Walkie- I think you get confused by left and right. Trump is right wing, socially and economically. Some of the people here you talk about being on the right are just right wing economically but are neomulticulturalists and demand mass immigration.
Yeah, i know that Trump is right wing, because
A) he's a Republican (that's their right-wing party, right? Like the Tory party here), and
B) It's written all over him.
I don't know where I suggested otherwise?
As for neomulticulturists, well, I see no contradiction whatsoever in right-wing "multiculturism". Free movement of labour is very good for industry (in terms of reducing wages etc) and also supplies a ready source of scapegoats, if required. Also, anyone who sees through that scam and grumbles about it can be easily dismissed as racist...just so long as they're white (and if all you get to see is the bare statistics, then it's easy-as-pie to assume they're all white).
But then you live in the South, right? So you don't get to mingle with so many of Brirtain's poor folk as i do, because the South belongs to the relatively sucessful, by-and-large. Well, believe you me, we come in all colours, and most of the recent immigrants are as alarmed and depressed by the situation they find themselves in as the natives are; and nobody wants more and more people pouring into London, only to be shunted up North when they can't pay their rent. People are losing their homes because they can't pay their rent up here, too. There are quite simply not enough homes, not enough work, not enough resources, not enough of anything to go round.
And i'm not just talking theoretically, out-of my arse. I've worked alongside immigrants of all races and watched most of them go from bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed, cos they've come to the "Land of Opprtunity" to anxious and depressed within a matter of weeks, as they figure out that it takes something more than a willingness to work hard to make it in this country; and that whatever it takes they haven't got it. I've also come within a hair's breadth of being out on the street myself. Twice. Once whilst working, then once again after having my benefits stopped.
You think immigrants are grateful to share in our "privileged lifestyle"? No, they're not, aside from the minority who manage to become hammers rather than nails. They are human beings just like the rest of us, and they usually do figure out that they've been had. And they usually do very much n notice that they are being treated like dirt by the bosses... not because they're immigrants, I hasten to add, but just because most bosses can and do treat unskilled workers like dirt (There always plenty more queing up to take their place, if they don't like it). And they do find the prospect of dying of cold on the streets every bit as as discomforting as you or I would.
I've had African and Middle Eastern people tell me -in shocked tones- "This is slavery" . They might have had it really hard , in various ways, back home, but at least they got treated with respect. It's really interesting to get an outside perspective on that kind of thing. We native Brits have serfdom in our blood, and are more accepting of exploitation and mistreatment than most of those immigrants are.
