I don’t go on SM. I think Farage is a fool who could lead the country into far right territory. I have no problem whatsoever with immigration.
What I do have a problem with is the way that people are made out to be reactionary idiots for worrying about ways in which the country has changed - dramatically in some areas - and told they are hateful racists.
There are very few problems with migrants from Hong Kong, mentioned above. We need people in this country, our birth rate is getting lower. I have no problem with immigration.
I have a problem with men coming in from cultures where women are treated badly routinely, men who see white girls as fair game. I have a problem with legal immigrants whose grooming gangs activity is covered up because local authorities don’t want to be called racist. I have a problem with people dumbing this down as “you know white men rape too?”, and yes I know, and yes I have a huge problem with rape/assault wherever it comes from, but when women and girls are being affected yet again and ignored because people would rather assume they are liars and racist to boot.
I know someone who lives near a migrant hotel. It’s no longer safe for her daughters to go out to meet their friends because groups of men hang around, video them, threaten them, throw things at them, and it’s become a really unsafe place to be. This family can do nothing about this because when they and other locals have tried they’ve received the same treatment as people on threads like this. They’re made out to be thicko racists.
I know someone who escaped from her violent husband with two young daughters. She was placed in a council house in Bradford. Her daughters were targeted by Pakistani Muslim men on the same estate. They were part of the cover up that happened for decades in various parts of the UK. They reported to police, social services, their gp, their MP at the time, none took her seriously. Most implied she was racist. She and her daughters ended up recluses in the house until she managed to move a few years later.
These are real people affected by the decision to allow men from cultures that typically disrespect women and see them as worthless to be prioritised over them. Thinking this is a poor decision does not make someone racist.
As someone said on another thread, we have our own homegrown rapists that the police and courts prioritise, why allow other men from cultures with far worse track records than ours to stay in the country? This is nothing to do with their skin colour, and everything to do with their behaviour which is hushed up and the victims called racist. It’s horrific.
The left attitude towards women is disgusting. They don’t care, and would rather virtue signal than take any action that would result in better safeguarding and protection for women and children. Instead we have a party that still insists men can be women, and swears blind that these men are safe, despite years of their information not being recorded accurately by the police and other orgs in case someone turned round and <<shock horror >> called them racist.
The very reason this country has become more racist is because of this, and because of the belittling way people are spoken down to. The left have chased people into Farage’s open arms. They’ve literally created Farage’s current position for him, and opportunist that he is, he’s jumped straight into the role.