Presumably this means they are bringing back slavery, or something. Or not?
What a ridiculous claim, slavery was abolished in the British Empire nearly 200 years ago. What it does show is IMO an Anglo-centric world view dating back to the end of empire.
I don't like their immigration controls, particularly the rules on how much someone must earn to be able to let their foreign spouse settle in the UK. This would be a good enough reason for me not to vote for them, aside from the fact that I have no vote, obviously.
And as I have repeatedly said, the rhetoric is about Muslims, other brown and black people and Eastern Europeans. If there is criticism of the number of Scandinavians, Australians, New Zealanders or (white) South Africans coming over in "swarms" then I've missed it.
I don't have a problem with the UK being responsible for its own commitment to human rights. In fact, it is rather embarrassing to think that the UK cannot be trusted and must be watched over to keep it from being naughty.
I do. Theresa May's first reaction to the London and Manchester terrorist attacks was to threaten to get rid of human rights. Indeed the Conservatives' first reaction to any perceived crisis is to curtail or get rid of people's rights whether its the right to strike, the right to assemble, people's right to claim disability benefits....the list goes on.
Yes, I know. This is naked and desperate opportunism and extremely unfortunate for them given their jibes about Corbyn being a terrorist sympathizer. I notice that their ministers have even been talking up the DUP's willingness to be conciliatory by...working with Sinn Fein. It makes a mockery of their campaigning and they deserve to be mocked for it. But it is not the same as a desire go back to the 1950s and start using all manner of racist epithets.
The Conservative base is profoundly racist and/or xenophobic. Look at the way that the "house" newspapers, the Daily Mail and Daily Express report on matters or race and immigration.
Perhaps it's not the spit-in-the-corners-of-the-mouth invective employed by the likes of the BNP and EDL but there's a long-standing distrust of, and/or disdain for, foreigners especially brown ones or ones that speak finny.
We know there were a lot of reasons for voting Leave. Some of those were no doubt held by racists and xenophobes. But I notice that UKIP did not become, as some feared, a new form of BNP, and natural home for the racists and the xenophobes. Once the Party got what it campaigned for, it utterly collapsed, and the fortunes of the other parties rose with it (Labour and Lib Dems). In fact, notice that when UKIP was at its peak, the Tories won a majority of seats, and when its support shrank so did the proportion of Tory seats. So that does not suggest the Tories successfully recruited all the UKIP vote.
....and the racists and xenophobes who supported UKIP largely returned to their natural home, the Conservative Party - at least that's what the voting share appeared to show.
Again, not pleasant. But not as you caricature it - as a racist party.
It's still a party full of racists and xenophobes, or more particularly a party which wants a return to the days where white people didn't have to worry about being PC, were completely in charge (as opposed to being almost completely in charge), where you didn't have to encounter brown faces or strange accents when going about their business.
Maybe it's not the kind of hard racism that wants them all "packed off to bongo-bongo land" but it would like them quietly removed from sight along with the gays, the poor, the disabled and anyone else who they'd prefer not to have to deal with.
