Gorton and Denton

King Billy · 28 Feb 2026

yorksbuilder said:
Greens want to take your car away, want to stop you flying, want to tax you to death, want to align with the East, want everything to be 'fair'. Only out of work state parasites/spongers/non car owners/non business owners would vote for them.

But they don't want to deport you. Tricky choice.
Stay and live, work in UK, pay a bit more tax, or get deported.

diy_fun_uk · 28 Feb 2026

Odds said:
Slippery Pete is suggesting everybody should speak English.
Some folk struggle with foreign languages.
He can barely speak his own language, at that.

I'm fed up with this narrative.

Who exactly do they want to be 'sent back' amongst those that don't speak much or any English? There are for example sports people living in the UK who speak very little or no English. Are they ok because they're usually earning not insignificant sums of money and therefore one would assume spending a fair amount here as well? Are they exempt?

Whereas some wifey who's lived here for years from whatever foreign country but remains mainly at home and speaks very little or no English, is she to be turfed out?

pete01 · 28 Feb 2026

diy_fun_uk said:
I'm fed up with this narrative.

Who exactly do they want to be 'sent back' amongst those that don't speak much or any English? There are for example sports people living in the UK who speak very little or no English. Are they ok because they're usually earning not insignificant sums of money and therefore one would assume spending a fair amount here as well? Are they exempt?

Whereas some wifey who's lived here for years from whatever foreign country but remains mainly at home and speaks very little or no English, is she to be turfed out?

I didnt say what he said I said by the way

diy_fun_uk · 28 Feb 2026

pete01 said:
I didnt say what he said I said by the way

tbh wasn't directing at you, I was meaning I'm fed up with the narrative in general.

Maybe if we start sending folk back for not speaking much/any English, and assuming they're living here legally, the recipient countries will in turn send a UK person back here who doesn't speak much or any of their language? Another one in one out type of scheme.

pete01 · 28 Feb 2026

diy_fun_uk said:
tbh wasn't directing at you, I was meaning I'm fed up with the narrative in general.

Maybe if we start sending folk back for not speaking much/any English, and assuming they're living here legally, the recipient countries will in turn send a UK person back who doesn't speak much or any of their language? Another one in one out type of scheme.

True, but I assume all the brits in spain pay their own way....but who knows

King Billy · 28 Feb 2026

pete01 said:
True, but I assume all the bits in spain pay their own way....but who knows

Are you suggesting that foreigners living here legally, who don't speak any/much English are not paying their way?
What do you base your assumption on?

pete01 · 28 Feb 2026

King Billy said:
Are you suggesting that foreigners living here legally, who don't speak any/much English are not paying their way?
What do you base your assumption on?

I was on about Brits in Spain, I suggested nothing

King Billy · 28 Feb 2026

pete01 said:
I was on about Brits in Spain, I suggested nothing

Yes, but your comment was in a tit-for-tat context.

diy_fun_uk said:
Maybe if we start sending folk back for not speaking much/any English, and assuming they're living here legally, the recipient countries will in turn send a UK person back here who doesn't speak much or any of their language? Another one in one out type of scheme.

pete01 said:
True, but I assume all the brits in spain pay their own way....but who knows

So what prompted your comment?

diy_fun_uk · 28 Feb 2026

pete01 said:
True, but I assume all the brits in spain pay their own way....but who knows

It depends how they'd want to form the policy. e.g. using my example, a wife/mum of a foreign family might stay at home 99% of the time and speak little/no English, so she's not a financial contributor in that sense. However she's keeping the family home running, she's being a wife, a mum.

Does she get punted out?

pete01 · 28 Feb 2026

One of my family members is in a hospice the chap in the next room lived in America for 20 years, ran his own successful business he told me, he got a brain tumour and had to return as he couldn't afford the hospital bills.

Would that happen here?

Asking for a friend?

pete01 · 28 Feb 2026

diy_fun_uk said:
It depends how they'd want to form the policy. e.g. using my example, a wife/mum of a foreign family might stay at home 99% of the time and speak little/no English, so she's not a financial contributor in that sense. However she's keeping the family home running, she's being a wife, a mum.

Does she get punted out?

Good point

diy_fun_uk · 28 Feb 2026

I suppose this is what Reforms ICE Force will figure out as they go door to door asking to see papers and asking folk living in the property to recite a prepared English verse. They'll know who can stay and who should go.

pete01 · 28 Feb 2026

diy_fun_uk said:
I suppose this is what Reforms ICE Force will figure out as they go door to door asking to see papers and asking folk living in the property to recite a prepared English verse. They'll know who can stay and who should go.

I also have a friend who met an Indian girl, my mate tells me she had to study hard to pass the immigration tests? To get a passport etc....cost them thousands

King Billy · 28 Feb 2026

pete01 said:
One of my family members is in a hospice the chap in the next room lived in America for 20 years, ran his own successful business he told me, he got a brain tumour and had to return as he couldn't afford the hospital bills.

Would that happen here?

Asking for a friend?

There's a difference. in UK medical attention is free at the point of delivery, then they'll try to recoup any costs if it's applicable.
In USA you have to prove you have the finance to cover the medical attention before receiving it.

King Billy · 28 Feb 2026

pete01 said:
I also have a friend who met an Indian girl, my mate tells me she had to study hard to pass the immigration tests? To get a passport etc....cost them thousands

Many indigenous Brits would fail it.

The Life in the UK test is considered challenging, with studies suggesting that over two-thirds of British nationals might fail it.

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