To wonder where the left has gone?

[KenAdams]

Ironically, this is somewhat of a rant.

Is everyone too scared to stand up to the constant hate filled rants for fear of being called "woke"?

Is the constant inference that VAWG is only perpetrated by brown men not worth standing up to?

Is the rhetoric that all of our problems are caused only by small boats and not legal migration or billionaires not problematic? For the record, I believe it is a problem, but not the only problem and not even the biggest problem. I believe the system is the problem.

The increasingly hostile movement against anyone that is non white is making people fearful of going about their every day lives and people seem to just want to sit on the sidelines and refuse to call it out.

Where is everyone?

I feel like this post might turn into a gaslighting shit show, but fuck it, I've had enough.

Thanks!

True.

I bet you are so fed up with all the "bigots" in the uk? I bet you feel like emigrating?

I hear Syria is lovely at this time of year.
Or how about Afganisdan?

No? Why not? All those people that share British values and so lovely. Enjoy.

Actually there's an article about queer representation in the drinks industry in the Middle East yesterday and many believe the anti LGBT sentiment is now A LOT stronger in the UK than it is in Muslim countries, which are actually welcoming

Guess I'm just one of those far-right bigots who's too thick to understand.

I don't think you are too thick to understand. That would make your racist rant less offensive, especially the 'clever' sarcasm in the final paragraph.

Yuk.

When the pendulum swings too far to the left - it’s inevitable that it will then swing to the far right

Except it hadn't swung too far left, has it? We had a Tory government for ever and a day and I've seen very little indication from the current Labour one that they're left at all, never mind far left.

I hear you it can feel really frustrating when important issues get drowned out or oversimplified. Speaking up is hard, but even small voices calling out injustice matter. You’re not alone in feeling this way.

The centre right of the tories ended years ago. They swung to the left. I was a Tory, there is a reason so many of them are jumping to reform

I think the media and politicians whip up the racist nonsense for their own gains but we do have a problem in certain areas with asylum hotels and some immigrants are not prepared to integrate or are criminals so this needs to be addressed with much more rigor than previously. Of course we also have white criminals so tarring all with the same brush is nonsense. We need a tougher and quicker immigration system and sort out these asylum hotels. I am left leaning and welcome legal immigrants through the correct systems but we need to sort out the small boats and those of us that acknowledge this should not be called racist.

Ah, I see. You mean when the right becomes less right their traditional supporters will seek out an alternative that better aligns with their more extreme right wing views? Yes. I see that. I thought you were talking about at a societal level.
But that doesn't explain why members of the public who formerly aligned with left wing views, the traditional Labour voter, would switch to Reform. They haven't been scared away by experiencing a far left regime because there hadn't been one.
They have more likely become disenchanted with a government that has lost sight of its traditional values and is actually not left wing enough (in the traditional sense of the word) to make a positive difference to their lives.

So we can reject all the asylum claims from these countries based on people being gay. Brilliant.

I'm actually in the middle too. But usually I hear both sides and fall somewhere between them and there are no left voices to listen to at the moment.

People see the hypocrisy of many on the left - we hear so much about initiative to address under representation of racial groups from the left yet when the right point out under representation of a racial group there are screams of ‘racist’!

You've put it much more eloquently than me

It is not about not being left wing enough, it is about the left being detached from the working classes and instead representing a middle-class bubble of privilege. The fact that the left have got so caught up with the luxury belief of gender ideology and queer theory is an example of that. Everyone knows you can’t change sex and working class women more than most. Their lives are impacted by immigration, their culture dismissed, their communities destroyed, young girls raped, and they are told they are racist for objecting. White working class men are the most underachieving demographic in society but so many diversity initiatives ignore them.

Are there? It doesn't seem like there is a strong movement like there is on the right.

What is SUTR?

Yes and who caused them? Brexit has made it worse thanks to Farage and the Tories Rwanda policy was wasteful. And they were the ones who put the asylum seekers into hotels to house them. I like the Labour idea of housing them in barracks.

We had a recent incident in our village where a young man in his 20s sexually assaulted a teenager and then a woman out walking her dog. They caught him and all I could think was thank god he was white because of the unrest it might have caused.

Because most crimes are committed by white people since we have a country where 74 percent of the population identify as white. Crimes on white people matter in the press, there were hardly any reports on the second attack on a British sikh woman who was followed home by a white racist man who forced his way into her home, raped her, beat her and then racially abused her and robbed her. Tell me again about how it’s all about protecting women and children.

Most crimes are committed by white people because there are more white people. But individuals of certain immigrant nationalities are considerably more likely to commit crimes than white people. So much so that crime figures are now being hidden.

The Tories Rwandan policy (to process migrant applications from there) never happened as it was opposed by the left.

I would also be happy for a Labour/Green Party coalition if push comes to shove.

What crime figures are being hidden and how do you know 😮

because it was debated in parliament

I haven’t RTFT.

Does anyone follow Ann Russell? A very intelligent woman who, amongst other things, knows how to get household things clean that seem beyond redemption. She’s a fount of knowledge on many topics. She’s on Tik Tok, and also on YouTube I believe.

Today I learned, from her, that last year the immigrants so many people are angry about cost each UK tax payer on average £9 last year. And by comparison, bank bailouts cost each taxpayer £320 last year. I don’t think it’s the immigrants who are the problem.

But the powerful, and those who want power, would like us to think it is the immigrants that are the problem because that’s the way they go about accumulating more wealth unhindered - while they have the populace distracted and busy punching down on people more powerless less than them.

I think it is that those of other backgrounds other than white are more likely to be charged with a crime, not commit more crime. And once charged, they are more likely to be found guilty than their white counterparts.