I’m not surprised that the vast majority of MN comments are gaslighting the OP about this issue. After all, they are in elite jobs and have very little to do with immigrants on a daily basis.
I’m from an immigrant background- have lived here for 33 years. When I first arrived, London still had British values and I felt lucky to be here. In the last 15 years more people kept arriving and I didn’t mind that. I thought that Britain’s future was rainbow coloured, a future where the average Londoner or British citizen would look mixed… some kind of futuristic utopia where people are educated, cultured and somewhat British in values and happy to be here and keen to assimilate.
But f’’k me, that hasn’t been the case at all. One day, I woke up in the most multicultural area of Europe and it was no longer beautiful. I felt bewildered and sick
Since the pandemic, immigration has turbo charged. People are no longer peacefully living side by side in segregation somewhat following the laws of the land. It’s become jarring and discombobulating. Anti-social and selfish behaviour has skyrocketed.
No one cares about pregnant women, the elderly or disabled on buses anymore. The number of times I’ve seen a new arrival type person sitting in a priority seat not giving a sh’t about anyone else. The number of cars that went past at a zebra crossing without stopping was weird. The number of people (Bulgarian Turks, Latin Americans, Somalis) who wouldn’t let me or my buggy have an equal chance to get on the bus because it was more convenient for them to get on first was shocking. In the end, a European man (who looked German or Dutch) let me go on first when he saw me waiting there for ages. The only time someone was gentlemanly or kind was when there were visitors to the stadium (someone from Essex or another home country).
There are immigrants like me and then there are immigrants freshly arrived who come here and see that it’s a liberal and individualist society with plenty of free money if they wait a few months and get some sort of settled status. They are the dregs of society back home, they have nothing to lose, they are in survival mode and come from a dog eat dog society, they are rough as f, some of them are even criminals. They see this country as a free for all and can see that they don’t need to have any responsibilities for all their rights. So they become selfish, nihilistic, playing their shitty TikTok videos loudly on buses, cracking sunflower seeds in parks and leaving the shells everywhere.Their children littering the parks with vapes, stealing those hire bikes and finding a way to ride them without paying for them. This is not multiculturalism, this is a dystopian hellscape. F this Sh’
London has fallen. There are so many barber shops side by side, they’re not making much from cutting men’s hair, that’s for sure.
Yesterday, I took my baby to Hampstead Health and was walking around the residential areas of Gospel Oak to get to it and I thought, ‘yep, these residents are totally insulated from what’s going on because they live a life of privilege’ in their low traffic zone neighbourhood with their beautiful homes. No new arrivals are going to be able to afford to live there. There, the drivers stopped for me to cross at the zebra crossing and someone helped me get the buggy onto the bus even though I didn’t need the help. The difference between night and day.
And up north, those gaslighters are living in posh villages or towns, nowhere near Rotherham or Harehills, so it’s all too easy to call someone Nigel or a bigot when they don’t even know anyone who was affected by the CSE scandal.
I feel sorry for this beautiful country. It’s elite is sleep walking in sharia law. Blasphemy laws. My family escaped from Turkey to live in a liberal society but religion followed us here and soon illiberal attitudes will be the norm. Soon, English women will refrain from showing any cleavage, wearing any shorts or sleeveless tops because they will feel preyed upon. Bravo, liberal elites, bravo.