Britain First Supporters Complain About Migrants Who Can't Speak English In Rather Ironic Manner
17 Britain First Supporters Using Terrible English To Complain About Migrants' English
Chris York— The Huffington Post UK
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Britain First supporters are once again upping the irony stakes, this time by using badly-spelt and poorly-punctuated Facebook posts to complain about people claiming benefits who can't speak English properly.
In a dubiously-photoshopped and inevitably CAPS-LOCKED presentation, the far-right pseudo-political group posed one of the pressing questions of our time.
The post attracted over 100 responses, of which an embarrassing number left a lot to be desired in terms of spelling and punctuation.
Bad English
Think you're missing a couple of words(01 of17)
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.... and breathe.(02 of17)
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Bloody forigeners(03 of17)
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Eh?(04 of17)
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Guess you'll have to join them mate(05 of17)
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Liberal use of capital letters here(06 of17)
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I'm sorry, could you repeat that?(07 of17)
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Well, at least he's aware there's more than one 'your'(08 of17)
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What comes at the beginning of a sentence? (09 of17)
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Nice(10 of17)
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English(11 of17)
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Sure, as long as you don't write them(12 of17)
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Apply cold water to burned area(13 of17)
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Ffs, it's 'you're'(14 of17)
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At least it's succinct (15 of17)
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Try again Roger (16 of17)
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Erm... there's something you need to know(17 of17)
The chart above shows the the origin countries of the 19,196 people who claimed asylum in the UK from January to July of 2015.
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Eritrea - 2,034 (10.5%)(01 of10)
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A 2015 UN report on Eritrea found widespread evidence of human rights violations in the country committed "under the authority of the government". Some of these could amount to crimes against humanity. Individuals are "routinely arbitrarily arrestedand detained, tortured, disappeared or extrajudicially executed".
Two million people are believed to have lost their lives due to civil war and famine in Sudan since 1983. Today, civilians face indiscriminate bombings and targeted attacks by government forces.
Forty percent of children from five conflict-scarred Middle Eastern countries are not in school, the U.N. child welfare agency said in a report Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015, warning of a lost generation and a dim future for the region. UNICEF said 13.7 million out of 34 million school age children in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Sudan are not getting an education, almost double the number five years ago. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Pakistan - 1,700 (9%)(03 of10)
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Pakistan continues to face frequent gun and bomb attacks that have claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people over the last decade as Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked groups hiding in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan battle government and international forces.
Just today (14 Oct) a bomb blast targeting a ruling party lawmaker killed seven people in the centre of the country.
More generally, Pakistanis face extrajudicial and targeted killings, disappearances, and a general lack of rule of law compounded by widespread corruption within the government and armed forces. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Iran - 1,353 (7%)(04 of10)
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Women, ethnic and religious minorities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons all face persecution in the majority Shia Muslim theocratic republic. The US State Department lists other human rights concerns including disappearances; cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, including judicially sanctioned amputation and flogging. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Syria - 1,314 (7%)(05 of10)
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Since the start of Syria's brutal civil war in 2012, up to 330,000 civilians have been killed and millions more displaced and forced to flee their homes.
The entry of Russia - who support Assad - into the conflict and the presence if Islamic State in the country are signs the violence will only continue. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Afghanistan - 1,224 (6%)(06 of10)
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Afghanistan continues to be ravaged by sectarian violence as western-backed government forces fight a 14-year-long Taliban insurgency.
There is endemic discrimination against women and girls. After seizing the northern Afghan city of Kunduz last month, Taliban fighters went door-to-door hunting for women's rights advocates and journalists.Afghanistan has the twelfth highest infant mortality rate (70 to every 1,000 live births) in the world, some three million drug users, and a literacy rate of 38.2%. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Albania - 996 (5%)(07 of10)
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Generally, Albanian asylum applicants in Europe are economic migrants fleeing a stagnant economy with few job prospects. Most are denied asylum and swiftly sent back. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Nigeria - 862 (4%)(08 of10)
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Nigeria is facing a sustained insurgency in the northeast of the country from the Islamist group Boko Haram. A recent report from Amnesty International states 1600 people have been killed by the group since June alone. Just today (14 Oct) seven people were killed in a triple bombing. 100,000 people have fled the country.
Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war culminated in 2009 with a huge offensive by government forces against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who had been fighting for an independent Tamil state.
The group was crushed and many Tamil civilians were killed or displaced in the fighting. Since the civil war ended, those deemed by the state to be loyal to the LTTE have faced continued harassment and attacks. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Iraq - 744 (4%)(10 of10)
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The people of Iraq continue to face the destabilising and violent effects of the Islamic State who are battling rebel and government forces in large parts of the north of the country.