[phatfish]

It's "viral" marketing for progress-party.uk, if you play to the end there is a link to a Google doc to register your interest.

The veiled racism and bigotry in the "sim" is cheap. The current housing situation may be made worse by migration, but the majority of it is legal so hardly the migrants fault if we are inviting them.

So blame the government (predominantly Conservative over the last 20 years) and all the NIMBYs and hypocrites that stop anything changing in this glorious country.

[subsistence234]

> hardly the migrants fault

Of course not, but it's the fault of whoever lobbied for and passed those laws.

> we are inviting them.

Who is this "we"? It's not the British people.

[defrost]

The British people, of course, includes those British Nationals with English as a first language, who served in the British armed forces in World War Two.

The UK government, needing workers to help fill post-war labour shortages and rebuild the economy, invited many British people to come to the metropole.

Like all those dark skinned folk of the Windrush generation, and a good number of people who came across to the UK from India and Pakistan.

In more recent, pre-Brexit, years that invitation to fill a labour vacuum went out to fellow EU member states.

[subsistence234]

the majority of brits did not consent, and it's not even close.

[defrost]

Which group of immigrants are 'the brits' again?

The Celts, the Saxons, the Romans, the Danes, the Normans, the French, etc?

[subsistence234]

Ethnic Brits are the people whose majority of ancestors two centuries ago were living on the British Isles.

But I was talking about Brits in a wider sense -- the people with British passports and voting rights at the time when those mass migration laws were passed. Which happened against their consent.

[defrost]

Ethnic Brits are immigrants .. all the way down. Wave after wave of them.

> the people whose majority of ancestors two centuries ago were living on the British Isles.

So .. not the House of Windsor then.

> Brits in a wider sense -- Which happened against their consent.

Near as I understand British history not much happened with the broad consent of the masses, hence all the castles and defensive structures built to protect "rulers" from "ethnic brits".

The people that migrated to Britain in the Windrush generation were also British citizens, if you check your history you may recall a long phase in which the then ethnic British majority (who all originated from outside of Britain having cleansed the prior group of ethnic brits) went about claiming large chunks of other peoples multi-generation lands as their own and dabbling in more than a smidgen of miscegenation.

This is just history, beware the seeds you sow, they have a way of coming home to roost.

[archagon]

> It's not the British people.

Maybe not you, but plenty of British people support immigration. Believe it or not.

[lurker44]

> but plenty of British people support immigration. Believe it or not

not many i bet

has any government ever went to an election with the promise that they are going to increase immigration rates if they are elected, and won?

no because its electoral suicide to do so

[subsistence234]

not the majority. not even close.