There are not nearly a million asylum seekers in the country. As of June 2024, the number of asylum seekers in the UK was 224,700. But people come in and out of that number, so the total number of as… (View Post)

I think it was much more about austerity cuts in police and council funding than about seeing shoplifters as victims. (View Post)

The party that cut funding to the police, courts and councils was the Conservatives. Also, the party that massively increased immigration was the Conservatives. This stuff about "alignment"… (View Post)

Your first paragraph is the most wrong thing I've seen on PB for weeks (and you've had some stiff competition). In pre-modern times, there was pretty much no immigration control. People mov… (View Post)

Something can be lower than it was but still higher than it should be. The goal of the civil rights movements of the 1960s weren't just for less racism and sexism, they were for no racism and se… (View Post)