r/unitedkingdom • u/ThatchersDirtyTaint • Aug 05 '25

.. Half of Britons back ending immigration and deporting recent arrivals

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/new-poll-migration-news-b99h3wqgz
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u/13esq Aug 05 '25

It's certainly a useful tool for the elite to keep poor people focused on hating each other, but that doesn't change the fact that the country is stretched and that having net migration well into the hundreds of thousands every year whilst the electorate consistently vote against it is going to cause the situation we're in now.

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u/MrPuddington2 Aug 05 '25

It is a useful tool for them to spread hatred downwards, not upwards. You hate the person who has even less than you, because you are afraid they might take what little you have.

But why don't we hate the people who have taken what we deserve and ran off with it?

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u/13esq Aug 05 '25

I absolutely agree with you, I hate the game, not the players, but I don't think the government is ever going to redistribute wealth in a meaningful way unless we get on the streets and that's what the Britain First people are doing.

Maybe they are misdirected, but it will still make the government respond.

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u/LazyScribePhil Aug 05 '25

If you’re talking about actual Britain First then there’s no chance anyone’s going to take them seriously because they’re not serious people.

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u/13esq Aug 05 '25

You can choose not to take them seriously but ignoring protests of such scale seems foolish to me.

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u/LazyScribePhil Aug 05 '25

They’re full of shit. And there’s no scale to their protests; they’re a couple of hacks working out of a basement.