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AIBU to worry about large numbers of undocumented men arriving in Spain?

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MaturingCheeseball · 30/07/2026 17:34

Thousands of young men from Morocco and beyond swimming to Spain. Spain obviously has encouraged the problem with their amnesty for existing migrants, but thousands more arriving with no means of support and undocumented is going to cause huge problems. Large numbers will no doubt be ultimately trying to reach the UK.

It’s harsh, but we cannot accept infinite numbers of men.

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LuckyHazelFox · 31/07/2026 20:36

mtobrokeme · 31/07/2026 20:23

Yes. Tiny liberal brains. The sort of tiny brains which shut out any opinion that doesn’t agree with theirs. The inability to debate, consider and perhaps find a common ground in an issue without resorting to labelling the ‘opposition’ racist, xenophobic or bigoted.

I am fully aware that those with ‘higher education levels’ tend to lean left, they also do not tend to be working class and originate from or live in areas where the issues surrounding mass immigration, lack of cultural cohesion and all that brings is more apparent.

Also, ‘higher education levels’ is exactly that, it means they have spent more time focusing on academic subjects with an exam at the end, it does not and never has meant an increase in common sense or the ability to see things from another perspective. Evidently.

Well said 👏

HollyhocksandPeons · 31/07/2026 20:36

On a separate, very simple level, has anyone asked what these young men are supposed to do for sex, for dating, for starting families - like the boat arrivals in the UK, for example? Has anyone thought of that?

mtobrokeme · 31/07/2026 20:36

cardibach · 31/07/2026 20:28

This is nonsense. Of course people who lean left can come from working class areas as well as being more highly educated. Why would you think they don’t? I do, for example. Industrial midlands as a child. Multicultural part of SE Wales now. It’s lack of exposure to this that is more likely to make people fearful of other races. I’d agree education doesn’t always equal common sense, but it does mean you have had to look at lots of different perspectives.
I'd say it was you who ‘shut out any opinion that doesn’t agree with theirs.’
And again, aiming this at posters on here could be seen as personal attack.

A personal attack?! Unlike shutting down debate with, as previously mentioned, labelling those opposing views as racist, xenophobic and bigoted? I simply no longer care if you consider it a personal attack, it’s been diluted to the extreme! Were you a teenage girl in the late 90’s and early 2000’s in Rotherham? I was. I can describe to you exactly what those with ‘higher education levels’ and those not living in the area treated us like. In fact. So, do you still think I have a ‘lack of exposure’? I can describe my ‘exposure’ if you would like?

Just one more thing, show me where I said that no member of the working class could be highly educated…. I didn’t, did I? I used the word ‘tend’.

EppingTrain · 31/07/2026 20:41

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Violetdeparma · 31/07/2026 20:41

Signalbox · 31/07/2026 19:03

With the current numbers arriving I suspect the use of HMOs will continue to skyrocket especially in areas where housing is cheapest to buy. By cramming double or triple the number of mainly men into converted accommodation we will end up with an HMO underclass who are sustained by the state, and mostly have a low prospect of making life better for themselves.

Many hmo are actually illegal and being rented out on a cash in hand basis !
Remeber beds in sheds crisis esp around Slough area and outer London .
They are dangerous for the occupants and the people on the steets

EppingTrain · 31/07/2026 20:42

TopPocketFind · 31/07/2026 20:00

No

some white men bad
some immigrant men bad

Per capita immigrant men more bad

cardibach · 31/07/2026 20:42

mtobrokeme · 31/07/2026 20:36

A personal attack?! Unlike shutting down debate with, as previously mentioned, labelling those opposing views as racist, xenophobic and bigoted? I simply no longer care if you consider it a personal attack, it’s been diluted to the extreme! Were you a teenage girl in the late 90’s and early 2000’s in Rotherham? I was. I can describe to you exactly what those with ‘higher education levels’ and those not living in the area treated us like. In fact. So, do you still think I have a ‘lack of exposure’? I can describe my ‘exposure’ if you would like?

Just one more thing, show me where I said that no member of the working class could be highly educated…. I didn’t, did I? I used the word ‘tend’.

You don’t think saying people have tiny brains is a personal attack?

IcedCoffee26 · 31/07/2026 20:44

HollyhocksandPeons · 31/07/2026 20:33

Believe me, lots and lots of people with higher educational levels simply have to go along with the accepted narrative at their universities, hospitals, institutions, because they are scared to be jobless. They are not crazy or suicidal to admire mass migration, be it legal or not - they just have to play that game. Generational doctors are now worried about their children - there are no jobs for medical graduates to specialise into, because it is cheaper to import a ready-made Indian consultant than to train domestic students. They just have to pretend and smile. Only very few people can afford to speak out - like Dr Meirion Thomas - he was sacked after an article in the Daily Mail in which he wrote that EU patients (that case was from Spain) abuse the NHS.

J. Merion Thomas? This guy?
https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-2532461/Why-having-women-doctors-hurting-NHS-A-provovcative-powerful-argument-leading-surgeon.html

I really encourage you to read this article and how he goes into such fantastic detail about the dangers of having too many female doctors....

Honestly. Check who you quote if you are trying seriously to pretend that your issues with migrants have anything to do with women's rights.

COMMENT: Why having so many women doctors is hurting the NHS

By 2017 there will be more female than male doctors in the UK. Although I am a feminist this shift is a worrying trend, writes PROFESSOR J. MEIRION THOMAS.

https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-2532461/Why-having-women-doctors-hurting-NHS-A-provovcative-powerful-argument-leading-surgeon.html

inamarina · 31/07/2026 20:45

DeterminedRat · 31/07/2026 19:40

And? You think that people should be forced to send their children to the home of someone who thought that they were part of some 'swarm' sent to take over Europe? Can you really blame them for being wary?

Why do you assume the family in question thought Muslims were a part of some invading ‘swarm’?
That’s quite bizarre.

EppingTrain · 31/07/2026 20:46

inamarina · 31/07/2026 20:45

Why do you assume the family in question thought Muslims were a part of some invading ‘swarm’?
That’s quite bizarre.

Given they were actively inviting the family and their DC over to their house....

TopPocketFind · 31/07/2026 20:48

mtobrokeme · 31/07/2026 20:23

Yes. Tiny liberal brains. The sort of tiny brains which shut out any opinion that doesn’t agree with theirs. The inability to debate, consider and perhaps find a common ground in an issue without resorting to labelling the ‘opposition’ racist, xenophobic or bigoted.

I am fully aware that those with ‘higher education levels’ tend to lean left, they also do not tend to be working class and originate from or live in areas where the issues surrounding mass immigration, lack of cultural cohesion and all that brings is more apparent.

Also, ‘higher education levels’ is exactly that, it means they have spent more time focusing on academic subjects with an exam at the end, it does not and never has meant an increase in common sense or the ability to see things from another perspective. Evidently.

The sort of tiny brains which shut out any opinion that doesn’t agree with theirs

That applies to all political leanings surely?

Or just liberals in your opinion?

LuckyHazelFox · 31/07/2026 20:49

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mtobrokeme · 31/07/2026 20:49

cardibach · 31/07/2026 20:42

You don’t think saying people have tiny brains is a personal attack?

Yes. Of course it is. It was intentional. The same as I think calling people racist, xenophobic and bigoted due to a lack of critical thinking is a personal attack too!

mtobrokeme · 31/07/2026 20:50

TopPocketFind · 31/07/2026 20:48

The sort of tiny brains which shut out any opinion that doesn’t agree with theirs

That applies to all political leanings surely?

Or just liberals in your opinion?

What have I shut down?

LuckyHazelFox · 31/07/2026 20:50

TopPocketFind · 31/07/2026 20:48

The sort of tiny brains which shut out any opinion that doesn’t agree with theirs

That applies to all political leanings surely?

Or just liberals in your opinion?

The left are constantly saying right wingers are uneducated far right racists. The pp has merely balanced things out.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 31/07/2026 20:53

LuckyHazelFox · 31/07/2026 20:50

The left are constantly saying right wingers are uneducated far right racists. The pp has merely balanced things out.

Exactly. The ones who are aghast at stopping the boats but will celebrate the murder of people like Charlie Kirk.

inamarina · 31/07/2026 20:54

EppingTrain · 31/07/2026 20:46

Given they were actively inviting the family and their DC over to their house....

Exactly. Plus, why would you move somewhere where you thought the locals had such bad opinions of you?

My own family were immigrants, at no point did they tell me ‘The locals hate us, don’t go to their houses, don’t play with their children!’

EppingTrain · 31/07/2026 20:56

Again women on MN have spoken about horrible harassment they've experienced in Morocco.....why bring Moroccan men in?

cardibach · 31/07/2026 20:57

mtobrokeme · 31/07/2026 20:49

Yes. Of course it is. It was intentional. The same as I think calling people racist, xenophobic and bigoted due to a lack of critical thinking is a personal attack too!

I haven’t done that.

cardibach · 31/07/2026 20:58

EppingTrain · 31/07/2026 20:56

Again women on MN have spoken about horrible harassment they've experienced in Morocco.....why bring Moroccan men in?

Nobody is bringing Moroccan men in. Not to mainland Spain, never mind the U.K.

TopPocketFind · 31/07/2026 20:58

LuckyHazelFox · 31/07/2026 20:50

The left are constantly saying right wingers are uneducated far right racists. The pp has merely balanced things out.

Have they? Or is that your thinking.

There is a difference between 'the Right' and 'the Far Right'. The Far Right are racists, many are educated though.

We can have a discussion without name calling I am sure.

DeterminedRat · 31/07/2026 20:59

inamarina · 31/07/2026 20:45

Why do you assume the family in question thought Muslims were a part of some invading ‘swarm’?
That’s quite bizarre.

I assume that they'd probably be wary of people they don't know well given the prevelance of that narrative. Muslims can read, they see threads like this.

You can't have it every which way, you want to be free to call 'them' rapists, accuse 'them' of being the type of people to throw women out of a boat, accuse 'them' of being part of some elaborate plan to take over Europe, call them 'scum', dehumanise and denigrate them(all of this has been said on this thread alone) and then have a pop at them for not wanting their kids at your house too Confused] That's the only 'bizarre' thing here.

IcedCoffee26 · 31/07/2026 21:01

cardibach · 31/07/2026 20:28

This is nonsense. Of course people who lean left can come from working class areas as well as being more highly educated. Why would you think they don’t? I do, for example. Industrial midlands as a child. Multicultural part of SE Wales now. It’s lack of exposure to this that is more likely to make people fearful of other races. I’d agree education doesn’t always equal common sense, but it does mean you have had to look at lots of different perspectives.
I'd say it was you who ‘shut out any opinion that doesn’t agree with theirs.’
And again, aiming this at posters on here could be seen as personal attack.

Education could also perhaps help in knowing that Ceuta is not mainland Spain.

Or in knowing that Spain was under a fascist dictatorship until 1975. That most Spanish people, perhaps even more so Basque and Catalan people keep a close eye out for fascist tendencies or the sort of nationalism following a difficult economic time that allowed it to take place here, and in Germany also. The preliminary steps are more obvious. On this very thread people talk in dehumanising ways of migrants. As mentioned someone expressed support for shooting migrants. Someone else implied support for sinking boat full of migrants to prevent them reaching the UK. There is a lot of hate being expressed.

Education in history teaches us to recognise that when a narrative starts of "it's that group of people's fault" that's a red flag. We see the protests happening in the UK. We hear of Tommy Robinson, of Farage, of the EDL. Of Reform.

But when the fascists get into power is when the ordinary people who didn't see it coming find out that they voted for people who never had their interests at heart after all.

LuckyHazelFox · 31/07/2026 21:03

TopPocketFind · 31/07/2026 20:58

Have they? Or is that your thinking.

There is a difference between 'the Right' and 'the Far Right'. The Far Right are racists, many are educated though.

We can have a discussion without name calling I am sure.

It's happened a lot and will continue. Nice to see posters pushing back. You're right, there's a difference between right and far right but you wouldn't think so on MN.

EppingTrain · 31/07/2026 21:05

Would you feel as safe as a woman in New Delhi Vs let's say Vienna? Maybe the men of one region aren't as nice as the one of another.

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