Jim Ratcliffe - claims the UK is being “colonised”

[Ho Chi Man City]

I see Burnham's gone in two-footed!

As Denis Healey once said, “that’s like being savaged by a dead sheep”.

 

[Ho Chi Man City]

Thread needs merging with Kier Starmer, The Labour Party, Reform, Donald Trump and any other political shit, it’s fucking boring in the extreme mostly frequented by a load of like minded posters, they don’t debate, they lecture, not for me, toodle pip.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Scruffy little racist.

 

[Rascal]

Fully aware that this will fall on deaf ears on here but have a look at the stats...

winner winner chicken dinner

Manchester - no longer majority white British, with a drop of over 10% in the ten years between 2011-2021. Expected to fall significantly further by the time of the next census in 2031.

why The city of Manchester is
57% white
21% asian
12% black

Leicester - 60% belong to ethnic minorities.

Did you know there are more Christians in Leicester and it is one of the most harmonious cities in the UK

London - in 1991, the population of London was 80% white British in 2021 it was 36%. It is expected by 2031, that will have dropped significantly more.

iN 2021 IT WAS 53% white

Birmingham - dropped by 10% in 10 years. A minority white city.

English schools - White British children in English schools are dropping at a rate of 2% every 2 years,

demographics duh!

in less than 10 years it is predicted that it will drop below 50% of all students in England.

By who?

There are state funded schools in England where there are NO White British children.

There have been jewish schools in England since 1657. There has always been catholic schools, CofE schools,

There are nearly 500 schools where White British children make up less than 2% and 1 in 4 of ALL schools they are the minority.

Birmingham is 48% white.

Now let us ask the questions.

1/ why does somebodies skin pigment matter to you?

2/ Do you have more in common with a black lad who is a brickie or a white billionaire?

3/ If you are concerned about integration, why is it that the three times elected mayor of London is of asian heritage?

4/ why are you frightened?

 

[meltonblue]

Twice now you've tried to turn this into Political point scoring, sorry I don't play that game.

What are you going on about?! It’s just a fact, we now have conflicting definitions in law.

I’m not saying it to politically point score, I’m saying it so people don’t turn into idiots.

 

[domalino]

‘Invaded’ ‘colonised’ ‘overrun’ all stupid words to use in this context.
‘Poorly managed’ immigration would be nearer the mark.

They’re not stupid, they’re racially charged and deliberately playing into the great white replacement theory.

Colonising is something that is done on purpose and with a specific aim, and the country on the receiving end is powerless to stop it.

Colonisers don’t come to join a country, they rule it, they don’t join the local populace but are separate from it.

It’s not an accidental choice of language and he repeated it multiple times, it wasn’t just a slip of the tongue.

You can see it in the response Farage has given today where he talked about “signs not in English” in London. As Farage knows, there’s 2 signs not in English in London, at the Underground stations for Whitechapel and Southall, where they put up 1 sign in Bengali (over a decade ago) and 1 in Punjabi a few years ago to celebrate the contributions to the local community of the immigrant populations that arrived in the 50s and 60s - who came here because we colonised them.

But Farage wants his voters to think it’s because we’re being replaced. He’s less bothered about the Latin signs National Rail put up near Roman ruins in Tyneside of course. And presumably he’s never been to Wales.

Farage notably repeated Ratcliffe’s lies about the population numbers without correcting them, but added that 1m people in the uk don’t speak English (it’s 150,000) and 4m couldn’t speak it well (it’s 800,000).

All of these lies are not just about immigration anxiety, they’re deliberately playing into far right tropes and conspiracies about white people being deliberately replaced.


So what Jim said might not have been explicitly racist like using the N word, but his use of that racially charged language betrays his thinking, and if you actually explore that thinking it is deeply xenophobic.

I think it’s also quite important he didn’t apologise for using that word, after all the furore and no doubt having had it explained to him. He could have if it was a mistake.

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

Farage, Ratcliffe, racist reform………appears not to know Man U have a team made up of immigrants staff and fans …….coach loads of immigrants every week they rely on sales in the club shop.

Farage “that’s okay then” …….”they have business here and earn millions” and live in Monaco

 

[youngbob]

Fully aware that this will fall on deaf ears on here but have a look at the stats...

Manchester - no longer majority white British, with a drop of over 10% in the ten years between 2011-2021. Expected to fall significantly further by the time of the next census in 2031.

Leicester - 60% belong to ethnic minorities.

London - in 1991, the population of London was 80% white British in 2021 it was 36%. It is expected by 2031, that will have dropped significantly more.

Birmingham - dropped by 10% in 10 years. A minority white city.

English schools - White British children in English schools are dropping at a rate of 2% every 2 years, in less than 10 years it is predicted that it will drop below 50% of all students in England. There are state funded schools in England where there are NO White British children. There are nearly 500 schools where White British children make up less than 2% and 1 in 4 of ALL schools they are the minority.

There's a colossal difference between immigrant populations simply increasing in a particular country and that country being actively, deliberately colonised.

Colonisation is a purposeful and aggressive tactic used by invading forces in order to rule over a foreign land. Immigration is just people moving from one place to another.

 

[bluethrunthru]

There are state funded schools in England where there are NO White British children.

72 schools out of a total of 32k+ total number of schools in the UK - can't be arsed doing the maths but as I am sure you can imagine the %age will be minuscule

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

They're really not happy...

Good on em. Top rant

 

[bluethrunthru]

Its Ratner without the naive charm though in fairness both are peddling crap

 

[KS55]

They’re not stupid, they’re racially charged and deliberately playing into the great white replacement theory.

Colonising is something that is done on purpose and with a specific aim, and the country on the receiving end is powerless to stop it.

Colonisers don’t come to join a country, they rule it, they don’t join the local populace but are separate from it.

It’s not an accidental choice of language and he repeated it multiple times, it wasn’t just a slip of the tongue.

You can see it in the response Farage has given today where he talked about “signs not in English” in London. As Farage knows, there’s 2 signs not in English in London, at the Underground stations for Whitechapel and Southall, where they put up 1 sign in Bengali (over a decade ago) and 1 in Punjabi a few years ago to celebrate the contributions to the local community of the immigrant populations that arrived in the 50s and 60s - who came here because we colonised them.

But Farage wants his voters to think it’s because we’re being replaced. He’s less bothered about the Latin signs National Rail put up near Roman ruins in Tyneside of course. And presumably he’s never been to Wales.

Farage notably repeated Ratcliffe’s lies about the population numbers without correcting them, but added that 1m people in the uk don’t speak English (it’s 150,000) and 4m couldn’t speak it well (it’s 800,000).

All of these lies are not just about immigration anxiety, they’re deliberately playing into far right tropes and conspiracies about white people being deliberately replaced.


So what Jim said might not have been explicitly racist like using the N word, but his use of that racially charged language betrays his thinking, and if you actually explore that thinking it is deeply xenophobic.

I think it’s also quite important he didn’t apologise for using that word, after all the furore and no doubt having had it explained to him. He could have if it was a mistake.

Apologies where people say ‘I’m sorry to those who were offended etc’are not real apologies.

 

[west didsblue]

Farage, Ratcliffe, racist reform………appears not to know Man U have a team made up of immigrants staff and fans …….coach loads of immigrants every week they rely on sales in the club shop.

Farage “that’s okay then” …….”they have business here and earn millions” and live in Monaco

Also scruffy Jim doesn’t appear to recognise the hypocrisy of living in a country where over 75% of the population are foreigners, so using his definition, he is one of the colonisers.

 

[KS55]

“Signs not in English”. There are several signs in Haworth and the Brontë country which are in Japanese to cater for marauding eastern invaders who love the Brontes.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

“Signs not in English”. There are several signs in Haworth and the Brontë country which are in Japanese to cater for marauding eastern invaders who love the Brontes.

He's obviously never seen a Croeso y Cymru or fàilte gu Alba sign on his travels in the UK.

 

[hilts]

If we're talking numbers then, speaking the concern expressed in some right wing circles (particularly in the US) that the UK will soon be a muslim country, in the 2011 census, around 4% of the UK population was muslim. In the 2021 census that had risen to 6%. So, on that trajectory, the UK will become majority muslim in about 220 years from now (and yes, I know this a very simplistic straight line projection but you get the idea). So - nice headlines but a long way from the facts.

Also worth noting that the demographics of large cities such as London and Manchester are not representative of the majority of the UK. I live in Warrington - a large town of around quarter of a million people, quite close to Manchester but very different demographics (93% white British according to the 2011 census). Not better or worse, I should stress, just different.

I'm hoping you're not a maths teacher:-)

 

[Blue and true]

They’re not stupid, they’re racially charged and deliberately playing into the great white replacement theory.

Colonising is something that is done on purpose and with a specific aim, and the country on the receiving end is powerless to stop it.

Colonisers don’t come to join a country, they rule it, they don’t join the local populace but are separate from it.

It’s not an accidental choice of language and he repeated it multiple times, it wasn’t just a slip of the tongue.

You can see it in the response Farage has given today where he talked about “signs not in English” in London. As Farage knows, there’s 2 signs not in English in London, at the Underground stations for Whitechapel and Southall, where they put up 1 sign in Bengali (over a decade ago) and 1 in Punjabi a few years ago to celebrate the contributions to the local community of the immigrant populations that arrived in the 50s and 60s - who came here because we colonised them.

But Farage wants his voters to think it’s because we’re being replaced. He’s less bothered about the Latin signs National Rail put up near Roman ruins in Tyneside of course. And presumably he’s never been to Wales.

Farage notably repeated Ratcliffe’s lies about the population numbers without correcting them, but added that 1m people in the uk don’t speak English (it’s 150,000) and 4m couldn’t speak it well (it’s 800,000).

All of these lies are not just about immigration anxiety, they’re deliberately playing into far right tropes and conspiracies about white people being deliberately replaced.


So what Jim said might not have been explicitly racist like using the N word, but his use of that racially charged language betrays his thinking, and if you actually explore that thinking it is deeply xenophobic.

I think it’s also quite important he didn’t apologise for using that word, after all the furore and no doubt having had it explained to him. He could have if it was a mistake.

Excellent post. Likes a good lie, does Farage; I'm only surprised he hasn't emblazoned those fictitious figures across a bus.
The reason the likes of Farage and Trump are able to lie so flagrantly is because the political climate allows them to do it unchallenged. It's post-truth and it'll get worse before it gets better.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

They're really not happy...

Conflicted here - if he makes a half decent point in some of it, am I giving it a like or staying true to my word in thinking he's usually a complete twat so no like? :-)

P.s. When did he start so closely resembling some sort of haunted waxwork...........?

 

[Zabbasbeard]

Dissent? You fucking cheat Brooks. He had hold of him for ages.