Oh my God! I just love these comments along the lines of "do none of you understand how the Nazi party gained momentum? like we do" Well yes strangely as one of the common, barely educated people, I have read all about Germany being crippled by the Versailles Treaty in the aftermath of WW1, The Weimer Republic that followed, raging inflation and the rise of nationalism, scapegoating the Jews and the Final Solution.
Firstly, I think it's a complete misnomer to blame migrants for the mess this country and our western counterparts are in. France is on the brink of calling in the IMF allegedly and we may not be far behind them. Covid was unprecedented and played a huge part as well as the undoubted ill researched manner in handing out billion dollar contracts to charlatans for PPE and the like. Everything necessary that had to be put in place, the overly long lock down, depending on a personal point of view, the huge losses businesses have had to sustain in the time of Covid, furloughing, working from home, ancillary businesses that supported workers requirement going to the wall especially in hospitality, all of these have contributed to our now huge national debt. Whether a different government would have handled it any better is a matter of conjecture. We are where we are, trillions of pounds in debt. It is natural people will question our government in what would seem the profligate choice of placing migrants in hotels. As Macron has said "we make it too attractive here" why would he say that? if he as a Frenchman didn't see our country as a magnet. Whilst many of those asylum seekers may well be fleeing war and famine and have good intentions to their host country, some don't! and some are economic migrants, as was the previous cases with the Albanians, whose villages were depleted of men at a time when their country needs to be rebuilt as a new tourist destination, very beautiful from what I read. So we have the dichotomy of those who think we shouldn't accept any because they view them all as potential criminals and those who think we should be open to everyone and can't or won't see it from the perspective of people who are worried about the safety of their children. Neither is an accurate rationale. It is nevertheless a fact that here and in mainland Europe sexual assaults, rapes and murders have been disproportionately committed by asylum seekers as a percentage of their numbers. The welcoming stance has all but gone cold in Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden who have all taken their fair share of asylum seekers. Then of course there are the members of EU countries, that steadfastly refuse to, for example Hungry and Poland who just don't take any "because well we don't want to, because we want to stay white and Christian" well if any nations needed their noses rubbed in ethnic diversity, when a member of the previous Labour administration allegedly expressed that as a desire for Britain, then so it would be the eastern bloc, so entrenched in their mono culture mindset, in other words doing nothing as far as accepting any migrants into their communities, apart from Ukrainians who aren't that different. A bit similar to the Irish diaspora to England amongst their other destinations.
I just don't think some of you get that the common people know just how they are perceived as a group that don't matter, "we're going to stick these migrant hotels in your community, no Keir wouldn't like it in his road, or his daughter walking past a group of young migrant men, but you lot can just suck it up because, you just don't matter, well maybe before an election you do, but certainly not after" So along comes Farage who just happens to be a good orator and taps into a general discontent with being ruled by the out of touch and throws them a glimmer of hope, even if we know in our heart of hearts that Reform almost certainly can't and won't deliver, but their adherents will say, almost justifiably "well what have Tories and Labour ever given us?"
