"PC" over here is often used in a derogatory manner to refer to PCness being taken to extremes, which is sort of what I meant. It is no longer "PC" here to even vaguely imply that people born and raised in Britain might be even a teeny tiny bit more important than asylum seekers and immigrants (illegal and otherwise). You get backlash and need to tread carefully in case you get called racist or a bigot or whatever, politicians included. Any policy which could be percieved as implying someone who just arrived (including illegally) doesn't have the same financial rights as any native gets torn apart by human rights people, amongst others.
Which, by the way, is why even though refugees are required to stop in the first safe country, they instead skip through a whole load to get to the UK.
That's what I mean by weak and PC, in this context x_o I believe all people are equal, but I don't think people who peek their head above the parapet on the subject of things like welfare for illegal immigrants should end up full of bullet holes from the PC lobby. There are various issues it's almost impossible for politicians to discuss properly because of it.
ETA: Take the above with a grain of salt, because I am not hugely up to date on politics, although to be fair that was partly because I was sick of nobody actually discussing anything because they got slapped for not being PC.
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Date: 2012-02-25 01:53 am (UTC)Which, by the way, is why even though refugees are required to stop in the first safe country, they instead skip through a whole load to get to the UK.
That's what I mean by weak and PC, in this context x_o I believe all people are equal, but I don't think people who peek their head above the parapet on the subject of things like welfare for illegal immigrants should end up full of bullet holes from the PC lobby. There are various issues it's almost impossible for politicians to discuss properly because of it.
ETA: Take the above with a grain of salt, because I am not hugely up to date on politics, although to be fair that was partly because I was sick of nobody actually discussing anything because they got slapped for not being PC.