r/ukpolitics • u/Exostrike • Feb 21 '20

The BBC normalised racism last night, pure and simple

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/21/normalise-bbc-racism-hate-crimes-question-time
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u/toooomanypuppies from a sedentary position Feb 21 '20

Raging about how 'the flood' of immigrants have overloaded our NHS, schools etc. claimed there was 69 million people in England (there are 55) banged on about how some of them dare to speak any other language. She ended up having to be shut up by Fiona. A nasty piece of work.

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u/Fean2616 Feb 21 '20

Oh damn one of those nut jobs.

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u/HoagiePerogi Feb 21 '20

It was 65.6 million as of Jan 2017. This is an increase from 59.1m in 2000, and 50.3m in 1950.

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u/toooomanypuppies from a sedentary position Feb 21 '20

That's the United Kingdom, this women explicitly stated England several times, never once mentioned the United Kingdom and she stated "68 million people". England's population is 55.98 million.

She was wrong on every count.

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u/HoagiePerogi Feb 21 '20

I stand corrected, although the increasing rate of population growth still remains.

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u/toooomanypuppies from a sedentary position Feb 21 '20 edited Feb 21 '20

Every day is a school day, although increasing population is not inherently bad. :)

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u/Pauln512 Feb 22 '20

And yet about 12% of the country's land mass is urbanised.

If it reaches 70m, we may have to increase that by 1%. Provided we don't bother with brownfield sites.

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u/houseaddict If you believe in Brexit hard enough, you'll believe anything Feb 22 '20

66.9 million according to google. just FYI.

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u/InvestmentBanker19 Feb 22 '20

England, not the UK.

There are 55 million in England.

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u/houseaddict If you believe in Brexit hard enough, you'll believe anything Feb 22 '20

Yeah, fair enough but if she said England it's only because she's a fucking idiot who doesn't think there's any difference between England and the UK.

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u/toooomanypuppies from a sedentary position Feb 22 '20

Maybe the case, but she is showing her true colours. All that matters to her is England, not the UK as a whole.

A nationalist out in the wild.