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1.000 Migrants Since Christmas Day
it's not even spring and they are flooding in, surely this has to be stopped, i know this is constantly discussed here, it's unsustainable, rayners build more houses erm build whole towns more like, all these men will want demand housing of some sort and of course money to live on.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Canary42, so your happy with this, sins of the father and all that, when the countrys infrastructure collapses, will you say well deserved and a long time coming, or just a little disruption and crime as long as it's not in your neck of the woods, because it's happening right now. plus we never invaded all the countries these men are coming from, this is just a free for all invasion because of weak laws that should not exist.
"It's called Kharma. Just ask the Maoris, the Aborigines, the Native Americans, all now second class citizens in their own countries after UK invasions."
There is a slight difference.
When the UK "invaded" those nations, they were undeveloped and those living in them led largely primitive existences. Any valuable commodities of which the invaders took advantage were unbeknown to those living there and, but for the invasion, would have remained where they were.
Generally, the invaders (or colonists as I'll call them from here) usually improved the state of the places they colonised and left those places in a far better state than they were when they arrived.
This is in total contrast to what is happening in Europe and in the UK in particular. Most of Europe has a highly developed structure both physically and socially. Its infrastructure is mature and its social and political systems well established. The people arriving in Europe come from places which they have left precisely because there are few if any of those facilities.
I don't believe the European settlers in the Antipodes and the Americas enjoyed such facilities when they arrived. I doubt they were provided with shelter, board and lodging or with money to spend. I shouldn't imagine they had access to healthcare facilities, legal teams to argue for their right to remain or educational opportunities.
The colonists invested their time and money in developing the infrastructure of the places they settled. They introduced systems of healthcare, education and democratic institutions.
Those setling here have all of those already well established. They arrive to find that their every need will be met, from food and shelter, through to healthcare, education and legal advice. All of this has been and will continue to be paid for by UK taxpayers.
But other than that, your analogy is spot on.
"The colonists invested their time and money in developing the infrastructure of the places they settled. They introduced systems of healthcare, education and democratic institutions."
they also ruthlessly crushed opposition, upheld colonial power with torture and murder, and set up all those institutions for the benefit of the metropole, not the areas they colonised. in some areas they systematically exterminated the indigenous population and repopulated it with europeans.
those are all places in which the indigenous population were exterminated and replaced with white europeans. i'm pretty sure the indigenous populations of those areas would have preferred not to go through that.
there's no telling how the last 300 years might have looked if those societies developed independently through contact with europe rather than full conquest... that history was snuffed out.
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