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    Which parts of London is she walking exactly?

    Is there a knife crime problem at Hamleys? Roving scooter gangs harassing the good folk/poor saps of Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park? Some people just need to be left in the pandemic.

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    A perfect example of the everything is awful fear mongering that the internet is spreading at a rampant pace. Fear and ideology are amazing tools for click bait and the internet seems to specialise in both.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Which parts of London is she walking exactly?

    Is there a knife crime problem at Hamleys? Roving scooter gangs harassing the good folk/poor saps of Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park? Some people just need to be left in the pandemic.
    Even Peckham is 50% coffee shops and Chino's these days.

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    Bit fucking full of herself. No wonder she never leaves the house.

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    Would be funny if the case fell apart after discovering a series of payments to his account that came from City whilst he was under suspicion.

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    Or if the process uncovers a series of secret offshore payments.


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    "Octopus"


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    Some 86 people have been arrested in Vietnam in one of the largest ever cases of embezzlement and bribery (42,000 bond investors robbed). Head of VTP Real Estate and SCB bank accused of somehow managing to fleece 304,000,000,000,000 (304tn dong), or $12bn USD. That's 6% of Vietnam's GDP

    https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/So...-firm-and-bank

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Arne View Post
    Some 86 people have been arrested in Vietnam in one of the largest ever cases of embezzlement and bribery (42,000 bond investors robbed). Head of VTP Real Estate and SCB bank accused of somehow managing to fleece 304,000,000,000,000 (304tn dong), or $12bn USD. That's 6% of Vietnam's GDP

    https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/So...-firm-and-bank
    All 24 central bank officials tasked with inspecting SCB received bribes of between VND100 million ($4,137) and $5.2 million to condone the lender’s extreme violations, the police have said.
    The Ministry of Public Security recently recommended charging Do Thi Nhan, former head of the State Bank of Vietnam’s inspection and supervision department, with receiving bribes worth $5.2 million from SCB from whom Truong My Lan had siphoned away VND1 quadrillion ($44 billion) worth of public deposits over a decade.
    Endemic.

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    Saint winning (or at least topping) the Dutch election is interesting. Clearly a big anti-immigrant (by which we mean anti-Muslim) shift in the last year or two across Europe.

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    How is Sweden doing on that score these days?

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    This well (from 23 Oct):

    The Swedish government plans to cut social benefits for non-European immigrants in the hope of discouraging migrants from coming to Sweden.

    Sweden’s coalition government is set to introduce reforms requiring immigrants from countries outside the European Union to learn Swedish and compete for jobs in the country's highly-skilled labor market.

    While the details of the changes are still being worked out, the leaders of the three-party coalition and the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) have claimed that Sweden has "significant problems" with foreign-born people who are unemployed and live on benefits.

    In an opinion piece in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter on Friday (October 20), they said that over the last decade, more than 770,000 people have immigrated to Sweden from countries outside the EU and European Economic Area (EEA).

    "Together with an integration policy that has made almost no demands (on immigrants) and provided no incentive to integrate into society, immigration has created a divided Sweden," they continued.

    In the opinion piece in Dagens Nyheter they refered to "segregation, social exclusion, unemployment, poor school results and a lack of common Swedish values." The piece did not include official data to support its claims, nor provide information on the number of Swedish citizens who live on benefits, Agence France Presse (AFP) reports.

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    I've milked the gammon fields for an education and a solid growing pension but it may be time to consider one of those shithole Saudi city projects, especially if I can market myself as a gammon to increase my perceived value.

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    We went through the actual stats of what was happening in Sweden a while back, focusing on crime and they were absolutely horrific.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    I've milked the gammon fields for an education and a solid growing pension but it may be time to consider one of those shithole Saudi city projects, especially if I can market myself as a gammon to increase my perceived value.
    Couple of guys I used to work with have gone off to that NEOM Line City thing. Absolutely insane wages.

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    Hopefully once Vradkar gets his cushy European retirement job and the greens are wiped out we'll see some similar changes here.

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    I'm generally pretty chilled when it comes to Immigration (little boats or otherwise) but even I have to wonder how the fuck Immigration on this scale can possibly be allowed.

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    It's funny how the mindset is: immigration = Muslims = boats, but it's right there in the data that the massive jump was caused by non-EU people mainly from Ukraine and Hong Kong.

    But we'll ignore that and wonder why nothing changes even when we've voted in our own Geert Wilders.

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    I'm not arsed if they're from Ukraine, Uganda or Ulrika Jonsson's birth canal. A 1% increase in population, from immigration, inside a year is unfathomable.

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    I wasn't having a dig at you, but rather the inevitable national response which will whip up a load of anger whilst doing fuck all about the situation. Although it could be argued the Ukraine/Hong Kong thing is very much a one-off so won't happen year-on-year even if nothing is done.

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    It was actually - amongst others - 253000 Indians, 141000 Nigerians, 89000 Chinese, 55000 Pakistanis, and a massive 35000 Ukrainians. More immigration in the last twelve months than 1945-2000. And apparently wages have stagnated? Weird.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    We went through the actual stats of what was happening in Sweden a while back, focusing on crime and they were absolutely horrific.
    Unsurprisingly, it's the exact same story in Holland.

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    Couldn't you attribute a lot of the suspect/suspicion there to them being racists hence why they've just voted in a bunch of racists?

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    Stuff like this will only accelerate the change too.


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    Is McGregor the new Wilders?

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    I've no idea what those words mean, but Dublin is warzone this evening. Enough is enough

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    Yeah because people from Dublin would never stab someone.

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    They've set a police car, a team and a bus on fire in Dublin now. But it's the immigrants destroying the place, apparently.

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    We're due a cultural swingback in the west after 30 years of prioritising minorities and this is probably the start of it. Doesn't make me feel wonderful about things but it's completely inevitable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    They've set a police car, a team and a bus on fire in Dublin now. But it's the immigrants destroying the place, apparently.
    It's the politicians that's destroyed the place and action needs to be taken to get it back. All this can only go on for so long and like the rest of Europe it just needs the fuse to be lit to kick things off - that dirty Algerian did just that today.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ben View Post
    It's funny how the mindset is: immigration = Muslims = boats, but it's right there in the data that the massive jump was caused by non-EU people mainly from Ukraine and Hong Kong.
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    It was actually - amongst others - 253000 Indians, 141000 Nigerians, 89000 Chinese, 55000 Pakistanis, and a massive 35000 Ukrainians.
    How are these assertions on the breakdown of the numbers so wildly different? I'm genuinely curious.

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    Fair play to the Irish fighting back. Nothing worse than thousands of them turning up in another country and bringing their backyard ways. Next they will be opening up themed pubs and forcing others to celebrate their national Saint.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    Fair play to the Irish fighting back. Nothing worse than thousands of them turning up in another country and bringing their backyard ways. Next they will be opening up themed pubs and forcing others to celebrate their national Saint.
    Yeah should be more welcoming like you lot were to us

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    Is it an immigration problem in this case, or is the fella just completely mental?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    How are these assertions on the breakdown of the numbers so wildly different? I'm genuinely curious.
    I went off this, but they could well have simply made it up to be racist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Yeah should be more welcoming like you lot were to us

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    Is it an immigration problem in this case, or is the fella just completely mental?
    There's been a massive immigration problem for a long time, just like over there which led to Brexit, and something like this was always going to set things off. There's been ongoing growing protests for years though.

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    Fuck sake what are they doing to Dubs. I'm laughing at the AI images of Irish warlords doing the rounds..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    There's been a massive immigration problem for a long time, just like over there which led to Brexit, and something like this was always going to set things off. There's been ongoing growing protests for years though.
    I liked it. The centre with all the forrins was friendlier than walking through the feral suburbs.

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    Giggles has been bottling up this tension since last Friday when he had a couple of pints. Get it out of you, lad, you dirty potato farming tap dancing alcoholic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    It's the politicians that's destroyed the place and action needs to be taken to get it back. All this can only go on for so long and like the rest of Europe it just needs the fuse to be lit to kick things off - that dirty Algerian did just that today.
    Not sure setting fire to hotels with workers inside is the brightest of moves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    Not sure setting fire to hotels with workers inside is the brightest of moves.
    When is any type of rotting anywhere the "brightest move"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    I went off this, but they could well have simply made it up to be racist.
    I went off the same thing. I was talking about increases rather than raw numbers. 35,000 Ukrainians is obviously a huge increase on the year before. 50,000 Pakistanis is standard.

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    I'm a twit

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    He's going to make the moon disappear.

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    No he's not.

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    But he's said he will...

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    He'll put it back.

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