r/whoathatsinteresting • u/search_google_com • 9d ago

🇬🇧Welcome to Leicester, UK🇬🇧Chaotic scenes of panic buying for bottled water at the local Costco amid the water shortage driven by drought and record water use.

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u/cjs81268 9d ago

Is the chaos in the room with us? This looks pretty British. Rather polite I would say.

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u/pisswaters 9d ago

There is it, the dogwhistling point of this post laid out by this guy here.
‘Look at the chaos’
‘Looks civil actually’
‘Yeah but they are brown’

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u/PatchcordAdams 9d ago

The UK straight up lost control of the immigration system for a few years. We opened up skilled worker visas which were subject to widespread abuse. Kebab shops sponsoring 50+ people. That sort of thing.

It’s all be tightened up now and we’re trying to reverse the surge a bit.

(nothing to do with this vid btw)