Thread by @willsolfiac on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Interesting example in this video of the transformation of Islam in Britain - Mothin Ali's mother didn't wear a niqab, but his wife does. Other than that, I thought it was hilarious that he seems to be claiming that back when the working class had more political power, they didn't see ethnic difference, only their shared 'chains of hardship and debt.' This has always been a left-wing fantasy with very little connection to reality. Working class British people have always strongly opposed mass immigration. It's actually pretty slanderous to claim that people only oppose mass immigration and demographic replacement because Thatcher closed down their steel mills, meaning they fell under the sway of, formerly, the Daily Mail and, latterly, shadowy online right-wing influencers probably funded by the Russians. People opposed it just as strongly in the 60s and 70s before deindustrialisation. False rhetoric like this obscures their agency and desire and willingness to stand up for their identity. On the transformation of Islam thing, I also strongly doubt that any south asian Muslims who won council elections in Britain in the 20th century would ever have screamed allahu akbar in their victory speech The reason the Greens are such an absurd outfit, even by the standards of a political party, is that their project is entirely self-contradictory. They want universalist social liberalism, but supported by the votes of conservative Muslims, they want to fight climate change but are against nuclear power, they want (even more) mass immigration but also more social solidarity."
Vodka & Seledka π¬π§ on X - "The ad is superb in the way all emotionally manipulative content is superb. But its core argument is sinister, and it tells you exactly what @TheGreenParty stands for. The central claim is that Britain's lost unity stems not from shared culture, civic identity, or values - but from shared struggle. This isn't new thinking. It's Marxism wrapped in a contemporary emotional package. The union banner @MothinAli shows - a black man and a white man lifting a chain together - makes the ideology explicit. The oppressed, united against their oppressors. The Green Party just extends that framework to include Islamism alongside socialism, treating both as victim classes deserving coalition. Notice also how the ad handles identity. Mothin awards everyone in his father's workplace an ancestral identity - Jamaican, Bengali, Pakistani. Everyone except the British. They're just "white guys." This isn't innocent. It's a deliberate denial of identity to the majority population on their own soil. And here's what the ad actually gets right, but for entirely the wrong reasons. There was more unity when Mothin's father came here. The photo proves it - a Bengali Muslim man in a suit, clean-shaven, visibly adapted to the society he joined. That adaptation wasn't oppression. It was the correct and functional expectation. Minorities were few, integration was implicitly required, and it worked. What's changed isn't that people forgot their common enemy. What's changed is that large, concentrated diaspora communities no longer feel the need to integrate - because they're big enough to import the cultures they left behind and lobby politically to keep them. Successive generations of British Muslims are becoming less integrated, not more. They increasingly do not identify as British. I drove past a secondary school cultural day this week. Albanian flags, Somali flags, Pakistani flags, Bangladeshi flags. Not a single British flag among the students. That's not a sore sight - it's a dangerous one. The source of Britain's disunity isn't Thatcher, or austerity, or the man in a suit. It's the state's insistence on forcing the majority to adapt to minorities, while branding any resistance as racist or Islamophobic. Those words have lost their power now, because they were used too freely as weapons of submission. The majority can only be silenced for so long. Unity requires shared culture and shared values. There is no shortcut through shared grievance. If Britain doesn't enforce clear, non-negotiable expectations of integration - you adapt, or you leave - the trajectory ends somewhere that looks a great deal more like the Balkans than Sheffield in the 1970s."
Drew Pavlou π¦πΊπΊπΈπΊπ¦πΉπΌ on X - "Mothin Ali’s parents were more integrated than Mothin Ali and his wife today. The second generation actually regressed back into Islamist peasant shit. What a fucking disaster, seriously."
Mahyar Tousi on X - "I’ve been talking about this fascinating regression for 10 years in Britain. We were told second and third generations will automatically integrate regardless of cultures. But in Islamic families, we see a lot of second and third generations becoming more backwards than first."
Sam on X - "I can no longer hold my tongue seeing the utter lies being spread about Britain, our history of migration, and how this country was built into what it is today. For those so deeply buried in fake news, manufactured outrage and billionaire‑funded propaganda, I’m going to lay out ..."
Anglo Futurism Capital LP π¬π§πΏ️ on X - "The history here is broadly accurate. Africans on Hadrian’s Wall, Black individuals in Tudor England, Lascar sailors in the ports, Windrush recruitment after the war. All documented, all real. Nobody serious disputes any of it. What I do dispute is the very obvious trick being played with it. The author lists these facts in rapid sequence across two millennia and the rhetorical effect is to make British diversity feel continuous and substantial throughout history. It was absolutely not. The African soldiers numbered in the hundreds across the entire province. The Black population of Tudor England was perhaps a few hundred in a country of millions. The port communities were geographically concentrated and nationally tiny. Britain was ethnically homogeneous by any honest measure for most of its recorded history. Acknowledging scattered historical presence is not the same as proving the country was always a “crossroads.” The plural of anecdote is not demographic data. The Windrush argument is the author’s strongest ground. Commonwealth citizens were recruited, did essential work, and were treated badly. The 2018 scandal was an institutional betrayal. No argument there. He should have built the entire post around this rather than diluting it. Instead he pivots to the claim that all contemporary immigration concern is billionaire-funded propaganda designed to divide the working class. This is where it falls apart as Zack Polanski adjacent illiterate nonsense. Net migration hit 906,000 in the year to June 2023. That is not a Murdoch editorial. It is ONS data. And it underreports sizably as we all know. Housing completions have not kept pace with population growth for thirty years. GP lists have grown faster than GP numbers. These are lived realities, not culture war talking points. Telling people their concerns are a psyop is not solidarity. It is contempt and lies. His follow-up clarification is the giveaway. Original post: “Britain was never pure, never untouched, never theirs to take back.” Follow-up: “I never said Britain was majority non-white.” Classic motte-and-bailey. Make the bold emotional claim, harvest the shares, then retreat to a position nobody was arguing against when challenged. The audience remembers the rhetoric. The critics get told they cannot read. Boring. The post also conflates fundamentally different things. Roman military deployment, Tudor-era individuals, Victorian port communities, post-war Commonwealth recruitment, and modern migration measured in the hundreds of thousands per year are not the same phenomenon. They have different causes, scales, and policy implications. Calling them all “immigration” and saying “see, we have always done this” flattens every distinction that matters. And the conclusion offers a false binary. Either aim your anger at billionaires or you are a thick pleb. But you CAN oppose elite capture of politics AND think migration policy has been badly managed. You CAN want higher wages AND question whether unlimited labour supply at the lower end helps. The young couple priced out of their town are allowed to ask whether population growth is one factor among many, even if foreign capital and underbuilding are also to blame. The author needs you to pick one enemy. Reality does not work like that. Obviously. The great irony is that by dismissing every concern as manufactured and every critic as manipulated, this kind of post pushes people toward the very extremists it claims to oppose. When you tell someone their lived experience is a lie, they do not thank you for the education. They go and find someone who will take them seriously. See Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” remark and Trump’s 2016 win. Those same people, scorned, may be pushed somewhere Sam here wouldn’t like. Ironically."
Roko π on X - "Before WWII Britain was 99.9% white. The post is a complete lie. The rant about billionaires is dumb zero sum communism. People with very high net worth generally don't affect poorer people because they are unable to actually spend that money on consumption. Instead it gets invested. It also ignores incentives (typical communist) - billionaires often got rich because they did something useful which made the pie bigger."
Leak shows Greens' secret plans to make UK kids 'accept migrants' - "Children would be taught they have a moral obligation to accept immigrants, under radical plans drawn up by the Green Party. The radical Left-wing movement - branded "eco-populist" by their own leader, Zack Polanski - wants to force a new Government department to teach kids about asylum seekers, a leaked dossier reveals. The explosive document, seen by the Daily Express, lays bare plans to slap a legal duty on a new Whitehall department to dish out free legal advice to illegal immigrants. Even those who have lived in Britain illegally for five years would be handed free housing, voting rights and citizenship under the proposals. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp blasted the proposal, saying: "The Green Party want open-border radicalisation in every classroom across the country, while making it easier for illegal immigrants to stay - guaranteeing more crossings and more illegal entries. This mad agenda is completely detached from the views of the British public, who want stronger borders. Only the Conservatives have the team and the plan to deliver this." The plans would see a Department of Migration working hand in glove with education chiefs to "disseminate knowledge" about immigrants to schoolchildren. It would even throw open Britain's borders to anyone from countries with "seriously disturbing public order" and those claiming "persecution" under equality laws... Critics have slammed the proposals as open-border propaganda, with children being taught they have a moral duty to accept unlimited numbers of immigrants."
Lin Mei on X - "I completely understand the frustration of British cities no longer looking “English” but can I ask why English businesses have stopped trading in these same places they complain about. I hardly see independent English/white owned fruit and vege, corner shops, butchers, restaurants etc WHY?? There are plenty of empty buildings up and down the high street- so why can’t you English pull your finger out? Can’t be bothered? Poor work ethic? If there is an empty building and no one is taking out a lease or buying it who’s English, what’s wrong with Asian, Middle Eastern businesses setting up shop It just sounds like jealousy at times. Nothing is stopping you from opening a business on a high street of your choice."
West Ward π¬π§ on X - "God, I hate it when foreigners talk down my countrymen under the assumption that we are just 'lazy'. Many immigrants groups have notoriously high rates of avoiding tax or money laundering drug money. The explanation for why so many of these 'businesses' improbably occupy our streets is because they aren't playing by the rules. Benefits fraud is also through the roof. I live in a relatively poor area. It is stacked with immigrants driving fancy BMWs. Drug gangs and car thievery gangs (one stole my car...) are rampant, and so many live in social housing. The landscape is stacked against Brits and our sense of fair play. Unscrupulous people with tight-knit social networks and a lack of social integration can easily breed exploitation of rules and, if the local authorities are captured, which they largely are, rampant abuse of the law and selective enforcement against the natives. THAT is why Brits are being pushed out, Lin."
State pension age could be raised to 75 due to UK's birth rate decline
Vladimir Poutine™ on X - "Then: immigrants will pay for your pensions.
Now: your pensions will pay for immigrants."
Zoe Gardner on X - "You’re not building the homes. Disproportionately the foreigners are."
The Composite Guy on X - "91.6% of construction workers are White British. 6% of construction workers are ethnic minorities. We literally have more disabled people working in construction than non-White people."
Meme - Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630: "Fascinating age and sex distribution for UK "asylum seekers.""
"Age/Sex distribution of Sudanese asylum seekers in the UK, 2019-2023 *massive numbers more men, mostly young and disproportionately below 20*
4.3x as many claim to be 16 as 18"
Collingwood π¬π§ on X - "They were so keen to make Britain Little America, and rub social conservatives' noses in diversity, and delight in the excitingly cosmopolitan new nation they were building, that they didn't bother to think through the consequences. Disgraceful malfeasance, but par for the course for Yookay's ruling elite. They only had to look at their beloved America for answers. US policy toward Cuba and Israel, for example. Well, guess what? The Palestine Question is now going to be a key Yookay foreign policy issue. As is Kashmir. The ongoing Hindu-isation of Indian politics becomes a live issue, as does the geopolitical alignment of Pakistan and Bangladesh. To a lesser extent, the Somalia vs Somaliland issue also comes into play. None of these issues really touch on British interests—let alone represent core geopolitical concerns—but they matter to a large number of Yookay voters. This will affect our ability to conduct a cool headed foreign policy in our own interests, and will even impinge on our capacity to discharge a grand strategy that matches means to ends. Persuading the Pakistan government to build a new airport in Mirpur means concessions/aid elsewhere that we wouldn't have otherwise had to give. There are other issues that do affect British interests, but where we have to consider the views of a large migrant population whose interests might be different from those of native Britons. EU relations springs to mind. This is now reality. It is baked in."
Will Solfiac on X - "Absolutely insane article being quoted here in an attempt to deny the obvious. "Only" 380 out of 1,480 students claimed asylum. That's over a quarter! And nearly half last year. Followed up by "actually the asylum system was designed for international students"."
Katie Lam on X - "The Government is desperate for us to think they're closing asylum hotels. In fact, they’re pushing illegal migrants into homes on our streets, where they can live off the taxpayer for years. This will not solve our problem. If people come here illegally, they must be removed."
Annunziata Rees-Mogg on X - "The Afghan illegal migrant who raped a 12 year old in Nuneaton was living in an house of multiple occupancy (HMO). He was free to come and go as he would have been in a hotel. Moving men who get here illegally from a hotel to an HMO makes no one safer. It is also no deterrent to more arriving. But Labour thinks it makes the figures look better. Because Labour thinks we are stupid."
Susan Hall AM on X - "We should be voting for things affecting Britain not anything else!"
Dan on X - "Gaza won't collect your bins or deliver social care anymore than Reform/Reclaim can "stop the boats" with your council tax. Vote in local govt elections for people who want to make your local area better and have a plan to do so, not on national issues they have no power over"
I left the UK for Vienna - it's safer and cleaner, but I miss the diversity - "When Dominique van Werkhoven moved to Vienna, she was struck by the contrast with the UK... although she learnt German while living there, she remembers the stares she received if she spoke English. “I might be speaking English with my boys on public transport, and someone would tell me I should be speaking German because we were in Austria,” she said."
Disgusting internalised anti-blackness in the form of dog whistling
She praises the healthcare system, but it's funded by social insurance and has copayments, which left wingers consider inferior to single payer
Time to mock white expats in Thailand for not learning Thai
Emily Thornberry said the quiet part out loud on immigration - "There was once a time when we were told that migration would make us rich, ensure our pensions were paid and that diversity made us stronger. Those arguments are dying, with the fiscal case demolished by the likes of the Migration Advisory Committee. Even the government’s latest cohesion strategy, ‘Protecting What Matters’, admits that diversity is ‘a problem to be’ approached. And now the Boriswave, the low-paid millions who arrived earlier this decade, are soon to be granted Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR), giving them access to benefits and housing at taxpayers’ expense forever. This is why the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is urgently reforming ILR, and facing mounting opposition from Labour backbenchers. Under her changes, Boriswave arrivals, and others, would have to wait ten years for ILR, not five as is currently the case, and settlement will have to be earned. Labour leadership hopeful Angela Rayner has described the reforms as ‘un-British’, and over 100 Labour MPs have signed a letter to the Home Secretary saying the proposals are unacceptable. On Monday, Emily Thornberry joined the fray, posting a video in which she speaks soft-voiced to camera, complaining that ‘we’ didn’t ‘make the positive case for migration’, and that Mahmood’s earned settlement model will be ‘cruel’. Unfortunately for the Labour left and the open borders movement, Thornberry rather gave the game away, noting that ‘half of all migrant children currently live in poverty’ (relative poverty of course, not the real kind), and arguing that this is a reason we should give their parents ILR (and access to benefits) sooner. To make these claims she seems to be relying on an IPPR report published last March which states that of the ‘4.3 million children’ who ‘live in relative poverty’, ‘children from migrant families’ are ‘disproportionately impacted’ and ‘make up around a third of children in destitution’... According to the IPPR, one of the major causes of this is migrants’ low wages. They’re not wrong. The average salary of migrants entering the UK collapsed during the Boriswave, with nearly 900,000 recent migrants now earning less than the median wage. Stripped of the soft, emotive language, what Thornberry and the IPPR are admitting is that the Boriswave is made up primarily of low-earners, who will never be a fiscal benefit to the country. What we have done is import millions of people who, rather than paying our pensions, will always be a cost to the state. Now you, or I, or the Home Secretary might think that this is an unforced error which must be reversed. Indeed the Prime Minister himself has called the Boriswave ‘a one nation experiment in open borders’. But the conclusion the IPPR and the Labour left draw is that we should give the Boriswave benefits so they aren’t in poverty anymore. It really is that simple, and that stupid. According to the IPPR, migrants with children shouldn’t be subject to the ‘no recourse to public funds’ rules, should be provided with 30 hours a week of free childcare and be given better housing. Meanwhile they also think asylum seekers, housed, clothed and fed at our expense, should be given a larger cash handout every week. Throughout the report are references to ‘hardship’ and ‘significant difficulties’ faced by migrants, but not a single reference to the impact on the British people of such boundless generosity. These people are, frankly, either mad, wicked, fools or all three. Thornberry has been arguing that ‘nobody’ working in the care system or as a cleaner ‘should be in [relative] poverty’. If she truly wanted pay in these sectors to rise she would oppose mass migration which suppresses wages. But in the end all these people – the politicians, the think tanks and charities and the open borders activists – would rather see Britain impoverished than ever say ‘sorry, no, it’s time to go home’. It’s astonishing that we ever took the likes of Thornberry, Rayner or the IPPR seriously. It’s even more astonishing that they have decided to make their move just a month before local elections in which Labour are already likely to see their council seats devoured from the right, and just as small boat crossings are set to rise again. We should be grateful, I suppose, that their political instincts are as dreadful as their grasp of economics."
Time to import more low wage migrants to pay for the welfare state, at the same time increasing benefits for migrants so they won't be poor, because if you don't give the whole world free money, you are "cruel"
Meme - Chris @ArchRose90: "I still haven't come across an image which captures the problem in Birmingham more perfectly than this one."
"*Dilapidated building* Vote Akhmed Yakoob For West Miclands Mayor 2ND MAY. LEND GAZA YOUR VOTE"
Two small boat migrants wanted for gang rape welcomed to UK and allowed to claim benefits - "Two small-boat migrants were welcomed into Britain and given asylum – despite being wanted for gang rape in Denmark. Danish police issued an international alert for Awedin Fikak and Henok Tekleab, both Eritreans aged 27, complete with their pictures before they even made their journey across the Channel in October 2024. But, raising questions about checks done on those coming into the UK, officials handed them taxpayers’ cash and free housing. Fikak was granted refugee status and benefits within six months, a court was told. When he was belatedly arrested in Birmingham three weeks ago, he shamelessly claimed his ‘human right to a family life’ should block extradition as he has a brother in London. Astonishingly, it was not until Thursday, after almost 18 months in Britain supported by the taxpayer, that both men were back in Denmark to face justice. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: ‘That these men could arrive illegally and get refugee status and benefits while an alert was out for their arrest over vile crimes shows again Labour has lost control of our borders.’... Both Eritreans now finally await trial for gang rape in Denmark"
Migrant crisis: Schoolgirls given rape alarms in Dumfries amid fears of being stalked by hotel asylum seekers - "Schoolgirls in a Scottish town have been handed rape alarms by police over fears they were being stalked by illegal migrants being housed in a nearby hotel. The intervention from officers came after it was alleged that the men had been taken photos of the girls in between lessons in Dumfries. One concerned mother has claimed the harassment has left to some girls feeling too frightened to walk the streets of the Scottish town. The hotel migrants have been spotted hanging around the school and ogling at children during break times... “Some of the girls have stopped going into the town as they feel so unsafe. "There have been suggestions that the men have made crude comments to some of the kids... The hotel in Dumfries has seen protests erupt outside after a man being housed there was arrested following a "child protection" concern."
Damn racists! Don't they know that white Scottish men are the true danger? They need to be made to spend more time with migrants to erase their xenophobia
Aja ♀️π¬π§ on X - "If you said you were sending your daughter to, say, Afghanistan or Pakistan on holiday, people would call you insane. But if you express concern that your daughter could be at risk from men coming from those same places, suddenly you’re labelled a bigot. Round and round it goes, until we reach the point where schoolgirls are handed rape alarms just to get through their day. And what about the boys? Do they get alarms too? Because they need them as well."
Teen, 19, bravely waives her anonymity to reveal horrific sexual assault by Iranian migrant who arrived in Britain on small boat - "Oliwia Zawislak, 19, had left a night out early as she was working the next day when Abdolrahman Banafsha approached her on August 31 last year... 'I don't think I'm the same person that I was, not just mentally but physically I died my hair black and I got a bunch of tattoos. I just didn't want to look like that anymore."
UK Ukrainian Visa Scheme Used by Thousands of Non-Ukrainian Migrants
Is there public support for large-scale removals of migrants? - "almost half of Britons (45%) say they would support “admitting no more new migrants, and requiring large numbers of migrants who came to the UK in recent years to leave”"
