smiling assassin wrote: ↑22 Mar 2023, 17:39
Fray Bentos wrote: ↑22 Mar 2023, 11:49
banjo wrote: ↑22 Mar 2023, 11:42
But they won't, just like the Tories because they aren't going to be the victims of foreign criminals or terrorists, it's the everyday people going about their business who suffer the brunt of that.
If I know enough about the poster you're quoting, he doesn't want anyone who doesn't look like him here, that includes your wife and your kids.
If it was just the case of kicking out foreign criminals and layabouts, we would all be for that.

I don’t want England to lose anymore of its identity.
Im not against immigration full stop as I understand our NHS for one would not be able to run. What I am against is places being lost to immigration, parts of east London I should imagine are unrecognisable to what it was 50 years ago.
I see more mosques than ever and hear more foreign languages walking down the street than I ever had before.
If this makes me a racist to some so be it. I’m not going to change my view because it goes against the grain.
I am not trolling you here, don't misunderstand it but the concept of England is foreign - the Angle tribe moved en masse from what was southern Denmark and northern Germany to these islands and it was that long ago in the great scheme of things.
The English language closet relation is Friesland language which is a Dutch language - 200 years ago, A Norfolk farmer and a Friesland farmer could have had a conversation with each other. A lot of the language is actually French with legal and military/police/cooking/animals coming from French and Latin.
British citizenship began with all the then British Empire being citizens - you could be black white, brown or whatever and be British from the concept of that citizenship (same with the Spanish...)
English identity does not come from these islands in the first place, the great thing about British and English identity is that it is a living organic culture which can change which is good because the day it can't or it won't - it will die.
I read something interesting the other day - I joined something called gedmatch which is a site where you put your ancestry DNA on this site - you can contact who are your blood relatives - even ones whose shared ancestry from 300 years ago, anyway, I have loads of these Swedish and Russian ancestors and I wrote to one of them and they wrote back and they were nice about it and they said 'look, if you go back as far as you have to link our common ancestor then we're not really related because if you go back a thousand years, then all Europeans are related to each other' and I thought 'well, that's bullshit' well, turns out that person was right - we only have to go back to King Harold and we all share common DNA with him.
Go back another 500-1000 years and we're all related to each other whatever colour or whoever we pray to in whatever continent we come from - we are all one big family - mankind.
2000 years and we are all interconnected by blood and ancestry, those people on the boats - they're your family, your relatives, your kith and kin as am I - and I love and pray for you to accept everyone as your family no matter where they are from.
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