if polish women are denied their basic human right to autonomy over their bodies in poland then i welcome them to the UK to have an abortion. no woman should be forced to go through an unwanted pregnancy. i am proud that i live in a country that recognises this (despite aforementioned comment that we don’t have abortion on demand). if we become the abortion capital of the world, then good. rather that than a country that deprives women of bodily autonomy.

i am so so angry about this express/sun article. not only is is anti immigration and anti poles, but it is also anti women and relying on people’s racial prejudices and their prejudices against abortion to whip up anger and hate.
shame shame and shame on them.

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No doubt, as good citizens, you will be checking your entry in the Register Of Electors for your area so you can perform your civic duties at the forthcoming General and Local Elections. Whilst looking for your name you may like to see how many of your fellow electors have *foreign* names and what elections they are entitled to vote in – the first page of each Polling District list should explain the categories – if they choose to.

So, for example, in the Polling Districts where I live, a market town, there are a number of residents from the Eastern European EU, some temporary, some seasonal and slowly but surely, some permanent, with the voting rights that go with their status as *citizens* allowing most of them a local government vote and, again, slowly but surely, a national government vote (apart from a source of labour, tenancy and consumerism, they have been virtually ignored by the local and regional politicians and *leaders* – no *foreign* lending books in the local library and just one dictionary for one of the *foreigners* languages, for example).

No doubt as proud upholders of our country’s democratic traditions, our newspapers, national and local, will be encouraging our fellow citizens to participate fully in the upcoming elections, perhaps even printing guides to getting involved in the most common *foreign* languages for these European Union Citizens or EUROPEAN UNION CITIZEN as it is printed on the Register Of Electors (annoying some of our other fellow citizens, I hope) I wonder whether anybody here has ever seen an *immigrant* buying a copy of any of the newspapers AV has been describing for us?

Meanwhile, it would be a terrible thing, would it not, if the self-selecting disaffected awkward squad that read and write these kinds of blogs and comments were to likewise encourage our *new* neighbours to use the democratic rights they have as our fellow citizens, especially if it was suggested that councillors and councils and MPs and parties who routinely misrepresent them in both meanings of the word could be given a simple lesson in democracy in May.

What’s the *immigrant* press (here and in their home countries) take on our delightful print media, national and local – maybe we can involve them in some way in the elections?