Hate how racist everything has become, and how quickly it’s happened.

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I was just looking at facebook, and a ‘Sad face’ newsmaker article came up. Practically all the comments mentioned boats, asylum seekers etc etc. Its really getting me down.

Travelled to the south west last weekend. On the way down no flags on bridges. On the way back, in some areas, every bridge.

Its scary how quickly it’s all happening.

I find it so sad and so terrifying how easily people are manipulated into hating and demonising a small and desperate, scapegoat group of people. I do really worry about what's going to happen to the country over the next 10 years, I find it easier to just try to avoid the news and stop thinking about it.

I’ve only known 3 medical students. One decided that it was really not for him and is now working in the city as a medical analyst and the other two are working in Australia because they found the terms, conditions and lifestyle more appealing.
I’m extremely grateful that doctors from overseas are prepared to tolerate the NHS in its present state.

The very phrases ‘our own people’ and ‘these people’ are othering and straight out of the racist playbook.

It would be helpful to see the balance sheet - see the numbers set by side by side.

The boomers would argue that this care is something they're entitled to because they have paid into the system all their lives. The immigrants have not. I understand what you're saying, that the net cost to local government of caring for boomers is more than the net cost of caring for immigrants. I just think it's interesting that you choose people in care homes as the point comparison. Why not compare the cost of accommodating immigrants to the cost of educating children? Or maintaining infrastructure? Or the NHS?

The first duty of any state is to care for its own citizens.

The biggest racist problems are Eastern Europeans v Muslims. Have communities in the city where I live, where these people live and they do not get on with each other.

The progressive left with its love of "intersectional issues" and its need to police how people spoke and expressed themselves brought this about IMO.

They seriously did not even consider the possibility of a reaction nor, much more seriously, how it would play out when it came to the way in which people voted.

Result, the country is in deep shit and we are not, of course, alone in this as a brief glance at the US and the EU will show.

I’m yet to come across anyone who thinks any of the visas available for people wanting to migrate to the UK are racist.

Why is giving someone who is LGBT asylum insane? You are aware that during world war two LGBT people were in those death camps.

Are you or are you not a distinct group of people? We are not interchangeable little cogs you know.

Absolutely this.
if every single migrant boat was turned back and every asylum seeker was deported the issues would still be shit housing, stretched services and massive social inequality. People are in a dreamworld if they think this is not the case.
There are people watching all this flagshagging and laughing all the way to the bank.

Which migrants have taken your home, or a hotel?

You didn’t answer my previous question, as you only want people born in the UK to use the NHS would you support the NHS surcharge being removed, and would you refuse any NHS worker who wasn’t born in the UK to be involved in your care?

So you don’t know any F2 medics trying to get specialist training placements then? Why are you grateful for overseas doctors who apply for those placements rather than the thousands of now unemployed medics who have done eight years of training within the NHS before finding themselves rejected in favour of those overseas doctors?

You want to send back all those NHS employees who weren’t born in the UK? Who will then staff the NHS?

The men who hate women are everywhere and of every colour, creed and denomination. A very large amount of them are on these protests.

A hotel in the quiet rural town near me was used as a migrant hotel for a year, and nobody even knew until about 10 months in! There were no issues.

I am not disputing your claim mind you, just giving an additional perspective.

Is it DEFINITELY just the migrants who are to blame for all of the anti social activity?

Per capita is not fair for a country like UK. It is a small country but densely populated.

5th largest in Europe for asylum seekers is pretty decent. It’s the countries like Poland which are unwilling to take in non white refugees.

Someone just banged on my door. It was a bunch of migrants. The threw me out of my house and I am now typing this whilst sitting in the gutter. The whole street is being taken over. Someone call Farage and Yaxley-Lennon! Help!

Being racist isn’t being patriotic, flying flags or even disliking very different cultures. Being racist is disliking a person because of their race.

We even teach ‘British values’ at schools which are things like tolerance, free speech etc. So, it is not unreasonable to expect immigrants to embrace these values.

The idea that being against open borders or immigrant hotels is racist is pushing the U.K. towards people like Farage, who is currently favourite to have the most seats in the next parliament.

These are complex issues and just slurring people as ‘racist’ and trying to censor legitimate viewpoints is destructive.

While I’m sure there are some racists involved in this, I don’t see people displaying their patriotism as fundamentally racist. I see it as a protest over the huge influx of people from cultures contrary to our own, without any proper support given to integration or preservation of the country’s own culture or discussion about how medieval religions set back women’s rights and equality.
If we’re having to have discussions in places like Bradford about the horrendous impact of first cousin marriages creating extra medical demands in the system, we’ve failed in preventing some of the negative impacts of immigration. Its not okay to expect a nation to be happy that the fundamental fabric of its society is being changed without discussion.

Because in the cases of the two I mentioned, they were exceptional and saved my husband’s life.

Ah, how I miss the laugh reaction

You do realise a lot of 'lifelong workless asylum seekers' in this country are workless precisely because of racism, right? 🤔

No one knew that a hotel in a quiet rural town was no longer open to the public for ten months?