Chomper Higgot

Here’s an example: https://news.sky.com/story/man-kept-as-a-slave-for-40-years-now-enjoys-watching-football-and-old-world-cups-says-charity-12532461

And yet: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022/hate-crime-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022

The UK Government disagrees with you: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2021-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery/2021-uk-annual-report-on-modern-slavery-accessible-version

The definition of slavery is not in dispute.

I suggest you reserve your ire for those who promised you they’d fix the immigration problem and leave off venting at those who told you they were lying to you.

I hear over 10,000 doctors, nurses and health professionals quit the NHS and went back to Europe where they came from. What brought that on I wonder?!

It’s not just the wait list, the NHS infrastructure is falling apart with outstanding repairs now topping £10Billion. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/13/cost-eradicating-nhs-england-repairs-backlog

No racism does not include comments against religious extremists. If however you wish to blame a whole demographic group for the religious extremism of a tiny minority then you would be starting into racism, but I think you know that.

Because you suddenly forgot all those years you paid to read a newspaper.

Again, a gross generalization. Immigrants are not bleeding the UK dry. Tgey do however make a very convenient scapegoat and diversion from the UK’s myriad homegrown problems.

Oh, so there is no racism in the UK then?

Except it isn’t, which is why the courts intervene and stop the Government breaking treaty obligations.

Nonsense. The panel has a time table which must include the midterms. A reminder perhaps that the rightwing have very clearly stated that if they win enough seats at the midterms they will put a stop to this investigation of the attack on the Capitol and replace it with investigations into Democrats, the FBI and the DOJ. There’s your ‘political’ right under your nose.

Thailand ’s economy is propped up by immigrants, many undocumented, it’s borders porous to those who need cheap Labour from neighboring countries.

An excellent example of what passes for considered thought. You are being shafted by people in power and you waste your time with that nonsense.

During my summer visit to the UK this year I frequently took advantage of a pint at pubs, the weather being fabulous I enjoyed my pints outside (an English summer tradition I hear). I wonder how many people passing thought, look at that welfare scrounger?

I’m not sure you have a grasp of Britain’s history on slavery. Slavery exists in the UK today and now.

Good outcome. He’s done.

Smart move. Trump will almost certainly ignore/deride/contest the subpoena. The message is clear, ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’.

More nonsense. Was that form the Daily Mail, The Express, or The Sun?

I feel your pain Bro, it must have been hard on you.

I think you’ll find most expats take a balanced view, seeing positives and negatives.

A result of the UK’s housing policy, nothing to do with how and why welfare works the way it does.

Nobody is asking you to accept blame. You might though pause to examine how much of the wealth of the UK was created by slavery. You might even spend a moment to think about the slavery that exists now in the UK, and elsewhere.

Let’s examine this a moment. So a couple with good well paying jobs have two children, they are earning good money and don’t need welfare. Then along comes a recession and they both lose their jobs and can’t find work that pays their bills, they take the work they can find, but what shall they do with the children they can no long wet afford? Send them to an orphanage, petition for the reintroduction of workhouses, or simply toss them out on the street? People’s personal situation frequently changes, in the UK’s economy that has over the past 40 years created the precariat, constantly moving in and out of poverty is a certainty of life.