Originally Posted by
champs95
I'm in total agreement with you Despair.
After weeks of having a foot in both camps, I was settling for safe option of staying. But waking up yesterday I was not falling into the scaremongering that was ensuing yesterday. As you've said earlier, now is a time for calm heads.
But regardless of what anyone tries to tell me, I live in Leeds, I have family and friends in Manchester, and Bury.
My links with football bring me to Blackburn occasionally. I visit London 3-4 times a year at least. I see with my own eyes the flaws with immigration. Blackburn is a town for example that will never ever recover. It's decaying beyond recognition. Large parts of that community are not born of the isles. So they won't care one bit, that it decays, remains uninvestable, and The Shires, so often derided on foreign policy couldn't give a toss about a 'northern town'. We have completely forgotten about us as a nation. I care little for all the other policies, one thing that needs to happen here, is we sort out the country.
I'm sorry to keep going backwards here Auks, but if you seriously believe we think it's down to a few Bulgarian workers, then your clearly being fed exactly what certain parts of the media want you to. I can categorically tell you, nobody here is conned into thinking it was a couple of thousand Bulgarian workers that is causing the social destruction of most English towns. We all saw the various articles in the newspapers, most rolled our eyes. Nobody actually felt that way, so this notion being sold to Ex pat Brits, we are all now this media driven nation, hanging on Nigel Farrages every word, couldn't be further from the truth. Me personally, I find it very patronising that my views are being sold to you this way.
Normal, everyday, level headed people who live, work and reside in this country will all be in agreement that Trump is a maniac. Boris Johnson is a public school boy buffoon etc but they will also all tell you how immigration is a huge problem. Getting worse daily. It affects everybody here, and I'm not in agreement that my views in this are being misconstrued as racist, bigotry or whatever else anyone can try label. And certainly at not point am I in agreement anyone here thinks it's about a few Bulgarians. Or the pathetic story in which they was born from.
Regardless of your views, just take a sit back over the next few days and consider the vast majority over here, aren't the football hooligan, Bulgarian hating, Union Jack waving idiots we are increasing portrayed as across Europe and the world. And the majority have spoken. That should send you a message alone, forget the media etc for a moment. There is only one way t move now, and that's together and forwards. After all, we are Blighty, we are different than the rest. For so many different, varied reasons, not all bad.