I like that the site seems to use the gov.uk styling.
That part actually made me LOL.
Plus there are enough people to care of old people. It’s just that immigrants cause such downward pressure on salaries that elder care is not a viable job sector for most.
Even wealth can’t magically summon the humans necessary to do that kind of work, robots are no solution for the foreseeable future and I don’t think starting a family is easy if you have to take care of your parents and/or grandparents.
You’re twisting the past to fit into your contrived narrative of immigrants somehow wage-dumping us, but that’s simply wrong, it’s not what has happened in the EU.
It’s not that natives don’t want to work, it’s that immigrants undercut everybody. Not to mention what they’ve done to the housing sector of course. It’s unlivable. We run a country, not a charity.
Edit since I can’t respond anymore:
You assume two things: that you can’t work for less than the minimum wage (you can, since most elder care work is paid under the table) and that you can have a good life with the minimum wage (you can’t, unless you are okay with truly bad living conditions).
And a country has to prioritise the wellbeing of the natives first. You can’t destroy the lives of the poor and the young natives just to feel better about yourself.
We run a country, true; not a capitalist venture. A country is also built on ethics, and that entails adhering to basic human rights for all humans.
But yes, I agree, we need to tilt the scales back towards the young.
It doesn't address the other problems such as social cohesion.
The immigration policies of my home country Sweden has been detrimental for the Swedes.
I live in Zürich and there are a lot of foreigners here. Here it’s not so clear cut if it’s for the better or for the worse.
because the wages are low, why are the wages low? because these jobs have access to an unlimited amount of strikebreakers/migrants willing to do them for those low wages, so the wage stays suppressed and low, instead of allowing market mechanics to bring those wages up
2. What's wrong with celebrating Diwali?
3. Why should anyone care? Did anyone stop you from celebrating Christmas with your friends and family?
P.s. according to your post history you have based anti capitalist positioning on the pointlessness of most white collar labor, what happened to make you participate on the wrong side in a meaningless culture war that's just a distraction from the reduction in material conditions of the working class?
Also that is quite an overreach on basic observations that are generally agreed upon and weren't anti-capitalist.
Tell me you seriously didn't notice this.
Shops will do whatever makes them profit, they are not strictly run by the government.
A fair number of my family are teachers so check your facts before trying your lazy assertions.
3. Why should anyone care?
Most neoliberals (your entire political class) would vehemently disagree with the idea that the labor market is as high as 30% inefficiency, least of all in white collar jobs. That's not how they believe capitalism works. In their fantasy, pointless jobs can't exist, or at least not at such a high volume, since the invisible hand of the market would eliminate them.
You are of course right and they are wrong but my point is not many would agree with us.
In fact something like this sounds like it comes straight out of office space.
- Wishing a colleague a Eid Mubarak, at which the colleague mentions that she's no longer of the faith.
- It's Odd Socks day for Alzheimer awareness. Will you take off a sock? (No -> Linda disapproves.)
- Bring your dog to work day, will you bring treats to work? (No -> it got canceled anyway because of complaints.)
This just sounds like an exhausting attitude to go through life.
I think generally it was reasonably well done as a novelty joke website that is obviously trying to make a political point. That in itself makes it reasonably interesting IMO.
This looks like ragebait.
First 2 things I saw:
- the idea that £100k deposit is needed to buy a house
- some weird stuff about nationwide initiatives and hypothesised awkward conversations with people who might be Muslims.
Maybe I got unlucky?
While I admit that I don't live in the UK, I suspect it's similar to my experience from over the sea in Hamburg. I've recently moved there into a district with >50% migrants for roughly 3 yrs - not really expecting anything as I was still positive about everything.
Finding apartment listings in the online portals explicitly saying they will only allow Muslims was surprising to me, but I ignored it thinking, whatever.
Well, after moving into another apartment in the same area was an eye opener for me.
Really, I'm frankly surprised there are people still in denial how bad it's gotten. Well, not really surprised. I mean I was one of them in 2021.
In it is literally has emails from Linda on total nonsense corporate cringe stuff that I am shielded from because I wfh.
There is no way to win. I know many young people who are very comfortably in the top 5% of earners in the UK, paying tens of thousands of pounds of income tax per year, and are still locked into paying massive amounts of rent, because it's near-impossible to actually own a house here at this point. So quite honestly, what is the point any more? It's really no wonder UK productivity is dropping.
It's really hard to describe how bad the general vibe is here.
Meanwhile pensioners sit comfortably in four-bed houses in London suburbs with triple lock pensions guaranteed by the government.
Eh, think that depends upon your social circles, sure it's not perfect but the vibes just fine from my perspective. There seems to be a massive swelling of online opinion that everything's terrible and everyone's deeply unmotivated which certainly doesn't match lived reality for me
I reject this generational war thing though. British state pensions are the worst in Europe. The triple lock doesn't make pensioners rich; it just keeps them from sliding into abject poverty.
But half of people earn less than the mean salar though. So what about those on minimum wage? Well, one person with a full time minimum wage job should be able to get a mortgage for close to £100k, so wouldn't be able to afford a £150k house on their own. They could scrape by and get a house close to £100k though. There are plenty of these. Again, two people on minimum wage should have no problem.
I recognise that people have all sorts of different circumstances, so this is not meant to minimise the difficulty of affording property, but I'm just not recognising this claim from the outset that you need a £100k deposit or high paid job to get on the property ladder. It's hard, but it's doable for most.
And on top of this, Lifetime ISAS are a thing, so you only need to save up 80% of your deposit, the govt will pay the rest. And shared ownership is a thing, making it even easier.
He bought it decades ago much cheaper.
I want to move back closer to my family as they are getting older. I would like to move back so I can spend more time with my father as he is retiring this year. To afford a flat in Dorset it is 30,000 deposit. A deposits on a house would be about somewhere between £30,000-£100,000.
These aren't mansions BTW. These are normal 2-3 bed houses.
> But half of people earn less than the mean salar though. So what about those on minimum wage? Well, one person with a full time minimum wage job should be able to get a mortgage for close to £100k, so wouldn't be able to afford a £150k house on their own. They could scrape by and get a house close to £100k though. There are plenty of these. Again, two people on minimum wage should have no problem.
My two bed flat (that I got cheap) is £110,000 and I am in the North-West. I've not seen any houses up here that were worth buying less than £200,000.
You typically need a 15% deposit on a flat. I managed to go with some rando building society and get 10%.
Any houses that are £150,000 are always in horrible parts of town or they are complete dumps and need complete renovation.
If you are on a minimum wage (I spent 8 years on it) it is difficult to save money and when something like the boiler goes you are screwed.
That's incorrect. Half of people earn less than the median salary. Depending on where you live, it could be that a lot more than half earn less than the mean salary.
LISAs are a trap if you want to buy in the South. You can only use it if the value of the property is £450k or less. The limit hasn't been raised since 2017 despite crazy house price inflation. So many people got completely fucked by this; they have their money locked up in the LISA, can't buy a house near London with it, and can't transfer it to something else without a huge penalty.
See: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/06/lifetime-isa-...
More broadly, "the govt pays the rest" is part of the problem. All this help-to-buy stuff amounts to demand subsidies that just push prices higher and higher.
In London it limits you. Outside of London, including most of the South, where the vast majority of British people live, most first houses cost less than £450k.
The limit should have been raised though yes. Or perhaps it should be set by region, I don't know. Hopefully it will be updated at some point.
If you're buying into the 5% you're probably so fiscally irresponsible that nothing good will come off it. The new builds aren't all magically appreciating in value by 20% every year. And if they did the better house you'd want to move into has almost certainly gone up by 30% or more.
5% down is insane. predatory lending IMHO.
The OP makes it seem like renting and saving huge piles of cash is the only way. It's not. You can buy and save into your house instead. As long as interest plus maintenance etc is the same as what you would have paid in rent, you'll probably end up better off if house ownership is your goal.
Hang in there UK.
You can rent a nice, 2 bedroom flat with two showers+toilets, 13 mins' walk from a London Underground station in zone 3, for less than £2,000.
Even if they don't want to share with another couple, Nick and his girlfriend should each be paying less than £1,000, no?
The veiled racism and bigotry in the "sim" is cheap. The current housing situation may be made worse by migration, but the majority of it is legal so hardly the migrants fault if we are inviting them.
So blame the government (predominantly Conservative over the last 20 years) and all the NIMBYs and hypocrites that stop anything changing in this glorious country.
Of course not, but it's the fault of whoever lobbied for and passed those laws.
> we are inviting them.
Who is this "we"? It's not the British people.
Maybe not you, but plenty of British people support immigration. Believe it or not.
not many i bet
has any government ever went to an election with the promise that they are going to increase immigration rates if they are elected, and won?
no because its electoral suicide to do so
The UK government, needing workers to help fill post-war labour shortages and rebuild the economy, invited many British people to come to the metropole.
Like all those dark skinned folk of the Windrush generation, and a good number of people who came across to the UK from India and Pakistan.
In more recent, pre-Brexit, years that invitation to fill a labour vacuum went out to fellow EU member states.
The Celts, the Saxons, the Romans, the Danes, the Normans, the French, etc?
But I was talking about Brits in a wider sense -- the people with British passports and voting rights at the time when those mass migration laws were passed. Which happened against their consent.
> the people whose majority of ancestors two centuries ago were living on the British Isles.
So .. not the House of Windsor then.
> Brits in a wider sense -- Which happened against their consent.
Near as I understand British history not much happened with the broad consent of the masses, hence all the castles and defensive structures built to protect "rulers" from "ethnic brits".
The people that migrated to Britain in the Windrush generation were also British citizens, if you check your history you may recall a long phase in which the then ethnic British majority (who all originated from outside of Britain having cleansed the prior group of ethnic brits) went about claiming large chunks of other peoples multi-generation lands as their own and dabbling in more than a smidgen of miscegenation.
This is just history, beware the seeds you sow, they have a way of coming home to roost.
> A 50,000 home new town in Kent is blocked because they found nests full of agitated Chupacabras following the government's 'reintroduction' of the cryptid to British arable land. Your deposit requirement increases by £5000.
This is too real...
> Escape from system (fire protection trades)
> Build popular web platform for Korean pop music
> Google redirects all korean queries to indian seo scammers for three years (eg, google "BTS" or "BLACKPINK" and count the indian URLs)
This isn't a criticism just an interesting case of unconscious bias at play and how we tend to universalise our experiences.
This is in fact an extremely large, dare I say representative, demographic. Je suis Nicolas (30 ans) aussi. And his counterpart Nicola (30 ans) has similar problems herself.
>A black lesbian living in Derry would have a vastly different experience despite being just as much "30 year old in the UK."
By the 2021 census population pyramid, about 12,000 / 1.9M = 0.63% of the population are 30 year old women in Northern Ireland, and about 0.58% of the Northern Ireland population is black. Maybe 5% of women are lesbian? Derry's population is 85,000. So 85k * 0.63% * 0.58% * 5% = 0.15 of a person.
>This isn't a criticism
You are in fact criticising it by accusing the author of "unconscious bias" (and various -isms by insinuation).
It might well be. I didn't suggest otherwise.
> You are in fact criticising it by accusing the author of "unconscious bias"
No, I'm not, that's why I took the time to explicitly say so. I made no "accusation," you've just taken it that way. We all have unconscious biases and we all act them out in various ways. I made absolutely no value judgement and I think I'm a healthy society we should be able to talk about these things without everything having to be taken as an accusation.
> population pyramid
I intentionally used an atypical demographic reality to demonstrate my point: that person is just as much "a 30 year old in the UK" as Nicolas. There are obviously many millions of other people who are not like Nicolas and it's reasonable that a conversation includes an eye to the diversity of experience around us for a host of different reasons.
>I intentionally used an atypical demographic reality to demonstrate my point: that person is just as much "a 30 year old in the UK" as Nicolas. There are obviously many millions of other people who are not like Nicolas and it's reasonable that a conversation includes an eye to the diversity of experience around us for a host of different reasons.
The housing market in SE England sucks if you're young and work for a living; doesn't matter if gay or straight, man or woman, black or white. At any rate, I reject the notion that we can't talk about problems unless literally every last little niche demographic is affected. Not everything is about everyone. Someone must speak for Nick (30 ans).
You're welcome believe what you like but I'm not sure why I should engage with you if you refuse to believe what I assert about my own position and if you insist on re-framing my words with an accusatory tone that wasn't there.
I believe unconscious biases can and do have harmful effects yes. But everyone has them and it's common to let them influence our work. There's no shame in it and I certainly didn't make any value judgement against the author of this piece.
> The housing market in SE England sucks if you're young and work for a living; doesn't matter if gay or straight, man or woman
Similarly, I haven't made any statement remotely to the contrary. This is a strawman.
> I reject the notion that we can't talk about problems unless literally every last little niche demographic is affected.
And once again: this is not a notion that could be reasonably construed from what I said above.
I hope you feel better after getting your emotions out but I would encourage you to re-read this thread tomorrow and ask yourself how much you were projecting and perceived qualm onto me.
I hope you have a good night in any case. Goodbye
Oh. Just more conservative self-victimization about made up issues. Truly pathetic.
I mean, you are literally in power, you can just change it. What's the point of this?
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