Jim Ratcliffe - claims the UK is being “colonised”

mackenzie said:
Absobloodylutely. ;-)

And strangely enough the 2 that I remember in the last few years (that moved onto that team...at district office obviously) were 2 of the laziest bastards who thought themselves too sodding precious to deal with the "real" stuff at "grunt" level.
They were much cosier in their added "bubble."
The useless twats.
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The scourge of the non-jobber.
 
Good to see someone with JR’s billions is still in touch with the real world
 
domalino said:
Farage today said he plans to scrap the equality act by the way.

And reduce minimum wage, which (to steer us back on topic a bit) will be great news for billionaires like Ratcliffe.
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Not to support Farage, but reducing the minimum wage is needed. I work in the charity sector and manage a couple of youth employment projects. Youth Unemployment is at 16.1% and competition for the entry level types of jobs that young people would typically progress into as education leavers is ridiculously high, because many of the roles that don't return almost £13 per hour's worth of value to the employer have gone.

In addition, the charity sector itself is on it's absolute arse. One of the biggest charities in my town has closed because they can no longer afford staffing costs and generally speaking, experienced mental health, employability, substance support workers are fleeing the sector because wages cannot keep pace with the private or public sector, or because the gap between the skilled work that they do and the NMW has (over the period of 4-5 years) gone from being fairly vast to almost non existant.

Pretty terrible when you consider it is the charity sector that picks up the vast amount of people who fall through the gaps of mainstream or state-funded support services. It's a disaster.
 
domalino said:
You love to say people are missing the point, but this thread has shown that everyone knows the reasons for the rise of the far right are because of the bad economy & cuts to public services.

To say "it's not just working class but middle class people" feeling that isn't a new point, it's just rephrasing the same point and pretending you're saying something different. It's also not new, the term "the squeezed middle" is over 20 years old at this point.

And we can know all this and still laugh at people like Robinson, in fact mockery has always been an important aspect of fighting the far right, and it's even more important now that people refuse to let these people get away with their hyporcrisy, lies and grifting.
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That's certainly part of it, but that's not the only reason.

Almost 5% of the population of my town arrived here from overseas in 2023. In 2024, similar numbers came in and they predominantly settled across a small number of wards within close proximity to the town centre - reasonably close to where I live.

I am largely pro-immigration, but this kind of influx completely changes the dynamics of neighbourhoods and it has several knock on quality of life effects. We have a primary school that my colleague sits on the board of where almost 30 different languages are spoken and we have LSOA's where community cohesion is through the floor because we have imported cross-national grievances and swathes of multi-national workless neighbourhoods. We have groups of men very visibly drug dealing and groups of men and women sitting on their doorsteps drinking all in broad daylight. Most importantly, we have safety concerns in specific areas in relation to men from varying non-British backgrounds, some that have been very serious in nature and have personally impacted family members and neighbours.

This isn't to say we also don't have similar problems with White British men - we most definitely do - but we certainly don't need more of it.

Ultimately, these types of incidents and issues, along with an area suddenly becoming unfamiliar, contribute to people feeling unsafe and/or ultimately less connected to the area they grew up in.

Perhaps some of the people who are slightly uneasy about rising levels of immigration are more bothered by these types of issues than they are about cuts or the economy.
 
Manchester_lalala said:



This video appears to have gained a lot of attention. Whitechapel comes across as a bit of a hostile area.
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If I grasped what was going on from that clip, "You don't have to listen to his hate speech" doesn't sound like how to deal with hate speech.
 
hilts said:
If you're unhappy with someone based on the colour of their skin you are a ****, there is no exception to this. You can be unhappy with a culture that treats women poorly or a culture of wearing lederhosen. One of those seems fair enough the other more of a why are you arsed you dont have to wear them scenario. Neither would make you a ****.
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You would definitely be a **** if you wore lederhosen in The Claremont.
 
Manchester_lalala said:
The preacher wasn’t saying anything hateful, full video is on YouTube. She also didn’t say that, unless I missed it.
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So you'd advocate that Muslims use tannoys outside churches on a Sunday to tell the worshippers why their faith is rubbish... and have some idiot trying to video people giving evidence about alleged crimes.
 
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