Sir Mo Farah: ‘My children are much safer in Qatar than London’

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Did the far right lie to get the public to vote for Brexit when they promised to stop immigration? Why would they do that? Do you think the right wing—maybe in general—uses immigration to drum up support to then use their power to enrich themselves?

Can you think of any examples in the US where the same playbook may be in use right now? You know, use anti-immigrant rhetoric to get support from the poors only to turn around and not really address immigration but instead enact policies to enrich yourself, your family, and those in your political inner circle at the expense of your poorest supporters?

What an ignorant comment! You would be hard-pressed to find a world power that has had a more positive impact on its subjects and the world than Britain. Who knows, maybe the Western world would still be practicing slavery if it weren't for the Brits.

The same playbook where mass deportations are happening and the tightening of our borders? That doesn't seem like a similar playbook whatsoever.

You idiots whine about brexit like you want to go down with the ship. The EU is a failed idea and can't succeed. Just because the UK is sabotaging themselves in other unrelated ways doesn't mean staying with the EU would have been positive. How is this even turning into a brexit debate. Is that like your guys' TDS?

Just to be clear, depending on the year, London murder rate is lower than ALL the US states. So not sure why the Idaho and Utah call out which are two of the safest states.

There are 41 STABBINGS a day in London... Violent crime the roof. Take rampant. If they had access to guns death toll would dwarf many U.S. states. London is a dump.

A lot of generalizing and theorizing over one man’s opinion and decision to move.

There are about 40 knife-related offenses recorded per day, that does not equal stabbings.

There are about 4 stabbings per day in London. Compared to 11 per day in New York City.

Funny that the unscrupulous doper is a Sir.

Wasn’t a desire to reduce mass immigration a big reason for the Brexit victory? But instead of clamping down on immigration, the British government essentially gave the finger to its people and opened the country’s borders to far more immigration. You can’t blame the Brexit vote for this - the UK is the way it is because of corrupt politicians.

In 2016, there were a multitude of reasons presented to support a vote to Leave, migration was just one aspect among many.

Personally, I voted Leave primarily due to what I perceived as a "democratic deficit" within the EU. My belief was that leaving would lead to a more accountable British Parliament, where our representatives would be more directly answerable to the electorate. Reflecting on those motivations now, I realise I was misguided, it feels as though I was misled by promises that turned out to be largely empty or unfulfilled.

For others who voted Leave because of opposition to immigration, to them the term "migration" seemed to imply that all existing migrants, along with their second- and third-generation descendants, would simply vanish.

I recall a particular incident on talk radio where a caller expressed frustration that a South Asian couple continued to run his local shop in northwest London. He said that his vote for Brexit was intended to put an end to what he viewed as unwanted demographic changes. What he failed to grasp was that this couple, who had already built their lives here over many years, were not going to suddenly return to India or Pakistan along with their children and grandchildren simply because of Britain's changing relationship with the European Union.

The current situation surrounding small boats can be attributed directly to the consequences of Brexit. Prior to our exit from the EU, there was a system of co-operation with European countries where asylum seekers were processed on the mainland. Only those confirmed as genuine refugees would make their way to the UK. Now, the responsibility lies solely with the UK to manage this process. Many supporters of Brexit place blame on France for not cooperating with the UK on immigration issues, failing to recognise that it was the United Kingdom that chose to sever ties and opt out of collaborative arrangements.

Honestly, I believe that a significant number of people envisioned that when they woke up on Brexit Day, they would find a dark blue passport in a drawer, shillings in their pockets, and lbs and oz being used at the shop till.

Wow, my comment got deleted after I said the USA does the same in the middle east.

And what else can his kids do in a dry barren dump like Qatar???

Hes doing it because hes Muslim and wants to live in and raise his kids in an Islamic environment, using London crime as an excuse is just plain weak.

Mo, like Radcliffe, should have to hand his medals back.

Regarding immigration, it has increased hugely post Brexit.

Brexit has been disastrous. Funny even this week that they Brexiters can't grasp why Macron isn't invested in helping the UK stop illegal immigration. Such an erroneous sense of self-importance from Boomers.

London is fine really, I've still never been mugged or robbed. I actually think post-gentrification of Stratford, Brixton, King's Cross it's safer than ever. It used to be like the wild west.

That said, Islam doesn't and can't coexist alongside western values. I think the UK is 8% muslim currently.

As they breed exponentially (funded by benefits and cash laundering often) there will be big problems in the UK when their growth outstrips whites and try and force their strange, dated and misogynistic ways.

Corrupt politicians is my point. The right wing in most countries is run by politicians who really just want to eliminate taxes—for their own benefit and decrease regulations on everything—to also benefit their own businesses and that of their donors. They do not care about immigration because it benefits them via cheap labor but they use it as an issue to get people to vote for them.

in the US, Trump is using theatrics / dramatic scenes on TV to make it seem like he’s doing something about immigration. But, he spent something like 1000x the standard amount on flights to “deport violent illegals” because it made good TV—it’s not sustainable. He did the same thing in LA recently sending in the military at huge $$$$ cost because it serves as red meat for his base even though the effect is to depot only a few hundred people.

The rhetoric around this is also nuts. First it was Biden let in “6 million illegals!!!!l”—then It changed to 8 million, then 11 million, then 22 million, now most recently it’s 49 MILLION!!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WEVE BEEN INVADED!!!!!!! Only Daddy can save us now. Meanwhile the administration is quietly exempting certain industries from endorsement but making this also seem like it’s not happening by targeting a lot farm—while it does nothing about most farms that employ large numbers of “illegals”. Trump himself employs tons of low wage illegals at his various businesses.

Meanwhile, these corrupt politicians as you put it pass laws that disproportionately finically benefit themselves and their donors like the BBB ballooning the national debt that they promised to decrease—why is the debt count still running forward?

They continually emphasize tragic anecdotes—like the murder of Larkin Riley—went the reality is most violent crime is committed by people in the country legally meanwhile quietly acknowledging the need for illegal labor to keep the economy (and their own businesses) running. These corrupt politicians are largely right wing, they use the same playbook, and they do this to make money. The are manipulating folks using the “other” because such rhetoric has always worked on the uneducated masses who have made poor life choices and are looking for someone to blame.

Wait, you’re telling me the proliferation of guns in the United States contributes to the high homicide rates?!

I won't defend the current British government but the system of governance given to the world by Britain was undoubtedly a good thing. Former colonies like the US, Canada, Australia and Singapore that maintained some semblance of this governance have prospered. Meanwhile former colonies like South Africa, India where the culture from Britain did not take hold are far worse and poorer since the collapse of the British empire. Culture is important. There is a misconception that colonization was purely about exploitation but historically it actually made nations that did not a have a strong history of governance better and life better for the people that lived there.

Hahaha!!!!!!!!! More like UKA booted him out of the UK and maltreated him for all the pain and sorrow he brought to UK sport being associated with the dark side of sport you feelin me?????

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Associations are very compromising in our complicated doped up sport!!!!!!!!!!!

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SIR!!!!!!

He should have gone to Saudi Arabia then, it's even more Muslim than Qatar ain't it?????? Qatar and Dubai have well known human rights abuses and sex/drug trafficking rings run by powerful criminal European Syndicates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just recently read so many Ukraine and Russia supermodels being murdered on the job while posted to Dubai and other rich gulf nations for modelling 'jobs'!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would live in UK if given a choice no matter what, never ever ever ever in the gulf states!!!!!!!!!!! I don't want to be abused, raped, murdered!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's getting out before Dooms Day....its near....