If you actually bothered to check the timelines of my posts you would realise how untrue that is! I post in bursts, either after a meal, or when watching tv. It’s about to rain here so my gardening is on hold for a moment. Hard luck!

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You’re not there now and that is what you asked. Not what used to be there.

Nevertheless, based on this experience, exactly what is it I don’t understand?

I would imagine there would be just as many, probably even more, international health care staff as a % of the total, in London than here. Working hard, but feeling nervous at the moment.

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Kudos for recognising how hard most of those who come here work. Most seem really nice people too. My wife has a Romanian friend who is so sweet, friendly and funny. Great company. Of course, people are people so some will be spongers or chancers. Wherever they were born.

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For me there has never been any dispute with how hard new arrivals work. You don't generally up sticks from another country to sit on your ass.

People are people and we must take as we find. Im not against immigration. My wife is from Ghana, as I've said. Plus I have relatives all over the world.

People's concerns whether real or not; are being dismissed by this and previous governments as racist. It is not. But in the end it becomes a self fulfilling prophesy and we will get more racists.

Interestly I know many black people, including my wife - who like Trump and Farage. My wife actually voted reform and inspired me to do the same and I don't generally vote for anyone.

Reform put on their leaflets a ban for immigration. That's too black and white for me.

So like trump they are not perfect. However some people feel they are the only choice. It's out of self preservation.

The only real reason that khan continues to be mayor can only be because of the demographic in London.

So everyone is voting in their own interests.

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

Why do we have to say she is not a racist?

What she says, we all know is true. Race has nothing to do with it.

Politicians know it's all true. They just don't care.
Their agenda is to serve their masters and better themselves.

We live in a country, where people are told that stopping illegal migrants is really hard and that the 5000 who have arrived since Labour took over is unavoidable. In fact, the government is now saying nothing about it, despite claiming before the election that they were going to 'smash the gangs'. Obvious nonsense to anyone with half a brain. They even cancelled the Rwanda scheme, the only effort that had been made to slow it.

The idea that we can't just stop these illegals is laughable. Of course we could. There is just no desire to do so. EU countries, along with Britain, could all get together and agree on a new policy, but they don't.
Why? Because they don't want to. The idea that it is somehow close to impossible to tackle the problem is deliberately perpetuated with the help of the media and the usual assortment of useful idiots, some on sites like this.

They also perpetuate the idea that we need mass immigration. Again another myth. It is based on a completely false premise, presumable designed to mask the real reason for it.

Cheap labour and the promise of new left wing voters to please the Left, who happily play along. A divided nation, far easier to control. And of course, fear. The best way to convince people that they need protection from government and to distract them from the corruption of our leaders.

Fairly typical that you would know more about a place than someone who lived there for nearly 60 years.
Carry on imagining.