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It's fascinating isn't it, the naivety of this lot. As they Realise we're being administered by Neoliberal WEF androids dressed in either a blue or a red skin suit.

I clicked reform but it doesn't matter. As long as the Marxist, skintellectuals that majority staff every facet of govt stay gainfully employed, nothing will change. The front men, i.e political parties are but a distraction........... #burndownthecivilservice

This popped up on my YT feed this morning, it's 20 minutes of pure cope, immigration barely gets a mention until near the end. #selfwritingcomedy

For a country / ideology / empire to last/work its leaders should be ethnically homogeneous to the majority population. Reinforcing culture and customs is vital to a country's longevity, identity hence the mess we're now in. It's never sat well with me seeing who we have currently running the country and the regions as their loyalties are to their motherlands not ours. Again see the two-tier policing we're now witnessing during the recent protests around remembrance day. Sure we need good relationships with our neighbours but we don't need submerging by them on the Altar of political correctness or some imagined slight from an over amplified minority. And from my own experiences of emigration to Canada and Australia where I was required in both cases to have a job to go to a signed undertaking that I wouldn't be claiming any form of benefit and in the case of Canada bring six figures with me and speak French. I find it impossible to feel empathy towards the detritus that's being imported into this country that not only is a net drain on us (housing & benefits) but serves to harm us along the way not only culturally, politically but in the case of Dublin literally. An 'isolated' incident that many unlimited immigration apologists, (some on this forum)would have you believe that somehow happen on a worryingly frequent basis. There is no solution to this other than an immediate cessation of all immigration for a generation and the deportation of the many hundreds of thousands that reside here, the product of a captured civil service, bent solicitors and an apathetic (bought) govt. But that will never happen................. PR may help get political voices heard other than the two party irrelevance that masquerades as democracy but I can't see that happening as why would the two main parties wish to relinquish the reins of power? #blackpilled

Nothing personal but I have a hard time with people telling me this current shower are brexiteers / right wing. Post brexit we wasted three years whilst all parties tried to figure out how to close it down. You saw explicitly then the disconnect between parliamentary democracy and direct democracy, given over two thirds of sitting MP's are pro EU. The majority of the front bench are Tony Blair obsessives, technocratic liberals in conservative skin suits if you will. They are owned and do as they're told, just like Labour will prove to be. Put simply if a govt can essentially institute marshall law during lockdown then logic dictates a simple closing of a border should be child's play and it is. Yet apparently for reasons best known to them it's all but impossible. The truth is there's no political will to close the border. Imo the immigration issue is a catch 22; "If we don't allow unlimited migration who's gonna staff the NHS, drive the trucks, pick the fruit and build the houses?" All the while overlooking: Why the NHS is at breaking point. Why we need ever more economic activity to support an exploding populus. Why more food needs growing and Why more houses need building................ #peterhitchinswasright

Your first point certainly explains the quality issues on new builds. Second point is moot, no one UK born and bred with many years of experience is coming out of retirement for £12-18 ph and why they'll be significant labour problems hence why most sites are populated almost exclusively by migrants. Same as NHS, Hospitality, HGV driving, Farm labour; if your business model relies on exploiting cheap migrant labour you don't have a business. Job vacancies are rising along with the number of migrants coming here. Fwiw the last site I worked in 2015 I was earning £40 ph, the recruiter for the main agent tried to get me on board another project the following year offering me less than half that. Apropos your last point, it's a combination of corporate greed and political manipulation. Plus I knew very well what I was voting for, the only difference is our traitorous and weak politicians had no stomach for the fight (out of the eu) that the electorate clearly voted for and wanted. All Brexit proved is that our govt is owned and as previously stated the unlimited immigration we're now experiencing is punishment for letting us plebs get above our station..........

Regardless, we do not have the housing capacity nor the financial resources and if you pay attention to what's happening on ours streets, never wanted the numbers being inflicted upon us these last two decades. The bigger problem is the international 'student' who brings over mum, dad, brother, sister, grandma and grandpa. Then once granted said visa promptly disappears into the ether. And yes it will create the mother of all homelessness problems, but you believe whatever you want to........... #headintheclouds

Ah, but we can't do that 'cos it's 'racist' as everyone landing here are coming from warzones like..............(checks notes).........Northern France and continental Europe. #unlimitedmigrationhasnothingtodowiththelackofhousinghonest On a serious note; unlimited immigration into the UK is a punishment beating for Brexit, nothing more nothing less and will continue to negatively impact the housing mkt for years to come.

Still coping I see.......... #cope

You're making my point for me, as I said: #cope

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#cope

I don't know where you've been these last few years, or what your morals are but you'll find here in the UK many people take great offence to migrants, especially from sub saharan Africa and the Indian sub continent who have been welcomed with open arms, who later go on to: Murder/Behead innocent local people commit motiveless violent attacks on local people Treat woman like chattel sexually abuse, local people as well as their own traffic people, rape local children on an industrial scale, kill local people for being gay, kill local people for not believing in God, Honour kill their own. Bring their own countries political problems to our doorstep with all the attendant social / cultural problems that causes. Spend their entire life in the UK on the dole claiming every last penny whilst never giving back. You see It's being going on an awfully long time here in the UK and many of us are growing rather tired of them. And speaking for myself, tired of watching the uk slowly terraforming into a 3rd world $hithole, whilst our politicians and Police look away. But you, like so many prize, virtuousness above anything above..............

What bull$hit would that be?

And yet, you're still here? #projection

This is what I tell my mates and have done for years; that what we're living through, (a massively overinflated property mkt) is a recent phenomenon, a function of an out of control credit mkt and deviant govt policy. But most in my circle see it as normal that a $hitty ex council house is a 'bargain' at around £400k How quickly they've forgotten, in my view that round my way you could buy a decent 3/4 bed house for around 90k to 100k at the turn of the 21st century that now sell for over half a million. Given the handouts culture and the numbers coming to the UK, it's no wonder we're spending £13bn a month in interest alone to service govt debt, roll on the collapse..............

U ok Hun?

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The realities of going green:

One of the best posts I've read here. 👍 I was thinking the other day how brutal the 89 recession was, not least because our family home got repo'd in 92 and parents split. But It dawned on me that the studio flat I bought in Southampton in 1999 for £31,950 had previously been bought by the original owner in 1988 for £54,000. So The poor sod had an 11 year nightmare B4 throwing the towel in and selling to me at a 30% loss. Got a feeling it's going to be way worse this time for the reasons mentioned above, (no decent paying jobs to support prices and interest rates returning to long term average.) Edit: my mortgage was 6.5% with the Derbyshire BS and was £170 a month, it was half the monthly cost of the flat I was renting in Bedford place for £350 pcm. I sold in Dec 2000 for £49500, the women who bought it from me sold it for £86k in 2002, it peaked at £90k in 2014 but now they sell for £85k (2022 price).

U ok Hun?

"You can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality". Ayn Rand

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Wow, comeback kids in town.