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What would the Left call the Right, if the small boat people were white?

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Blondiebeachbabe · 29/09/2026 13:19

I'll start by saying, I am very anti open boarders, and I am horrified that so many illegal immigrants are arriving every day. But for me, it has absolutely nothing to do with skin colour, it is more to do with :

ONE) They have no documentation, and we have no idea if they have criminal backgrounds

TWO) They tend to come from cultures where women are not respected

THREE) They often come from places where rape is not a crime

FOUR) They cannot work, and it is costing Millions to house, feed and clothe them

FIVE) We are granting asylum to some people who should never get it - like the Hamas bodyguard we heard of yesterday

Lots of valid reasons I feel, however, for me, it has nothing to do with skin colour. If I had to be locked in a room overnight with a white man from a backward culture, or a black man from the UK, I would choose the latter, every single time.

It isn't colour, it's culture

But I see that people on the Far Left just scream "Racist" to anyone who opposes illegal immigration. What would they scream, if all the small boats were full of white men? And would people still march for England?

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SherryCherryLady · Today 11:26

storyinside · Today 10:30

So illegal immigration stops. Then what?

We have more resources to take other issues

SherryCherryLady · Today 11:28

storyinside · Today 11:12

For the vast majority of people, their lives will be exactly the same, if and when the boats stop. If anything, their lives will get worse as AI replaces many jobs. VAWG will be the same.

The whole modus operandi of Reform is to incite a blame culture. People were told all their woes were due to the EU - now they see 'taking back control' was a lie. Now it's illegal immigrants. Everyone agrees the boats should stop - who doesn't? But it won't change people's lives - those most disaffected now will just continue to get left behind. Reform will just have to find someone else to blame.

How do you lose more brain cells as the thread goes on?

Harry12345 · Today 11:28

storyinside · Today 09:38

Obviously, the system fails women and girls. This goes without saying.

The point is, that the Musk (Reform) media machine wants us to think is that the threat is from outside - from 'them.' While we are busy feeding into the fear and 'othering' a minority, we are distracted from the fact that the real threat is from within. The phone in your son's hand is far more of a threat to women than the average guy who arrives here in a dingy. Musk gives a platform to misogyny: free porn for all; a platform to the likes of Andrew Tate and the incel movement; our children are more confused than ever and questioning what a woman is - all this is fuelled by Elon Musk's X and other media. Yet we're all meant to 'look over there' and believe that the greatest danger to women are this 1% of migrants. When are children are being potentially groomed online (ideologically) in more ways than we can even comprehend and the only voices that get heard are the most shrill because people just want easy scapegoats.

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I’ve been to 2 African countries and had to get a guide for safety, went to Egypt and was followed constantly by men, leered at like a bit of meat daily in Tunisia and nearly gang raped in Turkey. Recently when visiting someone in high rise flats where it’s all asylum seekers I had to get a lift full of men who were leering openly at me but smiling as if they thought it was nice, the woman I hosted said she cannot let her teenage daughter out.
I will not be gaslit to believe that we have the same experience here in Uk. Yes there’s awful men here but there is a major difference in societal attitudes as to what is acceptable or not

storyinside · Today 11:29

Somerford · Today 11:23

In my town, we have experienced lots of negative impacts as a result of hotels being used as asylum seeker accommodation. We are now seeing rafts of planning applications for houses being converted to HMOs as the government looks to end the use of hotels. The negative impacts we experienced from the hotels will now be moved into our streets and firms like Serco will use our own money to compete against me and my children in our housing market.

My life would have been better if years of illegal immigration had not occurred, it will be better when it stops and these men leave.

Well good luck with that. I have to go out now, may come back later.

Somerford · Today 11:49

storyinside · Today 11:29

Well good luck with that. I have to go out now, may come back later.

No need really. You agreed that the boats should stop so the main topic of discussion is resolved. I don't think you presented good arguments for anything that we disagreed on aside from that and your posts were sharply declining in quality as the discussion evolved, we're probably finished here I would think.

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