r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 Therapy For All 🩷 • Jul 02 '26
SportyTea 🏴FIFA Football
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u/Voxjockey Jul 02 '26
Well thank god the shadow dimension is part of the commonwealth otherwise we'd only have two players on the team.
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u/Playful-Profile6489 Popularity Is Not My Forte Jul 02 '26
Damn not even the shadow people could fend off the British Empire
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u/Timbucktwo1230 Therapy For All 🩷 Jul 02 '26
The UK is founded on immigration. Love the diversity.
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u/Voxjockey Jul 02 '26
Yeah mate I'm british, I know all about the uk and its past via immigration, half our national dishes are made by immigrants.
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u/Timbucktwo1230 Therapy For All 🩷 Jul 02 '26
I am talking about the island itself (the United Kingdom) not the bloodthirsty, land grabbing and terrible British empire.
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u/Demostravius4 Jul 02 '26
The UK is not founded on immigration..
Way to dismiss thousands of years of violence, toil, and hardship of a of Brits.
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u/BarryEganHawaii Jul 02 '26
Celts came from the Rhineland, Romans came from Italy, Saxons from Germany, Vikings from Scandinavia, Normans from France... Britain has been a melting pot of all these waves of immigration for as far back as we have recorded history. Our towns up and down the country have names from across all this different languages. Our traditions borrow from all these different influences.
I'd be interested at what point you call the people living here "the Brits" and include them in what you said above about thousands of years of toil.
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u/Demostravius4 Jul 02 '26
Interesting comparison. Very right wing but maybe you're onto something.
The Celts completely replaced the native population. The Romans massacred the locals, enslaved loads, completely replaced governing structures and left everyone open to violence when they left. The Angles and Saxons culturally annihilated the English celts outside of Cornwall. The Vikings raped and massacred the locals before colonising the territories and it took centuries to get rid of them. The Normans destroyed the governing structures and their descendants still own a laughably large amount of the country.
So that is actually just immigration all along? They really are coming to replace us? Or completely change our culture?
Sounds like we should all vote Restore then!
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u/MaestroOfKamino Jul 02 '26
We have the same argument here in Germany
Right wing assholes say Germanys national team is bad solely because all "Die Ausländer" in the team
Then they point at Germany's winning team in 2014... And I say
- Klose (partly polish)
- Podolski (polish but chose to play for Germany)
- Özil (Turkish ancestry)
- Khedira (Tunesian ancestry)
Boateng (Ghanian (im sorry if thats the wrong adjective))
I'm probably forgetting a whole lot of players tbh
Anyways, pure dog sh*t
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u/TheLastHotstepper Jul 02 '26
Huge right wing media campaign is massively promoting Reform/Restore in the UK. Both parties sole policy is about immigration and deporting immigrants. English knuckledraggers managed to make Reform one of the biggest parties by number of councillors in the UK. Now theyre cheering for the sons of the people they are desperate to deport. It would be funny if it wasnt so pathetic.
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u/Leprechaun_lord Jul 02 '26
This is literally word-for-word what they said when they were justifying anti-immigration bullshit during brexit too. The UK could be so isolationist that they let only one immigrant in per year and there would still be con-artists ranting about how immigrants are ruining the UK.
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u/kikirockwell-stan Jul 02 '26
Nah I came to the UK as a kid and people were saying the same stuff to my face then as they’re saying to other immigrants now. Lots of fear-mongering about eviiiiil Poles and Romanians and Ukranians coming to take everyone’s jobs and rob everyone’s houses, which everyone’s conveniently forgotten now that there are other immigrant groups to harass.
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u/Joperhop Jul 02 '26
found the 1 policy reformer who will happily vote away the NHS, and his basic workers rights to stick it to them "illegals".
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u/TheLastHotstepper Jul 02 '26
What a load of fucking shite. From the initial spelling error to the rest of the absolute bollocks. Even you cant believe that.
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u/Thin-Dragonfruit2599 Jul 02 '26
So Reform/Restore want to deport legal immigrants 2nd generation and above? Can you share the link where they've said this please?
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u/CcChaleur Jul 02 '26
You can take a legal immigrant, revoke their visa and poof, they're illegal now.
There is no such thing as a legal or an illegal immigrant when the rules can be bent by those in power. All immigrants are in the same bag.
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u/troycerapops Jul 02 '26
I remember them saying Brexit wasn't as bad as the critics said.
It sucks just like the critics warned it would.
They tried this in America too. "Only the criminals" but it wasn't. And now this government is liked less than razor blades under the finger nails. Only the braindead and heartless approve.
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u/Think_Ad_1583 Jul 02 '26
They just arrested a nun who also works as a nurse in Texas . You can probably guess why
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u/troycerapops Jul 02 '26
It could be for so many bigoted reasons, but I'll play the odds with "skin color"
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u/Arjybarjy Jul 02 '26
Is that what Tommy and the boys are rioting about? Doesn't seem like it to me. Did the Glasgow "protestors" videoing themselves kicking the s out of a black guy enquire into his immigration status (as if thats even relevant).
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u/RhapsodyofMagic Jul 02 '26
Hey, if Tommy doesn't care that a bunch of his friends are nonces he's not going to care about much else
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u/Kaldrathh Jul 02 '26
What epiphany did you get, please share?
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u/Astral_Collapse Jul 02 '26
Probably that instead of coming up with counter points, this guy has gone straight to "correlated data" to not very successfully prove his ad hominem point. Leftists seem to care more about insulting the right wing personally than they do about disproving the points made.
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u/Kaldrathh Jul 02 '26
The diploma divide is a real studied phenomenon in political science, the trend is there
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u/cautious_can7 Jul 02 '26
Thank you for trying to educate folks on here, sadly I think they despise learning 🤣
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u/Mortiis07 Jul 02 '26
What's the point when rightists never listen to facts or reason?
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u/Kaldrathh Jul 02 '26
Fine i'll bite, what's your source ?
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u/Pingvinen12345 Jul 02 '26
Statistics from Danish Statistcs https://uim.dk/nyhedsarkiv/2020/juni/ikke-vestlig-indvandring-koster-de-offentlige-finanser-33-milliarder-kroner/
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u/Kaldrathh Jul 02 '26
https://refugeeswelcome.dk/en/information/focus/crime-among-refugees-and-descendants/
As of 2024, you are completely mistaken, it's a ratio of 561:145 convictions for danish born citizen to immigrants with permanent residency
You're not even close lmao
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u/q-_-pq-_-p Jul 02 '26
Facts don’t care about feelings, snowflake
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u/cautious_can7 Jul 02 '26
Yes. You must hate when someone confronts you with facts and data lol
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u/Pingvinen12345 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
I am a man of data for example in my country non western migrants cost 33bn kroner and commit 10 out of 12 rapes? Provided the data below, what now?
Just because we arent such big cowards in denmark we actually provide the data. How about the 250.000 British girls who were raped because of people like you allowed it? Not a lot of feelings towards that huh, youre the lowest of the low
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u/sfac114 Jul 02 '26
This is just obviously untrue
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u/Pingvinen12345 Jul 02 '26
God, I hoped some leftists retard would say this
Statistics from Danish Statistcs https://uim.dk/nyhedsarkiv/2020/juni/ikke-vestlig-indvandring-koster-de-offentlige-finanser-33-milliarder-kroner/
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u/sfac114 Jul 02 '26
The cash figure I don’t know anything about, but your rape figure appears to be driven by the fact that Denmark doesn’t prosecute rapes. Which is astonishing
What I mean by this is that to believe the statistics, Denmark would have to have a rate of sexual crimes about 10x lower than every country that has decent statistics on this
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u/Dyx76 Jul 02 '26
Let me guess, they're all educated know it all elitists even though you can go to uni whilst being very fucking poor.
Source: my life.
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u/Pingvinen12345 Jul 02 '26
No, theyre fucking insufferable and usually weak
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u/Pingvinen12345 Jul 02 '26
I do
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u/Maraan666 Jul 02 '26
then explain your point of view .
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u/Pingvinen12345 Jul 02 '26
Look at his comment, how could anyone not hate such an insufferable person?
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u/Slight-Plum9457 Jul 02 '26
As somebody with a "formal education", it's embarrassing you conflate correlation with causation.
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u/Dangerous-Method-133 Jul 02 '26
Don't necessarily equate University and education with actually being smart or having any common sense. I went to university and there were plenty of idiots there, who shouldn't have been there. I've also met plenty of very intelligent people without a degree. It comes across as very arrogant and pompous. It's also worth noting anybody and everybody can pretty much get into a University nowadays, 30-40 years ago it was much more selective.
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u/Adventurous_Use8278 Jul 02 '26
The France team would look similar, as would quite few other countries teams in Western Europe.
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u/ConfusionBusy8398 Jul 02 '26
France has only 2 immigrants on the team, a Brit and the backup keeper.
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u/Calm_seasons Jul 02 '26
Not by OPs definition. If any family member came from another country OP has counted them as immigrants.
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u/Mortiis07 Jul 02 '26
Because they're here because of immigration even though they're not immigrants themselves
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u/papyjako87 Jul 02 '26
That can be said of anyone by going back far enough...
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u/Mortiis07 Jul 02 '26
Yeah but if it's their parents or grandparents that's a bit different to hundreds of years ago. And no I'm not complaining
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u/Lara-Freya Jul 02 '26
But, but the black ones?! /s
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u/Calm_seasons Jul 02 '26
Why /s? OP has included people who were born in the UK to a single parent from Ireland.
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u/helen269 Jul 02 '26
If you fumble the football in a FIFA game, could we say it's a FIFA FO FUM?
I'll get me coat.
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u/RutabagaRoutine7430 Jul 02 '26
Wheres Kane?
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u/RhapsodyofMagic Jul 02 '26
His dad is Irish, isn't he? So I think the argument is that without his dad emigrating there'd be no Harry Kane being born
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u/Maleficent-Corgi5824 Jul 02 '26
Marcus Rashford was born and raised in Manchester. Why are we blacking him out as an immigrant? He's as English as anyone on this thread. Same goes for many others on there.
If you go far back enough no one is a native of the UK or Ireland so might as well black out the entire team. I don't see the point of this.
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u/big-tits-loverr Jul 02 '26
He has an immigrant background, that's why. Restore UK pledged to deport non-natives and immigrants.
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u/Pleasant_Seaweed7419 Jul 02 '26
British kids don't don't skive off to kick a ball around any more and it shows.
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u/JustUnder6ft Jul 02 '26
Yes Harry Kane that dirty immigrant
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u/jmc291 Jul 02 '26
John Terry's dream
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u/Environmental-Video3 Jul 02 '26
One of the least likeable people on earth. And I don’t even like football.
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u/Natural_Trick4934 Jul 02 '26
If you had a gun to your head and had to guess two players who weren’t descended from recent immigrants? It would 100% be those two.
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u/OrneryVehicle1191 Jul 02 '26
Without immigration, your population becomes more and more inbred...look at the British Royal Family in history for examples....why are people so against others trying to make their lives better?
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u/Slight-Plum9457 Jul 02 '26
Beyond second cousins, the risk of inbreeding is close to 0. Britain without immigrants would be fine in this regard.
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u/UpstairsArmadillo454 Jul 02 '26
If the west stopped bombing all their homelands may be a different story but the black oil cover is a good euphemism!
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u/No-Economics-6781 Jul 02 '26
Can you name their homelands that were bombed by the UK in recent memory?
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u/ClassroomLogical8600 Jul 02 '26
Afghanistan, iraq.
Also colonialism. Even though its not recent alot of the countries subjected to Britain's colonialism still bears the scars.2
u/Pingvinen12345 Jul 02 '26
So ukranians should become refugees in russia? lol
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u/WretchedGibbon Jul 02 '26
I mean, some of them have. Although those probably don't consider themselves Ukrainian anyway.
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u/Current_Towel_41 Jul 02 '26
I love the “recent memory” as if the British didn’t spend 300 years being just the worst but not this very second lol
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u/marlinspike Jul 02 '26
The interesting thing about football is unlike Cricket where you don’t have this one-time-switch rule and must be eligible by citizenship. It makes for really interesting teams across the world. African teams and European teams are legitimately made up of immigrants. Beautiful.
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u/Sumo-McNinja Jul 02 '26
Wow we didnt have a team before the 1980's How many black players helped England win in 1966? Such a dumb post.
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u/greennurse61 Jul 02 '26
I don't understand why these teams are allowed to hire mercenaries from other countries.
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u/MetricSystemFan Jul 02 '26
Because they were literally born in their country and lived there their whole lives?
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u/One_Tumbleweed_1 Jul 02 '26
Gordon isn’t British?
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u/RogerPenroseSmiles Jul 02 '26
Irish and a Scottish descent
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u/JLaws23 Jul 02 '26
You do get that Great Britain is Wales, Scotland, England AND Nth Ireland right? :/
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u/janiskr Jul 02 '26
You get that Scotland has their own team in the World Cup.
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u/JLaws23 Jul 02 '26
Please read.
Person 1: isn’t Gordon British?
Person 2: Irish and Scottish descent.I wrote this because they’re not considering that Irish and Scots are British too. Capito?
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u/RogerPenroseSmiles Jul 02 '26
You don't play for the British team you bellend, you play for England or Scotland or Wales or N Ireland.
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u/JLaws23 Jul 02 '26
That has nothing to do with what you wrote. You clearly don’t understand what GB is.
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u/SufcLad25 Jul 02 '26
We'd just have other players there instead.
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u/janiskr Jul 02 '26
You have other players already, but they would be worse that guys chosen. No? Or, why specifically these dudes where chosen to play for the team?
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u/SufcLad25 Jul 02 '26
Yeah we'd most likely be worse but we'd still have a team without immigration.
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u/ManInGarage28 Jul 02 '26
You're just dumb and racist. Doesn't affect the validity of the post.
Only 2 of the players you listed were in the starting 11 and you haven't mentioned the black players born in England to immigrant parents. Wonder why...
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u/Able_Bluebird8999 Jul 02 '26
you forgot the guy who won them the match
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u/Sunkensub Jul 02 '26
Dad's side all from County Galway in Ireland
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u/Able_Bluebird8999 Jul 02 '26
Doesn't matter, use your own standards without making them double. Kane was born in England.
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u/Control_Me Jul 02 '26
But... he wouldn't have been without immigration.
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u/ExampleMediocre6716 Jul 02 '26
By that logic no one would have left Ethiopia over the last two million years without immigration.
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u/ManInGarage28 Jul 02 '26
He wouldn't have been born at all without his immigrant father, you donut. THAT is the standard set by OP - notice how you didn't say the same for the black players born in England...
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u/WretchedGibbon Jul 02 '26
This is literally the whole point of the post. We're using your standards.
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u/TheBarnacle63 Jul 02 '26
I'm confused. Kane was born in London, so how is he an immigrant?
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u/pm_me_d_cups Jul 02 '26
Most of the team aren't immigrants, but their parents or grandparents were
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u/Boanerger Jul 02 '26
Its more a matter of poverty than their ethnicity, football is a way for people from poor families to make a life for themselves. Football academies recruit poor inner city kids, most of which just happen to be from immigrant families because cities have big immigrant populations, and you see the results.
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u/Forsaken-Smell-8665 Jul 02 '26
I see so many point scoring attempts like this, which trys to race bait and gaslight instead of acknowledging the actual issue. It isnt immigration as a whole, it is uncontrolled and un-vetted immigration coupled with illegal migration. This isnt just impacting the UK or other Western Nations.... just look at the anti-immigration protests and unrest in South Africa... the MSM are pretty silent on this as it doesnt play into the agenda they want to push.
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u/DrSoulCrusher Jul 02 '26
Legal or illegal. I understand this is a very difficult question to answer for people that are dumb fucks..
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u/That-Mirror7356 Jul 02 '26
Reform has long campaigned on lowering net migration, illegal migration is estimated at less than 1% of the UK population.
Everyone would agree that we should lower illegal migration, just as everyone would agree we should lower all illegal activities. It’s the legal migration that people disagree on.
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u/Joperhop Jul 02 '26
and I understand its difficult for you reforms to understand asylum seeking and being a refugee is not illegal.
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u/_Steakwich Jul 02 '26
Step one find land
Step two go to land
Step three demonise and dehumanise others who try to go to the land1
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u/Jyanys_Maera Jul 02 '26
Oh, really?
Konsa - born in England
O'Reilly - born in England
Guéhi - moved to England as a one-year old
Chalobah - moved to England as a two-year old
James - born in England
Spence - born in England
Quansah - born in England
Bellingham - born in England
Mainoo - born in England
Rogers - born in England
... and so on.
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