Quote (dro94 @ Aug 6 2024 11:38am)
It's a weird situation. I was stopped in my car leaving the city yesterday at a 'White checkpoint' where I had to roll down by window and get approval to drive past a gang of youths.
The UK has had 3 mass migration events in its history. The first was after the Second World War, when we invited people from the Commonwealth (Caribbean + India/Pakistan/Bangladesh) to help recover from the devastating impact of the war on the male population and the bombing of our cities. The immigrants assimilated quite well.
Then the second mass migration event was from the late 90s when Mr Blair opened our doors to Europe. A few million came from Poland, Romania, Latvia, etc. They didn't integrate as well, but they worked hard, didn't cause trouble and mostly returned home as living standards in their home countries increasingly caught up to ours.
The third and most recent mass migration event has been since the Brexit referendum, when people voted to leave the EU to reduce immigration.
This time, it has been the largest mass migration in the history of the UK, and in the shortest time frame. The composition of incoming migrants is predominantly lower skilled, with worse English skills than in previous waves. The most common nationalities of immigrants in the current wave are Nigerian, Indian and Middle Eastern. The integration of these communities has been more challenging with the speed at which they arrived: 750,000 net in 2023, with a population of 68m. That is over 1% of our entire population, net immigrating to the UK in the space of one year. Unlike the previous wave of immigration from Europe, these people would never willingly go back home - we'd have to drag them out kicking and screaming, which we are too soft to do.
Why did the 'Conservatives' do this? In my view, not because of some global replacement conspiracy, but because they are not conservative in any sense, they are just cruel, big government centrists who found it was far easier to not address the demographic crisis the country faces with long term solutions, but by short term solutions involving mass importing cheap labour.
The funny thing is, it's not a Muslim issue per se, it's just the impending marginalisation of the White British population. It's a demographic crisis of Brits not having enough children, an ageing population, and a record high level of economic activity caused by mental and physical illness in young people that has been exacerbated by a failing NHS. And we chose to bring in millions of people who do not share our values and culture to prop up areas of our economy instead of subsidising childcare and making housing affordable in order to incentivise more child-bearing.
Ultimately, we are not a racist country, and we do not have hundreds of thousands of far right activists. We have many peaceful protestors who are sick of open borders, plus a few rabble rousers, and then a crowd of young opportunists who just want to get involved wherever there is chaos.
you guys should solve the gaza crisis by importing Palestinians exclusively. you could kill two birds with one stone aged teenager.
just curious is there any difference in opinion on the immigration between Scotland and the English?