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   Emeritus Prof Christopher May (chrismayla6@zirk.us)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 19:03:51 JST Emeritus Prof Christopher May

   If (as Keir Starmer recently opined) we are becoming an 'island of strangers' its not got much to do with migrants, but rather the attrition on social & community spaces that years of austerity, cuts & (more recently) successive lockdowns have wrought.

   And, if you then look at people's lives, then a key indicator of loneliness & social disconnection looks to be financial/economic precariousness.

   We must stop blaming migrants for the UK's social problems!

   #politics

   https://theconversation.com/britain-is-already-becoming-an-island-of-strangers-but-immigration-isnt-the-driver-256724

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     Schroedinger (steveclough@metalhead.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 20:38:06 JST Schroedinger

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     @ChrisMayLA6 I think we are becoming an island ruled by strangers. That the real strangers are those in power, those in charge.

     But most people not in power are not strangers - maybe not all friends, but all together.