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Vague EU noodlings
Mar. 1st, 2016 02:14 pmBear with me, I'm still working this out in my head.
After last week, I was seriously tempted to put in an application to work from home (blaming the current spate of long term road construction) to avoid having to listen to my colleagues go on about wanting to leave the EU.
I'd be all right if they'd thought about it an objected to corruption, accountability, the Common Agricultural Policy etc. (I'd still think they were wrong, but that's a level you can engage with). Instead all I heard all morning Wednesday was a lot of crap about immigrants (HELLO - SITTING RIGHT HERE! WHAT, YOU DON'T MEAN THE ANGLOPHONE WHITE CHICK?), human rights (they're against them because somebody *might* abuse them), benefit scroungers (what are we all one bout of ill health away from?) and all the usual Daily Mail-approved bollocks.
So got to thinking.
We all know I'm Schrodinger's Immigrant - simultaneously stealing your jobs[1] and taking your benefits.
The counterpart are Schrodinger's Brits - simultaneously superior in every way because they are British while at the same time being done out of their jobs, housing and medical care by Damn Foreigners.
There is absolutely no point arguing with them- they'll have a go at my foreignness and my privilege.
The fact that these are the people who are going to go out and vote in great number scares the ever-living shit out of me. Even though I can just leave when my job goes away.
[1] Added irony that it's a job that people take the piss out of and say a monkey can do but there's an industry-wide crisis in recruiting competent people to.
After last week, I was seriously tempted to put in an application to work from home (blaming the current spate of long term road construction) to avoid having to listen to my colleagues go on about wanting to leave the EU.
I'd be all right if they'd thought about it an objected to corruption, accountability, the Common Agricultural Policy etc. (I'd still think they were wrong, but that's a level you can engage with). Instead all I heard all morning Wednesday was a lot of crap about immigrants (HELLO - SITTING RIGHT HERE! WHAT, YOU DON'T MEAN THE ANGLOPHONE WHITE CHICK?), human rights (they're against them because somebody *might* abuse them), benefit scroungers (what are we all one bout of ill health away from?) and all the usual Daily Mail-approved bollocks.
So got to thinking.
We all know I'm Schrodinger's Immigrant - simultaneously stealing your jobs[1] and taking your benefits.
The counterpart are Schrodinger's Brits - simultaneously superior in every way because they are British while at the same time being done out of their jobs, housing and medical care by Damn Foreigners.
There is absolutely no point arguing with them- they'll have a go at my foreignness and my privilege.
The fact that these are the people who are going to go out and vote in great number scares the ever-living shit out of me. Even though I can just leave when my job goes away.
[1] Added irony that it's a job that people take the piss out of and say a monkey can do but there's an industry-wide crisis in recruiting competent people to.
