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 Clive Carter on
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Thanks Hugh; the story is a credit to the dogged, persistent work of London Centric.
The username of the now-deleted TikTok account "Reform_UK_2025" bares an uncanny resemblance to a certain entity registered at Companies House (here).
The account was likely run by a Reform supporter and not by the company itself.
Partly to the lack of effective or meaningful opposition from the New Labour Government, the political Party linked to this company is currently doing well in political opinion polls. The Putin-admiring Farage—along with fellow demagogue Trump—would be delighted.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I don't know what to think anymore. Driving back from Dorset this summer the satnav took me off the M25 and through West Drayton, past two huge hotel protests and avenues of Union Jacks. My Deliveroo person is very rarely the same as the one on the account, I always tip if I get a smile, sometimes I get scowled at. I sat next to a woman on a flight back from Hong Kong last year who was a teacher at a private school in West London. I told her that I had seen a video put out by some right wing twitter account showing teachers trying to get men to stop hanging around outside a school and I thought that was just people trying to stir up trouble. She said (paraphrasing) :oh no, it's every day. We can't get the police or the council to do anything about it. Usually Albanian men". Who know's what's real?
One thing I do know is that we put recent migrants to the UK in social housing, ahead of locals. In 48% of inner London social housing, the lead tenant was not born in Britain. This is the kind of thing Reform will win the next election with. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs was great when we had empty housing, it's not so great now. My point is, they don't even need to do this. The British Electorate has voted for less immigration for decades, that was the main reason many people voted Brexit.
If you don't believe me about that stat, just put the question to an AI. He will no doubt equivocate "but many of those people have citizenship!".
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Permalink Reply by Cynthia Brown on
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People notice. More and more every day.
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Permalink Reply by Admiral on
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Anecdotes are just that - they are perception not "evidence". The 48%of people in social housing is only little more than the percentage of Londoners born abroad - 41% according to the 2021 census. You are probably right about people's views on immigration, influenced as they are by political propaganda, media bias, and perceptions borne out of historically fostered prejudice. As the anti-NF slogan went in the 1980s - "We are here because you were there". This country would not be what it is now, good or ill, if it were not for four centuries of empire, and the children of empire come in every hue, just as the ancestors of everyone living in the UK came on a boat or a plane.
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You try getting your streets or your office cleaned, your social care , your nursing care, your medical care, your any number of other services done without people who either weren't born here or one of whose parents weren't born here - see how you do then.
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All roles that could have been done by English people. You do realise that we had cleaners, nursery assistants, care workers and delivery drivers before the era of mass migration. These are the jobs that were done by young people or others without the skills or inclination needed to do higher value jobs.
We now wonder why our own young people can't even find part-time entry level jobs.
If we need to bring people in they need to have genuinely niche and in-demand skills that can't currently be met via the domestic markets. Think surgeons, engineers etc and not deliveroo drivers and fast food waiters for example. We need to force employers to train our own young people instead of undercutting them with low or cash in hand untaxed wages. If we need other people until such time as we have enough of our own trained people, we should only allow it on a short-term guest worker basis. We don't need to give them passports or indefinite leave to remain.
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Most of the people I refer to are British now regardless of where they or their parents are born or are you using English to mean white?
Young people can get part time jobs if they try - perhaps the one you know are too grand to do hospitality or cleaning or caring jobs. The cohort I know back from finishing uni are all in part time jobs whilst they find the work they trained for.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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There are 42,300 nursing roles and 8,850 doctor vacancies in the NHS alone. How do you propose to fill them? Training to be a nurse takes three years, a doctor up to seven by the way.
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There are always a certain number of vacancies in the NHS. Because of its size that number of vacancies appears larger than the number of people actually needed at any one time but putting all that aside some of the solutions to fill actual vacancies might include the following.
1. Prioritise British trained doctors for initial post-university placements and further specialty-specific training. The junior doctors strikes are not just about pay. There are many graduates of British medical schools who cannot find jobs because its often cheaper for Trusts to recruit more experienced staff from overseas (some of whose credentials are not exactly kosher).
2. Impose return of service obligations on British trained doctors. It is expensive to train them and having them emmigrate to Australia, New Zealand or Canada before the state can recoup the value of their training cost is a waste of money. The return of service obligations on RAF pilots or those imposed by large corporates who pay for expensive MBAs etc are models that could be followed.this could be waived for students who election to pay the full cost of their university education (way beyond the £9,000 annual contribution).
3. It doesn't take up to seven years to train a doctor as you say. It's generally longer and much longer for niche consultant roles which can see people reach their late 30s before becoming fully-qualified (often more so for women having time off child rearing). And training continues throughout their careers. Much of that is at a personal financial cost. There are opportunities to reduce the cost of professional development, insurances etc which would help the retention of British trained doctors and reduce vacancy numbers.
4. The requirement for nurses to complete a degree in nursing is relatively recent. Previously, most nursing training was provided on the job with additional more specialist skills and training opportunities provided as the nurses developed their competencies. Requiring all new nurses to have a university education has created an often unnecessary and expensive barrier to entry for aspiring British trained nurses. This could be removed as on the job entry level training was re-introduced over time.
5. Accommodation costs for young nurses and doctors eat up large parts of their income. Subsidised shared accommodation could be reintroduced expecially in London along with subsidised good quality cafeteria food. Yes, it would be expensive to reintroduce this but cheaper than the trail costs of importing foreign nurses on a permanent basis (both financial and cultural).
6. As mentioned above, we could wean ourselves off imported labour over time by only allowing foreign workers to fill domestic gaps on a temporary visa basis as guest workers. Bringing in excessive numbers of foreign workers to provide services to foreigners already here is akin to the spider swallowing the fly.
Yes, it takes time and money to fix a broken system.
I also wonder why the NHS is so large. Our population (at least the official one) is around 70m but our health service employs more people per capita than comparable western countries without better health outcomes. Its inefficient and throwing more money at it, unless very targeted, is like trying to fill the sink without a plug.
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Based on Wikipedia, the NHS is the 7th largest organisation in the world!!!! If you think that other first world countries like France and Germany which have (at least officially) larger populations employ many fewer people in their health services you can see how inefficient the NHS must be.
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Or that other countries simply don't employ everyone under one organisation.
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Precisely. In France you can be sent to a separate organisation for scans or even radiotherapy for instance. The Institute Curie in Paris has one of the most advanced radiotherapy units in Europe for example, but is not part of the national hospital network They all still fall under the banner of universal healthcare even if they’re not employees of same organisation. The downside of that approach is administration between separate organisations which makes the UK model seem the epitome of efficiency!
The idea that we have a bloated heath care system is nonsense. We rank way down on doctors per head of population compared to our neighbours. While we have around 3 per1,000 the European average is around 4. We rank near the bottom. Only Poland has fewer
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