Jesus. 7% support for ISIS in the UK and the left's reaction to anyone pointing out we have a problem beyond a "tiny minority" with British Muslims is to call those raising concern 'bigots'. Through a combination of mass immigration from backwards places and political correctness, New Labour truly screwed our country. Radical action on immigration is clearly needed. Anyone applying for a visa from a country with widespread extremism should have to go through extended interviews on their political views. Given the crisis we're facing it's too late for hand-wringing about these things.
7% that's getting on for 4 million adults.
Correct and way above the entire muslim population. Since most people do not know their MP do people even know what ISIS is? I have tko say a result like this makes me doubt the point of opinion polls.
France on the other hand is just totally dire.......
Jesus. 7% support for ISIS in the UK and the left's reaction to anyone pointing out we have a problem beyond a "tiny minority" with British Muslims is to call those raising concern 'bigots'. Through a combination of mass immigration from backwards places and political correctness, New Labour truly screwed our country. Radical action on immigration is clearly needed. Anyone applying for a visa from a country with widespread extremism should have to go through extended interviews on their political views. Given the crisis we're facing it's too late for hand-wringing about these things.
7% that's getting on for 4 million adults.
Correct and way above the entire muslim population. Since most people do not know their MP do people even know what ISIS is? I have tko say a result like this makes me doubt the point of opinion polls.
France on the other hand is just totally dire.......
Jesus. 7% support for ISIS in the UK and the left's reaction to anyone pointing out we have a problem beyond a "tiny minority" with British Muslims is to call those raising concern 'bigots'. Through a combination of mass immigration from backwards places and political correctness, New Labour truly screwed our country. Radical action on immigration is clearly needed. Anyone applying for a visa from a country with widespread extremism should have to go through extended interviews on their political views. Given the crisis we're facing it's too late for hand-wringing about these things.
7% that's getting on for 4 million adults.
Correct and way above the entire muslim population. Since most people do not know their MP do people even know what ISIS is? I have tko say a result like this makes me doubt the point of opinion polls.
I think this is one where the exact questions and tables need looking at!
I cannot believe that 15% of frogs support ISIS either.
France on the other hand is just totally dire, they've got 8 million adults with a problem.
what price le Pen, now......???
Indeed.
On the other hand looking at the 15% it sort of raises a question against the old debate on religious schools. If France which has a fairly rigid approach to no religion bar the state, has such a number of disaffected citizens, why is that ?
And why has Germany with a very large Turkish population only got 2% (1.5 million adults ) when the muslim population is about 4 million ?
Jesus. 7% support for ISIS in the UK and the left's reaction to anyone pointing out we have a problem beyond a "tiny minority" with British Muslims is to call those raising concern 'bigots'. Through a combination of mass immigration from backwards places and political correctness, New Labour truly screwed our country. Radical action on immigration is clearly needed. Anyone applying for a visa from a country with widespread extremism should have to go through extended interviews on their political views. Given the crisis we're facing it's too late for hand-wringing about these things.
7% that's getting on for 4 million adults.
Correct and way above the entire muslim population. Since most people do not know their MP do people even know what ISIS is? I have tko say a result like this makes me doubt the point of opinion polls.
I think this is one where the exact questions and tables need looking at!
I cannot believe that 15% of frogs support ISIS either.
UK police investigating video of James Foley "killing" warn sharing or viewing it online may constitute an offence
Tens of thousands or maybe even hundreds of thousands of people in the UK have probably already watched it. What are they going to do, arrest them all?
Once again, entirely the wrong response.
How about arresting people handing out leaflets in Oxford Street supporting ISIS?
Either this ISIS poll is bollocks or we are heading for a far-right ascendency somewhere in Europe followed by an anti-Muslim Kristalnacht. At some point the non-Muslim world will decide it's had enough.
Jesus. 7% support for ISIS in the UK and the left's reaction to anyone pointing out we have a problem beyond a "tiny minority" with British Muslims is to call those raising concern 'bigots'. Through a combination of mass immigration from backwards places and political correctness, New Labour truly screwed our country. Radical action on immigration is clearly needed. Anyone applying for a visa from a country with widespread extremism should have to go through extended interviews on their political views. Given the crisis we're facing it's too late for hand-wringing about these things.
7% that's getting on for 4 million adults.
Correct and way above the entire muslim population. Since most people do not know their MP do people even know what ISIS is? I have tko say a result like this makes me doubt the point of opinion polls.
I think this is one where the exact questions and tables need looking at!
I cannot believe that 15% of frogs support ISIS either.
What are the demographics of Paris?
Prima donnas 37% Right bastards 15% Chauvinists 32% Tourists 6% EU citizens 10%
UK police investigating video of James Foley "killing" warn sharing or viewing it online may constitute an offence
Tens of thousands or maybe even hundreds of thousands of people in the UK have probably already watched it. What are they going to do, arrest them all?
UK police investigating video of James Foley "killing" warn sharing or viewing it online may constitute an offence
Tens of thousands or maybe even hundreds of thousands of people in the UK have probably already watched it. What are they going to do, arrest them all?
Once again, entirely the wrong response.
How about arresting people handing out leaflets in Oxford Street supporting ISIS?
Is it? It sounds bloody silly to me. Is he really suggesting the PM should arbitrarily and without any legal process have powers to remove British citizenship?
It would be up to the courts, not the PM, to take decisions like that, and then only if parliament had granted powers to do so (which AFAIK they haven't).
The Secretary of State already has the power, under s. 40(2) of the British Nationality Act 1981 to remove a person's British citizenship if she is satisfied that it would be conducive to the public good, although she may not exercise that power if it would have the effect of making a person stateless. However, s. 66(1) of the Immigration Act 2014 adds new subsection (4A) to section 40 of the 1981 Act. Subsection (4A) provides that the Secretary of State may, in the case of a naturalised citizen, strip a person of their citizenship if he has conducted himself in a manner seriously prejudicial to the vital interests of the United Kingdom, and there are reasonable grounds for believing that the person will be naturalised in a foreign jurisdiction, notwithstanding the fact the removal of his citizenship would make him stateless. The amendment is not yet in force.
In short, these authoritarian powers already exist. The decision is for a Minister of the Crown, not for the courts, albeit it is subject to review by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission. It is amazing how Tories will claim their own views are extreme when they are attributed to UKIP.
Err, what do you mean 'their own views'? Are you referring to me? My views are as I stated, that these things should be decided by the courts. In any case I didn't say Farages's remarks were extreme. I said they were bloody silly.
Thanks for the clarification on the law, all the same. In the particular case of those who have gone to Syria or Iraq to fight with ISIS, I imagine they will in many cases not be naturalised citizens, but born here. That makes Farage's remarks even more bloody silly.
UK police investigating video of James Foley "killing" warn sharing or viewing it online may constitute an offence
Now, why would the Filth say that? There are more than enough snuff movies available at the click of a button which they have never done anything about so I don't suppose the Filth have suddenly developed a taste for enforcing the obscenity laws (if such still exist) . So what is it about this one (which I haven't seen and have no desire to see) that has excited their attention? Could it be a concern for community cohesion (i.e. trying to bury bad news about about a favoured minority group)?
Jesus. 7% support for ISIS in the UK and the left's reaction to anyone pointing out we have a problem beyond a "tiny minority" with British Muslims is to call those raising concern 'bigots'. Through a combination of mass immigration from backwards places and political correctness, New Labour truly screwed our country. Radical action on immigration is clearly needed. Anyone applying for a visa from a country with widespread extremism should have to go through extended interviews on their political views. Given the crisis we're facing it's too late for hand-wringing about these things.
7% that's getting on for 4 million adults.
Correct and way above the entire muslim population. Since most people do not know their MP do people even know what ISIS is? I have tko say a result like this makes me doubt the point of opinion polls.
I think this is one where the exact questions and tables need looking at!
I cannot believe that 15% of frogs support ISIS either.
What are the demographics of Paris?
Certain parts of Paris are densely inhabited by North Africans.
Was that amendment not brought in to overturn the Al-Jedda case where the Supreme Court held that the fact the respondent had chosen not to apply for restoration of his Iraqi citizenship meant that the Secretary of State could not make the order?
I would like to think that the fact that it has not been brought into force indicates some second thoughts.
Yes to your first question. Also, you have my apologies. I was wrong about the commencement. Section 66 was entered into force on 28 July 2014 by virtue of article 3(t) of the Immigration Act 2014 (Commencement No. 1, Transitory and Saving Provisions) Order 2014, S.I. 2014/1820.
UK police investigating video of James Foley "killing" warn sharing or viewing it online may constitute an offence
Perhaps one day people will wake up to the huge number of ridiculous thought crimes created under the last Labour government's "anti-terrorism" legislation.
France on the other hand is just totally dire, they've got 8 million adults with a problem.
what price le Pen, now......???
Indeed.
On the other hand looking at the 15% it sort of raises a question against the old debate on religious schools. If France which has a fairly rigid approach to no religion bar the state, has such a number of disaffected citizens, why is that ?
And why has Germany with a very large Turkish population only got 2% (1.5 million adults ) when the muslim population is about 4 million ?
That does imply there are other factors involved. The source populations are different is one possibility. Another is what happened since. For example were Turks in Germany imported to work in car factories that are still going and paying good wages while in the UK it was textile factories that closed down?
@HurstLlama I favour the idea that some reporter fired off a question, and the bod with the brass fired off the standard police answer to almost everything. You might be right of course
"British extremists are among the most ‘most vicious and vociferous fighters’ in the Islamic State's ranks in Syria and Iraq, a jihadism expert has said.
Sunni Muslims from the UK are taking part in the conflicts ‘in every way’, according to Shiraz Maher, from King's College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation."
Our authorities are being desperately wrong-footed on this. It's almost more depressing than what has happened to that poor journalist.
The problem, maybe, is that evidence is emerging that all the multiculturalism nonsense that we have been force-fed for so many years is now being revealed for the nonsense that it always was. Actually not all cultures are equal and nor are all religious beliefs equally benign. If that idea takes off then lots of people (including I would guess 90% of senior police officers) are going to look very silly.
Was that amendment not brought in to overturn the Al-Jedda case where the Supreme Court held that the fact the respondent had chosen not to apply for restoration of his Iraqi citizenship meant that the Secretary of State could not make the order?
I would like to think that the fact that it has not been brought into force indicates some second thoughts.
Yes to your first question. Also, you have my apologies. I was wrong about the commencement. Section 66 was entered into force on 28 July 2014 by virtue of article 3(t) of the Immigration Act 2014 (Commencement No. 1, Transitory and Saving Provisions) Order 2014, S.I. 2014/1820.
UK police investigating video of James Foley "killing" warn sharing or viewing it online may constitute an offence
Perhaps one day people will wake up to the huge number of ridiculous thought crimes created under the last Labour government's "anti-terrorism" legislation.
The relevant provision is in s40(4A) but you are right that it came into force on 28th July. Sigh. Another consequence of the cabinet reshuffle earlier that month?
Whilst the idea that some sick b might get pleasure or satisfaction out of watching that video turns my stomach I completely agree with your observations about that.
Our authorities are being desperately wrong-footed on this. It's almost more depressing than what has happened to that poor journalist.
The problem, maybe, is that evidence is emerging that all the multiculturalism nonsense that we have been force-fed for so many years is now being revealed for the nonsense that it always was. Actually not all cultures are equal and nor are all religious beliefs equally benign. If that idea takes off then lots of people (including I would guess 90% of senior police officers) are going to look very silly.
Most sensible people have thought this for years. Unfortunately not enough of them were/are in the Establishment.
If even half of that number are muslims then that means half of all the UK's muslims have some sympathy with IS..???
I thought the vast majority of moderate blah blah blah abhor IS.
Muslims are probably about 4% of British voters. I don't know what proportion support ISIS. A minority, probably, but not an insignificant minority.
That would mean most British supporters of ISIS are non-Muslim, and I would assume that they were extreme left. Wiping out Christians and fighting the West is something they'd side with radical Muslims on.
"British extremists are among the most ‘most vicious and vociferous fighters’ in the Islamic State's ranks in Syria and Iraq, a jihadism expert has said.
Sunni Muslims from the UK are taking part in the conflicts ‘in every way’, according to Shiraz Maher, from King's College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation."
Peter the Punter, if he is around, and other tax experts on here may be interested in the recent tax case relating to the Fishers and the move of Stan James to Gibraltar in 2000.
Lee Hurst @2010LeeHurst 5h If James Foley's killer returns to the UK we'll punish him with £millions in legal aid so liberals can have a warm fuzzy feeling at soirees.
Our authorities are being desperately wrong-footed on this. It's almost more depressing than what has happened to that poor journalist.
The problem, maybe, is that evidence is emerging that all the multiculturalism nonsense that we have been force-fed for so many years is now being revealed for the nonsense that it always was. Actually not all cultures are equal and nor are all religious beliefs equally benign. If that idea takes off then lots of people (including I would guess 90% of senior police officers) are going to look very silly.
Most sensible people have thought this for years. Unfortunately not enough of them were/are in the Establishment.
Or if they did they met a hail of 'racist/xenophobic/bigots' cry.
I wonder what Mr 'Dem Muslims' tim would make of all this? He's probably not recovered yet from seeing his gorgeous Mr Darling duff up Salmond.
"British extremists are among the most ‘most vicious and vociferous fighters’ in the Islamic State's ranks in Syria and Iraq, a jihadism expert has said.
Sunni Muslims from the UK are taking part in the conflicts ‘in every way’, according to Shiraz Maher, from King's College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation."
Why do we have a worse extremist problem than other European countries, if that is the case? And if we do, why?
France may be in a worse position, judging by this poll. They have a bigger Muslim population, mostly drawn from North Africa, and a bigger extreme left than we have.
If even half of that number are muslims then that means half of all the UK's muslims have some sympathy with IS..???
I thought the vast majority of moderate blah blah blah abhor IS.
Muslims are probably about 4% of British voters. I don't know what proportion support ISIS. A minority, probably, but not an insignificant minority.
That would mean most British supporters of ISIS are non-Muslim, and I would assume that they were extreme left. Wiping out Christians and fighting the West is something they'd side with radical Muslims on.
Then again the polls could be rubbish. UKPR does not think Ascrofts results are particularly worth commenting on.
If even half of that number are muslims then that means half of all the UK's muslims have some sympathy with IS..???
I thought the vast majority of moderate blah blah blah abhor IS.
Muslims are probably about 4% of British voters. I don't know what proportion support ISIS. A minority, probably, but not an insignificant minority.
That would mean most British supporters of ISIS are non-Muslim, and I would assume that they were extreme left. Wiping out Christians and fighting the West is something they'd side with radical Muslims on.
It's not just "The West".
Islam also has an "Eastern Front" - India (Kashmir), China (Xinjiang), Burma (the Rohingas), Thailand (Malay borderlands), Indonesia (eg. Molucca Islands) and the Philippines (Mindanao Islands).
Disturbing ? I thought it was great, as it shows how much work the Tories have got to do to change peoples minds. What they have got to start doing is saying that they understand peoples concerns about cost of living and what they are doing, which should start to help within the next few years. At the moment the polling is showing that people are not very optimistic, believing that they will be worse off in the coming years.
Our authorities are being desperately wrong-footed on this. It's almost more depressing than what has happened to that poor journalist.
The problem, maybe, is that evidence is emerging that all the multiculturalism nonsense that we have been force-fed for so many years is now being revealed for the nonsense that it always was. Actually not all cultures are equal and nor are all religious beliefs equally benign. If that idea takes off then lots of people (including I would guess 90% of senior police officers) are going to look very silly.
Most sensible people have thought this for years. Unfortunately not enough of them were/are in the Establishment.
Or if they did they met a hail of 'racist/xenophobic/bigots' cry.
I wonder what Mr 'Dem Muslims' tim would make of all this? He's probably not recovered yet from seeing his gorgeous Mr Darling duff up Salmond.
Can I suggest a dose of nuance would be helpful to this topic?
''Why do we have a worse extremist problem than other European countries, if that is the case? And if we do, why?''
At some juncture, the spotlight will fall on the last labour government in this regard. Ed had better be ready.
It won't because Dave is too weak and the major media outlets are too scared. If this poll is correct then we have a much bigger problem than even I thought.
UK police investigating video of James Foley "killing" warn sharing or viewing it online may constitute an offence
Tens of thousands or maybe even hundreds of thousands of people in the UK have probably already watched it. What are they going to do, arrest them all?
Once again, entirely the wrong response.
How about arresting people handing out leaflets in Oxford Street supporting ISIS?
Exactly the right response. The Police are up to their useless necks in multicultural corruption and are shit scared to tackle the Jihadists in our midst. Robert Peel is, I'm sure, tearing his bones apart in his grave.
Our authorities are being desperately wrong-footed on this. It's almost more depressing than what has happened to that poor journalist.
The problem, maybe, is that evidence is emerging that all the multiculturalism nonsense that we have been force-fed for so many years is now being revealed for the nonsense that it always was. Actually not all cultures are equal and nor are all religious beliefs equally benign. If that idea takes off then lots of people (including I would guess 90% of senior police officers) are going to look very silly.
Most sensible people have thought this for years. Unfortunately not enough of them were/are in the Establishment.
Or if they did they met a hail of 'racist/xenophobic/bigots' cry.
I wonder what Mr 'Dem Muslims' tim would make of all this? He's probably not recovered yet from seeing his gorgeous Mr Darling duff up Salmond.
Can I suggest a dose of nuance would be helpful to this topic?
I was. Anyone which mentioned that multiculturalism had/has serious issues is denounced in those terms.
@taffys ''Why do we have a worse extremist problem than other European countries, if that is the case? And if we do, why?'' Higher levels of social dissatisfaction probably. Note I am merely stating my opinion on this, not making a political point.
It won't because Dave is too weak and the major media outlets are too scared.
True but UKIP aren't scared. I bet their people are digging up Labour's best multi-culti pronouncements as we speak.
And where is Farage on all of this? Nowhere. He hasn't made a single speech or comment on the evils of ISIL. He, rightly, is scared of being labelled a racist, the media has beaten UKIP and they have shut Farage up.
One hopes that the Guardian would have learned a lesson when they were abused by those Islamist thugs with the terrorist flag, but instead we have them defending them as "youths" and "misguided".
Where is the BBC article on this poll? Or even more sceptical press like the Telegraph?
"British extremists are among the most ‘most vicious and vociferous fighters’ in the Islamic State's ranks in Syria and Iraq, a jihadism expert has said.
Sunni Muslims from the UK are taking part in the conflicts ‘in every way’, according to Shiraz Maher, from King's College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation."
Why do we have a worse extremist problem than other European countries, if that is the case? And if we do, why?
France may be in a worse position, judging by this poll. They have a bigger Muslim population, mostly drawn from North Africa, and a bigger extreme left than we have.
There also more likely to strongly affirm the secular, and their right wing are more inclined to making avowedly anti-Muslim pronouncements. One might then read the apparent extraordinarily high support for IS as a counter-reaction.
@taffys ''Why do we have a worse extremist problem than other European countries, if that is the case? And if we do, why?'' Higher levels of social dissatisfaction probably. Note I am merely stating my opinion on this, not making a political point.
Yes, because everything is fine and dandy in places like France and Italy at the moment... no social problems there at all....
I fundamentally disagree with the archbishop. The question is do we fight militant Islam by reverting to their standards and savagery or do we fight them by adhering to our own?
I vote the latter.
It is why I am extremely intolerant of us tolerating different cultures in this country which are not consistent with our own values. If Islamic people want to come and live in this country fine. But their women will be respected and have rights. They will dress as they want, go where they want and speak to who they want (I could get more graphic here).
If that is unacceptable to the Islamic community they have the choice. Go and live with the savages or stay here and accept our principles are better.
We are at risk because we have compromised our values. We must stop this although turning the clock back is always more difficult.
If you can be bothered, and can read without prejudice, have a look at Enoch Powell's Birmingham speech of 1968 and "The Road To National Suicide" from 1977
He foresaw what is happening now a long time ago. He knew it was a controversial thing to say openly, but thought it was for the greater good that he did.
He also said "Of all silly sayings, one of the silliest is 'you cant turn the clock back'. Of course you can turn the clock back and we often do. If a clock is showing the wrong time, we turn it back"
No thanks, my grandfather knew him very well and regarded him as a self-opinionate arse with an overly-inflated view of his own intellectual capabilities. That's good enough for me!
I am sure he thought well of your grandfather who sounds like a lovely chap.
He had his faults, as we all do. He was nearly as acerbic as you sometimes, and didn't tolerate fools lightly. But he faithfully served his country for all his adult life, while also finding time to be a theologian and philosopher.
Still a bit harsh on Enoch though, but if he was like me he cannot have been a bad sort.
Allenbrooke says . ''well maybe, but if it's correct then we've got a lot of sick people in the country. France on the other hand is just totally dire, they've got 8 million adults with a problem. ''
Yes but who are they? Who goes round supporting people being beheaded? Are people confusing with Gaza? But anyway the damage is done - the poll will just encourage rightwing loonies to howl blue nurder at left wing loonies and religious maniacs (although really I wonder how much is religion and how much just plain maniac.)
When you say 8 million with a problem are you not playing the extremists game for them by lumping all one sector into an amorphous identical like-thinking group
It won't because Dave is too weak and the major media outlets are too scared.
True but UKIP aren't scared. I bet their people are digging up Labour's best multi-culti pronouncements as we speak.
And where is Farage on all of this? Nowhere. He hasn't made a single speech or comment on the evils of ISIL. He, rightly, is scared of being labelled a racist, the media has beaten UKIP and they have shut Farage up.
One hopes that the Guardian would have learned a lesson when they were abused by those Islamist thugs with the terrorist flag, but instead we have them defending them as "youths" and "misguided".
Where is the BBC article on this poll? Or even more sceptical press like the Telegraph?
To be fair to Farage it was only today that he said these guys should be stripped of their passports.
It won't because Dave is too weak and the major media outlets are too scared.
True but UKIP aren't scared. I bet their people are digging up Labour's best multi-culti pronouncements as we speak.
And where is Farage on all of this? Nowhere. He hasn't made a single speech or comment on the evils of ISIL. He, rightly, is scared of being labelled a racist, the media has beaten UKIP and they have shut Farage up.
One hopes that the Guardian would have learned a lesson when they were abused by those Islamist thugs with the terrorist flag, but instead we have them defending them as "youths" and "misguided".
Where is the BBC article on this poll? Or even more sceptical press like the Telegraph?
To be fair to Farage it was only today that he said these guys should be stripped of their passports.
When is a job not a job? When you claim expenses for travelling to your normal place of work!
Purely a fiddle to get people off the unemployment numbers, give them more benefits for being "self" employed.
Come then, Mr G, I was self-employed for a number of years, technically I still am, so how did I get any additional benefits or, indeed, any benefits at all? This talk about benefits for the self-employed has been thrown around this site for quite a while, it is about time someone came up with the justification.
Mr hurst , nowadays you get tax credits etc , which if you are earning peanuts is much better than JSA etc. We have not suddenly found millions of entreprenuers in the country have we. I do not buy that.
It won't because Dave is too weak and the major media outlets are too scared.
True but UKIP aren't scared. I bet their people are digging up Labour's best multi-culti pronouncements as we speak.
And where is Farage on all of this? Nowhere. He hasn't made a single speech or comment on the evils of ISIL. He, rightly, is scared of being labelled a racist, the media has beaten UKIP and they have shut Farage up.
One hopes that the Guardian would have learned a lesson when they were abused by those Islamist thugs with the terrorist flag, but instead we have them defending them as "youths" and "misguided".
Where is the BBC article on this poll? Or even more sceptical press like the Telegraph?
It won't because Dave is too weak and the major media outlets are too scared.
True but UKIP aren't scared. I bet their people are digging up Labour's best multi-culti pronouncements as we speak.
And where is Farage on all of this? Nowhere. He hasn't made a single speech or comment on the evils of ISIL. He, rightly, is scared of being labelled a racist, the media has beaten UKIP and they have shut Farage up.
One hopes that the Guardian would have learned a lesson when they were abused by those Islamist thugs with the terrorist flag, but instead we have them defending them as "youths" and "misguided".
Where is the BBC article on this poll? Or even more sceptical press like the Telegraph?
To be fair to Farage it was only today that he said these guys should be stripped of their passports.
That's today. What about the last few weeks this has all been happening? What about on Israel and Hamas? Does UKIP support the right of Israel to defend itself from those who seek to destroy it? Would he support a British military intervention in Iraq? These questions remain unanswered because Farage is scared of being labelled an Islamophobe by the media. Farage is as weak as Cameron on this subject because he fears the media reaction.
Allenbrooke says . ''well maybe, but if it's correct then we've got a lot of sick people in the country. France on the other hand is just totally dire, they've got 8 million adults with a problem. ''
Yes but who are they? Who goes round supporting people being beheaded? Are people confusing with Gaza? But anyway the damage is done - the poll will just encourage rightwing loonies to howl blue nurder at left wing loonies and religious maniacs (although really I wonder how much is religion and how much just plain maniac.)
When you say 8 million with a problem are you not playing the extremists game for them by lumping all one sector into an amorphous identical like-thinking group
Maybe unfairly but I'm reminded of a quote from the great escape:
'Look, sir, you talk about the High Command and the Luftwaffe, and then you talk about the Gestapo and the SS. To me, they're the same! We're fighting the bloody lot! There's only one way to put it, sir: they are the common enemies of everyone who believes in freedom. If the High Command didn't approve of Hitler, then why didn't they throw him out? '
The poll on ISIS was conducted by ICM Research and the tables can be found here. The fieldwork was conducted between July 11th and July 13th. The relevant data are on p. 2, table 2. The question posed was:
From what you know, please, tell me if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable opinion of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant otherwise known as ISIS?
The number of those with a favourable view of ISIS in Great Britain was 7%, in Germany 2% and in France 16%. An extraordinary indictment of the British public.
Our authorities are being desperately wrong-footed on this. It's almost more depressing than what has happened to that poor journalist.
The problem, maybe, is that evidence is emerging that all the multiculturalism nonsense that we have been force-fed for so many years is now being revealed for the nonsense that it always was. Actually not all cultures are equal and nor are all religious beliefs equally benign. If that idea takes off then lots of people (including I would guess 90% of senior police officers) are going to look very silly.
Most sensible people have thought this for years. Unfortunately not enough of them were/are in the Establishment.
Or if they did they met a hail of 'racist/xenophobic/bigots' cry.
I wonder what Mr 'Dem Muslims' tim would make of all this? He's probably not recovered yet from seeing his gorgeous Mr Darling duff up Salmond.
Can I suggest a dose of nuance would be helpful to this topic?
I was. Anyone which mentioned that multiculturalism had/has serious issues is denounced in those terms.
Or are you that blinkered?
I was trying to reply more generally to the conversation.
There's a fair bit of that denouncing that goes on, it's also sometimes correct.
When is a job not a job? When you claim expenses for travelling to your normal place of work!
Purely a fiddle to get people off the unemployment numbers, give them more benefits for being "self" employed.
Come then, Mr G, I was self-employed for a number of years, technically I still am, so how did I get any additional benefits or, indeed, any benefits at all? This talk about benefits for the self-employed has been thrown around this site for quite a while, it is about time someone came up with the justification.
Mr hurst , nowadays you get tax credits etc , which if you are earning peanuts is much better than JSA etc. We have not suddenly found millions of entreprenuers in the country have we. I do not buy that.
It's pretty clear that Gideon and IDS's jobs miracle is based on job centres shoving people into self-non-employment to make the tractor stats look better.
Either that or the foodbank. Such is Cameron's Britain.
Whether it's good for the economy, society generally, or the Tories electoral hopes is another question.
The poll on ISIS was conducted by ICM Research and the tables can be found here. The fieldwork was conducted between July 11th and July 13th. The relevant data are on p. 2, table 2. The question posed was:
From what you know, please, tell me if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable opinion of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant otherwise known as ISIS?
The number of those with a favourable view of ISIS in Great Britain was 7%, in Germany 2% and in France 16%. An extraordinary indictment of the British public.
I wonder how many of those were don't knows who didn't want to admit it.
Our authorities are being desperately wrong-footed on this. It's almost more depressing than what has happened to that poor journalist.
The problem, maybe, is that evidence is emerging that all the multiculturalism nonsense that we have been force-fed for so many years is now being revealed for the nonsense that it always was. Actually not all cultures are equal and nor are all religious beliefs equally benign. If that idea takes off then lots of people (including I would guess 90% of senior police officers) are going to look very silly.
Most sensible people have thought this for years. Unfortunately not enough of them were/are in the Establishment.
Or if they did they met a hail of 'racist/xenophobic/bigots' cry.
I wonder what Mr 'Dem Muslims' tim would make of all this? He's probably not recovered yet from seeing his gorgeous Mr Darling duff up Salmond.
Can I suggest a dose of nuance would be helpful to this topic?
I was. Anyone which mentioned that multiculturalism had/has serious issues is denounced in those terms.
Or are you that blinkered?
I was trying to reply more generally to the conversation.
There's a fair bit of that denouncing that goes on, it's also sometimes correct.
Fair enough... these things can get a bit personal (and I'm guilty of that as well) sometimes.
Was that amendment not brought in to overturn the Al-Jedda case where the Supreme Court held that the fact the respondent had chosen not to apply for restoration of his Iraqi citizenship meant that the Secretary of State could not make the order?
I would like to think that the fact that it has not been brought into force indicates some second thoughts.
Yes to your first question. Also, you have my apologies. I was wrong about the commencement. Section 66 was entered into force on 28 July 2014 by virtue of article 3(t) of the Immigration Act 2014 (Commencement No. 1, Transitory and Saving Provisions) Order 2014, S.I. 2014/1820.
UK police investigating video of James Foley "killing" warn sharing or viewing it online may constitute an offence
Perhaps one day people will wake up to the huge number of ridiculous thought crimes created under the last Labour government's "anti-terrorism" legislation.
Whilst the idea that some sick b might get pleasure or satisfaction out of watching that video turns my stomach I completely agree with your observations about that.
Why sick b? If more people actually did see what the BBC and other outlets insist on describing as an execution, they would be exposed to the reality of what actually occurred. A very brave man who carried himself in a way that I would never have the courage to emulate, being viciously butchered, not executed, by a man who's so indoctrinated in a perversion of a religion that it must be close to a mental illness. It might also encourage, by demand from the public, politicians of all stripes to act not pontificate about what needs to be done.
When is a job not a job? When you claim expenses for travelling to your normal place of work!
Purely a fiddle to get people off the unemployment numbers, give them more benefits for being "self" employed.
Come then, Mr G, I was self-employed for a number of years, technically I still am, so how did I get any additional benefits or, indeed, any benefits at all? This talk about benefits for the self-employed has been thrown around this site for quite a while, it is about time someone came up with the justification.
Mr hurst , nowadays you get tax credits etc , which if you are earning peanuts is much better than JSA etc. We have not suddenly found millions of entreprenuers in the country have we. I do not buy that.
It's pretty clear that Gideon and IDS's jobs miracle is based on job centres shoving people into self-non-employment to make the tractor stats look better.
Either that or the foodbank. Such is Cameron's Britain.
Whether it's good for the economy, society generally, or the Tories electoral hopes is another question.
Was that amendment not brought in to overturn the Al-Jedda case where the Supreme Court held that the fact the respondent had chosen not to apply for restoration of his Iraqi citizenship meant that the Secretary of State could not make the order?
I would like to think that the fact that it has not been brought into force indicates some second thoughts.
Yes to your first question. Also, you have my apologies. I was wrong about the commencement. Section 66 was entered into force on 28 July 2014 by virtue of article 3(t) of the Immigration Act 2014 (Commencement No. 1, Transitory and Saving Provisions) Order 2014, S.I. 2014/1820.
UK police investigating video of James Foley "killing" warn sharing or viewing it online may constitute an offence
Perhaps one day people will wake up to the huge number of ridiculous thought crimes created under the last Labour government's "anti-terrorism" legislation.
Whilst the idea that some sick b might get pleasure or satisfaction out of watching that video turns my stomach I completely agree with your observations about that.
Why sick b? If more people actually did see what the BBC and other outlets insist on describing as an execution, they would be exposed to the reality of what actually occurred. A very brave man who carried himself in a way that I would never have the courage to emulate, being viciously butchered, not executed, by a man who's so indoctrinated in a perversion of a religion that it must be close to a mental illness. It might also encourage, by demand from the public, politicians of all stripes to act not pontificate about what needs to be done.
I meant those that would revel in or glorify this atrocity but I certainly would not want to watch something as horrible as that and I don't think many sane people would. Do you need any more than the description to work out these people are mentally ill and beneath contempt?
The question was whether or not it should be made illegal to watch it. I think not, with said reservations. But I am not even remotely tempted.
@Sean_F "I'm self-employed. I wouldn't call it a non-job." For a lot of people it wasn't, it was a way of paying less tax, with less security as a possible downside. Where the problem may or may not lie, is in the increase in the numbers.
If even half of that number are muslims then that means half of all the UK's muslims have some sympathy with IS..???
I thought the vast majority of moderate blah blah blah abhor IS.
Muslims are probably about 4% of British voters. I don't know what proportion support ISIS. A minority, probably, but not an insignificant minority.
That would mean most British supporters of ISIS are non-Muslim, and I would assume that they were extreme left. Wiping out Christians and fighting the West is something they'd side with radical Muslims on.
The question answered went like this:
"From what you know, please, tell me if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable opinion of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant otherwise known as ISIS?"
I suspect that if the question asked had been something like this:
"Do you support the objective of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, otherwise known as ISIS, which is to murder every non-muslim who refuses to convert?"
That the answers would have been somewhat different. Thus I conclude that what this poll really tells us is that the general population in Germany is much better informed about world affairs than in the UK - but British respondents are at least willing to admit that they don't know the answer a bit more often than the French.
Surely everyone remembers those frequent polls that expose how poor most people's knowledge is of such things. Take for example this Daily Mail article, which is about history, but the same applies to being able to recognise Cabinet ministers, for example. I'd expect that at least 90% of the contributors to this blog would be able to answer the five questions correctly - just as we would all be able to give a reasonable precis of who ISIL/ISIS/The Islamic State are.
That just goes to show how unusual and unrepresentative the people who contribute to this board are. Most of the 65 people who told ICM they had a favourable view of ISIS will not have known much about them. I would guess that fewer than five of them would even know what the "Levant" was.
Get a grip people. You are not about to be murdered in your beds by one of millions of British Jihadists. Keep Calm and Carry On.
If even half of that number are muslims then that means half of all the UK's muslims have some sympathy with IS..???
I thought the vast majority of moderate blah blah blah abhor IS.
Muslims are probably about 4% of British voters. I don't know what proportion support ISIS. A minority, probably, but not an insignificant minority.
That would mean most British supporters of ISIS are non-Muslim, and I would assume that they were extreme left. Wiping out Christians and fighting the West is something they'd side with radical Muslims on.
The clear message from this poll – which, of course, is only one survey and all that – is that the English take the view that if you want your independence you should have it. But remember that independence is just that........
So what we see in this poll is really a reaction to repudiation. If you don’t like us then we’re under no obligation to like or help you. It is a reminder, frankly, that the impact - and even importance – of Scottish independence is as much a matter of psychology as of politics. Divorce is an ugly business, especially for the party that didn’t want to initiate the break-up.
@Sean_F "I'm self-employed. I wouldn't call it a non-job." For a lot of people it wasn't, it was a way of paying less tax, with less security as a possible downside. Where the problem may or may not lie, is in the increase in the numbers.
And the drastic falls in pay (and conditions).
The Tories have form in this regard, when they parked people on disability benefits to make the tractor stats look better.
@Sean_F "I'm self-employed. I wouldn't call it a non-job." For a lot of people it wasn't, it was a way of paying less tax, with less security as a possible downside. Where the problem may or may not lie, is in the increase in the numbers.
Come on, Mr. Smarmeron, front up. What is your real problem the self employed?
If even half of that number are muslims then that means half of all the UK's muslims have some sympathy with IS..???
I thought the vast majority of moderate blah blah blah abhor IS.
Muslims are probably about 4% of British voters. I don't know what proportion support ISIS. A minority, probably, but not an insignificant minority.
That would mean most British supporters of ISIS are non-Muslim, and I would assume that they were extreme left. Wiping out Christians and fighting the West is something they'd side with radical Muslims on.
The question answered went like this:
"From what you know, please, tell me if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable opinion of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant otherwise known as ISIS?"
I suspect that if the question asked had been something like this:
"Do you support the objective of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, otherwise known as ISIS, which is to murder every non-muslim who refuses to convert?"
That the answers would have been somewhat different. Thus I conclude that what this poll really tells us is that the general population in Germany is much better informed about world affairs than in the UK - but British respondents are at least willing to admit that they don't know the answer a bit more often than the French.
Surely everyone remembers those frequent polls that expose how poor most people's knowledge is of such things. Take for example this Daily Mail article, which is about history, but the same applies to being able to recognise Cabinet ministers, for example. I'd expect that at least 90% of the contributors to this blog would be able to answer the five questions correctly - just as we would all be able to give a reasonable precis of who ISIL/ISIS/The Islamic State are.
That just goes to show how unusual and unrepresentative the people who contribute to this board are. Most of the 65 people who told ICM they had a favourable view of ISIS will not have known much about them. I would guess that fewer than five of them would even know what the "Levant" was.
Get a grip people. You are not about to be murdered in your beds by one of millions of British Jihadists. Keep Calm and Carry On.
What you're effectively doing though is therefore questioning any poll with 'do people know what they're talking about?' Which could be applied to nearly anything at all.
It shows that over the last 12 months total employment has increased by 820K, self employment by 408K and actual employment by 447K. So the increase in self employment is roughly half of the story.
Some of this may be statistical manipulation. More, I suspect, is the ever increasing use of "self employment" by dodgy employers who seek to avoid Employers NI, employment rights and a range of other responsibilities. Many working in call centres, for example, are "self employed" and this is an increasing trend that really should be stopped by more aggressive recovery by HMRC.
"Self employment" is in these circumstances one step down from a zero hours contract. It is an abuse but it does not mean that people are not working. I have recently come across a company that was employing thousands of agency workers on a "self employment" basis so that their real employers could avoid NI. The sums involved were staggering and depressing.
Anti-English feeling in Scotland and anti-Scottish feeling in England have generally and happily played little overt part in the independence referendum campaign. Most English and most Scots prefer it that way, for reasons both of high principle and low political calculation. The campaign, by and large, has been positive and high-minded. But the survey is a reminder that the resentments on which reactionary forms of nationalism often thrive, where they exist, can be a two-way street. After 18 September, things may begin to get nastier than most of us would prefer to believe, in Scotland as well as in England.
When is a job not a job? When you claim expenses for travelling to your normal place of work!
Purely a fiddle to get people off the unemployment numbers, give them more benefits for being "self" employed.
Come then, Mr G, I was self-employed for a number of years, technically I still am, so how did I get any additional benefits or, indeed, any benefits at all? This talk about benefits for the self-employed has been thrown around this site for quite a while, it is about time someone came up with the justification.
Mr hurst , nowadays you get tax credits etc , which if you are earning peanuts is much better than JSA etc. We have not suddenly found millions of entreprenuers in the country have we. I do not buy that.
It's pretty clear that Gideon and IDS's jobs miracle is based on job centres shoving people into self-non-employment to make the tractor stats look better.
Either that or the foodbank. Such is Cameron's Britain.
Whether it's good for the economy, society generally, or the Tories electoral hopes is another question.
Anti-English feeling in Scotland and anti-Scottish feeling in England have generally and happily played little overt part in the independence referendum campaign. Most English and most Scots prefer it that way, for reasons both of high principle and low political calculation. The campaign, by and large, has been positive and high-minded. But the survey is a reminder that the resentments on which reactionary forms of nationalism often thrive, where they exist, can be a two-way street. After 18 September, things may begin to get nastier than most of us would prefer to believe, in Scotland as well as in England.
It shows that over the last 12 months total employment has increased by 820K, self employment by 408K and actual employment by 447K. So the increase in self employment is roughly half of the story.
Some of this may be statistical manipulation. More, I suspect, is the ever increasing use of "self employment" by dodgy employers who seek to avoid Employers NI, employment rights and a range of other responsibilities. Many working in call centres, for example, are "self employed" and this is an increasing trend that really should be stopped by more aggressive recovery by HMRC.
"Self employment" is in these circumstances one step down from a zero hours contract. It is an abuse but it does not mean that people are not working. I have recently come across a company that was employing thousands of agency workers on a "self employment" basis so that their real employers could avoid NI. The sums involved were staggering and depressing.
A brief point on the discussion about self-employment. Assuming for a moment that this mainly involves genuine, productive and profitable work, it would help to explain a delay in the improvement of the Government's finances, as tax receipts from the newly self-employed will take some time to come in to HMRC, certainly more slowly than for PAYE employees, and also more slowly than those established self-employed who have to make payments on account.
It is possible that it's a ruse by the DWP to massage the statistics, but hopefully the self-assessment receipts in January will show a large boost from these self-employed.
Allenbrooke says . ''well maybe, but if it's correct then we've got a lot of sick people in the country. France on the other hand is just totally dire, they've got 8 million adults with a problem. ''
Yes but who are they? Who goes round supporting people being beheaded? Are people confusing with Gaza? But anyway the damage is done - the poll will just encourage rightwing loonies to howl blue nurder at left wing loonies and religious maniacs (although really I wonder how much is religion and how much just plain maniac.)
When you say 8 million with a problem are you not playing the extremists game for them by lumping all one sector into an amorphous identical like-thinking group
Are you not playing their game by trying to hide the problem ?
Personally free speech wins out for me even if it is inconvenient to some.
It shows that over the last 12 months total employment has increased by 820K, self employment by 408K and actual employment by 447K. So the increase in self employment is roughly half of the story.
Some of this may be statistical manipulation. More, I suspect, is the ever increasing use of "self employment" by dodgy employers who seek to avoid Employers NI, employment rights and a range of other responsibilities. Many working in call centres, for example, are "self employed" and this is an increasing trend that really should be stopped by more aggressive recovery by HMRC.
"Self employment" is in these circumstances one step down from a zero hours contract. It is an abuse but it does not mean that people are not working. I have recently come across a company that was employing thousands of agency workers on a "self employment" basis so that their real employers could avoid NI. The sums involved were staggering and depressing.
They tried that with IR35. It utterly failed.
Not utterly. And the sums involved are huge. It undermines employers that play by the rules and is large scale fraud. Because something is difficult does not mean it should not be addressed.
I suspect that if the question asked had been something like this:
"Do you support the objective of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, otherwise known as ISIS, which is to murder every non-muslim who refuses to convert?"... Get a grip people. You are not about to be murdered in your beds by one of millions of British Jihadists. Keep Calm and Carry On.
That is not the policy of the Caliphate. Christians and Jews are nominally tolerated if they give allegiance to the Islamic State, accept dhimmi status, and pay the jiyza. Understandably, very few Christians or Jews have been prepared or able to fulfil these conditions. It is not a question about whether many British people are about to be murdered in their beds by the soldiers of the Prince of the Faithful. The issue is the support for, or indifference to a barbarous state built on a messianic totalitarian ideology, on the part of a substantial number of British subjects.
"From what you know, please, tell me if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable opinion of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant otherwise known as ISIS?"
I suspect that if the question asked had been something like this:
"Do you support the objective of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, otherwise known as ISIS, which is to murder every non-muslim who refuses to convert?"
That the answers would have been somewhat different. Thus I conclude that what this poll really tells us is that the general population in Germany is much better informed about world affairs than in the UK - but British respondents are at least willing to admit that they don't know the answer a bit more often than the French.
Surely everyone remembers those frequent polls that expose how poor most people's knowledge is of such things. Take for example this Daily Mail article, which is about history, but the same applies to being able to recognise Cabinet ministers, for example. I'd expect that at least 90% of the contributors to this blog would be able to answer the five questions correctly - just as we would all be able to give a reasonable precis of who ISIL/ISIS/The Islamic State are.
That just goes to show how unusual and unrepresentative the people who contribute to this board are. Most of the 65 people who told ICM they had a favourable view of ISIS will not have known much about them. I would guess that fewer than five of them would even know what the "Levant" was.
Get a grip people. You are not about to be murdered in your beds by one of millions of British Jihadists. Keep Calm and Carry On.
What you're effectively doing though is therefore questioning any poll with 'do people know what they're talking about?' Which could be applied to nearly anything at all.
Well, not really. I'm saying not to obsess about small numbers in any poll.
After all, if you look at the unfavourable scores then you see that they are 64% [GB], 82% [Germany] and 62% [France], so probably a majority in each country know who ISIS are and don't like it.
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what price le Pen, now......???
I cannot believe that 15% of frogs support ISIS either.
UK police investigating video of James Foley "killing" warn sharing or viewing it online may constitute an offence
On the other hand looking at the 15% it sort of raises a question against the old debate on religious schools. If France which has a fairly rigid approach to no religion bar the state, has such a number of disaffected citizens, why is that ?
And why has Germany with a very large Turkish population only got 2% (1.5 million adults ) when the muslim population is about 4 million ?
Most British Muslims probably come from Pakistan (originally).
Once again, entirely the wrong response.
How about arresting people handing out leaflets in Oxford Street supporting ISIS?
Right bastards 15%
Chauvinists 32%
Tourists 6%
EU citizens 10%
Mr. Brooke, but what percentage are cheese-eating surrender monkeys?
It's political speak, if the police are unsure if it is a crime or not, how the hell are the public supposed to know?
Thanks for the clarification on the law, all the same. In the particular case of those who have gone to Syria or Iraq to fight with ISIS, I imagine they will in many cases not be naturalised citizens, but born here. That makes Farage's remarks even more bloody silly.
I favour the idea that some reporter fired off a question, and the bod with the brass fired off the standard police answer to almost everything.
You might be right of course
Sunni Muslims from the UK are taking part in the conflicts ‘in every way’, according to Shiraz Maher, from King's College London's International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2729594/Brutal-Islamic-State-terrorist-beheaded-US-journalist-WAS-British-Foreign-Secretary-Philip-Hammond-reveals.html
Our authorities are being desperately wrong-footed on this. It's almost more depressing than what has happened to that poor journalist.
Politicians of all stripes make stupid laws, it is a compulsion they have to look as though they are in control of chaos.
Is Burnham going to hide behind that is a Principality matter on which he cannot comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election#mediaviewer/File:UK_opinion_polling_2010-2015.png
Graph updated shows EICIPM AOTS.
Whilst the idea that some sick b might get pleasure or satisfaction out of watching that video turns my stomach I completely agree with your observations about that.
That would mean most British supporters of ISIS are non-Muslim, and I would assume that they were extreme left. Wiping out Christians and fighting the West is something they'd side with radical Muslims on.
http://www.financeandtaxtribunals.gov.uk/Aspx/view.aspx?id=7911
If James Foley's killer returns to the UK we'll punish him with £millions in legal aid so liberals can have a warm fuzzy feeling at soirees.
I wonder what Mr 'Dem Muslims' tim would make of all this? He's probably not recovered yet from seeing his gorgeous Mr Darling duff up Salmond.
UKPR does not think Ascrofts results are particularly worth commenting on.
At some juncture, the spotlight will fall on the last labour government in this regard. Ed had better be ready.
What is the extreme Rights solution?
He won't be able to do that if he gets into number 10 of course.
Islam also has an "Eastern Front" - India (Kashmir), China (Xinjiang), Burma (the Rohingas), Thailand (Malay borderlands), Indonesia (eg. Molucca Islands) and the Philippines (Mindanao Islands).
To top it off we just need RodCrosby to fire up his supercomputer to tell us what Ashcroft really shows
http://www.herogohome.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Superman3Brainiac.jpg
True but UKIP aren't scared. I bet their people are digging up Labour's best multi-culti pronouncements as we speak.
Or are you that blinkered?
''Why do we have a worse extremist problem than other European countries, if that is the case? And if we do, why?''
Higher levels of social dissatisfaction probably.
Note I am merely stating my opinion on this, not making a political point.
One hopes that the Guardian would have learned a lesson when they were abused by those Islamist thugs with the terrorist flag, but instead we have them defending them as "youths" and "misguided".
Where is the BBC article on this poll? Or even more sceptical press like the Telegraph?
''well maybe, but if it's correct then we've got a lot of sick people in the country.
France on the other hand is just totally dire, they've got 8 million adults with a problem. ''
Yes but who are they? Who goes round supporting people being beheaded?
Are people confusing with Gaza?
But anyway the damage is done - the poll will just encourage rightwing loonies to howl blue nurder at left wing loonies and religious maniacs (although really I wonder how much is religion and how much just plain maniac.)
When you say 8 million with a problem are you not playing the extremists game for them by lumping all one sector into an amorphous identical like-thinking group
I told you, I was not making a political point, the reasons for dissatisfaction are another argument.
'Look, sir, you talk about the High Command and the Luftwaffe, and then you talk about the Gestapo and the SS. To me, they're the same! We're fighting the bloody lot! There's only one way to put it, sir: they are the common enemies of everyone who believes in freedom. If the High Command didn't approve of Hitler, then why didn't they throw him out? '
There's a fair bit of that denouncing that goes on, it's also sometimes correct.
Either that or the foodbank. Such is Cameron's Britain.
Whether it's good for the economy, society generally, or the Tories electoral hopes is another question.
I wonder how many of those were don't knows who didn't want to admit it.
That may be true, but I bet Farage and co. are trying to work out how to handle what, for them, could potentially be a huge boost.
The question was whether or not it should be made illegal to watch it. I think not, with said reservations. But I am not even remotely tempted.
"I'm self-employed. I wouldn't call it a non-job."
For a lot of people it wasn't, it was a way of paying less tax, with less security as a possible downside.
Where the problem may or may not lie, is in the increase in the numbers.
"From what you know, please, tell me if you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable opinion of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant otherwise known as ISIS?"
I suspect that if the question asked had been something like this:
"Do you support the objective of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, otherwise known as ISIS, which is to murder every non-muslim who refuses to convert?"
That the answers would have been somewhat different. Thus I conclude that what this poll really tells us is that the general population in Germany is much better informed about world affairs than in the UK - but British respondents are at least willing to admit that they don't know the answer a bit more often than the French.
Surely everyone remembers those frequent polls that expose how poor most people's knowledge is of such things. Take for example this Daily Mail article, which is about history, but the same applies to being able to recognise Cabinet ministers, for example. I'd expect that at least 90% of the contributors to this blog would be able to answer the five questions correctly - just as we would all be able to give a reasonable precis of who ISIL/ISIS/The Islamic State are.
That just goes to show how unusual and unrepresentative the people who contribute to this board are. Most of the 65 people who told ICM they had a favourable view of ISIS will not have known much about them. I would guess that fewer than five of them would even know what the "Levant" was.
Get a grip people. You are not about to be murdered in your beds by one of millions of British Jihadists. Keep Calm and Carry On.
So what we see in this poll is really a reaction to repudiation. If you don’t like us then we’re under no obligation to like or help you. It is a reminder, frankly, that the impact - and even importance – of Scottish independence is as much a matter of psychology as of politics. Divorce is an ugly business, especially for the party that didn’t want to initiate the break-up.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/08/english-voters-send-a-message-to-scotland-we-cant-go-on-like-this/
The Tories have form in this regard, when they parked people on disability benefits to make the tractor stats look better.
It's the same old smoke and mirrors trick, "New Labour" were doing much the same as well
It shows that over the last 12 months total employment has increased by 820K, self employment by 408K and actual employment by 447K. So the increase in self employment is roughly half of the story.
Some of this may be statistical manipulation. More, I suspect, is the ever increasing use of "self employment" by dodgy employers who seek to avoid Employers NI, employment rights and a range of other responsibilities. Many working in call centres, for example, are "self employed" and this is an increasing trend that really should be stopped by more aggressive recovery by HMRC.
"Self employment" is in these circumstances one step down from a zero hours contract. It is an abuse but it does not mean that people are not working. I have recently come across a company that was employing thousands of agency workers on a "self employment" basis so that their real employers could avoid NI. The sums involved were staggering and depressing.
Anti-English feeling in Scotland and anti-Scottish feeling in England have generally and happily played little overt part in the independence referendum campaign. Most English and most Scots prefer it that way, for reasons both of high principle and low political calculation. The campaign, by and large, has been positive and high-minded. But the survey is a reminder that the resentments on which reactionary forms of nationalism often thrive, where they exist, can be a two-way street. After 18 September, things may begin to get nastier than most of us would prefer to believe, in Scotland as well as in England.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/20/yes-no-nasty-scottish-referendum
I have no problem with the self employed, I do have a problem with it being used as a "cover" to paper over cracks in our economy.
Lolwut?
It is possible that it's a ruse by the DWP to massage the statistics, but hopefully the self-assessment receipts in January will show a large boost from these self-employed.
Personally free speech wins out for me even if it is inconvenient to some.
After all, if you look at the unfavourable scores then you see that they are 64% [GB], 82% [Germany] and 62% [France], so probably a majority in each country know who ISIS are and don't like it.