Nick should leave London and go live in the countryside - that’s the only place where traditional British values are alive and well.
Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK
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#103I had to stop, it has some fairly nasty content in it (e.g. making jokes about LGBT people or not, taxes being spent on second generation immigrants).
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And it’s actually good. Immigration does not do 30 year olds any favours. It only helps businesses and pensioners.
It helps everyone, migrants pay more taxes than they get out of the system in benefits. Plus they often do jobs that many people wouldn't otherwise
Regarding the taxation argument. That may have been true in the past (it doesn't account that many of these people stay and then will need to supported when they become elderly) but under the "Boris Wave" immigration boom that is no longer the case.
It doesn't address the other problems such as social cohesion.
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Most of Africa which mostly hasn't been bombed by the West. Billions of charity investment.
Oh come on, Africa has been absolutely stripped of all its huge commodity, mineral and material wealth by the west for more than a century.
Africa is not a unique victim. Plenty of parts of the world have had mass enslavement, wars, genocide, pillaging, colonisation and are on their way up.
Even North Korea is more well developed despite being an isolated communist state run by a mafia.
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#106I had to stop, it has some fairly nasty content in it (e.g. making jokes about LGBT people or not, taxes being spent on second generation immigrants).
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27% of Brits think it's acceptable to make jokes about trans people if you aren't trans yourself: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/entertainment/trackers/do-brits-...
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Well of course you don’t believe me, it goes against your narrative. But I’m sure someone living in Taiwan knows better than someone British currently in the UK. Also that is quite an overreach on basic observations that are generally agreed upon and weren't anti-capitalist.
I don't believe you because I live in the UK and the idea that people don't celebrate Christmas is beyond moronic. The shops start doing Christmas stuff the day after Halloween. It's unending Christmas songs for two months. Tell me you seriously didn't notice this.
Shops != schools. Go to a school, they are brainwashing children.
Shops will do whatever makes them profit, they are not strictly run by the government.
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#108As someone sympathetic to this, throwing in the culture war stuff (make jokes about LGBT etc) is a massive own goal and makes it so easy for people to discredit. This could have far more cross-party support but it's just going to amuse the people who already agreed with it and make everyone else think it's the alt-right letting the mask slip..
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On one hand, I can understand your frustration at demographic & social changes. Everybody would be offended at that, no matter their race/nationality. On another, I think you're channeling your angst towards the wrong direction. Over the past 30-80 years, Western countries collected social security contributions from workers but instead of investing/saving them, spent it all like tax. To fund pensions for that now-ag…
> So, here are your options:
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2. Expel every single immigrant
3. Maintain the current model
How about another, more nuanced option: let in those immigrants who are willing to work (and, ideally, integrate), and not everybody?
And also, crack down on illegal employment. Maybe being an undeclared, underpaid cook in some EU restaurant is better than being bombed in Syria or shot by some random dictator's goons in Africa, but that doesn't really help the local society if it's unfair competition. If you accept people in, insist that they have papers and can afford to be regular members of society.
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And it’s actually good. Immigration does not do 30 year olds any favours. It only helps businesses and pensioners.
It helps everyone, migrants pay more taxes than they get out of the system in benefits. Plus they often do jobs that many people wouldn't otherwise
This really depends on the quality of the migrants coming.
The immigration policies of my home country Sweden has been detrimental for the Swedes.
I live in Zürich and there are a lot of foreigners here. Here it’s not so clear cut if it’s for the better or for the worse.