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  On 1/30/2025 at 3:29 PM, lost said:

 

It was just a article that popped on my feed. Hasn't Starmer said the same thing about the Boris wave?

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similar I guess. He said that last govt ran an open borders experiment which was both dog whistly and bullshit, it wasn't open borders...it was that point based thing which was bringing in a lot of people due to various shortages following covid, plus foreign students to keep Unis afloat, plus Ukraine/HK etc.

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  On 1/30/2025 at 3:36 PM, steviewevie said:

similar I guess. He said that last govt ran an open borders experiment which was both dog whistly and bullshit, it wasn't open borders...it was that point based thing which was bringing in a lot of people due to various shortages following covid, plus foreign students to keep Unis afloat, plus Ukraine/HK etc.

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Plus dependants, the Home Office estimated 5,000-20,000 dependants would arrive. The reality was 533,000.

 

There are Labour MP's retweeting the article now and Boris wave is trending 馃

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  On 1/30/2025 at 4:19 PM, lost said:

 

Plus dependants, the Home Office estimated 5,000-20,000 dependants would arrive. The reality was 533,000.

 

There are Labour MP's retweeting the article now and Boris wave is trending 馃

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well any Labour MPs using that as an attack are stupid, if they're going to build build build they're going to need people to do the building, and many will probably have to come from abroad.

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  On 1/31/2025 at 12:00 PM, steviewevie said:
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Whats this baldie incel bleating on about now?

So much whingeing over brexit, so much inaction.

 

I鈥檓 not sure there is anything in the world that could make a liberal get off their middle class alcoholic anus and do something to effect change.

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  On 1/31/2025 at 11:08 PM, mattiloy said:

 


Whats this baldie incel bleating on about now?

So much whingeing over brexit, so much inaction.

 

I鈥檓 not sure there is anything in the world that could make a liberal get off their middle class alcoholic anus and do something to effect change.

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Still bitter that he said some rotten stuff about jezza?

And baldie liberal is so pass茅. Surprised you didn't come out with centrist dad or some other lame as f**k insult.

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  On 1/31/2025 at 11:25 PM, steviewevie said:

Still bitter that he said some rotten stuff about jezza?

And baldie liberal is so pass茅. Surprised you didn't come out with centrist dad or some other lame as f**k insult.

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I鈥檇 be amazed if he was a dad. Have to have sex to be a dad. Just a big loser who says stupid things a lot ain鈥檛 he? Some people like that. Not me.

 

Anyway the person aside, the point stands - to be a liberal is to be seen to be moaning about something, but not care about something enough to do anything about it. Good money in moaning I suppose. Even better if you vote for whoever makes sure you don鈥檛 pay more tax.

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  On 1/31/2025 at 11:39 PM, steviewevie said:

One of many things that far right and far left have in common is how on social media they just resort to childish insults, usually about manhood...little man, incel, baldie etc. 

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Social media liberals have more or less a monopoly on childish insults. Your cockwombles and so on. Just ask marina hyde. Or that fat neck beard russ from cheshire dude who wrote all that weird sexually aggressive misogynistic stuff back in the day. Or erstwhile nazi, modern day champion of liberal social media supertanski. All of these wrong uns somehow make their actual income from childish insults.

 

If I call a bald sexless man, a bald sexless man.. it鈥檚 more a description than an insult.

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