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Balderdash's avatar

Where to begin? I live in Knowsley and I am a Gay man with a partner.

When Sunak announced his 5 pledges the only one I was really concerned about was Stop the Boats. Since then I have witnessed:

*For the first time living in Knowsley (60 plus years) an Arab man and his wife sitting on the front row at the top of a double decker bus, he on the phone, smiling and chatting animatedly whilst his wife sits obediently at his side wearing a full burqa

*An Iman walking along carrying what looked like a cane

*Whilst me and my partner were walking from the car into a supermarket, we were stared at non-stop by a young male illegal immigrant sitting by the entrance

*Illegal immigrants now use my gym. (How many people on a low wage can afford this?)

*The only barbers near where I live are Turkish. Curiously enough some of them do not speak English and they all only accept cash.

All of the four concerns outlined in the Policy Exchange paper are important; I am especially worried about the fourth.

I recall the appalling terrorism in a Reading park a few years ago where three Gay men were stabbed in the neck, the last words on Earth they heard was Allahu Akbar. In County Sligo ROI last year two Gay men grotesquely killed. They were beheaded.

Both the savages who committed these crimes were either so called refugees or asylum seekers.

I no longer feel safe in my own country.

Nor does my partner. He is an immigrant too but stupidly took the wrong route, the legal one. Foolishly, he qualified as a doctor abroad (no cost to the taxpayer, then); obtained permanent residence here; worked for the NHS for 25 years; was genuinely universally adored for his manner and ability; took one day off sick during that time; worked on the real front line (the ICU) during Covid.

Let me be clear, I do not want these people here. They are not genuine asylum seekers or refugees, they are economic migrants with an outlook which threatens our safety and way of life.

I do not want to pay for them from the tax on my pension which will only increase due to the freezing of the tax free personal allowance. I want this money spent on the poor working people of this country.

The message is simple; below the picture above the following should be written:

"*Are you worried about housing costs? They are not.

*Are you worried about finding somewhere to live if you lose your home?They are not.

*Are you worried about food costs? They are not.

*Are you worried about utility costs? They are not.

*Are you worried about mobile phone and Internet costs? They are not.

*Are you worried about legal costs? They are not.

*Are you worried about prescription costs, dental care, eyesight test costs? They are not."

Lee Anderson visited Calais and said the phrase he kept hearing was "El Dorado". The question is, Lee, what are you and the other Red Wall MPs doing about this?

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Johanna Ipsen's avatar

Well done, Matt, for delving into this so forensically. You’ve certainly lit the blue touch paper (and probably gone for a walk after posting this!). No longer can we hope it will all go away and that the Government will sort it out (as they should have!). My thought was……if the general public knew this…..

It would make a terrific manifesto!

In the meantime, I hope you can get this information into the MSM?

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