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Ex-Spurs Player Gary 'the ears' Lineker is a prick - discuss

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Is Gary Lineker a massive fartfaced prick

  • Yes

    Votes: 37 29.1%
  • Super Yes

    Votes: 18 14.2%
  • Bigger yes than his ears

    Votes: 58 45.7%
  • No, I love the gooners

    Votes: 14 11.0%

  • Total voters
    127
I didn't say that he called anyone or compared anyone to nazis. I don't agree that the UK government's language was in anyway the same as the language from the 3rd Reich. if you think so then what in particular?

I can think of a holocaust survivor that disagrees with you...

Remember this?

 
I can think of a holocaust survivor that disagrees with you...

Remember this?

Hmm' . ."Swarm" .. . "Invasion "

:sonhmm:

Not too dissimilar to the language used in 1930's Germany
 
So where are the links to 1930s Germans using the words "swarm" and "invasion" to describe illegal immigrants entering the country ?

In my view people are trying too hard to make the connection. Perhaps there is a swarm of illegal immigrants invading, if so why not say it (because a holocaust survivor might not like it)?
Hitler and nazism have become like a metric that we can virtually all agree on as evil. In a post truth world there aren't many things that we can all have consensus on.

Thats why it attracts lazy and simplistic comparison from people trying to appeal to emotion. Like retired footballers and certain keyboard warriors. I also find it interesting that Stalin does not have the same clout.
 
So where are the links to 1930s Germans using the words "swarm" and "invasion" to describe illegal immigrants entering the country ?

In my view people are trying too hard to make the connection. Perhaps there is a swarm of illegal immigrants invading, if so why not say it (because a holocaust survivor might not like it)?

Certainly, here are some examples of Germans using dehumanising language from the 1930s:

  1. In 1933, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels described the Jews as a "bacillus" or disease that needed to be eradicated from German society.
  2. In 1938, Julius Streicher, the publisher of the virulently anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer, referred to Jews as "lice" and "vermin."
  3. In 1939, Nazi officials referred to the Polish population as a "barbarian invasion" and claimed that Poland was a "swamp" that needed to be cleansed of its "diseased" elements.
  4. In 1939, German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels used the term "international cockroach" to describe Jews in a radio broadcast.
  5. In 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogroms, Nazi officials referred to the destruction of Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues as a "cleanup" operation or "revenge action" against the Jews.
  6. In a speech on January 30, 1939, Adolf Hitler referred to the Jews as a "mortal enemy" and warned that if they caused another world war, they would be "annihilated." He also described the Jews as a "pestilential insect" that needed to be eradicated.
Are these examples enough for you?
 
Hitler and nazism have become like a metric that we can virtually all agree on as evil. In a post truth world there aren't many things that we can all have consensus on.

Thats why it attracts lazy and simplistic comparison from people trying to appeal to emotion. Like retired footballers and certain keyboard warriors. I also find it interesting that Stalin does not have the same clout.
It's embarrassing you only have to mention the N word and everyone gets hysterical.

Sadly the adults left the room a long time ago on both sides of the political aisle.
 
Certainly, here are some examples of Germans using dehumanising language from the 1930s:

  1. In 1933, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels described the Jews as a "bacillus" or disease that needed to be eradicated from German society.
  2. In 1938, Julius Streicher, the publisher of the virulently anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer, referred to Jews as "lice" and "vermin."
  3. In 1939, Nazi officials referred to the Polish population as a "barbarian invasion" and claimed that Poland was a "swamp" that needed to be cleansed of its "diseased" elements.
  4. In 1939, German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels used the term "international cockroach" to describe Jews in a radio broadcast.
  5. In 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogroms, Nazi officials referred to the destruction of Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues as a "cleanup" operation or "revenge action" against the Jews.
  6. In a speech on January 30, 1939, Adolf Hitler referred to the Jews as a "mortal enemy" and warned that if they caused another world war, they would be "annihilated." He also described the Jews as a "pestilential insect" that needed to be eradicated.
Are these examples enough for you?
Here are your besties the EU also using by your measure "Nazi" rhetoric.

"Unwanted migrants" sounds a bit de-humanizing doesn't it?


They are even talking about Walls and fences, who does that remind me of?

The Daily Show Wow GIF by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah


We can also play this silly game. We just choose not to lower ourselves to that level.
 
Lets be honest, the left absolutely detest the general British demographic because they are not far left, and generally vote centre right.

Ethnic replacement is the only way the left gets a sniff of power. Of course that all looks far less ugly if they can virtue signal about refugees etc and colonial guilt etc.

The irony of it all is that second/third generation immigrants like Sunak and Braverman become very conservative.
"Ethnic replacement" what an ugly phrase. Surely you are not one of those white nationalist that go into to the race baiting buisness of pushing the great replacement theory.

 
Here are your besties the EU also using by your measure "Nazi" rhetoric.

"Unwanted migrants" sounds a bit de-humanizing doesn't it?


Except the EU AREN'T using the phrase 'unwanted migrants'. The only time it appears in the entire article is in the headline which was written by the journalist. Maybe next time you should try actually reading the links before you post...

Try again.

They are even talking about Walls and fences, who does that remind me of?

The Daily Show Wow GIF by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

This conversation is about the use Nazi dehumanising language, I'm not sure what Trump has to do with any of this.
 
Then list the numbers mate. Stick to factual information. There are widely published numbers estimating how many there are in the UK but please, refrain from the bollocks in your initial post of telling us "Millions flooding in" because you can't prove this, at no point has this number even got close to being met and it bares no relation to the point you are saying you are trying to make - Illegal Immigration - illegal immigrants are only illegal once they are proved to be.

Do some actual maths. How many are in the UK? How long have they been here? When you have this number there are some obvious questions that should then begin to be formed, like why is it taking so long to process these people? What the fuck are the Government actually doing about it apart from inventing new laws to make more people Illegal?

Since 2010 UK immigration law has been "tightened" 168 times (average 1 new law per month).
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1010857/user-guide-policy-changes-jun21.ods…

43 laws on small boats alone https://theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/07/conservatives-channel-crossings-small-boats-tories-rwanda-deportation… If this stuff deterred people from coming to the UK illegally it would have deterred by now.

If "us", British citizens frightened by immigration, can't keep track of the 168 bits of legislation IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE, how do you expect a Somali refugee too? And if they don't know the law, how on earth can they be deterred by it? It makes NO SENSE.

Even if they were to pass their outrageously illegal proposed policy all they would have achieved is make EVERYONE (who would have been legal + illegal) into an Illegal immigrant but crucially they would all be here. They will still be in the "hotels", still be fed still costing the taxpayers, but now in numbers that require hundreds of more hotels (maybe even thousands) to be manned with staff and food to feed them. It makes no sense.

Have the Government cut or increased Border Force jobs? They've cut them!!! Makes you wonder why they would do that when "their number one priority is immigration". Perhaps just maybe they know that this is where they are getting their votes from whilst polling at 25%? If only the people that are dangling on the end of their string asked what they have actually been doing for the past thirteen years for things to be so utterly fucked.
You wanted numbers here are numbers.


This article is 3 years old now so the numbers will have increased as we have been getting more boat crossings in these 3 years.

This pew research article put our unathorised (another word for illegal) immigration number in the UK at between 800k to 1.2m in 2017. The top end of that is about double the population of Manchester.

UK, Germany, Italy and France account for 70% of all unauthorised immigration in Europe.

They don't say how they arrive at these numbers but I'm willing to bet these numbers don't account for those that slip through the net and go into the underground of human trafficking.

At the time this article was written 56% of the total unauthorized immigrants had arrived in the last 5 years.

Now can you see why the government is creating this bill?
The EU are looking at their own illegal immigration policies but they are doing it quietly without hysteria from the likes of Lineker comparing them to the Nazi's.

EDIT : Actually they do state how they arrive at the numbers see the methodology link at the bottom.
 
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Except the EU AREN'T using the phrase 'unwanted migrants'. The only time it appears in the entire article is in the headline which was written by the journalist. Maybe next time you should try actually reading the links before you post...

Try again.



This conversation is about the use Nazi dehumanising language, I'm not sure what Trump has to do with any of this.
Here is the bill Spaggyboy.


Please point to the part that refers to the immigrants as "bacteria" "lice" "barbarians" "Vermin" "Mortal enemy" "international coackroaches" or any of the hyperbole from your argument about Nazi rhetoric above.

In fact find me anything that remotley resembles 1930 Nazi rhetoric.

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Here is the bill Spaggyboy.


Please point to the part that refers to the immigrants as "bacteria" "lice" "barbarians" "Vermin" "Mortal enemy" "international coackroaches" or any of the hyperbole from your argument about Nazi rhetoric above.

In fact find me anything that remotley resembles 1930 Nazi rhetoric.

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His problem is that when actual nazis turn up he won't know his ass from his elbow having completely diluted the term for his own political leverage.
 
His problem is that when actual nazis turn up he won't know his ass from his elbow having completely diluted the term for his own political leverage.
The funny thing is I don't even intend to vote for Tories at the next election. I'm going with the best Independant candidate I can find, if I bother at all. I realise that might put contribute to putting Labour in which will finally kill this country off but I simply won't be coerced in that way to vote for the Tories.

I've voted Tory most of my life but even I can't defend the mess they've made in the last few years. They had an 80 seat majority and what have they done with it?

I'll defend them from these ludicrous smears and accusations, but this bill is too little too late.

And one thing I do agree with our resident left wingers is that this bill is clearly designed by the Tories to try and save their bacon as the polling is so against them.

It is a cynical political move that should have been done years ago.

Of course those same resident lefties won't admit that the reason they are so vocally against this bill is that they are worried it might accomplish what the Tories are trying to accomplish.

All of this bullshit is just political posturing.
 
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Here is the bill Spaggyboy.


Please point to the part that refers to the immigrants as "bacteria" "lice" "barbarians" "Vermin" "Mortal enemy" "international coackroaches" or any of the hyperbole from your argument about Nazi rhetoric above.

In fact find me anything that remotley resembles 1930 Nazi rhetoric.

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That's it? That your deflection? This is the latest piss poor attempt to move the goalposts to try and defend the indefensible?

OK fine.

The reason why you won't find such appalling language in the Parliamentary Bill is because there are required standards of language. It's called Parliamentary Language.


Try again
 
Who's suggesting an open door immigration policy? I've checked the Green Party's policies and I don't see that suggested anywhere. Maybe you have a better source? If so, can you provide it?




Of course, many are fleeing from warzones in regions of the world that were destabilised/ruined by Anglo-American military intervention. They come to the UK because they have ties to this country. Perhaps they have family here, or they speak English. But I'm really not sure how wanting all these things you've listed is a bad thing. Or do you honestly expect people living in a warzone, or the threat of religious persecution to just tolerate it?




Nope. Research shows that migrants to the UK pay far more into the government's tax coffers than they receive in benefits.





That's not true. According to Government figures, we currently have around 1.19million job vacancies in the UK.




Source? Because once again, that's not true.

Most come to the UK specifically because they speak English and have ties to the country.



Crikey! You're going to have to share your sources for these figures because it seem we're in worse shape than we previously thought. According to the Government's own figures, we have taken in 190,000 people under various refugee schemes, and with our current population at around 67.8million, makes this around 0.28%. To put it another way, that's not even as many people as we lost to COVID.

If our country's infrastructure is in such bad a shape that it can't cope with an additional 0.28% of people, then this is a seriously damning indictment of 13 years of Tory rule. Just a suggestion, but maybe don't vote for them anymore if they're THAT incompetent.

But... I suspect your point was more hyperbole.



You've not made any observations. You've just made a load of stuff up.



Yep, the right wing media do have a lot to answer for...
You really are a naive and simple bellend........🤔............want to buy some beans?.....
 
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