To think the anti-immigrations have BEEN "heard"?

[dropoutin]

I posted something like this on one of the riot threads but it ws locked soon after.

Is anyone else getting really bored of people justifying racism, terror, violence and destruction by insisting how important it is that those who imagine asylum seekers are responsible for the country's problem are "heard".

Little reminder: It's exactly that particular obsession that led to the Brexit referendum in 2016, and the most radical - and destructive - political change of recent times.

There were several years in which the country barely discussed anything else. Farage and Johnson got to tell you in great detail how the reason you're poor is because of the black family down the road. And you got the choice of believing them, or not. You even got to make Johnson PM so he could "get Brexit done" and "level up" your community.

You've been taken for a ride. Asylum seekers rriving irregularly (via small boats etc) make up less than 5% of total immigration, which is coming down after peaking in 2022 (partly due to the Ukraine war, and other factors). Neither Tories nor Labour are going to radically reduce immigration because anyone having to ACTUALLY run the country can see that doing so will exacerbate the demographic time-bomb, reduce economic activity and decimate the NHS. You're poor because of 14 years of Conservative economic policy, not because of anyone's skin colour or passport.

Meanwhile: How many of us get to have a national referendum tailored around our favourite policy hobbyhorse? When is my referendum on industrial relations? On housing and land ownership? On the House of Lords? When do I get to be "heard"? Being heard doesn't mean everyone has to agree with you, or that you get to go out and beat up brown people because things aren't working out the way you imagined they would.

It's not that you haven't been heard. It's just that you were wrong.

I've not heard anybody talking about immigration, if you are referring to the street rioters.
I've heard racist abuse, seen people trying to burn fellow human beings alive in a hotel, I've seen a children's library destroyed, I've seen people cars burned to a crisp, seen shops attacked and looted. I've seen our police attacked and hospitalised, I've seen the memories of 3 little children trampled on and grief of their families ignored. I've seen parents shoving burning bins and officers, their children throwing bricks just like their parents and seen swastikas and union jacks with anarchy symbols waving around.
That's what I've seen and heard as that is all they intended me to see and hear.
I am angry as a working taxpayer that my money will be diverted to repairing the damage done instead of improving our neighbourhoods, health service and schools.
Migrants, legal or illegal did not make these people thugs - some of them imprisoned are in their 50's and 60's - they are long term thugs and won't change if every migrant left this country tomorrow. They have brought their children up to be thugs - with rent a mob mentality.
I'd cheerfully swap all of them for boatloads of refugees - they scare me more than any migrant.