Immigration Poster Campaign Aims To 'Celebrate' Migrants Ahead Of General Election

A campaign has been launched to "celebrate, not vilify" the contribution of immigrants to Britain, as the Tories and Labour pledge to cut the number of newcomers to the UK ahead of May's general election.
The Movement Against Xenophobia (MAX) wants to raise £44,000 to create posters promoting individual immigrants with the words 'I am an immigrant', and display them on the London Underground and railway stations across the country, in a bid to fight what they see as an increasingly anti-immigration tone in British politics.

Immigration continues to play a huge part in campaigning for the general election, in what has been called "an arms race" leading to the parties' policies and pledges becoming more hardline.
David Cameron has said Britain would be a "better, stronger country" if he improbably succeeds in his pledge to cut net annual migration to the tens of thousands. In the same radio interview, he said the Tories had "put forward the toughest possible welfare reforms for foreign migrants".
Net migration currently stands at around 260,000 and Labour says the Tories have "let people down" by failing to cut it by more. The party has pledged "tough" reforms of its own.
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), which provides MAX with its secretariat, said it expected rhetoric about immigration to "only get worse" as the election approaches and said its poster campaign would show migrants "not only contribute but are part of the fabric of British society and a vital part of multicultural Britain".
Saira Grant, its legal and policy director, said placing the posters on the tube and rail network could mean they were seen by more than 7 million people.
In a promotional video to accompany the campaign launch, she says: "Imagine the impact of these posters, for two to three weeks before the general election, showing the contribution migrants make to everyday life, from cleaners, teachers, tube drivers to footballers.
"Migrants are part of the fabric of British society and this campaign will really change the political rhetoric, the negative imagery."
She adds: "Migrants do more than contribute, they're part of the fabric of British society and we need to depict this."


http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/09/immigration-poster-london-underground_n_6644332.html


The election should not even be pandering to the likes of UKIP on immigration, it should be thought over had best to run the country and not play up to racial unfounded fears.

yep but can we also have posters showing the otherside....

posters of the likes of choudrey harrasing christmas shoppers

like the lee rigby murderers

I'm all for a bit of balance........

darknessss wrote:yep but can we also have posters showing the otherside....

posters of the likes of choudrey harrasing christmas shoppers

like the lee rigby murderers

I'm all for a bit of balance........

There already have been countless posters showing the other side constantly by UKIP being anti immigration.
Where have you been? On a desert Island?

Brasidas wrote:

darknessss wrote:yep but can we also have posters showing the otherside....

posters of the likes of choudrey harrasing christmas shoppers

like the lee rigby murderers

I'm all for a bit of balance........

There already have been countless posters showing the other side constantly by UKIP being anti immigration.
Where have you been? On a desert Island?

yer...but they should be posted side by side.....

Errrr also Choudary and the killers of Lee Rigby are British born, not immigrants, so how would you use that based on immigration?

Brasidas wrote:Errrr also Choudary and the killers of Lee Rigby are British born, not immigrants, so how would you use that based on immigration?

dunno...give me time....... i bet I can think of a way

Yeah we do argue loads hee hee fair point and it is in good nature


Look this is UKIP posters:














This is a joke one made up, which I add because it is funny

Brasidas wrote:Yeah we do argue loads hee hee fair point and it is in good nature


Look this is UKIP posters:














This is a joke one made up, which I add because it is funny

WELL???? What have the romans EVER done for us???

https://youtu.be/ExWfh6sGyso

Brilliant Victor


 

One of my favorite old sketches Victor

The SPG....now THERE was a horror.......

Indeed Victor.

Have a good evening mate.

Catch you tomorrow.