Anti-British Xenophobia and Hatred in Ireland

we've already had "It doesn't exist", "It's all them" and "we're the real victims here" and we are barely on to the second page.

the truth hurts I guess

and that was all me.

Hmm, I didn’t say racist. I said populist and right wing. They’re not the same thing. Please don’t put words in my mouth.

Also this is probably the most populist and right wing government the U.K. has had in modern history.

They got into power using triggers like xenophobia and it was blatant.

You’re talking about a government that had “go home vans” and use extremely jingoistic messaging at all times. It’s also continuously engaged in divisive populism around class division and so on.

It’s a government quite literally led by a populist tabloid journalist ffs.

Is Patel not right wing? She openly supported the reintroduction of the death penalty (during a TV debate a few years ago) and is extremely anti-immigration.

If you want to pretend it’s not populist and right wing, I really don’t know what the point in even having this discussion is. You might as well be saying water isn’t wet.

Yep. I was fairly shocked to see that because in my time there I had none of it. But we are talking about online.

Also the hatred for other parts of the EU and the Germans and french in particular.

A vast array of public service and welfare cuts, fanned along by a campaign against notional scroungers, which has caused massive dependence on food banks and caused genuinely grinding poverty.

Unprecedentedly aggressive immigration policies, which included deporting long term residents from the former British empire who had rights to live there.

Ramming though policies that are causing supply chain chaos and huge damage to the economy, and denying realty because they clash with a populist dogma. That is absolutely shocking. It’s not how normal Tory governments would have behaved either. It’s government by the tabloids.

Sure you can’t have a rational discussion on these threads anymore. It’s just attack, attack, attack and dogmatic posters and when they don’t get agreement, it’s straw men and ad hominem tactics.

Boards seems to be gone the way of Twitter these days. I can see myself abandoning the platform tbh. It’s really gone to hell in a hand basket and I’ve better things to be doing than raising my blood pressure.