The British finally decide that maybe newcomers need some instructions on quaint British customs
There has been a great deal of internet mockery of a nine-page pamphlet released by the British Home Office to instruct newcomers on local mores. It contains helpful hints such as this:
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The Conservatives said any asylum seekers breaking UK law should be deported and Reform said the publication showed the government “knows that they are a menace”.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the government had “a very clear principle that if you break UK law, you will be removed from the country”.
He said the number of removals of illegal immigrants from the UK “are significantly up” and that he was working to ensure that foreign national offenders are removed from the prison system.
He added: “It follows that if we’re taking this approach, it’s made explicitly clear what the UK law is and what the societal norms of the UK are and that’s why this approach is being taken.”
A section on gender explains that women in the UK have equal rights to men, and do not need the permission from a husband, father, brother or any other man to do things like work, study, travel, or make decisions. …
And a section headed Respect in Public outlines how it is not acceptable to whistle or make kissing noises at people on the street, nor “make sexual comments to someone, even if you think it is a compliment
On the one hand, it actually is a step up, although a baby step. Did the British never impress these facts on newcomers before? At any rate, they’re doing it now. At the very least, that indicates that the authorities are setting up some sort of behavioral expectations.
But on the other hand, that is unlikely to make much of a dent in cultural customs and beliefs that run deep.
And furthermore: why has the British government been so eager to take in so many people with cultures that clash so violently (literally) with British life? That’s somewhat of a rhetorical question, because we know many answers. One for the left is that the left ultimately gains voters. Another (motivating both left and right) is for cheap labor. For some who support the policy, the reason is virtue-signaling. Still another reason is suicidal empathy. One more is a sense of being unable to do much to prevent it. And again, for the left, there are those who have wanted the peace of England’s previous high-trust society to be destroyed.
The Burnham government is putting groups of young male migrants in large numbers near small English villages unable to handle them at all. I don’t believe Burnham’s promises about enforcing the law for one moment.
@ Neo > “Another (motivating both left and right) is for cheap labor.”
Cheap for who?
There is a net loss for any country that imports “cheap labor” and then doesn’t put them to work, but pays them from government welfare funds, sometimes more than is given to native citizens.
Parody here:
https://notthebee.com/article/the-internet-has-created-helpful-memes-to-add-to-the-uks-new-guide-for-teaching-migrants-that-rape-is-bad
The question is why western nations are permitting settlement by populations whose males think beating women and raping women and children is acceptable behavior.
The unspoken object of the so-soft British anti-rape instructions is Islam. Soft Britain is inexorably flushing itself down a rathole, having let huge numbers of Pakistanis in.