I’m a bleeding-heart liberal. I’m pro-immigration and I love the fact that the country I live in offers asylum to the oppressed.
My life and my surroundings are better because of people whose parents or grandparents came to the UK from the Middle East or Africa. Despite cultural differences or skin colour, they were still primarily British.
As a working-class kid, I was part of one of the first generations to experience mixed-race schooling and culture. It was the perfect antidote to the excesses of racism from the generation before me.
But that is not what is happening now. What is happening now is completely different. A large, undefined number of foreign, fighting-age men are being transplanted into working-class towns.
That has just happened in the northwest Manchester town where I live. In the last 48 hours, it has become obvious that a local hotel has been turned into an immigrant HMO.
Tonight my partner and I walked home from my sister-in-law’s. The walk takes 15 minutes. Passing the hotel, and the streets beyond it, we were met with an endless stream of Middle Eastern men, speaking another language and leering at my partner. She was in a summer dress. The stares were entirely inappropriate.
It felt like running a gauntlet. She felt unsafe, and I found myself staring down every man we passed. When we finally got through, she told me, “I would have felt really unsafe if you weren’t here.”
That is the first time she has ever said that to me on any walk home. From anywhere.
We need to stop pretending none of this matters.
My life and my surroundings are better because of people whose parents or grandparents came to the UK from the Middle East or Africa. Despite cultural differences or skin colour, they were still primarily British.
As a working-class kid, I was part of one of the first generations to experience mixed-race schooling and culture. It was the perfect antidote to the excesses of racism from the generation before me.
But that is not what is happening now. What is happening now is completely different. A large, undefined number of foreign, fighting-age men are being transplanted into working-class towns.
That has just happened in the northwest Manchester town where I live. In the last 48 hours, it has become obvious that a local hotel has been turned into an immigrant HMO.
Tonight my partner and I walked home from my sister-in-law’s. The walk takes 15 minutes. Passing the hotel, and the streets beyond it, we were met with an endless stream of Middle Eastern men, speaking another language and leering at my partner. She was in a summer dress. The stares were entirely inappropriate.
It felt like running a gauntlet. She felt unsafe, and I found myself staring down every man we passed. When we finally got through, she told me, “I would have felt really unsafe if you weren’t here.”
That is the first time she has ever said that to me on any walk home. From anywhere.
We need to stop pretending none of this matters.
Ok. When I sent this, I fully expected a bunch of far-left muppets to tell me how racist I am. Turns out it's the other side that have been particularly hard of thinking.
They saw the word 'liberal' and assumed I'm some sort of far-left, islam loving, pro-mass immigration commie.
It seems I'm going to have to spend my evening explaining to morons that there's nothing 'liberal' about far-leftie, Islam-loving, open-borders commies.
They've clearly never read the teachings of any liberal enlightenment thinkers. Ever.
Or seen anything I've done for that matter.
They saw the word 'liberal' and assumed I'm some sort of far-left, islam loving, pro-mass immigration commie.
It seems I'm going to have to spend my evening explaining to morons that there's nothing 'liberal' about far-leftie, Islam-loving, open-borders commies.
They've clearly never read the teachings of any liberal enlightenment thinkers. Ever.
Or seen anything I've done for that matter.
Ok. Mute it is 😂
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