ME: So – what do you think of this Brexit thing?
TAXIMAN: Yeah!
ME: Eh – did you vote?
TAXIMAN: Too right, mate. First one down at the polling station, me.
ME: And did you vote for it, or –
TAXIMAN: Voted for Brexit. Only thing makes sense.
ME: Was it the control of your own borders, or im –
TAXIMAN: Them immigrants. Ridiculous. Coming over here. Some places, they’s putting up mosques and mosques. Government don’t care about the people.
ME: You think they weren’t listening.
TAXIMAN: Too right. Out of touch, that’s what they are. Immigrants – Muslims – they’re coming over here and working for next to nothing. Taking our jobs.
ME: Is there not a minimum wage employers have to pay? How do they get away with paying next to nothing?
TAXIMAN: Search me, mate, but they doing it. Taking jobs, building mosques – don’t bother learning proper English, either. They come here, they should be like everyone else. This is England – Britain, know what I mean? Be English.
ME: The vote was different in England and Wales from other places – like Scotland and the north of Ireland.
TAXIMAN: Yeah, that’s right. Close thing, though,, in Ireland.
LADYWIFE: It wasn’t close – the north of Ireland voted 56% to remain.
TAXIMAN: Did they? Didn’t know that.
ME: Scotland, of course, voted even more for remain. 62%.
TAXIMAN: Know what I think they should do? Let ‘em go.
ME: Who?
TAXIMAN: Scotland. They’s always whingeing about this and that – never happy. Let ‘em go is what I say – see how they manage then.
ME: You figure?
TAXIMAN: Too right, mate. They held a referendum in England tomorrow, I’d say 90% people, they’d say let ‘em go.
ME: What about the north of Ireland? Would you like a referendum in England about them?
TAXIMAN: Ah no – Irish is all right. We like the Irish. It’s them Scottish – never done whingeing. Just vote and let ‘em go. The Irish – they’s different.
ME: You’re not concerned about the time it’ll take to set up trade deals with other places?
TAXIMAN – Nah – trade with other places. India – and Australia.
ME: Could take a fair bit of time, though.
TAXIMAN: Just do it. That’s my view – just do it. Bloody disgrace – we voted out months ago – now they’re saying must do this, must do that. Just do it – leave now. Stop these immigrants.
ME: What do you think of Trump?
TAXIMAN: ‘E’s a laugh, inn ‘e? Same thing though – government not listening to the people. Have to do something. Too many immigrants. That’s what it was all about. Immigrants. Taking English people’s jobs. Same in America. ‘Bout time too, y’ask me.
ME: This is us here – house with the black door. Thanks. Happy Christmas.
LADYWIFE: Happy Christmas. (Under her breath) And Allahu Akbar.
Albeit, from the constitutional point of view I remain wholly in favour of UKexit this article did make me laugh, imagine an English person being upset at the arrival of foreigners who change their system and values, dreadful!
Good article. Hates the world but Paddies OK
hes only one of the majority.they all cant be wrong.
Of course they can. And are.
winners take all.
Jude I can’t help wonder, if your accent had been Scottish would the conversation be different?
Stop wondering, Angela. We both know the answer…
Happy Christmas , Jude !
You too , PK….
Happy Christmas one and all,thank god i’m not a Christian (anymore)…..just imagine livin in another country,takin somone else’s job…..??????Here in Euskal Herria i’m surrounded by muslims,atheists and catholics…..not a taxi driver in sight….i’ll just walk it then.Slainte/Osasuna.
I think the convo would’ve went a little differently if his customer wasn’t an Irish man. “A lot of them Irish coming here taking our jobs along with them Muslims and Polish, after Brexit that’s all stopping, get them out”.
Every country needs a moderate stream of educated and skilled immigrants but what’s happening in Europe and America is crazy….
just shows the open border policy,when yer man who drove the truck into the xmas shoppers could just hop on a train to italy,until he was sent to meet allah that is.
One should be mindful never fall in to the trap that state security agencies often set up. The activities of various state agencies hidden within ‘terrorist’ groups in Ireland(to sew sectarianism); their activities in Italy/Germany with Red Army Faction etc(to sew anti communism); and their present day activities within ISIS(sew anti Muslim feelings). Remember these agencies always need an enemy.
Do they know it’s Christmas?
That, Esteemed Blogmeister, is a seasonal question sometimes posed at this time of the year.
This year it begs another question:
-Did Maxie the Taximan, aka the Gatwickipedia, know the identity of his recent passenger and partner?
If so, he would be fully entitled to include it in his A- list of Celebs he’s Carried in his Back Seat, Guv.
None other than A for the A-man of the Alt-Right.
No, not the abbreviated form, but rather the A for the A-man of the Alt-Right to Voice an Alternative Viewpoint to that Allowed by the Censorious Con Sensus of the Monochrome Mass Media in the Land of Ire.
Nár laga an Fórsa do lámh, A Mháistir Ionúin Blog.
Nollaig shona chugat fein agus chuig do chúram.