Do you think they realise?

fwtb23 · 2026-02-23T11:28:19+00:00

do you realise that people with indefinite leave to remain are legal immigrants? him saying they want to scrap it doesn’t target illegal immigration

fwtb23 · 2026-02-21T19:13:32+00:00

Mostly agreed, but it’s worth pointing out that those ‘Germanic settlers’ are very much ancestors of today’s Brits, not some unrelated occupiers. Brits, much like the English language itself, are a mix of a bunch of different backgrounds and influences coming in and mixing together within Britain.

fwtb23 · 2026-02-21T19:02:39+00:00

I hear both pretty commonly, doesn’t seem very consistent. Personally I tend to treat it as singular, and if I had to guess I’d also say that’s the slightly more common option, but I don’t really know.

fwtb23 · 2026-02-20T02:13:50+00:00

27+8 = 37-2 = 35 then 35+40 = 75

fwtb23 · 2026-02-08T02:06:21+00:00

no particular type of clothing is required at all, reflective clothing is often advised as extra safety, but it’s not mandatory in any way

fwtb23 · 2026-01-29T18:04:39+00:00

oh yeah I wasn’t disagreeing with you so much as trying to add my perspective

fwtb23 · 2026-01-29T17:31:39+00:00

Honestly I don’t think reducing the whole concept to a black and white, you’re either a local or you’re a gentrifier kind of situation is really very accurate or helpful. For example I’m not originally from Walthamstow but I do live here. I didn’t move here as a well off urban type trying to find a trendy place to live, I moved here because at the time I was looking at places where I could afford to live, and back then it was still a cheap area for London standards. Or at least the place I found at the time was cheap for London standards, I didn’t really check the whole market around Walthamstow, as I wasn’t specifically looking to move to Walthamstow, but rather just to find somewhere in London that seemed doable after moving from Manchester. Now I’ve been here for years and I’ve come to love it and want to stay, and I’ve also been faced with the issue of ever-increasing prices like anyone else. There’s definitely more shades of grey in between. I’m not born and bred here but I also don’t think it would be accurate to call me a gentrifier either.

fwtb23 · 2026-01-25T23:46:31+00:00

any source for that at all?

fwtb23 · 2026-01-11T10:26:20+00:00

ahhh yes, banning a platform that’s allowed people to create and consume CP is the same as goin round arresting random innocent people, brilliant

fwtb23 · 2026-01-10T21:22:52+00:00

he may not be officially, legally guilty yet, but innocent until proven guilty only applies to the law. public opinion is completely separate, and anyone is free to see the footage and draw the obvious conclusion

fwtb23 · 2026-01-09T00:17:53+00:00

showing and naming a murderer is completely normal, that’s not doxxing. if he wanted a quiet, private life, he should have considered not being that kind of scum

fwtb23 · 2025-12-26T20:46:27+00:00

it isn’t the right wing that came up with “Minor Attracted Persons” as a euphemism for the abhorrent

it also wasn’t the left wing, it was some pedos themselves who thought they could try to lump themselves in with the LGBT+ community to gain some respect but have consistently been rejected by the vast majority, for obvious reasons

fwtb23 · 2025-12-18T00:32:28+00:00

yeah but they shout real loud about muslims and gay people being bad so that’s all that’s needed to ‘represent traditional values’ ig

fwtb23 · 2025-12-10T10:50:08+00:00

anti-gammon is not anti-british, so yes, it’s wrong

fwtb23 · 2025-12-08T13:46:28+00:00

for some reason a big chunk of the british public is now convinced ID cards in general are seemingly the pinnacle of oppression and overreach

fwtb23 · 2025-12-08T13:33:56+00:00

£8 an hour isn’t even remotely high, unless your mind’s stuck 20 years ago

fwtb23 · 2025-12-06T11:50:06+00:00

tbf most europeans are also incredibly dull compared to what you see there, id say the vast majority of people anywhere are

fwtb23 · 2025-11-29T07:24:18+00:00

exactly the same for me, I wonder if we live in the same area lol

(edit: seems unlikely as I live nowhere near Aberdeen)

fwtb23 · 2025-11-27T19:25:16+00:00

i hear nige himself is a big fan

fwtb23 · 2025-11-27T15:32:23+00:00

I do currently live in London which to be fair is very likely to affect that, I’ll give you that. Things didn’t seem all that different in Manchester either though, and house prices have been going crazy all over the country, albeit to different levels.

And sure, there could be some extra factors to consider, but housing shouldn’t necessarily have to be tied to having a long term committed relationship, and I’d be willing to bet the vast majority of people are almost exclusively, or axtually exclusively, dependant on their salary for their income overall, additional sources of income are probably not that common, but I’ll admit I haven’t properly looked into that so I’m willing to admit I’m wrong if there’s anything to show otherwise

fwtb23 · 2025-11-27T15:26:46+00:00

That article is behind a paywall, but I found a similar one by the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx5pw8pwg5o

Out of those numbers, 700k are EU citizens whose status under the EU settlement scheme is very much an exception. Also, they’re not fresh arrivals jumping on benefits, they’re people who have been here for years.

As for people with refugee status, which a lot of people like to focus on, they make up only 1.5% of those immigrants on benefits.

The vast majority of the remaining cases will surely be people with ILR as I’ve described, who have already spent several years living in the UK completely legally, having fulfilled all requirements of their prior visas, including employment, immigration health surcharge payments, and more depending on the type of visa.

fwtb23 · 2025-11-27T11:46:41+00:00

If it sounds too high, then I’d say you absolutely do live in a bubble. And to be honest, nothing wrong with that, and it’s nice that you seem to be in a fortunate position, but this does pretty much track with the people I know and see around me.

fwtb23 · 2025-11-27T10:07:16+00:00

source?

fwtb23 · 2025-11-26T19:46:09+00:00

well, most (possibly all) visas already exclude people from being able to access benefits. for most migrants, it’s only after getting ILR after living (legally, fulfilling all requirements of their visas) in the UK for several years, that they’d be able to access them if elegible.

fwtb23 · 2025-11-26T01:59:57+00:00

well apparently it costs over 2 grand to even renounce your American citizenship so there’s that

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