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@goldenwonders wrote:

Suzie that appears to be yet another example of thinking you know what something says - but not actually reading what something says.

 

Reading the poster it says "it will allow 29 million Roumanians and Bulgarians to come to the UK" ....NOT that 29 million will come.

They can arrive whenever they want, this year, next year, whenever! And we can't stop them!

 

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@0125arwen wrote:
Farage never said 29 million would come, only dense people don't know the difference between would and could.

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I read and quoted what Peter Wilding said.  I take little notice of what the beer-swilling Farage says about anything not least because of his shamefully low attendance and voting record at the European Parliament.  I have read that in 2014 he predicted there would be 5,000 a week coming in from those countries, but that didn't happen.

It's blinding obvious that 29 million wouldn't come, even over several years - that would increase our population of 65 million by almost a half again. There would be no space for them let alone work for that huge number of people so it wouldn't happen.  I also seriously doubt that if that ridiculous number of people did want to come here that the EU could make us take them as it is clearly unfeasible for a country of our size.

Regardless of could or would (and ignoring the unnecessary insult), in my opinion that UKIP poster was clearly designed to prey on people's fears about runaway immigration.  Deliberate scaremongering IMO for political gain, and it is misleading saying will allow rather than could allow.