Any issue will be used or weaponised by people who have a particular focus/obsession with that issue, and that’s always been the case. But I fundamentally disagree with this notion that if not for this ‘weaponisation’ people wouldn’t have the opinions or feelings they do about it. The feeling exists around immigration because of the level of immigration, which (over the last 20 years or so) has been unprecedented in modern British history.
I completely agree with you on the fecking other countries point however, which is why my sympathy is severely limited. Britain should shoulder the main European responsibility for the current migration crisis given its complicity in Iraq, Libya etc. I wish there was an international agreement detailing the binding humanitarian responsibilities countries should face when engaging in conflict. I bet Governments would be a lot less willing to engage in such conflicts as a result.
It had been definitely weaponised. The Schrodinger immigrant that steal your job but have unemployment benefits.
Guess who is not voting. Immigrants. They can dehumanize them, you can accuse them to steal a job (that you will never do in your life). You can accuse them to steal when politicians steal many thousands more because they can't have their votes. And why they tell us, look at these feckers, they are coming for your things, is to deviate from the real thieves. Them.
Your mortgage goes up more than double? Hey! look! immigrants! We did feck all with affordable housing? Hey look! immigrants! The house market crashes in 2008 due to uncontrolled greed and we save the banks with public money to never return? Hey look! immigrants! We have a 10% inflation, half of if pure greed of companies taking the opportunity to overinflate prices? Hey look! immigrants! We are selling arms to Saudi Arabia, participating in Iraq and Afghanistan with lies reaping the benefits and enjoying the taxes with it? Hey look! immigrants! During COVID inequality went even more rampant the poor being poorer and the rich getting filth richier? Hey look! immigrants! COVID enquire? Hey look! immigrants!
And I could keep going. Immigration had been used ALWAYS to blame for a bad situation in a country. It happened with the Jews in europe when the black plague (among other moments) when they were doing better than the regular population. It happened in nazi germany to galvanize the movement and is happening now
Sure immigration poses challenges but is magnified and weaponized for electoralism. Lots of these challenges caused by the governments themselves by the way. And yes, these challenges needs to be heard, address and try to be solved not only for the sake of the locals, but for the immigrants also. But immigration is needed if you want to keep the society that we have and also, lets have a fecking heart, they are human beings as me and you and most of them just want to have a normal like us. And we are just to the "right" country by chance. Not because we are better. And is not that we even mind immigration, we mind POOR PEOPLE. Also, as this is the Brexit, Inside the EU, the UK was always capable to deal with its own immigration, even European one.
I hate hearing
@Stanley Road and others with a flair of "we are the good immigration" with a nonchalant tone "I am not an economic immigrant my dear". The sheer entitlement of the ones that are lucky to do whatever the feck they want.
What comes around comes around. And might not be for, we privileged, but for our sons and grandsons