Quote Originally Posted by Eric Cartman View Post
Sludge has completely butchered this. Putting your countries interests first isn't racist, its what every country does and should do.

When the government announces help for farmers or the steel industry, they aren't trying to help individual people, they are aiming to strategically allocate capital to support something that is in the British interest to support (food security, steel industry).

In the same way that when they fund projects in Africa that are supposed to empower girls/young women through education etc. Everyone is winner, it feels warm and fuzzy but a stable, healthier and growing African continent is in the British interest. Even the daily mail wins, they can complain about woke projects and get numbskulls to click through and view some adverts.

The idea that British (+western) interventions + actions upstream don't affect British interests downstream is provable nonsense.

The truth of this is, people rarely want to leave their home country unless they have to. The west is in a complete muddle as living standards stall. I saw a video interviewing older people about Britain and every single one said they wanted to leave with the majority wanting to go to NZ, a country which is experiencing an unprecedented emigration of young workers to Australia because of a lack of jobs and a housing crisis (sound familiar). Everyone always thinks the grass is greener but they rarely act on it.

The boats need to stop because it isn't good for anyone, but there are a worrying amount of people (increasing every day) who seem happy to take actions that we would previously have considered brutal and against 'british values' to get it done. Simple answers to complex questions yet again.
The answers are simple though. Every problem has a simple answer. It’s when people who are involved in finding those simple answers, aren’t up to it, or don’t want to find them for ulterior motives.
The worrying amount of people you mention who seem happy to take actions that would previously have been considered brutal and against “British” values are borne of frustration over decades of mismanagement of our country by inept, lying, self serving consecutive governments.
For a party like Reform to even be in the running to govern the UK is all the proof you need of how bad things have got under politicians that the masses have put their trust in for far too long.
From Policing to welfare to education to the immigration problem to every aspect of our lives, the UK is broken, and the public have only themselves to blame for sleepwalking into it.