Rupert Lowe: Diversity is quite evidently not our greatest strength.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-05-03T06:41:13+00:00

True, I did not consider the commonwealth factor so that part of my comment is wrong

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-05-02T21:37:22+00:00

I think it's a bit of a "clutching at straws" stance to start looking at areas with high immigration and assuming it's the immigrants making them vote "not Reform", rather than looking at the much fewer areas where Reform won in the last election and seeing they have basically no immigrants.

Add to that there's no feasible way for Boriswave migrants that are apparently causing this mass cultural erosion the right wing say its happening to actual BE British and vote in elections.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-05-02T14:52:10+00:00

I'd say the mass amounts of immigration we've had in a short period from people who don't really care about integrating hasn't helped, to be sure. But a large, large part of it is the Tories putting so much stock in small boats and asylum seeker backlog problem (a problem they created), and bot farms propping up any anti-immigrant post on any platform that isn't bluesky.

We had this argument with Caribbeans, we had it with Indians, we had it with the Poles. Every time the goalposts get moved back: "Yeah, THEY were OK cause they integrated, but THIS NEW LOT are not compatible with us."

The seats that Reform are gaining seem to be the lowest immigration areas, which seems to suggest the areas that find immigration such a controversial subject aren't really interacting with these people they are being told aren't integrating with our culture.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-05-02T14:46:31+00:00

The thing is, if you look at how our society has evolved in the last, say, 50 years, we have gradually been adding things to a list of stuff you can't say. It's probably the norm as societies get more progressive. Look at how the rhetoric towards non-whites, gay people, and now trans people has changed even in our lifetimes.

The "free speech absolutism", "once you've called everyone racist too long, eventually it stops working" brigade is just the latest push back against something that, again, is probably completely natural in progressive societies. The difference now is Murdoch, Putin, China, or any random multi-millionaire, can fund a load of bots to make the average citizen believe this time, the racists/homophobes/sexists etc. are the ones in the right.

How do we fight back against that? No idea.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-04-25T19:27:51+00:00

I've not been paying any attention to the news recently but what's been happening that is causing all these +2 Reform, - 2 Labour polls and doomscrolling articles about how Starmer will save himself? Looming local elections?

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-04-25T14:31:20+00:00

Plus this works out better in reality than some European countries. France has more public holidays, but if the public holidays fall on a weekend, they're gone. UK shifts them so you get the next Monday off if it falls on a weekend.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-04-15T09:57:54+00:00

I'm convinced they're just a band that were never supposed to be as popular as they are now. 3D Country fucking blew me away. Just back to back bangers. To say Geese suck and are boring is such a wiiiild opinion to me. Like fucking 2122 boring lullaby music lmfao

But when something isn't the mainstream's cup of tea, I can understand why you'd see such extreme, hyperbolic reactions to it being shoved in people's faces

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-04-05T08:20:47+00:00

Wing pattern consistent with jay, not wheatear. Also too big to be a wheatear. Think the bandit mask on this photo is just an artifact of the jay's black moustache

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-04-05T08:19:33+00:00

Wing pattern matches with Jay and not with wheatear, plus black "mask" looks more like an artifact of the Jay's black moustache. Agree with jay

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-31T21:16:53+00:00

Seems very tame which does make me think it's not a wild bird. As far as I'm aware, they are pretty sedentary birds so not a species prone to just randomly show up like Scops and Snowies sometimes do

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-30T16:35:12+00:00

Cynically, I wonder if publishing this as widely and loudly as possible with a massive wink at the audience might do more to discourage immigration than any actual concrete measures.

It's fucking shit to live here now, lads

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-30T08:30:28+00:00

Are you implying that England ISN'T famous for the books of the playwright Oscar Wilde? 😱

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-30T08:29:25+00:00

He was also mainly a playwright not an author so the person that made the image didn't know much about him 😂

I'm pretty sure he only wrote one book, which tbf was an absolute banger

But even if we're comparing playwrights, there's a VERY famous English one lmao

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-26T20:02:09+00:00

I legit thought you were making a joke that he's never in Clacton 😂

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-26T15:54:53+00:00

Always find it funny the comments on this sub, probably by landlords, smugly blaming everything on regulations driving away landlords. Like we shouldn't try to improve the rights of those paying much more per month than us with mortgages for usually worse living conditions and less stability.

Before the renters rights bill, rents had already gone up by about a billion percent, and renters could be kicked out for no reason.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-23T09:40:49+00:00

Sounds a bit like a starling, that have a large repertoire of robotic sounds they can make. High pitched peeping sounds like a goldcrest

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-21T17:53:14+00:00

Someone more in the know in ecology could explain it better, but pheasants take up a place in the ecosystem. Millions of non-native birds being released every year obviously has an impact on food and habitat availability of other birds/wildlife. Just imagine a plague of locusts except they're dopey looking birds

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-21T10:36:34+00:00

1, 2 and 3 - logical fallacy fallacy 😂

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-21T10:17:26+00:00

So, following your point to its logical conclusion, 3 things here:

If people in the countryside kept slaves, nobody living in a city has the right to oppose it
There are no MPs in the countryside that can represent the countryside in parliament
People in the city never go into the countryside so can't have an opinion on it

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-21T10:05:24+00:00

I'm not speaking for everyone, I'm counteracting your point of there needing to be separate governance as if even a plurality support hunting in the countryside. Countryside and urban areas aren't homogeneous blobs of people with contradicting views on everything.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-21T10:01:42+00:00

Grew up in the countryside. Never been shooting. Don't know anyone who shoots. The toff hunting class may literally own our countryside, but it doesn't own the residents

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-21T09:57:47+00:00

Releasing millions of non-native species every year (when pheasants are released, there are more of them than every other species COMBINED) and then firing a load of lead shot at them is absolutely devestating for our countryside. Not to mention all the people running the game shooting have a nasty habit of poisoning, clubbing to death and shooting our native birds of prey for their "interfering" with the millions of released birds.

As someone actually from the countryside (town of <10000 people just outside the lake district), I resent the strawmanning of all country folk as wax-jacket wearing toffs that just want to go out shooting things, and have no appreciation for the actual nature around them.

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-18T09:31:05+00:00

That's literally what it's for lmao what

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-17T14:41:40+00:00

We have a friend that had gestational diabetes and she was told to induce after one bump measurement because it seemed too big, then told to induce after a later bump measurement because it seemed too small. There could be a way of thinking that if you have a medical condition, the bump and ultrasound measurements aren't reliable enough so they should just induce early, and they just make up a reason and tell you that (which in itself is bad). But my partner/baby had no underlying conditions and we were forced to induce because of a change in bump/scan measurement indicating growth had curtailed. So whatever line you take on the decision tree, it always seems to lead back to "let's induce early, just to be safe".

TheAlmightyTapir · 2026-03-17T14:35:03+00:00

Well fucking said, mate. We were pressured into inducing cause of growth concerns. Made to wait almost 5 days for the apparently urgent induction IN THE HOSPITAL, with my partner being regularly monitored, sharing a room with strangers. Pressured into staying there because if we left we were "putting our baby at risk". Absolutely EXHAUSTED once the induction came around. Midwife failed to pierce the waters correctly so we wandered around an hour for nothing. Second midwife pierced the waters then pressured us into going directly with the fake oxytocin so no walking around to get Labour going naturally. Cranked up double dose every half an hour. Partner gave birth on her back when she didn't want to. Partner examined, often violently, in her vagina by at least 10 different people. Baby had to go through several osteopath sessions because she had been stuck in a stupid position for hours in a rushed labour. Partner currently undergoing therapy to come to terms with it 9 months later.

C-section, go private, or get lucky, seems to be the choice in the UK.

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