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Whyandwhenandwho · 02/11/2025 09:36

Stabbing turns out to be terror related or in a similar vein to incident to recent incidents that were related to immigration ? We don't know the identities yet of the perpetrators. But the fact the Home Secretary is brought in to comment in tabloids and the discussion on LK on BBC today makes me worried its a possibility. The poor people on the train - I cannot even imagine .. ..Starmer needs to tackle knife crime as its rife. What is the answer ? When is there a tipping point ? I don't know but something must be done - I've never paid as much attention other than feeling so terribly sorry for any victims and families. Now I'm starting to get angry when I see anything like this

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Gloriia · 02/11/2025 16:00

WonderfulSmith · 02/11/2025 15:57

And go where? Why should they move?

Or perhaps we should get all the people who aren’t British by birth and get them to all live together in one place? Would that be better?

You cope. As I've said Ive lived and worked in the ME and experienced anti western ideology at times. So what, it was my choice to be there.

You take the rough with the smooth and I would guess the benefits of living here make up for seeing the odd flag on a lamppost.

WishinAndHopin · 02/11/2025 16:04

IFartAlot · 02/11/2025 15:30

Then what does it mean to be British? Is there nothing about "belonging to a place". If I pack my bags and move to Kenya am I then kenyan?

How do we then define what it means to be "of a place"?

You find there's no problem defining what it means to be any other ethnicity.

We are INDIGENOUS to the British isles, and we should have a word to describe ourselves - like everyone else in the world - without being called "racist".

BIossomtoes · 02/11/2025 16:05

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/11/2025 15:14

If you had one. Not sure how many rural Afghans or Sudanese people have the wherewithal to acquire one.
Most of us have absolutely no notion of the incredibly basic nature of daily life in such places.

Took the words out of my mouth.

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/11/2025 16:05

WishinAndHopin · 02/11/2025 16:04

You find there's no problem defining what it means to be any other ethnicity.

We are INDIGENOUS to the British isles, and we should have a word to describe ourselves - like everyone else in the world - without being called "racist".

I wonder how many people who feel like you have no idea that a few generations back, their forebears were immigrants?
The UK has been built on immigration as far back as you care to look.

Gloriia · 02/11/2025 16:06

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/11/2025 15:59

Benidorm, perhaps, like the thousands of British immigrants there?
Oh, sorry, it’s ex-pats and g and t at 6 if you're white British, isn’t it? Silly me.

Yes maybe, they do all enter legally not on small boats and don't turn up without passports or any other documents which helps keep the criminals out though.

Not heard any outrage about Spanish flags being displayed either.

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/11/2025 16:08

Gloriia · 02/11/2025 16:06

Yes maybe, they do all enter legally not on small boats and don't turn up without passports or any other documents which helps keep the criminals out though.

Not heard any outrage about Spanish flags being displayed either.

I expect people arriving here by small boat would love that option. Unfortunately, from many countries, it just doesn’t exist.
you’d struggle to find any Spanish flags in ex-pat ghettos in Benidorm. It’s all Union Jacks 😁

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/11/2025 16:09

(Yes, I know it’s Union Flag. Most of the emigrants don’t ….)

childofthe607080s · 02/11/2025 16:10

We are
celts
picts
vikings
anglo Saxons
romans
french
products of British slave trade
Irish

who have I forgotten?

BIossomtoes · 02/11/2025 16:10

And they do report all crimes in the same way.

Obviously not given your ignorance of the arson atrocity.

PandoraSocks · 02/11/2025 16:11

WishinAndHopin · 02/11/2025 16:04

You find there's no problem defining what it means to be any other ethnicity.

We are INDIGENOUS to the British isles, and we should have a word to describe ourselves - like everyone else in the world - without being called "racist".

No one is bloody indigenous, we are all a mix of things.

Overmylimit · 02/11/2025 16:11

The train driver should be commended it looks like he saved a lot of lives by acting so quickly and moving the train to a slow line enabling to stop earlier

Gloriia · 02/11/2025 16:14

BIossomtoes · 02/11/2025 16:10

And they do report all crimes in the same way.

Obviously not given your ignorance of the arson atrocity.

Why would an arson attack be in the national news when there fortunately weren't any victims? I bet there's arson attacks daily up and down the country. It was obviously reported locally as the pp knew about it Confused.

Guildford321 · 02/11/2025 16:14

CoffeeCantata · 02/11/2025 15:52

But the thought of being basically trapped on a train with 2 knifemen ( I bet they’re men…) IS genuinely new and terrifying. And clearly they meant business with so many so seriously injured.

What do you mean, I bet they're men? They ARE men. No betting required. Its confirmed but it didnt really need confirming. It's always men. You think there are women rampaging through trains stabbing people?

Gloriia · 02/11/2025 16:15

Overmylimit · 02/11/2025 16:11

The train driver should be commended it looks like he saved a lot of lives by acting so quickly and moving the train to a slow line enabling to stop earlier

Yes they should be commended and such a swift response by the police too.

LovesLabradors · 02/11/2025 16:16

Seems very early to rule out terrorism - but presumably they didn't record video messages beforehand, ISIS not claimed responsibility or whatever, so they've not been judged ideologically or politically driven.
But then, what was their intent? I don't buy 'mental illness' - two of them planned this and the intent was to stab and kill many people who were trapped on that train.
If it wasn't terror, then we have to come to terms with the fact that there are evil, violent men out there who want to inflict as much damage as possible on innocent people - for no reason. I'm not sure which is worse tbh.

WishinAndHopin · 02/11/2025 16:16

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/11/2025 16:05

I wonder how many people who feel like you have no idea that a few generations back, their forebears were immigrants?
The UK has been built on immigration as far back as you care to look.

You think I don't know that? So what? Historical migration happened all over the world. It's not an excuse for denying anybody else's indigeneity.

The founding groups of Great Britain were all fellow native north and west Europeans.

Gloriia · 02/11/2025 16:16

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/11/2025 16:08

I expect people arriving here by small boat would love that option. Unfortunately, from many countries, it just doesn’t exist.
you’d struggle to find any Spanish flags in ex-pat ghettos in Benidorm. It’s all Union Jacks 😁

Ex pat 'ghettos'? You seem to have a low opnion of those who enter a country legally. Why?

WishinAndHopin · 02/11/2025 16:17

PandoraSocks · 02/11/2025 16:11

No one is bloody indigenous, we are all a mix of things.

I hope you try telling that to indigenous rights activists in other countries.

ParmaVioletTea · 02/11/2025 16:17

Willyoujustbequiet · 02/11/2025 12:38

No. They have confirmed they are British.

Oops, sorry, yes, British.

So not a murderous boat-person.

IFartAlot · 02/11/2025 16:18

MrsSkylerWhite · 02/11/2025 14:51

It’s where you are born that dictates your nationality.

"If a dog is born in a stable does it make it a horse?" - This is the response I see online to the statement you've made.

WeCouldBeNiceToEachOther · 02/11/2025 16:18

LovesLabradors · 02/11/2025 16:16

Seems very early to rule out terrorism - but presumably they didn't record video messages beforehand, ISIS not claimed responsibility or whatever, so they've not been judged ideologically or politically driven.
But then, what was their intent? I don't buy 'mental illness' - two of them planned this and the intent was to stab and kill many people who were trapped on that train.
If it wasn't terror, then we have to come to terms with the fact that there are evil, violent men out there who want to inflict as much damage as possible on innocent people - for no reason. I'm not sure which is worse tbh.

By all eyewitness accounts there was only one attacker.

childofthe607080s · 02/11/2025 16:18

No there are many of our founding groups that came form the Middle East , and of course going back further , Africa

AnareticDegree · 02/11/2025 16:18

Sirzy · 02/11/2025 15:57

I have just walked the same 20 minute route I walked yesterday. I noticed 3 more houses now displaying union jacks than yesterday. Now it may be a coincidence but I find it hard to believe that is anything but racially motivated?

Possibly because you have racism on the brain and think everyone else does too?

Perhaps they have them because they want to state their identity and defend their country as this government has neither the intention nor the ability to do that.

Perhaps they are sick of being coerced and brainwashed by Labour propaganda.

Perhaps the only response you can give me is to call me a racist for asking why the current government is failing the indigenous/native/resident/born here population so very badly?

EarthlyNightshade · 02/11/2025 16:19

Gloriia · 02/11/2025 16:14

Why would an arson attack be in the national news when there fortunately weren't any victims? I bet there's arson attacks daily up and down the country. It was obviously reported locally as the pp knew about it Confused.

What do you mean by "victims"?
No one died but several were taken to hospital.

It may not be widely reported because it happened in Ireland but it is major news there because it is quite unusual.

It's a bit depressing though that you think that arson attacks are happening up and down the country and not making the news.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 02/11/2025 16:20

WishinAndHopin · 02/11/2025 16:16

You think I don't know that? So what? Historical migration happened all over the world. It's not an excuse for denying anybody else's indigeneity.

The founding groups of Great Britain were all fellow native north and west Europeans.

This is a pretty pointless conversation but our species evolved in East Africa. Every single human being alive on the planet today is descended from Africans.

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