Absolutely but politics and hypocrisy go together like any number of clichés.

That my statement isn't understood is par for the course of the responder.

As I won't ever be outnumbered 10 to 1 (unless I have the misfortune to run into a far-right "Rally" there is no need to worry about it.

The world's population is estimated to stabilise at around 9 billion. Where those people will live depends on a variety of things, not least the impact of climate change and rising sea levels. There are though other considerations. Changes to agriculture, new technologies, developing countries holding and then requiring more people. We could just as easily find ourselves unable to attract enough people in the future, as attract too many.

We live in a different world to our forebears. Population shifts are going to become the norm and there is no avoiding them, or reason to fear them.

Pushing the "Great Replacement Theory" in the 21st century is the equivalent of the Luddites in the 19th. You cannot turn back the tide of history. You need to examine its impact and then produce policies which maximise the positive aspects, and minimise the negative. Trying to frighten people just makes things worse.

Johnson is as incapable of doing that as he is of telling the truth. Which is another very good reason to try to get back to some decency in politics. We need clear heads, and a joined-up programme which we can all relate to and support.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Only one in ten people are Europeans. Perhaps on your planet there are more of us.
You clearly know that virtual replacement is a reality at current rates or else you wouldn't be soon keen to ridicule it.

Boris has nothing on you when it comes to dishonesty.

At the end of the day if someone wants to launch the a 'no or low immigration party' I don't see that there would be a fundamental issue with that, and think it would probably be approved by the electoral commission. That is about the extent of it as you can reason to people on various fronts (housing etc), while also (for 'some' of those people) have a racial aspect in mind. It's called being realistic.

However, this racist's chocolate box reality where British non white born children are somehow second rate and that even parties that intend or wish for their removal based on that fact alone somehow have validity to them, is a pipe dream of the warped. An affront to the dignity of others and a direct attack on the rights of people who have no less right to be here as anyone else.

The Internet has a lot to answer for. This pick your own reality world to extremes, that either results in people feeling mortally wounded if they can't have their 56 gender changes of a morning given an official seal of approval, or childlike views and demands on race to the extent that even bore most of those of their own race half to death.. And let's not get started on the creepy buttering up and half truths directed at those susceptible to this nonsense. I mean really.

I've said before on here that my partner is black. It's ridiculous that I'm taken to task on here for not wanting to go along with this tripe. Maybe I should ship all and any future generations off to a 'homeland' they've never been to and have zero connection to? There are practical realities in life. Live within them.

Edited by BlueJay (09 Feb 2022 3.26pm)

It helps when the people throwing the stones are less trustworthy than the target.

What exactly are you proposing is done? Outside of the EU we now have control of our borders. Therefore if a party that much more of an anti immigration stance than others comes about, who exactly is stopping you from voting for that? Unless you have an attitude where you dream of extracting non white british born people out of this society and back to their 'homeland'? Do you think that is a realistic or even helpful idea to have?

Society changes over time. There is certainly an argument with regard to speed of change, and definitely immigration, but outlooks beyond that either range from unhelpful to unnerving. As was said before, as the decades drift by ideas of identity change. Most people aren't looking at their mates of other races and having strange ideas about how they wish these people were not here due to some kind of arbitrary 'comfort quota' that exists in their own head about others genetic code (that is largely unknown to them anyway beyond what is visual). You don't need to perform tests on your cells to inform you of how much of a connection you do or should have to someone.

Edited by BlueJay (09 Feb 2022 3.47pm)