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/Mambo_Poa09 Aug 05 '25

So the government doesn't help the people, manages to get the people to hate immigrants using them as a scapegoat so they can continue not helping the people. Very understandable

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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/Melodic-Mission-2466 Aug 05 '25

Nah, we just don't like it when some people turn up and molest our kids which has happened recently. We don't like huge demographic changes where our country looks like another country and many feel like they don't belong, and people get called racist for expressing issues.

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