THINK ON THIS

You’re born here with, for the most part, ancestors of Ænglo-Saxon heritage. You play in the street, make friends, go to school, learn how to interact with others, get a job or go to Uni, but eventually get a job, meet a partner, buy a flat, struggle a bit, start saving, buy a house, get a little ambitious, raise a family, build a career, pay your taxes, stay on the straight & narrow (except for that fight outside the kebab shop a few years back), move up the property ladder, get a good promotion, approach retirement, get your gold watch hoping you’ve got enough saved for a small villa in Spain …. But then have your winter fuel allowance taken away from you, have to wait an extra few years before you’re eligible for pension, meanwhile have to continue paying for your prescriptions, catch cold in the winter, catch pneumonia, can’t afford to heat your home, can’t afford prescriptions and longer waiting times at hospital because people who’ve paid absolutely nothing into the system are allowed to jump the queue, and although you worked hard all your life everything you’ve worked for is given freely to illegal immigrants and criminals, who don’t need a winter fuel allowance because they sleep in 4-star hotels and who were allowed into the country without being tested for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, yellow fever, Covid, Monkey Pox (sorry M-Pox, the World Health Organisation has decided monkeys are racists). Meanwhile your wife has to carry on working. So, you complain, and you’re called far-right, something you don’t understand at all. You start tightening your belt, the streets you remember so fondly are occupied by drug gangs, and machete battles are a regular thing. Your teeth are starting to rattle, but you can’t afford the dentist, although migrants are given free dental treatment. You’re not eligible for a refugee integration loan, even though you’re going to have to contribute to paying the loan back, as the refugees won’t. You question why they get an integration loan when they’re not integrating. And then you question why they get jobseeker’s allowance when they’re not seeking a job. And why do they receive employment and support allowance, when they’ve never been employed? You’re paying towards a Refugee Resettlement Allowance, even though there’s no Pensioners Resettlement Allowance. None of this make sense to you.

This isn’t how it’s supposed to be.

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