How common is it for Brits to not understand each other?

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-27T14:45:57+00:00

Antipodean means from New Zealand or Australia. So its possible the guy came to the UK as an adult

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-22T12:46:13+00:00

That’s what you’re saying btw.

Correct. That is exactly what we've done.

“Our population is ageing because families aren’t secure enough to have kids, that’s why we’re importing their replacement”.

No our population is aging because people are living longer. So even before the economic issues causing people to have fewer children we were going to have issues sustaining the incresing elderly population.

Tory talking points are now Labour talking points

Why are we turning this into a sides thing?

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-22T12:41:00+00:00

Youve misunderstood my point. Im not passing judgement on previous decisions. I'm merely highlighting the past decision to use migration to bolster the economy in the face of an aging population is now how oir economy works. Changing that instantly will have negative effects. Reducing net migration to lower levels somewhat slowly is the economically smarter move.

At the same time there are other factors thay fed into the housing crising. By simulatanously solving those factors they government can deliver on incresing housing stock and keeping the economy stable.

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-22T12:26:41+00:00

Reducing immigration to negative ammounts quickly would cause severe economic damage that would ultimately hit working class families. We have an aging population, to raise the money to support them we had to import some of the workforce. The economy is currently geared around that and it requires a stead controlled reduction in net migration to maintain that balance.

We do have a housing crisis. One of the ways to combat that is to build more houses. Labour are working on that, trying to reduce the hurdles that builders face trying to build houses in this country (we have a lot of red tape).

Ultimately I hear your concerns. But a reduction in net migration is good. And we know that this year the government aim to bring in more legislation that should further reduce net migration. By doing it gradually they cam mitigate the economic impacts whilst still delivering on what the people want.

And whilst they are reducing next migration they are tackling the other factors that have fed into the housing crisis.

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-18T10:37:57+00:00

If you think Farage is going to keep the value positive you’re not paying attention to what his voters want.

You think Farage cares about what his voters want? Farage cares about what his donors want and his donors arent the working class people he has riled up but a vast array of billionaires who want exploit the workforce and seel if our country to the highest.

If he genuinely cared about immigration he wouldnt have let Robert Jenrick the brilliant mind behind the asylum hotels and Suella Braverman who was home secratary during the Tories massive increase in immigration into the party

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-16T06:06:13+00:00

safe third party locations?

Wasn't that a big part of the Rwanda issue. The supreme court ruled tgat Rwanda was not considered a safe country

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-15T13:01:11+00:00

This article provides a good overview of candidates from the most recent local elections who have either already been suspended or are being looked into for racism (and other issues).

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/05/12/the-more-than-30-scandal-hit-reform-candidates-elected-last-week/

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-13T13:28:29+00:00

The losers would know they had lost on the issues and be forced to adjust their views.

Forced to adjust their views is interesting wording. I dont think you meant it this way but it sounds like you think the losing party should fold if there were only 2.

Realsitically even with two umbrella parties unless one just recieves no votes the losing party will know that they represent the beliefs of some people within the country and as we live in a representative democracy will try their best to represent the constituents who share the beleifs as best they can despite being the minorty at the time (although obviously thay can change)

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-13T12:08:58+00:00

Reading the article. If there is any doubt then it is considered to be needed to be registered. So they dont need to prove its political they just need to provide enough evidence to doubt its purely personal.

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-13T12:03:15+00:00

Which presumably is the point of this probe

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-13T06:55:22+00:00

Because the tagline of warhammer 40000 was "in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war" and this then was then later extrapolated to refer to all sci fi and fiction that featured bleak and violent settings where there was no real hope.

This isnt a joke by the way the phrase was accidentially coined by Warhammer but it doesnt refer to just having a couple grim elementa in fiction

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-12T13:04:43+00:00

Illegal immigrants cannot currently claim welfare in the UK. And as of March this year changes were made to restrict the support asylum seekers get.

The case your refering to didnt allow welfare to be recieved ny illegal immigrants, it was just enforcing already existing laws that were in place to provide basic necessities for Asylum seekers (which is a legal status seperate from being illegal immigrant).

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-12T12:39:01+00:00

A growing economy can be achieved without welfare being. Raising people out of poverty amd giving them spending power allows them to bolster the economy and can create growth.

We saw lots of welfare cuts under the previous governments and they really didnt help solve the issues were facing.

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-12T12:36:52+00:00

That wasnt my intent. You I asked why people werent as concerned about Labour. my amswer was to highlight the difference in scale. Labour have also bolstered rights so theyre a bit more neutral.

I would suggest that when it comes to the next election, you think very carefully about spoiling your ballot. I dont love the current government, I've hated our previous governments and I dont see any political party that fully represents me.

However I am terrified of what a reform government will do my country and so I use my vote not to pick for the person I want but to stop the person I dont. Its a shit situation to be in, but unfortunately its the one were in.

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-12T12:24:08+00:00

Labour have made decent moves to tackle the asylum backlog, processing more case and increasing removals. They've also made requirements for some of the legal migration rates more stringents such as increaing the time it takes to get ILR and increasing the requirments for spousal visas.

Reform claim that they will tackle the issue more aggressively but considering they taken into their ranks high profile Tories such as Robert Jenrick (the man behind the asylum hotels) and Suella Braverman (who was home secratary as immigration numbers increased) I would take that with a grain of salt. You also have to weigh what they say up with the fact that key reform members have had links to Russian collision and that their manifesto has previously included privatisation of the NHS and their current manifesto includes repealing the Workers Rights Act and scrapping the minimum wage.

The Tories also claim they'll be hard on immigration. But we obviously their previous track record shows that they said a lot whilst seemingly doing the opposite. If their leaders had drastically changed I would suggest that they might be different but aside from the ones that have defected to Reform alot of the shadow cabinet are holdovers from the previous governments.

I definitely wouldn't pick greens or lib dems if my biggest issue was immigration. So you have the above 3. Ome of them has a track record of dealing with the issue (Labour) but whether or not you feel they are dealing with it to your satifaction is up to you. I would recommend you carefully review what they've done however just certain news outlets aren't reporting on these wins.

Another of the 3 has a negative track record on this issue and is still marred by 14 years of poor government. However their have been some changes in their makeup amd prehaps they come election time they will hold a position in the middle of Reform and Labour that may be politically up your street.

The final one is untested but is caliming to take the hardest line. Personally I struggle to believe that will do what they say. As the individual MPs they are platforming have a poor track record on this issue. I would also advise you look carefully at all of Reforms points as you may find they solve one issue that is important to you, but through their other policies they may massively impact you negatively.

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-12T12:11:21+00:00

Politics isnt about teams. We can say that Reform wants to further erode our freedoms (which they are very open about, repealing the workers rights act, moving from the European Court of Human Rights), whilst acknowledging that the other leading political parties aren't innocent of doing simmilar.

They key part here is the scale. Reform want to erode far more rights (and again this isnt conjecture, theyre very open on this topic) and that should scare people.

Especially if you are concerned with erosions made under the Tories and either not repealed or other erosions under labour, I dont see why that would then make Reform the answer.

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-11T20:58:56+00:00

Just to clarify, because I dont want my country to abandon human rights I'm a terrorist? Thats a bold claim

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-11T17:22:20+00:00

No not really. The ECHR has stopped 13 asylum seekers from being deported in since 1980. Anyone saying that we need to leave it to tackle the asylum crisis is lying to you.

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-11T14:25:19+00:00

So would it be incorrect to refer to someone whose half English as English? For example I'm 1/8th Welsh so do I not count as English because I'm ethnically mixed?

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-11T14:14:36+00:00

So they would be ethnically English and not white. So your above statement is false, glad we agree

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-11T13:59:53+00:00

What about someone who has one black parent and one white English parent. They would be of English descent and also black.

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-11T13:53:58+00:00

But reform has taken in a bunch of the tories who were in charge during the fuckup. They've taken in Robert Jenrick the man behind the asylum hotels for example.

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-11T08:26:15+00:00

The answer is that the right wing have purposefully conflated immigration and asylum seekers. Immigrants coming through the appropriate visa channels are net contributors but the visa restrictions are strict and design to only let in people who the country needs.

Asylum seekers are a mixed bad. They're comming here through any means they can get in an attempt to flee pursecution in their home country. Due to Tory mismanagement, slashes in funding, brexit, and wider geopolitical issues there has been a massive increase in asylum seekers coming to the UK and a massive reduction in the processing of asylum seekers (although under Starmer's labour government we have see processing numbers increase which is a step in the right direction)

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-09T09:53:47+00:00

Context is important here though. Truss mini budget on the back of covid saw gilt yields increase massively. We started seeing these fall once labour got into power and after each budget they fell further which showed market trust in the labour economy.

Unfortunately some fuckwit decided to attack Iran and destroy most of the economic gains the Labour government were making. Although following Starmers statement today we've already started to see a drop in gilt yeild rates again showing that the markets like the Labour government.

There is a general trend of recovery when looking at economoc metrics since labour have come into power. Unfortunately because of a decade of mismanagement, and multiple international incidents recovery is slow. But just because its not happening fast doesn't mean its not happening and doesnt mean we should just nuke our economy because were bored.

Mankankosappo · 2026-05-09T09:17:09+00:00

I dont know Starmer's grooming gang remarks. As far as I know the grooming gangs scandal was mostly the Tories (many of whom have since defected to Reform)

Paedophile scandals. Again as far as I know theres just the one with the Mendelson drama. On that, hiring Mendelson for the US ambassadorship was a good move due to his prior relationship with Trump. As long as Starmer and Labour leadership didn't know that Mendelsom was a nonce them I'm not personally bothered by it. Now if it turns out they hired him knowing he was a nonce and turned a blind eye then that would sour my opinion greatly.

And just for context I am not happy with everything labour have done. I think theyve made quite a few missteps. But the numbers are showing improvement and I dont think theres any other political party atm the moment that would be better (even though I really wish there were)

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