any case of a transfer of power to the EU without UK parliamentary authority? Did the Almighty Europe stop the UK from opting out of the European Monetary Union? The irony is that these same people are grandiosely declaring that Britain is the 5th largest economy in the world and proposing this as one great reason to leave the EU. They do this without realising or without acknowledging that the status has a lot to do with Britain being in the EU and London being treated as the economic and financial capital of Europe. If they think that will remain the case once Britain is out of Europe, they need a reality check.
Anyway, the Leave Campaigners should not limit themselves. No matter how the vote goes, Britain is still going to be geographically in Europe; the world will still be dealing with her, whether or not she votes out and yes, everything they are saying so far only proves that they are Little Englanders (just look at their leaders), because if they are not they would know that this isn't about sovereignty, but the result and part of a vicious and reckless game of power within the Tory Party, with combatants prepared to sacrifice the nation to achieve their ambition. That is why I think the Faustian bargain between elements of the right and far-right over this referendum can only legitimise UKIP, Nigel Farage and all the political undesirables from the far-right ready to take Britain to the abyss. So, in the end, it is not the economics or legality of the in or out that will take the nation down, but the political and social demons unleashed on society by the Leave Campaign in their quest to seize the key to No 10. Believe it or not, we have seen a glimpse of that future already in the killing of Jo Cox and hopefully, UK voters will reject that future on the 23rd of June 2016 .
In conclusion, let me point out that as a Swede (and if not a Swede, as someone who knows a lot about Sweden), you should be very interested in what happens with Brexit and how that impacts Sweden after June 23rd 2016. I say this, because Sweden is Britain's closest ally in the EU. In fact, they seem to have taken Britain's template in their relationship with the continental body, including opting out of the European Monetary Union. So, whatever happens, I look forward to hearing your view on how this whole Brexit debate affects things at your end.
Thank you.
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On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:
I understand that from the brothers that I've talked to so far, France is the favourite nation to win the European football championship -
the reason being that Négritude or no Négritude , there are at least seven Africans in France's national football squad . France does
not discriminate when it comes to national prestige in football or language proficiency….
I have mostly been gleaning valuable insights from Bernard Porter's blog in which he (a venerable English man and an anti-imperialist too)
has been deliberating on some of the issues under our purview here. He is currently in the UK...
It' doesn't look like Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi ( a Scot) is going to be weighing in on this referendum - as he did on the Scottish referendum.
The savage murder of Jo Cox is vividly reminiscent of the butchering of Anna Lindh on the 11th of September, 2003. I wailed like a new born blues
baby when I first heard the news. In spite of sympathy votes for the side of the referendum that she was canvassing for , they did not win.
I should hate to make a decision as to what is in the best interests of the UK, based on faulty premises. Briefly : Re- Kennedy Emetulu's plea:
Even for a self-righteous, self-appointed minority spokesperson, it's a pitiful display of either abject ignorance or falsification of reality and bigotry
to reduce the Brexit referendum to being a contest between good and evil, between what he calls the racists' camp composed of mostly those -
from his point of view, evil Brits who like former Mayor of London Boris Johnson want to leave the sinking EU ship and those who want to stay,
the good guys comprising the angelic likes of Prime Minister David Cameron and good Muslims such as Sadiq Khan the new Lord Mayor of London
and his greater multi-culti flock, including good Nigerians such as the Kennedy Emetulu, or so he would like us to believe.
Curiously enough Emetulu's exhortation is that "Nigerians and all other ethnic minorities in the UK, including all progressive and peace-loving citizens
of the country, vote to make Britain greater in Europe!" - a weak voice and a weak echo, sounding off like Donald Trump only that this one's melody is
simultaneously Sweet Mother and God save the Queen and please Make Great Britain Great Again in the EU - and no to any Britannia Rules the Waves !
Not British to the bootstraps , how is it to be expected that Johnny just come should be harbouring any nostalgic sentiments about former glory or future
victory? As far as he may be concerned the more Nigerians that immigrate into Great Britain, the merrier and the Greater will Great Britain Be! Thanks to
Lord Lugard, doesn't Nigeria already rule / control Peckham now known as " Little Lagos" ?
As Boris Johnson said (and I think that this was slightly under the belt) the EU aims at accomplishing what Hitler failed to do :
Emetulu may still be a Nigerian at heart and in his soul, but doesn't he know that only British citizens are eligible to vote in this referendum?
This morning when asked his name, Tommy Mair (alliterates with Tony Blair) the man charged with the murder of Jo Cox , said
: " My Name Is death to traitors and freedom for Britain"
But the sins of one man should not be sufficient reason to crucify a whole nation?
Okay,
"They say that patriotism is the last refuge
To which a scoundrel clings
Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king
There's only one step down from here, baby...( What's a sweetheart like you doin' in a dump like this?"
As Grucho Marx put it, "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
R.S.V.P.
I'm ready
Cornelius
On Friday, 17 June 2016 19:07:50 UTC+2, Kennedy Emetulu wrote:The death of Jo Cox, the 41-year old Labour MP murdered while going about her duty in her constituency in Birstall, UK is sending shockwaves around the world. Here was an excellent MP who was celebrated by her constituents and colleagues for her vision, warmth, industry and open-door policy gunned and hacked down in broad daylight by a 52-year old Mr Tommy Mair. This man, a fellow Yorkshire resident described as a loner was reported to have shouted "Britain first!" as he hacked her down. So, while this brutal killing has pushed to the fore the debate about security of MPs, the more telling impact is that it has brought the BREXIT campaign closer to the consciousness of the people because Jo Cox was a passionate campaigner for the Remain Campaign.Okay, the investigations are still ongoing and it may well turn out that Mr Mair has mental health issues. In fact, there are unconfirmed reports that he was a patient at the Mirfield-based Pathways Day Centre for adults with mental illness before 2010. But whether or not he has mental health issues, with the BREXIT referendum just a few days away no one is pretending that people are not looking at this incident as a possible determinant of where their vote will go. To me, whether or not the fellow is sane, he could not have felt that strongly about the issue to the extent of killing the MP if there was no prior talk with others. There are also reports that he's a white supremacist with clear links to white extremist groups. For instance, he is said to have been a long-time subscriber to a pro-Apartheid extremist magazine, "S. A. Patriot" up till 2006. The UK-based publication, which campaigns against "the fall of civilised rule" in South Africa, was edited by former National Front member Alan Harvey.Now, I'm not saying any group of people set him up to do this, but they may have created the condition that influenced his troubled mind (if indeed, troubled) to push him to go out there and kill an MP that has been a staunch campaigner for Britain to remain in Europe and one of the more progressive politicians on the immigration front with her work with refugees all over the world and her serious activism over Dafur, Syria and Palestine. I mean, since the Leave Campaign has focused its main case against remaining in the EU on immigration, it is not out of place to imagine that unstable supporters would do what this fellow has done, especially with the neo-racialist tone of the Leave Campaign when discussing immigration and immigrants. Here is a man said to have lived in the Birstall area for more than thirty years and who, despite being a loner has not been known to be violent before now. The only thing they know him for is that he's the one that does the gardening for the locals for a living. What could have triggered his mind except the viciousness of this campaign?I know that the politicians are being cautious now, so that no one accuses them of playing politics with this death, but it's worth observing that Neil Coyle, the Labour MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark has, while paying tribute to Jo Cox, broken ranks already by saying clearly that the Leave Campaign "risks inspiring extremist elements". While Mr Coyle is being rounded on for playing politics with this, it is important that the rest of us, especially those of us who are ethnic minorities, look closely at those the Leave Campaign and its leading promoters are empowering with their rhetoric. I say this, because whatever the reason the killer did this and whatever the ultimate outcome of police investigation, as an ethnic minority in the UK, the whole tone of the debate and this killing worry me. In fact, if I was thinking of voting Leave, at this point I would be doing a rethink because a Britain out of Europe I see is a very dark place. With Nigel Farage strutting around with a sick smirk on his face and Boris Johnson seeking frantically the keys to No 10, I see a Britain where the far-right rules and where the civil liberties and freedoms won over the years will be eroded in pursuit of the false objective of making "Britain first!" As Samuel Johnson once famously said, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel and I see a lot of them now wrapping themselves around the Union Jack.Honestly, Jo Cox's death has left me really sad and I just cannot muster the strength for now to make a proper analysis of this future I see if we leave Europe, but suffice it to say when you read the statement by Brendan Cox, Jo's husband and his insistence that we must defeat hate, you get the idea that he has an idea where this whole hate is coming from, especially when we consider that he himself is a staunch supporter of the Remain Campaign who had consistently complained about the hate coming from the Leave camp before this incident.So, yes, this hate is not coming from Muslims or immigrants; it's coming from people who think they have an entitlement to Britain by virtue of their white skin and their supposed indigenousness. It is coming from people who have been brainwashed into thinking that immigrants are the devils coming to take over their land and their jobs and that they are left no choice but to use violence to stop them. They are the people who people the white extremist groups and even though there are many decent people who want Britain out of Europe for other reasons, these extremists are today hiding under the sovereignty argument to push the idea of Britain leaving the EU as mainstream. But in truth, this is just primed to be the first step in their mission to return Britain to the rulership of the far-right.Well, the Britain these far-right people want is not the Britain my family and I want. The Britain we want is the one showed in Birstall where an unnamed 77-year old Pakistani man tackled the killer of Jo Cox in an attempt to stop him and got injured for his troubles. Despite this tragedy, that man is a hero. It is quite significant that he, an ethnic minority, a Muslim, an old frail man, was the one who tackled this fellow in defence of his MP. The Britain I want is the one one being showcased in Birstall today as Britons of all religions, all faiths and all races are coming together in unity to mourn an outstanding British politician.As an ethnic minority with a stake in Britain and the wider world, I will urge my fellow Britons to vote to stay in Europe, to vote to stay connected with the world. With the rise of far-right parties all over Europe now on the back of the misdirected angst against immigration, do not blindly sign your own death warrant. You've got to know that there's nothing by way of a viable solution to the immigration problem being offered by the Leave Campaign. All they're doing is selling fear - fear of small Britain being swarmed by Barbarians. The Little Englander in Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Nigel Farage is just being ballooned by the foul air of overambition! Even their attempt to link the immigration with an economic argument is cloaked in evil lies and fear-mongering! I mean, what is more embarrassing than Alex Salmon catching out Boris Johnson misquoting the Bank of England report he has not read and typically being bullish in his topped-up ignorance? It is typical of the tissues of lies being bandied about by the Leave Campaign to hear Johnson say that a Bank of England study showed that for every 10 percent increase in immigration there was a two percent reduction in wages when in fact what the study says is that a 10 percent rise in immigration would result in a one-third of one pence diminution in average wages. Since when did one-third of one pence become two percent reduction in wages? But these are the type of bloodcurdling lies they bandy about in their bid to get Britain out of Europe.Obviously, the campaigns have been suspended for now in tribute to Jo, but the vote is still coming up next Thursday, 23 June 2016. So, Nigerians and all other ethnic minorities in the UK, including all progressive and peace-loving citizens of the country, vote to make Britain greater in Europe! There will be no better tribute to Jo Cox, a true internationalist and lover of humanity, than ensuring that the bigots do not take over!…..The picture is of Jo Cox and family joining the #floatilla campaign on the River Thames as part of the IN (Remain) Campaign. The picture was posted on June 15, at the time of the event, by Brendan Cox, the husband of Jo with the following comment: "So this is the moment the #VoteLeave lot started hosing my kids with river water. Nice friendly lot #floatilla."…To post to this group, send an email to USAAfric...@googlegroups.com--
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