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A brown person is no more responsible for her parents actions than anyone else.
It's an argument thrown at any anti-immigration politician who is the child of immigrants, for obvious reasons. That clown Daniel Kawczynski gets it, Michael Howard was on the receiving end when he had her job.
she doesn't owe the past system any debt of gratitude.
If she or her family benefited from it and she wants to deny that benefit to others, why not? Fer family did. The Commons is currently awash with privileged chumps whose family got a significant leg up because of the support their families got from the post-war welfare state. As they continue with the systematic dismantling of those systems, should we not be able to accuse them of selfishness and hypocrisy? Blair and Blunkett were skewered for that when they abolished maintenance grants and introduced tuition fees and student loans. Sounded like a fair point to me.
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I despise Priti Patel as much as the next man. She's the sort of divisive muppet that gets added to reality shows for the entertainment value.
But am not OK with all the news articles where the "her parents wouldn't have gotten in under her proposed system" is presented as a kind of "gotcha!" rhetoric. A brown person is no more responsible for her parents actions than anyone else. She is a fully British citizen and can have any opinion on immigration she likes, she doesn't owe the past system any debt of gratitude.