Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Jim Waterson fingers Harringay Warehouse based estate agent for stirring racial hatred
In another effective piece of investigative Journalist Jim Waterson of London Centric has discovered that a small estate agency in a single storey office near the chimney of the former Maynards factory off Eade Road has been linked with an unpleasant series of mendacious TikTok videos that claimed illegal immigrants were being housed in expensive housing at the taxpayer's cost.
See a short video and read more at London Centric.
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Permalink Reply by Sarah
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Actually no social housing tenants are asylum seekers. You cannot become a council tenant if you have no recorder to public funds. Someone would need to have their claim settled and be recognised as a refugee behind they can go on the housing list. Then there would be the usual long wait for a property, just like everyone else has to. A lot of refugees end up street homeless because they have such a short time between getting refugee status and having to move out of their temporary accommodation - time when they have to find a job (after not being allowed to work for the years it has taken for their claim to be considered), claim benefits, find somewhere to live, somehow get a deposit together after not being able to earn any money...
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan
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How do you think most of the country would react to the FACT that native Britons are behind recent arrivals from the third world, because their need is greater? People really don't know this is happening.
When we invite people with lower expectations to Britain, it is for one purpose - to control wages.
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth M
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What is a native Briton? Born here? Parents born here? Grandparents? Great grandparents? When does someone became not native - one foreign born parent, grandparent? Countries with these sorts of rules don’t come out well. And what about the UKs debt to other nations?
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Other than where it has borrowed money, the UK has no debt to other nations. In fact, given the UK's contributions to the world, I'd say it is owed and owed a lot.
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Britain was not known as a country of immigrants until quite recently. The "nation of immigrants" framing is a modern reinterpretation of history, not the historical reality.
Britain's immigration history consists of distinct conquest events—Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans—separated by centuries. These were small ruling classes that integrated over generations, not continuous population movements.
The Empire Windrush is often cited as the beginning of modern immigration, but at the time it wasn't framed that way at all. If you read Hansard from 1948, MPs discussed it at length as a solution to unemployment in the Caribbean, not as the start of a new immigration model. The context matters.
What we're experiencing now—continuous, large-scale immigration over decades—is genuinely unprecedented in British history. That's not a value judgment, it's a demographic fact. The scale and pace are different from anything in the historical record.
We are where we are, and we all need to find ways to coexist. But pretending this is just "more of the same" historically doesn't help anyone understand what's actually happening.
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If I go on Universal Credit is that what I'll get? If so I'm quitting my job.
I'm a migrant myself - though I have always been a British citizen I was born elsewhere. Does that give me extra points?
What I really want to know is, who will look after me when I am old?
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Permalink Reply by Cynthia Brown
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If you were always a British citizen it must have been by descent which means you are at least part English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish. In short, you belong at least based on ancestry and probably cultural alignment (NZ, Oz, South Africa, Canada, US).
I do hope your family look after you in your old age. I almost cry when I see elderly people in nursing homes or being wheeled around parks by silent visibly foreign staff watching videos on their phones. Yes, you might find examples of excellent Phillipino aged care workers but these are the exception. Avoid state funded aged care at all costs.
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Cynthia Brown: I've been to care homes too and what you say about "visibly foreign" (you obviously mean not white, even though they could be British-born) is just as true of the not "visibly foreign" staff. Granted there is sometimes an issue with foreign accents, wherever staff are from. The much bigger problem is the training and pay of staff in care homes. It is also not true that private funded aged care is necessarily better than state care - there are many bad instances.
- BTW, there are millions of Britons who have always been Britons whose immediate ancestors were not English, Scottish, Welsh, or Irish, and many people who maybe "visibly foreign" who have such ancestry going back centuries because of British colonialism. It is not all so black and white as racists would like to think.
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You might want to revisit that last paragraph for clarity and sense (as well as accuracy).
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You may not like the sense of it but it is accurate. Just think it through.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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I see elderly people … being wheeled around parks by silent visibly foreign staff watching videos on their phones.
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Cynthia how many times and in which park or parks did you witness elderly people being wheeled around by visibly foreign staff watching videos on their phones?
I'm a frequent visitor to Finsbury Park. I have several times seen elderly folk with walking sticks or difficulty walking, accompanied by carers who are helping them. I've been impressed with the care and attention given. I expect that many of the elderly needing help in this way may not care the skin colour of their helpers or how foreign their carers were.
I have not seen the video-watching you describe in Finsbury Park. It's always possible to generalise from one or two examples and may be tempting if it promotes the MAGA-like Reform Party, as the TikTok was intended.
—a Wellingtonian. Invisibly foreign.
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Actually I'm adopted, so I have no idea about my ancestry though I'm told I'm part Maori.
Both of my parents are/were British but it only mattered that my Dad was when it came to my citizenship. I could not get it through my Mum because she is a woman.
Which family would that be? My niece and nephew in New Zealand?
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