Morning @Reform Disco Have you been driven out? Or are you still able to post freely? Just asking, because you constantly kept referring to the Original Post.
I’m ready to have a sensible discussion: what are the 5 things that distress you about what is happening to this country, and why.
I was left wing then moved over to the far right wing as I grew older, the reason being I could cross the ball better with my right foot.
9 pages in and I genuinely have no idea what this thread is actually about. Happy Friday BBS. Never change!
I can't believe how stupid people are in this country if I'm honest. We've got bankers, big business and energy companies creaming billions off the population and where do these people direct their hate at when there is a hint of winter fuel payments being scrapped- yes, let's pile on the most vulnerable in society it is their fault. And they go on about society being brainwashed haha! Nothing more than a thinly veiled excuse to be a ******* racist.
Individuals who engaged in illegal activity should and are being punished for crimes and I welcome that for sure, but I'm asking more about the areas that were effected.
It was previous government policy to house asylum seekers in constituencies that didn't have a Tory MP.
We don't all live in the Barnsley South constituency, where Stephanie Peacock took 46.7% of the vote. Barnsley North, where Dan Jarvis took 50.4% of the vote, Penistone and Stocksbridge, where Marie Tidball got 43.6% or Rawmarsh & Conisborough where John Heeley took 49%. Some live much further afield. I notice all of these are much higher than the 31.8%, which would be half the poll result.
The areas that had the worst riots are among those with the lowest immigration. Yes, even Rotherham has a lower than the national average Muslim population. I haven't looked into the details, but that probably ties in with weakest local economies and lowest education attainment. Immigrants don't want to live in areas with fewer, lower paid jobs (and increasingly can't under the new rules) and the locals are more afraid of anything different.