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What if Turks talked about Britons the way Vote Leave talks about Turkey?
The worst of all this is that the "Vote leave" scare stories about Turkey joining the EU are wuildly untrue. Turkey probably won't join the EU in my lifetime, due mainly to their ongoing disputes over Cyprus which will ensure that Greece veotes Turkish membership long before any UK prime minister gets the chance to use their veto.
And that's long before we get onto their ongoing disputes with the Kurds, human rights record and freedom of movement issues.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/25/vote-leave-turkey-british-migrants-turks-ankara-eu?CMP=fb_gu
A statistic from a Vote Leave survey warned that 16% of Turks “would consider” moving to the UK on EU accession, but what that means is, a whopping 84% wouldn’t even entertain the idea – that’s quite embarrassing when you think about it.
Imagine if they talked about the threat of us staying in the EU in the same way?
“Considering the rate at which Britain’s population is ageing,” they might say, “and based on the 2.5 million Brits who holidayed in Turkey last year, we expect to see our coastal regions destroyed by swarms of Britain’s elderly escaping their chronic bad weather problem. Since the EU will no doubt force us to join the European health insurance card scheme, the strain on our free healthcare alone will be unbearable. A life of microwave meals and alcohol abuse means liver problems our health infrastructure just doesn’t have the resources to cope with. Within a year they’ll have eaten all of our biscuits. Are we really going to allow one of the fattest nations on earth to have free rein in our hospitals? Already some 5 million Brits live abroad. And as anyone who’s ever been to the Costa del Sol will tell you, the problem is, they just don’t assimilate.”
“We are talking about a people who don’t just eat pork, but whose prime minister was forced to deny he had engaged in sexual activities with it. A country whose most famous entertainers touch children with apparent impunity."
Imagine if they talked about the threat of us staying in the EU in the same way?
“Considering the rate at which Britain’s population is ageing,” they might say, “and based on the 2.5 million Brits who holidayed in Turkey last year, we expect to see our coastal regions destroyed by swarms of Britain’s elderly escaping their chronic bad weather problem. Since the EU will no doubt force us to join the European health insurance card scheme, the strain on our free healthcare alone will be unbearable. A life of microwave meals and alcohol abuse means liver problems our health infrastructure just doesn’t have the resources to cope with. Within a year they’ll have eaten all of our biscuits. Are we really going to allow one of the fattest nations on earth to have free rein in our hospitals? Already some 5 million Brits live abroad. And as anyone who’s ever been to the Costa del Sol will tell you, the problem is, they just don’t assimilate.”
“We are talking about a people who don’t just eat pork, but whose prime minister was forced to deny he had engaged in sexual activities with it. A country whose most famous entertainers touch children with apparent impunity."
