Several officers from the Royal British Legion attended his funeral and I was able to chat with them. They told me he had been offered assistance but had refused it. Whether true, or whether they could have done more, I am not in a position to know.

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I appreciate your kind consideration, but there is no apology necessary.

Nothing is better than a good, strong cup of coffee and reading every overnight post on hol at 6.30 in the morning.......

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

Good to know, but I still sympathise. Some of these here keep very odd hours and write reams of twaddle in the small hours. You must need that coffee. I still "start my day the Kellogg's way". Something you are doubtless too young to remember.

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I've had better things to do than respond to this nonsense but some of your points here are irritating so I'll bite.

Within this little story, no doubt true, of your family history you appear to acknowledge the damaging effect that diverse neighborhoods have on social cohesion by recognizing that your family wasn't comfortable within an increasingly foreign environment.

What your family did was standard human behaviour. The same motivation that encouraged those Indians to group together in a community urged your family to move from it. The truth of the demographic map shows that it's standard behaviour for any ethnic community....and whites have less ethnic preference than any other...much to their own self harm.

Indeed, it's the minority who suggest that multiculturalism works or have the debunked fantasy that eventually all cultures steamline...it ignores all of human history.

Instead look at the metrics....your politics worsens society not improves it. Your politics destroys communities, which makes your move to one of the least diverse areas in the country pure hypocrisy.

If your claim that I'm a hypocrite made any sense perhaps I could see it.

You not offering an opinion on what I will end up doing (which corresponds to my politics) but me criticising you living in a place that doesn't corresponds to the politics you promote.....that somehow makes me a hyprocrite?

Ok old bean, it doesn't make a lick of sense, but whatever you say. Up is down, left is right....and you're a one nation conservative apparently...or rather your wallet is.

This claim has been debunked so many times now I couldn't calculate it.

The suggestion that the number of immigrants must be increased to satisfy a greater need to grow the economy is like someone trying to play Chess when they can only think one move ahead.

Immigrants grow old too.

What you suggest is literally a pyramid scheme, which requires ever greater numbers of immigrants to pay for everybody else.

It's insane.

Instead we are entering an age where automation will require far less of a workforce, not more.....but that seems to fly right over your head.

The guy who says that white people don't exist and that only the human race exists....the same guy now makes the point that we can't replicate the Japanese because we aren't them.

But apparently we can welcome the world into our country and eventually everything is going to be just fine.

Caught like a fish in your own net old bean.

Once again, immigration into Japan is tiny and it is vastly Asian. They do not want what you want and no one can blame them.....like the video I linked to the other day showing a Korean bar with its good unguarded....south east Asian cultures tend to low crime and high social cohesion.....it's not an accident.

The very opposite of what your politics leads to.

Well, I'm not on the dole, but frankly what I do isn't your business.

Edited by Stirlingsays (31 May 2023 11.00pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

So now we have another long and tedious post at 10.52 that nobody but me will even bother to skim read, as it is almost entirely directed at one person. I suppose if it keeps you occupied there is something to be said for it. I'll just pick up on a few choice statements that demonstrate why the attitude on display is so offensive.

No for the first time, you refer to "white" ethnicity as though it is a thing. It isn't. There are many ethnic groups with European ancestry and even more with shared ancestry. This type of language and attitude is resonant of that used by some extremely unpleasant people and it's sad to see it proclaimed here.

You keep on stating that my opinion on immigration is somehow related to my politics when it has nothing to do with it. My attitude is only based on a common sense answer to a very real problem. We face a shortage of working-age people. If in the future we don't because automation has released sufficient people into the workplace to do the jobs that automation cannot, then we adopt another approach. When change happens we react to it. Now and in the future.

Sure any folk who remain here will get old and need to be cared for. But will they and should they? Those who settle, integrate and become British deserve to be rewarded. Those seeking enough money to build a home in their country of origin less so. We can have a debate about how we treat those arriving on work visas, but not on the need for them to be here now.

I've explained why I moved here so many times that I won't do it again. If it's not penetrated your prejudice by now it never will. I am not the least surprised that you fail to see why the hypocritical boots are on your feet, but again there's little chance of that happening, so why try again. Brick walls hurt.

I didn't say we aren't like the Japanese. I said we aren't Japan. Understand the difference? It's not just the culture and language. It's where both countries are in the world and the fact that most people speak some English and almost no one speaks Japanese. Once again immigration into Japan is much bigger than you seem to think it is and significantly bigger than the official figures. It's hidden under all sorts of special schemes. That though is only the starting point. They know they face a problem and accept that the use of imported labour must rise. It won't be classified as immigration, more like the German "guest worker, but it will happen. Be patient.

You are talking through your rear end if you think that SE Asian countries are safer than the UK. Maybe parts of South Korea are. I have lived in SE Asia and one of the reasons I don't now is because of the crime. Murder is a common cause of death. I was a minute away from witnessing a shooting. One of our best friends was murdered. Guns are everywhere. Contract killers can be hired for £100, with little or no chance of police following up. Indeed they are sometimes the ones taking the contracts. Every shop has an armed guard on the door to stop thieves. Bag and phone snatchers are everywhere and there are neighbourhoods where you dare not enter after dark. Gangs fight turf wars over the right to sell drugs. Corruption exists at all levels of public life and justice is a joke. Nowhere in the UK, not even the most run-down inner-city area, compares.

For sure what you are doing now is your business, but given the amount of time you spend here it really cannot be very much. I was merely pointing out that your jibes at me, and the various things I have done, and still do at 78 have, and are, contributing to society, and wondered if you would share how you do that. That you refuse risks another accusation of hypocrisy.

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SE Asian countries? which would they be then? Singapore and Malaysia for example, you are saying that criminality is the same in those countries as say, the Philippines ,which is absolute nonsense.Vietnam is nothing like you describe, nor is Thailand or Brunei.I was last in Indonesia pre covid and then and the many times I have been there it was nothing like you describe.

Edited by HKOwen (01 Jun 2023 7.16am)

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.