Doc Holliday said:
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ABC BEAR said:
Sir Winston Churchill said it best:
"Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage."
Winston Churchill
The greatest politician in the English speaking world until
victory was achieved in 1945.
Then the physical and mental ravages of old age took hold.
I feel what you are saying but Chruchill over saw the end of the British empire (wasted lives and money on two foolish world wars)
While Ben oversaw the British empire reach its peak of power
He was the best PM of the UK
Reasonable opinion.
But Ben didn't have to deal with the likes of Stalin or Hitler from a position of weakness.
Churchill was actually a complete POS. Hitler made several peace offeriings and wanted to avoid war with Britian and he rejected all of them. He was paid off to push Britian into war.
By todays standards, Churchill might be a bit unpleasant, but then thats always going to be the case, Hitler might have wanted to avoid a war with Britain at the time, because it suited him to attack Europe piece by piece, but i think its pretty clear that we would have been attacked sooner or later and Churchill made the right calls in fighting Hitler when he did.
referring back to the "unrest" talked about in the OP, when your right wing media is constantly blaming everything on Immigrants, then you get right wing idiots blaming a stabbing attack on Islamic illegal immigrants (when the attacked was a Christian born in the UK to legal -I think- immigrant parents), sadly it brings out the morons. The Tories had over a decade to sort it out and have, if anything, taken the country backwards in many ways, leaving the EU was a massive mistake.
I went to London a few weeks ago and regret to inform people that its rumours of becoming a no-go zone for White people are vastly over stated, Its a vast, multi-cultural city, in a good way.
From 2012 to 2021, 2,729,000 immigrants from non-EU countries entered the UK. Since then a further 2,143,000 entered, 4,872,000 in 12 years. Crime rates in England & Wales have risen every year since 2013-14 (4,028,463 offences) to 2023-24 (6,657,518), a 60% increase in 10 years.
Now correlation isn't causation, but that's a catastrophic trend.
I dont know where you got your numbers from, but that is pretty misleading, there was a rise in Crime rate from 13/14 through to 18/19, but since then (barring a sharp decrease because of Covid and a corresponding rise after it, Our Crime Rate (the amount of crimes happening per 1000 people) has remained largely the same and actually decreased significantly last year to the point it is (only just) lower than it was in 18/19. So yes, there are more crimes, but the actual rate at which crimes is happening isnt increasing much (if at all).
England and Wales currently experiences 89.7 crimes per 1000 people, 20 years ago, that number was at 110.6
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It is a dangerous city, I've been multiple times and once had foreigners try to bait me out of a taxi in Piccadilly Circus and the driver locked the doors and saying that groups of foreigners will stab you and take your belongings. My brother in law who lived there for a few years before covid was attacked in Notting Hill of all places while jogging, by two guys, one with a balaclava and hammer, thankfully he was able to defend himself and fight them off.
Its a big city, it has dangerous parts, every city does, especially one as large as London, Im sorry youve had bad experiences there, but Ive been to London many times, both with Family and alone, using public transport, walking alone after Dark and I can honestly say ive never experienced any kind of crime or witnessed it happening to others
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My biggest issue with the UK is you're not allowed to speak freely. You should be able to say incorrect and inaccurate things and vice versa…but your government has vocally professed that it wants to further police speech.
You're not headed in the right direction.
In Britain, for the most part, you can say what you want, but if you knowingly say something that is incorrect that harms someone else in some way, then thats something that you should face consequences for. Actions have consequences.
You shouldnt be allowed to lie about the religion of a terrorist and incite riots in the Streets, for example
I'm the English Guy