There are so many charitable and earnest ways to make the point you're getting at, why reach for such intellectually low hanging fruit?

Is this the same comment where they said good riddance to the entire country?

I really prefer that sort of earnest, thoughtful comment compared to short-form little quips.

The EU might be better on digital privacy right now, however the emotional winds of the political mob change often and many people in EU government feel differently. The EU is also an aging population of technologically illiterate and immigrant-afraid retirees. I wouldn’t expect much different coming from them in the future.

Most of the OP's assessment that I quoted is about the UKs failing economics

Both have collapsing demographics, collapsing social welfare systems (turns out forced government pension payments thrown into low yielding bonds for people in their 20-30s who should be 100% equities is a bad idea), non-competitive taxation policy, and decades of underinvestment in risk assets that have starved their business community of capital needed to innovate or grow.

Who wouldn't be afraid of violent uneducated third world boat migrants, incompatible with your culture, moving next to you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doKEworwVmE

Humans are tribal creatures seeking comfort in those like them. Do you want to live around those people? Because all the liberal people who are vocally pro immigration in public, are voting in private with their wallet and choices on housing and schools for their kids are voting against immigration, paying a premium to live away from the cities/areas with illegal migrants because they don't want their kids being the next Rotherham grooming gang victims.

So don't look at what people say, look at what people do and if they put their money where their mouth is. That's how you filter out the liberal hypocrites(champagne socialists) who only parrot the socially acceptable talking points.

So you can downvote me if that makes you feel better, but notice how nobody is sayin that I'm wrong.

Any stats showing uniquely high propensity for violence?

> uneducated

Any stats here?

> incompatible with your culture

Any data here? My MP is not white and was granted asylum, what incompatibility are you talking about precisely?

> illegal immigrants

People seeking asylum aren't yet illegal, the legality of their stay is decided when their case is heard.

The reality is that travelling over multiple countries and crossing the channel just to claim asylum in a country someone wants to be in requires a ton of determination, bravery, and desire to improve one's life. Way more bravery than anonymously spreading xenophobia online.

To quote you: "I have receipts for every point, just didn't want to post a wall of links"

>The reality is that travelling over multiple countries and crossing the channel just to claim asylum in a country someone wants to be in requires a ton of determination, bravery, and desire to improve one's life

Classic HN libtard brain rot take. TIL that breaking the law is "bravery and determination and desire to improve one's life". Can I use this defense for robing a store or a bank?

The one that is also working on a digital age verification system?

The one that created an AI regulation that stopped all innovation, and a data protection innovation who's single result is billions of people having to spend 3 seconds before visiting every website clicking a button that doesn't actually do anything (in 80% of cases)?

Yeah, great.