Sick of the lie 'It's just illegal immigrants people don't like.'

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This is just not true.

Reform, the flag flyers and protesters are racists. All of this 'It's just the illegals we want gone.' is a lie to excuse their racism.

what @Octavia64said. The word racist is bandied about far too often

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Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

I moved from the SE having grown up there. The change from how it was is unbelievable. It makes me so sad every time I go back.

If you are a Muslim woman, I understand you are unable to marry a non Muslim. A man is allowed however.

Sharia law is another example. There are over 90 known sharia courts. If a couple get married under sharia law the woman only gets legal rights of marriage if the marriage is registered. This would affect inheritance, support payments etc. It's a very different culture to the UK culture which has essentially won the main feminist battle.

Yes, a common opinion among racists.

Don't be ridiculous. It's a perfectly legitimate point. Like "nazi". The definition has been applied to so many different types of people that it has lost all it's power.

I think you'll find that most people of colour will disagree that those who are called racist AREN'T actually racist.

Shockingly, I also live in a NE ex-mining village with the only refugee being the lady outside the shop.

How do they know?? Don't be so silly.

That has become very clear. I'm not sure you should have started this thread.

This "what's one more" attitude is just stupid.

As you stated in your post "in the year 24 - 25, in my county alone there have been 18,000 call outs for domestic abuse" so they are known to authorities in these instances. If we could vet every citizen of course that would be ideal but not reality.

In regards to illegal immigrants housed by the UK Government we do have the resources and opportunity to vet these people before they join our society freely. This opportunity should be utilized to protect the general public where applicable.

In your opinion. Which isn't one I share.

Really? You're asking how people of colour MIGHT now that others who claim not to be racist are? If you are friend with them, work with them, live near them, shop with them, encounter them in the doctors, sit next to them on the bus?

Hear them speaking, see their flags, see their social media posts, what they watch on TV, see who they are acquainted with, the politics they support.

It isn't only overt racist statements that make a racist. There are thousands of other give aways. Attitudes. Opinions.

Well you live in Northumberland or Durham or somewhere round there. In a little mining village. Predominantly white at the moment. Not many non whites. Not many immigrants...in fact only the Big Issue seller outside your local shop. And so you are entirely unaffected by immigration.

And yet you call people who are concerned about immigration "racist". People who may actually have their lives affected. You've decided from your limited experience that they must be "racist". As if you would know.

Its also very hard to do when people keep redefining what the words mean and becomes wholly subjective of those changing the definition of the words, making them all worthless.

Because they’re the majority of the population, that stands to reason. We have enough problems at home without importing more!

Absolutely. My favourites are the one who spend half their lives in Spain and then have the gall to whine about immigrants diluting British culture. Also, the thickos on these marches complaining about immigrants taking 'their' jobs. I'm sure you're a brain surgeon in the making, Tyler.

Which is a massive assumption for you to make. Incorrectly.

Exactly!

Nice. So you think Tyler should be competing for a finite number of low-level jobs with an endless supply of immigrants. And that’s fair to Tyler, a citizen of this country? From your sneering description possibly one of the vulnerable or poverty-stricken you usually pretend to care about?

So you don’t watch the news? The news that shows boatloads of men coming across the channel and reports the current daily count as 1000.

No wonder you don’t get it, if you think anyone is talking about one Big Issue seller. Do you operate in the basis that if you having personally witnessed something, it’s not happening? A bizarre and self gaslighting approach to life.

And yes it’s quite pathetic how you just like to throw around accusations of racism against people who disagree with you. Are the government racist? You know they are trying to stop the small boats? Are the other people who have legally settled and assimilated into this country but object to mass undocumented men wandering around our town centres also racist?

I’m quite amazed at how you’ve reached this point in your thinking.

There is a recruitment crisis in much of the farming and care industries. Also in teaching. Perhaps Tyler should apply to some of those shortage areas?

The more useful stat would be what percentage of immigrants commit those crimes and is it above the national average. Useful to know as it indicates a need for what education is needed.

Well I don’t even live in a city and i see one at least most days!

Well you've either told us the truth or not?