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Scared of growing resentment towards people of colour

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AppleJuiceAvid · 14/02/2026 08:19

Is anyone else scared there will be a war in the UK? Elon Musk seems to be encouraging it and Donald Trump supports far-right ideas, saying that European countries face civilisational erasure due to immigration. When you've got the rich and powerful like Sir Jim Ratcliffe saying that the UK has been colonised by immigrants, this just stokes people's anger even more against non-white immigrants. More and more white people are growing resentful of non-white people.

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ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 14/02/2026 13:32

knittywit · 14/02/2026 09:09

There will not be a war. How ridiculous!

There could be riots and protests but not war.

Riots and protests could easily escalate into civil war.

IDontHateRainbows · 14/02/2026 13:24

NeverDropYourMooncup · 14/02/2026 11:04

Have to admit, it does feel different from 1981.

No teenage boys hiding in my mother's front garden behind the privet hedge on matchdays due to Millwall or Brighton playing the local team, no avoiding the top deck of the bus due to the thick clouds of cigarette smoke, no running like fuck to get away from the National Front cunts because we were a bunch of kids playing together and they didn't like that, no having P-LOVER screamed at you from vans because you were walking home from school with one of your mates, better food, no people bemoaning the end of the Black & White Minstrel Show because that was 'real family entertainment', no constant quotes from Mind Your Language or In Sickness and In Health, less puerile Carry On or Benny Hill style comments, less white dog shit everywhere...

Terrible, innit?

Even dog shit is more diverse these days!

BMW6 · 14/02/2026 13:23

sleepwouldbenice · 14/02/2026 13:01

You do realise that illegal immigration numbers are just a small fraction of total immigration dont you?

Yes of course - why would anyone object to those coming legally? They have been checked for criminal records, pass all the criteria and are very welcome. Just as my neighbours were when they came.

No-one knows how many gave got here illegally. I strongly suspect the true figue is far higher than the "official" one for obvious reasons.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 14/02/2026 13:16

I should add, I am not a person of colour, but I believe the people of colour who are seeing a rise in racism, and it sickens me.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 14/02/2026 13:14

@AppleJuiceAvid - I understand and share your feelings - world events are, frankly terrifying right now.

geminicancerean · 14/02/2026 13:11

awakeandasleep · 14/02/2026 12:34

Have you visited Birmingham lately? I actually cried when I returned at Christmas. It has seen a massive demographic change in the last 25 years.

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Classic ‘I’m a not racist but… I didn’t see enough white people in a place I used to see white people and the brown people made my eyes rain’

awakeandasleep · 14/02/2026 13:11

Thankfully we have Rupert Lowe with Restore Britain and I believe he can turn things around for our country.

sleepwouldbenice · 14/02/2026 13:03

whiteroseredrose · 14/02/2026 12:53

The census in 2021. In London the % identifying as White British was about 37%. Leicester was 41%. England and Wales as a whole was about 75%.

So selected multiple cultural cities then, not everywhere at all

Decisionsdecisions1 · 14/02/2026 13:02

The huge mistake many white people are making is thinking that they will be protected, that having a far right political party in power will help them financially, will result in better public services, more affordable homes, a stronger economy, a booming job market.

It's more likely that it will bring authoritarianism, instability and put the majority in a weaker position.

Many Germans probably welcomed the clamp down on Jewish people. But they might not have supported it if they'd known the years of physical and economic devastation it would bring them.

sleepwouldbenice · 14/02/2026 13:01

BMW6 · 14/02/2026 08:50

I've got news for you OP.

My brown neighbours all think illegal immigration is wrong and they should be deported.

You do realise that illegal immigration numbers are just a small fraction of total immigration dont you?

ScienceDragon · 14/02/2026 12:57

Only about 15% of the world population is white. So, world-wide, we are already a minority. We always have been.

Also, roughly, the percentage of habitable land mass in the world, majority occupied by white "civilisations" is around 35%. This disparity is primarily due to colonisation of many countries by white people. So we are hogging land as well.

If people of the UK do not want "others" in their country, then perhaps, all the descendants of British colonists in other "white" countries should hand the lands back to the original owners, and all move back to the UK. Then this country would have a massive majority of white people.

Morepositivemum · 14/02/2026 12:53

A woman said to me the other day ‘there’s a lot of THEM about isnt there’ and I said ‘what, nurses?!’ and she didn’t talk to me for the whole sale (on checkout!)

whiteroseredrose · 14/02/2026 12:53

Poppingby · 14/02/2026 10:32

Whites are becoming the minority where? Evidence for your date claim please? What a load of balls. Your family being of mixed heritage doesn't mean you should be let off spouting spurious racist shite. My family is entirely white and there are still cultural expectations and differences to manage, it's called being a human person interacting with other human people.

The census in 2021. In London the % identifying as White British was about 37%. Leicester was 41%. England and Wales as a whole was about 75%.

WhatAboutThisUser · 14/02/2026 12:49

Poppingby · 14/02/2026 10:32

Whites are becoming the minority where? Evidence for your date claim please? What a load of balls. Your family being of mixed heritage doesn't mean you should be let off spouting spurious racist shite. My family is entirely white and there are still cultural expectations and differences to manage, it's called being a human person interacting with other human people.

I am quite honestly stunned by the ignorance in this post.

It’s one thing to not care about whites becoming an ethnic minority, or even to celebrate it, but it is wrong to gaslight others into thinking it’s not actually happening!!!

Try asking chat GPT questions like:

“list all the places where white people are a minority in the uk, using 2021 census data, and list the total populations of each of these areas”
(includes Birmingham and many other large areas. The 2021 census was before the Boriswave record levels of mass immigration so London was still 53% white.)

“how many primary school children in England are from an ethnic minority, use gov.uk sources only and provide the gov.uk links”(Answer, 38%)

Gettingbysomehow · 14/02/2026 12:49

Ive noticed a big increase in this at work with patients ranting to me about immigrants etc I guess because Im white.
Im actually sick of it because my family is mixed race.
I shut them down straight away. Outside work too there seems to be growing intolerance.

BoredZelda · 14/02/2026 12:36

HellsBells13 · 14/02/2026 10:18

I don't giving a sh@t what colour you are. I do give a sh@t that daily, illegals are arriving with clearly different cultural expectations and view women less than. The country is on its knees and we cannot keep accepting them and housing them. This is not about race it's about finances and protecting females.

Because white men have huge respect for women, and never abuse them? You might want to reflect on the fact that since the 1920s, women’s rights and respect for them have improved exponentially, at the same time as immigration has increased. Perhaps look up correlation v causation.

And don’t bother with the “yeah but why import more” because you could get rid of every single brown or black personality in the U.K. and violence against women would still be the epidemic that it is now.

MunicipalDarwinism · 14/02/2026 12:35

awakeandasleep · 14/02/2026 12:34

Have you visited Birmingham lately? I actually cried when I returned at Christmas. It has seen a massive demographic change in the last 25 years.

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Why did you cry?

awakeandasleep · 14/02/2026 12:34

Poppingby · 14/02/2026 10:32

Whites are becoming the minority where? Evidence for your date claim please? What a load of balls. Your family being of mixed heritage doesn't mean you should be let off spouting spurious racist shite. My family is entirely white and there are still cultural expectations and differences to manage, it's called being a human person interacting with other human people.

Have you visited Birmingham lately? I actually cried when I returned at Christmas. It has seen a massive demographic change in the last 25 years.

crackofdoom · 14/02/2026 12:32

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OK, perhaps you'd like to tell us how you think "our" culture is being erased then?

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crackofdoom · 14/02/2026 12:19

Dgll · 14/02/2026 12:04

I don't care what colour people are but I don't like the influx of young men with no gainful employment and nothing much to lose who behave badly and get involved in criminal activity. We have enough of our own young men of this type, we don't want to take on more.

I think multiculturalism is great and it works really well in parts of London. However, immigration doesn't necessarily lead to multiculturalism or diversity. I worked in a school which was 98% Muslim Bangladeshi. It catered extremely well for that demographic. It was an outstanding school and not a faith school but I think other ethnicities tended to be a bit put off because their children would be rather isolated.

Was this in the East End?

Go back 100 years and there was moral panic about that area being an Ashkenazi Jewish ghetto. Before that it was the damn Huguenots not integrating. Let's not forget the "yellow peril" in Limehouse, with Chinese immigrants all being accused of running opium dens and white slavery ("protect are wimmin" etc etc). In that era of course, parts of the West End were "no go" areas because they were full of feckless dirty Irish etc etc..

crackofdoom · 14/02/2026 12:13

Burningbud1981 · 14/02/2026 10:44

@Notmycircusnotmyotter A genuine question. How is your country being erased? This the thing I hear the most we are losing our country we are losing our culture. But how ?

Can't even drink 10 pints of lager and roam the streets with your shirt off chanting obscenities after your team loses at the footie any more without a certain demographic giving you dirty looks. It's cultural erasure I tell you.

crackofdoom · 14/02/2026 12:07

Notmycircusnotmyotter · 14/02/2026 10:14

our country and civilisation is being erased. Our taxes are going up to support the immigrants no one wanted. You can't really blame white British folk.

No they aren't.

And no they aren't.

Twooclockrock · 14/02/2026 12:07

No, because the vast majority of people do not care enough about either sides arguments to go to war over it.
Only 57 percent of people could be bothered to even vote in the last election. Let alone start a war.

Dgll · 14/02/2026 12:04

I don't care what colour people are but I don't like the influx of young men with no gainful employment and nothing much to lose who behave badly and get involved in criminal activity. We have enough of our own young men of this type, we don't want to take on more.

I think multiculturalism is great and it works really well in parts of London. However, immigration doesn't necessarily lead to multiculturalism or diversity. I worked in a school which was 98% Muslim Bangladeshi. It catered extremely well for that demographic. It was an outstanding school and not a faith school but I think other ethnicities tended to be a bit put off because their children would be rather isolated.