- Mon Aug 25, 2025 9:09 pm
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Maybe, once upon a time, we had a dedicated thread to talk about this, but I think it’s gone. Maybe time for a new discussion.
Apparently, according to the most recent polling, the issue of asylum and immigration is the most important issue for voters. The number one, most serious and urgent issue facing the country, more important even than the economy & the cost of living, and the NHS.
What has caused this startling change in peoples’ priorities ?
Well, right-wing agitators, Farage, Reform, Badenoch, Yaxley-Lennon, the Daily Mail, the Express, etc, etc, etc. The burgeoning figures on small fucking boats in a summer of fine weather and calm waters sur la manche.
My own view? I’m skeptical, annoyed, disappointed, bewildered even, and yes, even a bit scared. See, the thing is, I am incredibly relaxed on the “issue” of immigration (and I sometimes wonder if I’m the only one in the country). I really don’t care if increasing numbers of people want to come and share their lives with us here in the UK. In fact I welcome it. It is cultural enrichment and economic benefit for the UK I do recognise that there is an issue about small boat crossings, and that these need to be curtailed, but I’m happy that our government is doing its absolute best to address things and will achieve a resolution of sorts of the issue in time. And I absolutely hate the racism, the hatred, the xenophobia, the bogus patriotism that is being deliberately whipped up by cunts for their own short-term electoral benefit. I want desperately to believe that British people are better than that. I don’t want to live in a country where those hateful attitudes prevail.
Apparently, according to the most recent polling, the issue of asylum and immigration is the most important issue for voters. The number one, most serious and urgent issue facing the country, more important even than the economy & the cost of living, and the NHS.
What has caused this startling change in peoples’ priorities ?
Well, right-wing agitators, Farage, Reform, Badenoch, Yaxley-Lennon, the Daily Mail, the Express, etc, etc, etc. The burgeoning figures on small fucking boats in a summer of fine weather and calm waters sur la manche.
My own view? I’m skeptical, annoyed, disappointed, bewildered even, and yes, even a bit scared. See, the thing is, I am incredibly relaxed on the “issue” of immigration (and I sometimes wonder if I’m the only one in the country). I really don’t care if increasing numbers of people want to come and share their lives with us here in the UK. In fact I welcome it. It is cultural enrichment and economic benefit for the UK I do recognise that there is an issue about small boat crossings, and that these need to be curtailed, but I’m happy that our government is doing its absolute best to address things and will achieve a resolution of sorts of the issue in time. And I absolutely hate the racism, the hatred, the xenophobia, the bogus patriotism that is being deliberately whipped up by cunts for their own short-term electoral benefit. I want desperately to believe that British people are better than that. I don’t want to live in a country where those hateful attitudes prevail.
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