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chiefdave

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Looking forward - Having worked in technology the biggest threat to working class people is not immigration or if someone wants to dress up as a woman, it's the rapid implementation of AI and the shedding of workforces across Britain. I have seen whole teams disappear in 18 months against an original timeframe of 3 years. The machine learning is frightening. This is only the start and with less people paying taxes or on lower pay there will be even less money to run the country with.
Great post. The problem runs far deeper than 'stop the boats'. You could stop every single boat and very little would actually change.

We have zero plan for how to deal with ever increasing automation. We've ignored it until now and there's massive resistance to any attempt to change work patterns, just look at the response to WFH or the 4 day week.

We've got shit jobs, with poverty wages, that nobody wants that we fill with immigrants, or often illegals who will work for sub-minimum wage. At the same time we've got a ton of people leaving uni with meaningless degrees applying for hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs and getting nowhere.

This has been put off for years by inventing jobs that aren't really needed but the house of cards is close to collapsing with nobody, well nobody in a position to do anything, putting forward any sort of plan to deal with the situation.
 

rob9872

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Great post. The problem runs far deeper than 'stop the boats'. You could stop every single boat and very little would actually change.

We have zero plan for how to deal with ever increasing automation. We've ignored it until now and there's massive resistance to any attempt to change work patterns, just look at the response to WFH or the 4 day week.

We've got shit jobs, with poverty wages, that nobody wants that we fill with immigrants, or often illegals who will work for sub-minimum wage. At the same time we've got a ton of people leaving uni with meaningless degrees applying for hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs and getting nowhere.

This has been put off for years by inventing jobs that aren't really needed but the house of cards is close to collapsing with nobody, well nobody in a position to do anything, putting forward any sort of plan to deal with the situation.
Don't forget to account for the 5m people working on HS2 to end at some point in the next 100 years.
 

mmttww

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Epect it'll get LOL'd out the door, but a big part of why I liked Zara as an MP was how she got behind this.

If there's the will and money for HS2, there's the will and money for this somewhere. Could fix so much.
 

SkyBlueDom26

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Epect it'll get LOL'd out the door, but a big part of why I liked Zara as an MP was how she got behind this.

If there's the will and money for HS2, there's the will and money for this somewhere. Could fix so much.
You liked Zara as an MP, as soon as you said them words it’s impossible to take you seriously.
 

mmttww

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SBT

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and this very smart idea is to align us with how the UAE handles things. Nothing mad about that at all.
This is just Farage making good on his plans to make the UK more like an authoritarian Islamic theocracy where 90% of the population are immigrants.
 

Captain Dart

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Otis

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Tough shit if you’re an immigrant who obeyed all the rules, got a job and learned the language.
I just had this from my friend who lives in Ealing. She has been here 17 years. She is of Pakistani heritage and wears traditional Pakistani clothing. No masks or veils though. More like sari's etc

For her to say this, is very worrying.

I was telling her how much I loved Folkestone and asked how things were going for her in London.

This is her reply ..

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Nick

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I just had this from my friend who lives in Ealing. She has been here 17 years. She is of Pakistani heritage and wears traditional Pakistani clothing. No masks or veils though. More like sari's etc

For her to say this, is very worrying.

I was telling her how much I loved Folkestone and how things were going for her in London.

This is her reply ..

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As always, cowards who target a woman on public transport. (Or anywhere)
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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She is talking of leaving the UK to go and live in Norway. She actually has Norwegian citizenship, as she was born there, but then came to England 17 years ago.

Has her own business here

So sad to hear shit like this.
People feel more emboldened to be overtly racist while the likes of Farage and Robinson light the touch paper.
 

Flying Fokker

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One of the main drivers behind Brexit was to reduce immigration. All it did was replace Poles and Latvians with Pakistanis and Nigerians.
I guess the statistics are out there to back this up?

I found this?
 

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Brighton Sky Blue

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I guess the statistics are out there to back this up?
Before Brexit, most immigration came from within the EU. Now, there is net migration out of the UK back into the EU, and a big increase in non-EU immigration.

 

Otis

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Don't blame her - she'd have a better quality of life there.
I know some will come back with "but she'll be fine and won't get deported."

At first she probably wouldn't of course, but down the line? And why should she stay in a country where her kids are constantly getting racial abuse on a daily basis?

She said it was fine until just over a year ago, but now she has seen a sea change in opinion and anger.

She doesn't even go to the mosque much and is a very lapsed Muslim. Very much more sees her self as westernised

I feel so sorry for her. She's a lovely, kind human being.

Just the wrong colour.
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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I know some will come back with "but she'll be fine and won't get deported."

At first she probably wouldn't of course, but down the line? And why should she stay in a country where her kids are constantly getting racial abuse on a daily basis?

She said it was fine until just over a year ago, but now she has seen a sea change in opinion and anger.

She doesn't even go to the mosque much and is a very lapsed Muslim. Very much more sees her self as westernised

I feel so sorry for her. She's a lovely, kind human being.

Just the wrong colour.
You often hear a sarcastic 'doctors and nurses' comment in response to stuff like this. Which I don't really get, most people immigrating here are doing so for work or study, i.e. to contribute in some way.
 

chiefdave

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I know some will come back with "but she'll be fine and won't get deported."
That's a great line when its not your own life you're talking about. We've already seen things such as the amount you have to earn to get a visa massively shift. When people start making broad statements about kicking anyone in the country on a visa out its bound to be worrying for those here on a visa.

That's before you even consider how comments like that fuel racism. But of course always a step away so people like Farage can say they haven't made a racist comment while clearly whipping things up.
 

Otis

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That's a great line when its not your own life you're talking about. We've already seen things such as the amount you have to earn to get a visa massively shift. When people start making broad statements about kicking anyone in the country on a visa out its bound to be worrying for those here on a visa.

That's before you even consider how comments like that fuel racism. But of course always a step away so people like Farage can say they haven't made a racist comment while clearly whipping things up.
I have no problem with people wanting to wave flags about, but surely they have seen how this is all being stoked and fired up by the likes of Farage, Musk and Robinson.
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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I have no problem with people wanting to wave flags about, but surely they have seen how this is all being stoked and fired up by the likes of Farage, Musk and Robinson.
As I've now been made aware on the other thread, apparently even a Union flag isn't patriotic enough.
 

Otis

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I just despair sometimes .


So a girl was sexually assaulted getting off a tram in Nottingham.

The police gave a description of the suspect they are looking for. White, skinny build, about 17 years old

The amount of comments underneath the article blaming immigrants is just mind-blowing.

When one was pointed out that the person was white, a following response was "Eastern European! "

Beggars belief doesn't it.

Even though the police are saying the suspect is white, still people are saying it was an immigrant, with absolutely zero facts.
 

Grendel

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I have no problem with people wanting to wave flags about, but surely they have seen how this is all being stoked and fired up by the likes of Farage, Musk and Robinson.

In every photo the Prime Minister has flags on both sides of him
 

Grendel

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Standing behind it for very different reasons.

Starmer isn't trying to promote hate and get people all wound up.

"Stop the Boats"
"Smash the Gangs"
"An Island of Strangers"

He makes immigration one of his major priorities
 

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