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I'm not familiar with this article yet but the British home office's political purpose to Tory governments is to antagonize immigrants and similar acts to appea
by mhh__ 5y ago
I'm not familiar with this article yet but the British home office's political purpose to Tory governments is to antagonize immigrants and similar acts to appease hardline (racist, I won't mince my words) elements of British society. Priti Patel is taking this particularly seriously, so as a result of her own incompetence and fascistic tendencies, we might do something really quite stupid.
There's geopolitics to play here, so I expect the UK will take on Ukrainians regardless of domestic pandering (Eastern European migration is not seen positively by many British people).
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago>Eastern European migration is not seen positively by many British people Which is incredibly ironic. I love how Jimmy Carr put it: "These damn Romanians and Bulgarians, coming over here, stealing the jobs of our Poles." LOL Or that British TV show 'Benefits Street' or something like that, where the only house on the street who's inhabitants were not on welfare and actually had jobs, was full of Romanians.
- mhh__ 5y agoExactly. We have a rotten political system (and political class), but many cannot fathom their surrounding and thus we end up blaming immigrants and the poor as per usual.