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Reply | Johnson’s mates
at 14:17 31 Dec 2025
The boats are visible. Gone are the days when people used to sneak in through the channel tunnel in the middle of the dark night clinging on to Lorries and trains. Thousands of young men grinning and cheering in the full view of tv cameras coming unchecked across the very waters we spent countless lives defending against Hitler, Napoleon and others stirs something very deep in the national consciousness.
There is nothing but political will and the futile facade of international cooperation stopping us from deploying the Royal Navy, picking them up and taking them back to France. The boats would stop coming almost overnight. If the French don’t like it. Tough. |
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Reply | Johnson’s mates
at 11:37 31 Dec 2025
The “needed increased birth rate” is just a myth, it’s political spin. They are looking at this through purely economical eyes. The main driver behind all this immigration is to keep wages low and have more people here to spend money.
History has shown us time and time again that a smaller population results in a higher quality of life, a rise in living standards, higher wages. The population should be allowed to rise or fall organically with migration being used to fill skill gaps when needed. To have 1.4 million new people coming here every year (with a third of that number also leaving), most of whom are low skilled fresh out of the slums with no real qualifications is a reckless policy that may solve the issue of short term economic growth but will also lead to major issues a generation or two down the road. These folks will age as we all will. In 30 years we will have an extra 10-20 million old people to look after that we wouldn’t have had if it were not for these mass migration policies.
It’s such a short termist view. We are blinkered. |
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Reply | More Miliband madness?
at 09:44 31 Dec 2025
The guy is a blithering fool. Where do they find these people? The whole cabinet is full of nut jobs. |
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Reply | Johnson’s mates
at 09:39 31 Dec 2025
House/rent prices are high because there’s huge demand and little supply. In some places of the country a landlord can put an advert up at breakfast time and have hundreds of offers flying in before loose women comes on. There are also millions on the social housing list waiting for somewhere.
Having over a million people coming in every year needing somewhere to live exacerbates the problem.
The numbers are unsustainable. The notion we can continue to add the population of a massive city the size of Birmingham to the country every twelve months and not expect our infrastructure and public services to start creaking is a ludicrous one. |
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Reply | Johnson’s mates
at 08:14 31 Dec 2025
You have to look at the root cause as to why the birth rate is low. Lots of working families who work 50 hours a week feel they cannot afford to have children or often are too knackered. Lots of women with careers are reluctant to have children because it would affect their job prospects or if they want to continue with their careers they’d need to arrange childcare which often can be expensive. This wasn’t an issue in the post war “baby boomer” Britain where families could generally get by on single incomes, now people are struggling to keep afloat with two incomes.
It’s true that there remains a high birth rate amongst those on benefits and in social housing. And immigrants also tend to be more likely to have large families. It’s also true that those who are born into the benefits system are far more likely to stay in the system for life. From the cradle to the grave as they say and will need more working people to pay for them which exacerbates the problem exponentially.
Bringing in millions of people to fix the population is a very short termist and quick solution. These millions of people will be old in a few short decades and will inevitably need to be cared for and more people will be needed to pay for them.
We’re just going around in circles. |
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Reply | Johnson’s mates
at 16:07 30 Dec 2025
Most frustrating thing is it’s such a simple thing to fix, as long as the political will is there to do it. But there isn’t because it’s been the governments priority to invite as many people as possible here to continue growing the economy. Only a few have been brave enough to say the quiet bit out loud.
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk |
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Reply | Johnson’s mates
at 13:07 30 Dec 2025
Big businesses can. Small family run ones can’t. The small businesses die off and the big ones get bigger as a result. Shareholders happy. Markets happy. Government gets to claim great success by growing the economy by 0.003% more than forecasted. |
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Reply | Johnson’s mates
at 10:59 30 Dec 2025
No that was a massive public scandal at the time. Conspiracy theorists only get mocked and demonised because they come out with the most batshit crazy comments like the disease was made up and didn’t exist or the vaccine was a deliberate method of murdering billions of people or it was a way to implant microchips in everyone so they could be controlled and tracked. You know that sort of mental dribble. |
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Reply | Oxford United v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 10:53 30 Dec 2025
I’ve been saying this for ages. Tymon puts crosses in like that at least twice a match he’s genuinely brilliant at it but we never seem to have anyone attacking them. Hopefully someone at the club has sat the strikers down showed them the videos and told them you can score a hatful if you make these runs. |
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Reply | Just when you think we have the messiah in charge.....
at 10:39 30 Dec 2025
Not true. When the apple fell from the tree Newton famously leapt like a salmon and guided it with a fantastic looping header over the keeper from 14 yards. Stephen Hawking might be more famous for his work on the history of time but it’s a little known fact that he worked tirelessly in the Greenwich time factory and invented added on time with Jimmy Hill. And Shakespeare actually named one of his characters in midsummer nights dream after Cardiffs league position last season. |
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Reply | Swansea City : There simply is no fairness in football or accountability
at 15:31 28 Dec 2025
Will never forget that last ten minutes against stoke where Bobby Madeley started giving them the most ludicrous decisions I have ever seen culminating in a last minute penalty. It was obvious to everybody what was going on I’ve never seen anything quite like it. |
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Reply | Johnson’s mates
at 15:04 28 Dec 2025
How do you insure something that is literally priceless? |
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Reply | Mounjaro
at 14:21 28 Dec 2025
Of course, as I said there’s a massive difference between a leisurely swim to get the heart pumping and blood flowing and pushing yourself to do 500 lengths in under an hour. People take fitness to the extreme and it can have a massive detrimental effect long term. Very often it’s not about the fitness anymore it’s about posting on social media “look how fit I am” for the instant gratification of clicks, likes and views.
I will always extol the benefits of walking/hiking 10 or 15 miles a day in the great outdoors and studies support the notion it’s absolutely fantastic for you, great for your mental health too as you’re out in the sunlight, smells of nature etc. don’t get that as much in a gym or pool. |
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Reply | Johnson’s mates
at 14:12 28 Dec 2025
Just announced they will fork out £800 million to move the Canterbury Embroidery 150 miles from Normandy to London for 6 months and back again.
I mean it is one of the great medieval masterpieces and I would like to see it one day. It is a work of art and tells a fantastic (although fairly biased) story of one of the most turbulent and pivotal times in our islands and European history. But it seems like a lot of money to splash out for such a short period when the countries finances is in the cack.
Here is an interesting debate on the brilliant masterpiece, the BBC really gets into the grit as to why the piece is so historically important:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art |
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Reply | Mounjaro
at 14:00 28 Dec 2025
Nothing better than a brisk walk of a few miles to build core strength and reduce inflammation. We aren’t designed to run or swim for miles or bench press 15 times our own weight. It’s largely the culture of going to extremes of fitness or laziness that leads to crippling joint and back trouble.
I’ve known people who go through extremes and are super fit only to drop dead at a young age because the body and heart can’t take it |
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