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An older person I talk with (older than Boomer generation if you can believe that) keeps trying to moot that it's an "invasion" and then goes on about how these invaders have paid thousands to some people trafficker to be able to get over here.
I point out that invaders generally don't pay more than their life savings to invade, they get paid to do so. And they usually turn up with weapons.
Bless 'em, I keep having to reset their compassion because the newspapers must be what's putting these "invasion" ideas in their head.
There's a vague chance they might not vote blue in the upcoming elections.
In other news, and riffing on the "skulls" comment elsewhere, I'd quite like for someone to stand up in the Commons and ask what the government's jackboot budget is these days, and whether teaching armed troops to goose-step is coming back into fashion.