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So in not opposing mass immigration you've played right into the billionaires hands.The billionaires also love us arguing amongst ourselves about immigration, because while we do that - they can keep filling their boots
You really do need to try and pay attention a bit more rather than sticking your fingers in your ears and repeating the same old nonsense that you've been fed on X, GBeebies and other performative cesspits.
It's interesting you accuse me of watching a TV channel I don't watch which has informed my opinions, when you have the opinions of almost every Guardian reader and just splutter "but... billionaires" as a response to everything we talk about.
I've never railed against "immigrants" themselves or blamed them for my specific problems. I have no problem with a sensible amount of immigration running in the 10s of thousands not hundreds of thousands or indeed millions per year. What does you blaming all of societies ills on "billionaires" achieve.
It's really funny you think mass immigration is some kind of post-Brexit phenomenon. Several European countries, such as Germany, Sweden and France have had mass immigration (France likely to an even greater extent that us) despite being part of the EU. Freedom of movement is one of the central policies of the EU.
| Year ending Jun 2013 | ~208,000 (ONS series) |
| Year ending Jun 2014 | ~313,000 (ONS) |
| Year ending Jun 2015 | ~336,000 (ONS) |
| Year ending Jun 2016 | ~335,000 (ONS) |
We had extremely high levels of migration and illegal immigration issues before Brexit.
Well, you think billionaires and elites run the world and control the system - they allowed it.
Interesting, you make this sentence like I've ever argued for it. What I can tell you is net immigration running at over 300,000 a year for decades is utter, complete, divisise insanity.
Do you want me to do an IQ test of something, or do you think anyone who things mass immigration is a net negative on society is some automatic thicko who must have got their news from "gbeebies"
You talk about billionaires like they all have the same opinions and that they are responsible for all of the world's ills yet can't get over how for others immigration is the biggest issues.And you accuse others of playing into the billionaires hands . .. sheesh
Absolutely where we live in north Staffordshire we have schools where they speak (the children )speak over 27 different languages and they have to have translators in all the time it costs a fortune. Go to France you stay in the year below until you can speak the language
The pace of the change is absolutely extraordinary and one of the only times in human history one population is being replaced by another without war.
Yeah, closing loads of stores in the US, bloody Starmer...
That was my first thought as well.To be fair the fact pizza hut is closing down is probably because it's terrible
Probably the worst of the pizza chains.
I've seen it with my own eyes on Regent Street. I've also seem mass muslim prayers taking place on mats on Tower Bridge. There are groups of men giving out qu'rans and preaching all across London.
You don't think the asylum system is linked to the benefits system???Yes because Asylum system (as the Home Office posted) = Benefits System . . .in your head . . . somehow
The quote from HO was about the asylum system and specifically about shutting down hotels.
Not thinking the asylum system is linked to the benefits system is one of your more bizarre posts, I'll give you that.The quote from HO was about the asylum system and specifically about shutting down hotels.
What makes you think other "benefits" (such as the £49.18 per person to cover essential needs) are going to be taken away? In fact, those in hotels get £9.95 per week if it is full board, so they'll actually be getting more money from the "benefits" system when they have to find their own accommodation...
Still, good that they're closing the Tory hotels and cracking down on foreign criminals (unless of course they have millions invested in UK real estate).
Do "native" criminals also get benefits support removed, I wonder
www.bbc.co.uk
The argument is often that "there's white British rapists too" from what I see from left-minded folk on X.Another one............
Afghan asylum seeker guilty of raping girl, 12, in Nuneaton
The 12-year-old suffered "extremely horrific sexual offences" in the Nuneaton attack, police say.
"Mulakhil arrived in a small boat from France in March 2025, four months before he raped the girl, aged 12.
The court heard Mulakhil had made an immigration application linked to "problems" he had experienced in Afghanistan."
Remind me why we should pay for him to be locked up here at great cost rather than giving him a free parachute jump back into Afghanistan?
I specifically said the benefits they received
papa johns is worse
More than that.
www.bbc.co.uk
asylum system not linked to the benefits system - sheikhMore than that.
UK foreign aid spending on asylum seekers rises again
New Foreign Office statistics show about £4.3bn was spent last year on asylum costs at home.
"More than a quarter of all UK overseas aid was spent on asylum costs at home last year, new figures show.
The Foreign Office statistics reveal £4.3bn of its foreign aid budget went on supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.
That represents a 16% increase from the £3.7bn that was spent in 2022."
Cannot be arsed working out what that is per person but I'm guessing it smashes the £1,000 per week total. £10,000 per week? £100,000 per week? Some mind spinning number, I'm sure.
Can't workout if you're just being obtuse or genuinely hard of understanding.
