Oh dear, Japan surfaces yet again as an excuse on offer from those in denial.

Automation can help, and will doubtless help more in time, but it cannot replace.

Japan faces exactly the same problem we do, and is quietly turning to the same solution. Quietly because of the traditional resistance to migration there.

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We might be at different places on the journey, but we are on the same journey.

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Stabbing of an 11 year old girl and 34 year old woman in Leicester square.

Wonder what the culprits description will be. Far right white thug I'd assume......

Proving what the right wing influencers did is the job of the CPS! Not of anyone here. The CPS will have the evidence, provided to them by the security services.

We will get to learn more in the fullness of time. That there is no overarching organisation these days but rather a loose collaboration between like minded people that has tentacles that extend into many countries, seems true. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist or that they are any less dangerous. It proves what the power of social is these days.,

That the events in Southport was the excuse that was used to pull the trigger that set off the rioting is obvious. That the trigger was cocked and ready to be pulled when the opportunity was presented is just as obvious. At least to those with eyes that see and brains that think. Not though it seems to those determined to excuse the inexcusable. They remain boxed in by prejudice and intransigence.

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We are on the same journey; you got that bit right. But not the reasons we would agree on.

Firstly Japan and Britain are in two different positions. Britain has been welcoming people for many years, Japan only recently.

Japan as you say would have had a traditional resistance to immigration. The reason of changes to tradition etc. This you appear to appreciate.

However I am suspicious of how many of those 800 thousand people will be skilled. When it was decided to bring in more people the Japanese people were powerless to stop it. Just like here.

I suspect it is just their turn to feel the change.

Britain and Japan can not be conflated totally though as I previously stated. Britain is not even using the pretence of a shortage of skilled workers anymore. This could be just lip service from the Japanese government.

As with "Covid" where most countries followed a uniformed script.
Mass migration to countries with strong tradition will continue to happen. That is because it is coordinated. This is to destroy national identity and to bring in an openly world government. If people have no national identity,it will be a lot easier for an openly world government to be accepted.

" You're not laughing now are you". Nigel Farage 2016.

There is no need for anyone to "trust the state" if they choose not to. I don't. I trust democracy and the law but most of all I trust my eyes and my brain.

If anyone thinks that what the security services have will be released to us, via the media, they are nuts. They have no wish to risk compromising their further investigations or prosecutions. It may never be fully released for fear of revealing sources or methods.

That's no windup or state support. It's basic common sense—something often lacking in the words of the apologists for rioting.

I don't want to see this issue diverted into another circular debate on the Japanese need for migration compared to our own. We are different countries, with very different histories, very different work ethics and are situated in entirely different geographical locations. Very few people outside of Japan speak Japanese, although it is now being taught in various parts of SE Asia in preparation for the anticipated demand.

Japan faces the same problems as we do and both will use the same solutions. Just at different speeds and in different ways.

What was, won't be, and is no guide to it.

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Mate, just like you - I don't care what seems uncredible to someone else. If I believe it I say it.

We have that in common.

" You're not laughing now are you". Nigel Farage 2016.