Alex M

If I understand you correctly you are saying I made a conscious decision not to be attracted to men. And at any point I could choose to stop being attracted to women and start liking men? I'm heterosexual for context.

Many will end up in modern-day slavery, working to pay off a trafficking debt. The whole situation of immigration is complicated. It needs to be balanced and done healthily to help those in genuine need without allowing the stage red minority to maraud into the country and take advantage of the good-natured people. Individual cases need reviewing and managing correctly. Without expecting it to be 100% perfect. As said @Consept said we also need immigration to make the country function properly workers are required.

I don't know what country you are in, but this podcast is a good listen if you are more interested (if you can access it): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001z1st You will realise there are many elements to the problem of migrants on boats. People smuggling is a big business. 800 this week, you said x £5000 / £10000 a head. So, the traffickers want people to come to the UK. I'm sure they will sell the dream as if the UK were the greatest place on earth. They are making money doing this. It's in the smuggler's survival agenda to do this.

I can't comment on the people turning up on boats because I don't know the facts and figures. It is an issue, for sure, and it does need to be fixed. I'm sure there will be people who are not genuine and people who are. There needs to be a proper system to process these people and send the non-genuine people back. You'll always get folks that break the law (aside from race/ethnicity). 1st or 10th generation, it doesn't matter. Sounds like you are asking anyone not British (this alone is a complex matter. How do you define this? It's not so easy) never to commit a crime. But is it okay for the native 'integrated' folks to commit crimes? I think the initial crackdown was to try to stop the rioting and get it under control, which it's done. Knife crime is another complex issue. Maybe @Consept can answer better than I could; he's worked with youth projects.

There's also been people sent to prison this week for attacking far-right people and also spreading mis-information online that the far-right are attacking when they are not. Both sides of the coin have be jailed.

The rates I can't answer. I grew up in the next town where there was a big Asian grooming gang in Rochdale. You will find a significant percentage of those convicted are 2nd and 3rd generation Pakistani men. They haven't just turned up on a boat undocumented; they were born here (I'm not making excuses, just pointing something out). In the case of Rochdale, there was also Romanian and Albanian gangs were also involved. So, it's not so selective to Asians. The problem needs to be dealt with, but don't be fooled into thinking it's an all-Asian problem. I'm sure the Romanian who stabbed the girl will charged with attempted murder. I don't think he'll dodge the law and be treated differently. I'm not sure why the government is a joke here. Knife crime is a problem for sure and a complex issue to solve.

Spot on. Of course, sex crimes are not selective to race/ethnicity. If people choose to believe this, they are rather stupid. In the UK, being mostly white, of course, the majority of sex crimes will be committed by white people; this is rather obvious to you and me. But let's ignore that because there is a Muslim grooming gang over there.

Like where?

Good for you for self-reflecting and thinking about this. I hope for sake of your country many other people do the same.

Oui oui 🥐

@NightHawkBuzz Are you open-minded enough to have your values change in the future? Or do you think your values are fixed? You are a Christian with religious values. I could come up with all kinds of reasons why I believe that religious Christian folk are bad for society and reject your human rights to be a Christian (of course, you'd disagree with me). But I wouldn't do that. I respect that you want to be a Christian, attend church, etc. Although it's not the path I want to take, I appreciate that it's what you want to do, and I don't try to force my values on you. Apply this same logic to gay people. You might disagree with it. But learn to accept it.

I'm calm. Like @Consept said, I'd prefer to stick to facts/figures. To make it clear, I have no issue with @Schizophonia. Once we started talking about this, I knew it would be a case of when rather than if the paedophile/gooming topic would turn up 🤷‍♂️

He's already spoken to Curt. The vibe I got from that video it was so massive for Curt to edit that I doubt he'd be so quick to do another.