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This is low, even for Reform

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Cossy Tue 15-Sept-26 20:33:28

Criticise me all you like and accuse me of being obsessed with Reform, if it makes you feel better.

Reform, via Nigel Farage's home affairs spokesman, Zia Yusuf, came under fire after unveiling the game, known as Small Boats Scramble. In a statement he also said the top scorer on the game over the next month would win £5,000.

It’s an online game, with a prize, which appears to comprise Royal Navy boats “capturing” small boats crossings the channel.

Is this really want we want from our political parties?

Frankly, I find this sickening!
I find Reform disgusting.

I no longer recognise this country we are living in, it’s certainly not because of migrants.

Barbadosbelle Sat 19-Sept-26 14:38:23

Umm. The Daily Mirror!!!

How could anyone criticise or disagree with anything you say, when your information comes from such a high-brow and lauded newspaper!!

I expect your father and grandfather read it daily too. You've been brainwashed!!
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Peaseblossom Sat 19-Sept-26 14:57:28

Cruiselover With you 100% on that.

Barbadosbelle Sat 19-Sept-26 14:59:38

Jennifer Eccles

Agree JE. Very well put.

But isnt it amazing how people totally ignore what happens here but supports vicious aliens who have no appreciation of us or our country. They are so-say running from awful laws and regimes but immediately want to recreate them here.

We don't want or need these people here. We need to look after our own first and then we can go back to trying to save the World.

In our private lives most of up put our immediate family first, then our relatives, then our friends, then our neighbours. Only them can we start helping our chosen Charities.

Peaseblossom Sat 19-Sept-26 14:59:48

vintageclassics You're hilarious! So naive.

Maremia Sat 19-Sept-26 15:05:17

Oh thank goodness the Pink Ladies are going to the rescue.
Read something about their Leader being done for child abuse, but surely that can't be the case? I mean, she's all for protecting women and children.
😕 🫤

Olivebranch Sat 19-Sept-26 15:14:53

We have lost our country to a great degree. Now all the towns and cities are filled with people from different cultures. It’s fine to absorb some difference but we have been swamped. Mainly through legal migration but the boats really annoy people.
I think the game is rather irrelevant— typical of Reform— not a nice party but I understand peoples anger.

Susieq62 Sat 19-Sept-26 15:17:58

Piddington didn’t object to said accommodation being used by over 1000 squaddies back in the day , some of whom created drunken havoc in Bicester and some who were accused of rape.
This game is beyond reproach and belief.
I despise Reform . I despise the Pink Ladies who are terrorising a resident of the village by giving out her address. I despise Tommy Robinson and Danny Tommo for their intimidation of RNLI stations and volunteers. They do not represent and will never represent me or mine.
I do agree that we require an immigration control system that works just as it was doing pre Brexit. We need to get back to the Dublin agreement. We need to have a tighter points system to match the skills of those who arrive on our shores.
My street consists of Chinese, Romanian, Jamaican, Irish, northerners and southerners. We get on just fine plus the supported living apartments are cared for by Asian, African Filipino workers who are doing a wonderful job. What more can I say?
I cannot comprehend any kind, considerate person 3vening wanting to play this mindless game.
Be aware that the oligarchs will stop at nothing to get your attention and gain power.
Rant over on with my knitting to calm me down.

Jane43 Sat 19-Sept-26 15:21:54

Fallingstar

That is horrible!!
Reminds me of the computer style games Trump and his buddies would play when they went to war with Iran, dropping bombs and scoring every time there were casualties/fatalities.
These people are morally bankrupt and should never have ever entered the political arena.

My American friend tells me this:

“A few days ago the White House added a games page to their official website. In one of the games they invite you to deport migrant workers.”

Reform base everything on the Trump administration.

DrWatson Sat 19-Sept-26 15:38:42

Well done CruiseLover, thx for reminding us what an ideal Farrago voter sounds like.

Re that guff of yours "The migrants will change their village , way of life and the security of their women and children. The invasion of unknown men into this country has changed many places , many lives, many have lost lives due to murder by these men . . ." -- PLEASE DEFINE your "Many"?

The UK population is closing on 70 million, so your "many" should be . .what . . .50million??

Just HOW MANY have been MURDERED by these men?? DO TELL US? I'll remind you that Harold Shipman murdered an estimated 250 patients (likely more), and he was of gool old English stock, in fact his parents were decribed as devout Methodists.

Nurses Beverley Allitt and Lucy Letby are both extremely white, English stock, Allitt is serving 13 life sentences for murdering kids, and Letby has been found guilty of an assortment of actual and attempted murders.

Perhaps you can recall the death toll of the Wests and the 'Yorkshire Ripper' - all very much 'ours'.

FEEL FREE to list ALL themurders so far carried out by illegal immigrants?!!

PS -- if you're on a cruise anytime soon, do alert us to the ship and date, many of us would doubtless like to avoid it for fear of catching your disease?

Maremia Sat 19-Sept-26 15:56:52

Asylum seekers are housed together, until their requests are processed.
Failed Asylum seekers are deported.
Successful Asylum seekers leave the immigration facilities to make a life for themselves.
This facility under discussion is a temporary setting for these people.
One way or the other they will move on.
Yes, more may also settle temporarily in that place.
But, so annoyingly for Farage, this Labour government is reducing the flow.

DrWatson Sat 19-Sept-26 16:38:15

For Jennifer Eccles, and any other wildly ill-informed rabble-rousers, the BBC report states :- "Villagers in Piddington, near Bicester, voted on Tuesday over Home Office proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers at nearby MoD Bicester.".

That camp is some 5 miles away from Piddington, and there are several villages closer to the camp whose residents seem less alarmed. Just WHY (please DO tell us?) would a band of marauding immigrants choose to trek over to Piddington, which has a small village hall, and a church, and that's about it??

Bicester itself has more obvious attractions (depending if you've been there?!), and most certainly so does the well-known Bicester Shopping Village, with a mass of discount 'brand' stores to explore? I'd suggest that Piddington is more likely to get as many immigrant visitors as John O'Groats.

Oh, and their 'Secession' vote, that got a bunch of comments on several forums along the lines of "fine, cut off their gas, elecricity and water, also phone and i'net signal, hope they can manage without?". [The same points would apply to the recent vote by regional parliaments for Wales, Scotland and N Ireland to 'withdraw' from Westminster. They'd better start writing systems re pensions, policing, social security, energy, defence, taxation etc as that will take them quite a while".]

Susieq62 Sat 19-Sept-26 16:47:05

Dr Watson thank you , a very balanced response particularly to those who have such an opinion on migrants of a certain colour!

Willow68 Sat 19-Sept-26 16:52:32

Falling star, are you actually believing the left media, you should get a balanced view and more knowledge of what is happening to homes that do live next door to
Illegal
Migrants before making a ridiculous comment, I’d rather live next door to illegal
Migrants indeed, I wish this for you if this is your desire. Your home will become worthless for starters! It is terrifying what is happening to this country, anyone that is worried about a game, steering naval ships is worried about the wrong thing, !!!

Plevey08 Sat 19-Sept-26 17:00:17

Well said Susieq for both posts above.

DrWatson Sat 19-Sept-26 17:03:49

Oh, and for 25Avalon, Cossy, and any others who don't like FACTS, that camp is NOT NOT NOT "in Piddington".

It's 5+ miles away, with several other villages somewhat closer. Any migrants who choose to trek over there will stand out like black sheep, they'd fit in much better at the Bicester Shopping Village, with its daily pilgrimages from myriad tourists and shoppers from London (easy rail link from Marylebone) seeking bargains.

Oh, and any Reform fans on here, you're lined up with the organiser of the anti-RNLI protests at Portsmouth and Poole, one Danny Thomas, who has already served a jail term for armed kidnap, and will be in court soon on further charges.

Apparently his response to the obvious point that Lifeboats do an essential job round the country was "let them drown".
Lovely company you're keeping, but he IS an ex-bodyguard of the multiple-jailbird Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson).

A further point for any Farrago fans who want to send all brown people 'home' - the NHS would collapse in about half a day. Farrago doesn't care, he can afford to go private.

Dickens Sat 19-Sept-26 17:23:20

Peacelilydilly

I agree the silent majority.

... who are anything but silent!

Skodadoda Sat 19-Sept-26 17:40:14

Cossy

Fallingstar 20:57

Well said.

As I’ve done on many other posts I acknowledge that the channel crossings are an issue which requires resolving.

At the moment, however, I’d rather live next door to a group of migrants, than I would to a mob of masked activists, or women dressed in pink acting like vigilantes.

I agree. The ‘protesters’ are thugs, most of those arrested ave convictions for violence. We risk mob rule.

Skodadoda Sat 19-Sept-26 17:41:14

Skodadoda

Cossy

Fallingstar 20:57

Well said.

As I’ve done on many other posts I acknowledge that the channel crossings are an issue which requires resolving.

At the moment, however, I’d rather live next door to a group of migrants, than I would to a mob of masked activists, or women dressed in pink acting like vigilantes.

I agree. The ‘protesters’ are thugs, most of those arrested ave convictions for violence. We risk mob rule.

Have 🙄

Skodadoda Sat 19-Sept-26 17:42:39

DrWatson

Oh, and for 25Avalon, Cossy, and any others who don't like FACTS, that camp is NOT NOT NOT "in Piddington".

It's 5+ miles away, with several other villages somewhat closer. Any migrants who choose to trek over there will stand out like black sheep, they'd fit in much better at the Bicester Shopping Village, with its daily pilgrimages from myriad tourists and shoppers from London (easy rail link from Marylebone) seeking bargains.

Oh, and any Reform fans on here, you're lined up with the organiser of the anti-RNLI protests at Portsmouth and Poole, one Danny Thomas, who has already served a jail term for armed kidnap, and will be in court soon on further charges.

Apparently his response to the obvious point that Lifeboats do an essential job round the country was "let them drown".
Lovely company you're keeping, but he IS an ex-bodyguard of the multiple-jailbird Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson).

A further point for any Farrago fans who want to send all brown people 'home' - the NHS would collapse in about half a day. Farrago doesn't care, he can afford to go private.

Well said.

Skodadoda Sat 19-Sept-26 17:48:17

ReturningFromExile

Blame poor access to public services on cutbacks by various governments over the past decades, starting well before the small boats landed in large numbers.

Exactly, but why let facts get in the way of a dollop of scapegoating.

Skodadoda Sat 19-Sept-26 18:02:48

Fallingstar

And btw Farage was the mastermind of Brexit so he effectively caused the small boats crisis.

This, and add in that the Blair government extended the time from 1 to 2 years before they could work, hoping that would dissuade them from coming - it didn’t. . Then the tories stopped processing asylum seekers, hoping that would dissuade them from coming - it didn’t. Consequently there was a massive backlog.
Now it seems to have become respectable for mobs of racist fascists to terrorise whole communities with their pretend patriotism.

davannh Sat 19-Sept-26 18:08:26

All the people who support the migrants arriving here should answer the question how many is too many? We have NOT got unlimited space and unlimited funds. Hospitals, schools, housing etc only have so much capacity. Our finances only have so much capacity. Wake up Britain.

spabbygirl Sat 19-Sept-26 18:18:05

ReturningFromExile

Blame poor access to public services on cutbacks by various governments over the past decades, starting well before the small boats landed in large numbers.

exactly

Fallingstar Sat 19-Sept-26 18:19:25

Willow68

Falling star, are you actually believing the left media, you should get a balanced view and more knowledge of what is happening to homes that do live next door to
Illegal
Migrants before making a ridiculous comment, I’d rather live next door to illegal
Migrants indeed, I wish this for you if this is your desire. Your home will become worthless for starters! It is terrifying what is happening to this country, anyone that is worried about a game, steering naval ships is worried about the wrong thing, !!!

I didn’t make that comment but I did agree with it. So next time maybe check who said what before responding.
The thing is I do live beside some migrant families who have recently come over, in London this is nothing new, and they have not caused any trouble because they are ‘Muslim’ and so don’t share our many civilised qualities, in fact the nearby Mosque organised activities for children from all backgrounds on the local park and a bunch of migrants near us helped organise it and tidied up afterwards.
Perhaps they only exercise their uncivilised behaviour when their neighbours aren’t looking 🙄🙄

Fallingstar Sat 19-Sept-26 18:32:54

@Peacelilydilly

As another poster ‘Dickens’ already said, the silent majority you talk about are not silent but shouting loudest in our political landscape today, in fact it is hard to have a political discussion about anything else. Education, housing, the NHS, homelessness, social care, law and order, the cost of living crisis - who talks about any of these?? It is as if nothing exists outside the small boats issue. And lots of people do care about increased levels of immigration as well as other issues but there needs to be a sensible political debate which will include renegotiating closer links with the EU in order to return migrants, similar to what existed before Brexit. But nobody wants ti discuss this it seems all many people want us to bang on about his horrible Muslims are. And they are not being silent about it, they are very, very loud.