More expats returning to SA despite challenges
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- Property group Chas Everitt International says more South African expats are returning to the country despite a long list of challenges. CEO Rory O'Hagan has more on what brings the expats back home.
Tune into Newzroom Afrika DStv channel 405 for more.
Living in the UK is depressing especially working there is miserable. South Africa is a million times better the main challenge is Loadshedding. Life is better in South Africa, people are happier, kinder around you.
I loved the first 10 years in the UK, wonderful place to travel around Europe from, lots of things to do, things were cheap in comparison to your earnings, very safe compared to south Africa. interracial friendships are just a normal thing, you look at each other as people and not in accordance with their race. Then I realised you work, work, work most of your day,(no life /work balance), its bloody cold and the high cost of everything is scary. We now have the working poor in the UK.
UK and Europe is only nice to visit, not for staying.
In SA we just need better leaders
@TomRolland155 it has nothing to do with the ANC and everything to do with the people. ANC is not part of us. They live in a different realm.
@@Rpg844
He's just being sarcastic...
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Other countries also got their own issues, the difference is that when they talk to foreign media they don't badmouth their own country like South Africans.
The people who bad mouth South Africa are these Europeans we gave South African IDs. Everywhere they go they spread bad report about South Africa
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Facts! White South Africa hates black led SA.
Absolutely spot on. I hear other expatriates stating corruption and crime in their respective homelands. I tend to think better return home and create conditions you want to live in.
Well said. Unfortunately our people don't look at it that way
The grass is not always greener on the other side!
Usually is...when the bar is busy dragging on the ground
You just blindly believe all the bullshit you hear as long as it suit your narrative....there is always a story behind a story...Domkop !
LOL its never greener on the other side
more manure where its green
So true. I know people overseas who've expressed similar sentiments.
Home is where the Heart is...proudly South African
Preparing to return to Kenya Next year after 30yrs in the U.K., West is Doomed, Finished, We are coming home with all the Knowledge, Africa's time is Now, we have all the Natural Resources God Blessed and now we have the Knowledge so Rise Africa.
Please don't say such words about a country that hosted you for 30yrs. It's unAfrican. At least be grateful.
@bg1kuI have contributed 23 yrs working paying into the sytem in very Un-African Weather and leaving because of how expensive things have become, Actions speak louder thaan words, leaving because the Future looks Dead, Please see what the Actual white natives are saying and doing, if the milk turns sour, i'm not lookng foward to drinking it, the Western systems have collapsed and their priority is War so no need to tolerate such, you have no idea how Bad things are, its Exit time so that they can rethink their direction. I miss Kenya everyday, returning next year 2025 dec, saving up as much as i can, Home is Best especially when we are returning with lots of knowledge, experience etc, Theey haave a very Low opinion of Africans so dont feel sorry for them laying their Bed, all i can do is Vote with my feet.
@Peter-bg1ku Sadly it's true. 😢
You're so right. This is the time in history when Africa can be made to thrive and prosper. After all, our people are good-natured and willing to make a difference. If I do move, I will move to another African country. And I'm not even a black African. I just love our land and our people - everyone, regardless of race or religion.
With the same salary, they live like kings in South Africa but brokies in Europe
I once said they'll come back and people laughed at me😂 YOU WILL RETURN! it's not easy out there
True yazi
Home is home they can come back anytime we need every hands on deck to fix our country after this general elections
If ANC voted back in , the country will be done unfortunately... hyperinflation will be a reality
We have to build our country with or without the ANC. We can't continue to be pessimistic when we have such a beautiful country and beautiful people.
juju chased em out & he is still singing the song.
@@expose_massive_banking_crimeHaha no you give juju too much credit. They left because of crime and job security.
@@debeerpaul he said under oath that he might order slaughter of whites too
I live in UK and it is HARD to live here, from inflation, recession, terrible weather and BOREDOM. South Africa is a vibe! Yes, it’s far from perfect but there are definitely more pluses than minuses.
I loved the UK , complete opposite experience
Travelling overseas taught me that not all is bad in SA. I’ve learned that 3rd world countries also have problems. 🤔🤔Just wondering why so many Americans are now relocating to SA. Social media has bridged a gap, they know that it’s not all bad
You forgot ULEZ
@@Mr.Miyagi-yv8dmso why did you come back
probably parents@@BonganiMagadu
This is good news bring back the skills and the expertise.
The unfortunate part no one can afford to relocate, the poor can’t afford to, the rich are comfortable, the middle class can’t afford to be the poor in a foreign country 😂😂😂 let’s work together to make 🇿🇦 great
This is so true🎯
🇿🇦 I'm with you on that one mate! If we all just did our little bit each day!
❤❤❤ Thank you Lord I just came back from Saudi and its the best decision ever
South Africa is the best country in the world
What a joke 😂
Have you been to every country in the world ? So that you can speak from facts not your feelings.
For South Africans because we are used to a certain lifestyle
Haha keep telling yourself that
Ha fokken ha !!!! Are you looking for attention??? Well you got it !!!
South Africa ( the best country of the world .I wish we Southfricans can realise this. No one who is a South African can live in Europe or somewhere in America the life style is just different even the Tax they pay overseas is damn high.Let us make South Africa Great. This country is a dream of everyone . The people who grew up in South Africa , who ran away 1994,. they can see the difference. They are more free in South Africa than Overseas.Iyhooooooo.This country is blessed by our Ancestors but spoilt by us ,the treatment against one another.(Sixhwithana sodwa)
SA won't last another 5 years of ANC rule , look at debt to GDP + corruption + poor policies....they crashing the country
I came back from Switzerland last year - my mental health is healing ❤️🩹
What was wrong with Switzerland? It seems the best organised place in the western world.....
Once you baked under the African SUN....anything else is sub -standard!@@@JG-zb4mz
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Organized?. A Country must be organized enough to be predictable and disorganized enough to be exiting. Switzerland is a very organized insane asylum. A very unhappy place.
Mandela and the Springboks have shown us that we are much stronger as a nation and get much better results when we work together!!
he was a traitor at the 95 world cup! he wore a springbok jersey, sure, but underneath...he was All Black 😀🇿🇦
@@expose_massive_banking_crime good one.
To hell with Mandela and the springboks
Distance does indeed make the heart grow fonder. Its so easy to take Mzansi for granted when you are busy getting frustated by poor service delivery etc. But once you go abroad you truly get to appreciate this beautiful country of ours!
No country in the world could ever take the place of South Africa:)
We are sooo close to living in the best country on earth. Literally, a few months away. Let's vote wisely and get serious about building the country we want. We are paradise waiting to happen.
Good! Everyone should come home.
South africans be like:
😯what ?..no one to put petrol in my car?
No one to clean my house ?
No one to do the garden work?
I have to pay a domestic worker R35.000 a month??
Naaaa....i rather go back 😂😂
It's sad when we as humans look at thing's like that,try paint other's as to lazy to do thing's for themselves. Instead of seeing thing's for what they really are no one to put petrol in my car ,means more for big bussiness as they save on salaries, pensions etc,they charge the same price but bank bigger profits. Big business gains and ordinary people loss. Putting poor people out of a job,as for having your house and garden done overseas you can if you pay an hourly rate.
Home is where the HEART is!
We can braai every weekend and the beautiful weather and diverse people makes for a wonderful place to stay. We have our worries and frustrations, but so does every country. Many will come back and many want to, but cannot afford to.
despite our challenges South Africa is the best country in the world
I have travelled and I agree! one must travel & see for oneself
We can't afford to immigrate. But if we could we definitely would. My Husband can't get a permanent job because he is white, even though he is highly qualified. We have had a home invasion in which my dog was shot and killed, I've been highjacked in my driveway, I've had rocks thrown at my vehicle, my Daughter was sexually assaulted at University, even though a charge was laid against the individual, the police only arrested him after I threatened to shoot him because he was daily intimidating my Daughter at University. My Son was mugged twice. I basically live like a hermit, I won't even go into my garden without my panic button. So, NO! We don't want to live here but we have no choice.
Sorry you've been through that, ma'am. Have you tried moving to a different part of the country? Sounds like you live in a post-apocalyptic war zone.
@@G.DD3SS I live in KwaZulu-Natal Zulu Natal, Pinetown.
I am coming back too
No place like home sana yhoo !
Nam ndisandok'buya. Ubuphi?😂
@@Kholmi.28 Sweden 🇸🇪
@@Kholmi.28 😹😹😹
Also considering 😂😂😂sana
@@nompumelelondlovu8994 😹😹😹
People don know how hard it is to live somewhere else once you have lived in South Africa. Even if you come here and live for just three years, you will find it hard to adjust somewhere else.
Go back to Malawi na🙄😊
We need people who can pump into our economy not those who'll suck our economy, bravo to them considering our country, we are grateful
Guys most people with the intention of returning. They go just to make the money and come back,
They have the money, economy dont matter to them, they got the pounds, euros, dollars etc
There's no better place than home😂😂😂
As someone who works abroad, I think it's about the possibility of regime change.
Haha the possibility right? Who do you think will win, the party that couldn't run their manifesto at a stadium but at some places where they could give all attendants umbrellas, the DA? Nah man, that party is about to have a rude awakening.
No regime will happen in SA its propaganda. Do people reallly think DA will move from a 20% party to 51%? Or EFF from 12% to 51%.
"ANC has given the opposition parties an 80m head start in a 100m race, still they cannot beat them"
Keep daydreaming.
@@biko8229 Keep voting for the corrupt ANC and see how your life is in 5 years from now. You deserve the government you vote for and ALL the hardships it brings you. History will judge you harshly. Your children will judge you harshly when they're left with no future.
Damage won't be repaired in our lifetime
🔈Why is the audio ALWAYS so soft on Newzroom Afrika? 😂 it’s been like this for months!
Since the channel started
The grass is not greener on the other side
Ye it is
Depends on the person!!
The reason they want to come back is mainly of the possibility of a nuclear war in Europe and America and one of the safest places to be in a nuclear war is South Africa
No it's not. There are 4th and 5th gen fighter jets stationed in Botswana by the Americans, so best believe that there are Russian nuclear submarines that will always be hovering around the south pole ready for a strike Incase shit hits the fan.
They see flames this is the best country
I wish my friend can come back
Not me my bro! I am dumb but not that dumb 😂😂
It's tough to live in SA, REALLY tough, especially the last 4 years. There is no jobs, or proper structure anymore. Maybe only the WCape. You either had blooming years before you left, or you really don't know what life is like on ground level now, in SA.I would say, make 100% sure you know what you coming back to.
There's no place like home. I saw a video of a 4 year old running away from home, It's the same thing.
You know the real estate industry pays for these articles and air time. Its always this coastal town is attracting more buyers or area. Its all to create hype or sensation to convince would be buyers that they might be missing out on something
They want us to FOMO in 😅.
But for those who’ve worked hard for years overseas can afford to buy a beach house and retire or start a business, definitely not to look for work again.
@@alice-MizAbrahams best indicator is school age children and none if those are coming back
There is no white previlledge in places like UK, Australia etc.
excuse me? Is there "white privilege" in South Africa? If anything, there is black privilege in South Africa with BBEEE still being enforced after 30 years of ANC rule. I have family that immigrated to Australia in 2014, they left with 3 suitcases and hardly enough money to last them 3 months. They bought a house, 2 cars, and a boat after only 18 months of living there. I can assure you, there is no way they will be coming back. They left to give their daughter, that was 3 years old at the time, a better life in a country where they feel safe, a country where they don't need to worry about waking up in the middle of the night with a gun to their heads.
Non-Afrikans/Europeans leaving AFRIKA good riddance.
@@Kush-Kemet Non-Afrikaans? What does that even mean?
Tshooooootsho! Ndandtshilo ndathi nizooooooooonya! Welcome back!
🤣🤣🤣 bayanya ngaphaya
I am fine here in China...Just go home for a visit and return...Asia is a vibe
Lol, you will have to come sooner or later, no ways China will let you stay there indefinitely or give you citizenship.
Likewise, dip your toes in is enough for me
Will you be getting citizenship anytime soon, or ever? 🤔
@@Alias-gy3tz for what?
@@Alias-gy3tz for what?
I don’t who they’re talking about I live in the UAE which has a huge SA population and none of us are even considering going back. I know South Africans who have been here for decades. I’ll definitely retire in South Africa though.
This guy is the CEO? Wow. He can't quantify yet he can say there was an uplift. 😂
We need these guys, to come and help us solve our problems, crime, load shedding, political laziness, incompetency and help us fight corruption. This is their home, same goes for Elon Musk. Yout home is your home, no matter where you find yourself in the world, finish and klaar. Pula!!
Europe is very expensive haircut is R900 in our money in Luxembourg.
Wonderful climate in Johannesburg 👀
Life is cold outside. Ziyabakhalela ngaphandle
For every one coming back 10 are leaving
The same happened to Zimbabwe at 1 point and it was all over the news but soon they will go back or other people journey outside SA never to come back
Even poor Zimbabweans rather jump the fence to SA for better living, it's not the same. When you have money in SA life is sweeter, it's only the poor that bare the brunt.
@@isoboy1000 Even so, poor South Africans don't consider leaving. They just figure it out where they are.
I think they were motivated by Springboks 😅 winning the rugby cup for the 4th time.
They are starving in Europe🤣
Finally they have seen the light. They are also coming back to vote the ANC out. I love SA. It's the best place on earth. But with the ANC , not sure how long it will be this way. Viva DA.
1 out of 500...
South africans wether green, yellow ,pink , blue always have a problem with making a home outside of the country i dont understand why, we might be different and fight like siblings or enemies most times but we have one thing in common and that is the love of this country . but then why would you leave in the 90s and want to come back now, are you not supposed to be a citizen whereever you are
Nonsense
Wishful thinking
Nobody is coming back
Estate agency propaganda
I challenge them to name one
You need to heal my guy, you caring so much hate, why?
Let me know if you need some form of counselling man. 😊
😂😂😂😅😊
Half of the people I met in the UK has returned back to South Africa.
you need therapy
@@shanaazcloete8531lies
No they must stay there
No man. Don't be like that
It's the Springboks world cup win😂❤
we are taking the advantage of the weaker rand and better to invest in property
You are investing in South Africa because you think the future of South Africa is ........
That is because it is cheaper when we exchange these big currencies to rands....
They always argue that Europe is better than Africa, yet they are coming back from their ancestors continent to the so called dark continent in numbers despite the loadshedding🤔
Zoli ?? Aowa man !!!
Ey these people mfwethu 😂
The government mudt review its pokicy on dual citizenship.
Oh pls they only moving to Cape Town
What is true. I have witnessed other nations not adjusting to UK especially Africans. Apart from Nigerians. Those guys can live anywhere. We must not forget. Black South Africans have not always had permission to travel abroad ( during apartheid) . Overseas still hold mystique to most ( Hollywood etc..)
Most Black south Africans are lost in culture and many ways
You find middle class African children who can't speak mother 's Tongue. Never visit townships( where the whole entire extended family still live) They only speak English. In the township upto to ten dialects are spoken at some time. Not only that. Most African moving into the Cities from Township can't form a community like in our townships. They find themselves just as lonely as those who migrated.
The old comrades thing is gone! Depression is overwhelming in S.A.
Hamba u zo buya😅
Angiyi ndawo
Having watched Mac G's Podcast with John Steenhuisen on TH-cam, and the Documentary about Mayor Chris Pappas of uMngeni Municipality (also on You Tube), the DA is by far the most progressive, the most compassionate and the most experienced choice to take SA and the Multi Party Charter forward in 2024!
Let's fix our broken country and make it work again for all South Africans!! And let's welcome all expats back to SA with open arms!!
Freedom without our Land , Justice and Reparations is meaningless
@@Kush-Kemet The EFF is misleading its followers as according to its policy, the State will own all the land in SA, not the individual!!
The DA on the other hand routinely hands out Title Deeds ( real ownership in an individual's name) to poor South Africans in places where it governs. This gives the individual an asset that he / she can use for personal gain and pass on to his/ her heirs. This will not be possible if the State is the owner!!
When you say "let's make it work AGAIN..." You are comparing it to when, when did it ever work and when did it get broken exactly? Was it working before '94 and it got broken after '94? To be honest I think it's working fine now hence why those who ran away are coming back.
@@tonitappous2422Europeans stole more than 80% of our LAND.
@@denzel1877 SA was working fine under the Mandela and Mbeki Presidencies and before 1994!!
How can things be fine now when our infrastructure is collapsing before our very eyes ( especially electricity and roads and rail) and the economy is so weak that it cannot create any growth and jobs???
Bona baya kwini? 😂😂😂
Point that I always raise when people full of self importance make noise about immigrating, blah... blah... is that in Europe and the UK white skin colour does not buy you the mileage it does in South Africa.
Some more are returning purely because there’s so many more leaving. Some will never emigrate successfully elsewhere so end up unwillingly returning. The reason for leaving is still the same and hasn’t changed for at least a decade or two, and getting worse.
Most of them are running from the Israel war..coming to settle in Cape town as new land of dreams😮
I'm leaving again.
We know you'll be back in no time 😂🤣
Bye!
You're quite welcome!@@biko8229
Lol they must stay where they are and avoid our failed state.
BABESIYAPHI VELE?????
These guys come out with this every so often to talk up their business but outside of the WC property is flat nothing moving. My son and 5 of his colleagues have just finished their articles and have all left. I call BS on this and Chad Everett. You can BS some people some of the time but not all the people all of the time. 1st thing he said is he can't put a number on anything.
Thank God they left we'll see them when they come back🤣🤣🤣
Is this news worthy though…?
100%
Propaganda
FEAR ‼️🤦🏼♀️🇿🇦
They're scared of a Nuclear War‼️🤦🏼♀️☠️🧐😰🆘
...they've to, 2025 is around the corner
If it was not for the free and fair prosperity of future generations, i would still be in south africa , a calculated risk at my age .
The kids though...have no choice.
There is no way on this green earth, that 10 million taxpayers can support an ever increasing number of non contributing consumers, numbering 55 million.
Its a ticking time bomb to poverty on the level of zimbabwe ,congo and mozambique.
The only ones that come back are those 1% elite that can live in their security estate bubble and travel between bubble A and bubble B.
Just drive around the country, all you see is shacks and more shacks springing up everywhere , decaying infrastructure, potholes, trash, sewrage in the streets , useless police, useless goverment, post office doesnt work , train routes destroyed, public transport deathtraps, lawlessness and crime., a culture of you OWE me, racist goverment policies , Land expropriation on the cards, junk status 3rd world currency ., no electricity for half thr day, erratic water supply even for businesses and shopping malls that need generators and water trucks to deliver water, ...
A constantly eroding middle class lifestyle, its now you either in the 1% elite or POOR.
there is no inbetween.
This will not be an SA issue only. UK health systems is collapsing. Housing is no longer able to provide services for citizens. Tax has gone up due to lots of people demanding on gov for benefits. With the influx of people relocating, the system is not able to manage.Do research, things are not the same
@@nompumelelondlovu8994 there is no way the uk or canada or america or australia or new zealand will ever become a 3rd world junk status shirthole.
@@nompumelelondlovu8994 for thousands of years, the english have a history of overcoming adversity, wars, they always recover.
Their is no shortage of money, they do not BEG for handounts , they embraced colonisation by the romans, took back their land and spread civilisation and christianity to the rest of the world.
The current problems they have , they will find a way to recover the islamic invasion. Its them that are causing the problems in europe , because they are a culture of death and destruction and preach death to all unbelivers, its in their holy book , the quoran , by their false prophet muhammad.
SURAH 9: 5 in the quoran , tells us this.their plan is to dominate the world with the anti christ.
The current goverment is very unpopular for having an open border policy.
People are fed up and want change., their own citizens are being neglected in favour of freeloader illegall economic migrants. History tells us, change will happen, it will improve.
@@nompumelelondlovu8994 the difference is this::
Europeans , brits, when faced with a problem ,they have FORESIGHT to tackle and fix it before it destroys Them...
All pan africans have is HINDSIGHT!!!!...
30 yrs of ANC rule has proven without doubt, that pan african culture is in no way EVER, comporable to european culture.
Africanisim is sand roads, 3rd world infrastructure, breed children into poverty,, degradation, tribalism, lawlessness,, live off the land , but unable willing to work it on large scale,instead some individuals manage to grow something to sustain themselves, but very few prepared to do that, rather DEMAND handouts from the 1st world.
The real conversation we need to talk about is that, our civilisation is on the verge of a cataclysmic collapse. Europe is about to be engulf by a war along with America, Asia and Africa.
Good news, I wish we can also invite those white farmers from Zimbabweans, we also need them with their skills more than those who came to the country to disrupt safety and peace of the citizens of South Africans.
Zimbabwean farmers need to be in Zimbabwe, so the trouble makers can go work for them.
In short "invite white Zimbabweans but not black Zimbabweans
@@isintu1044
Wow...
Ska gafa wena
@@isintu1044you can’t make this things up.
Hmmm… maybe they’re just trying to create a hype. Which experts?
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Crime
I.e.lose your drinking buddies. 😅
There is less racism on the other side.
Racism is in the mind.
I call BS on this broadcast. I left SA in 1993 and never looked back. It was the best thing my family ever did. I know hundreds of other former South Africans who also swear that emigrating was the best for them. (And they are spread across the globe:- USA, Canada, Europe, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, and so on.) I don’t know anyone who would consider returning. Why would you? Crime, violence, racial hatred, unemployment, collapsing infrastructure, corruption on a level that is unbelievable, load shedding, utter incompetence of all government officials, the weakening currency and generally the failed state.
Just stay where you are if you happy there in that weather
Please don't return... Apartheid relics like you are not wanted 🇿🇦
Don't come back...stay there!
Imagine the love you have for SA, even when you have been gone for so long. It still interests you when posts like these are broadcasted. 😅😂😂. The South African in you shame. Stay there and let people who want to come back do so. It’s their choice too
Yet. Here you are. On this video.
Wtf is an expat
Is an Ex that's working part time over seas🤣🤣🤣
😢They have found dat de GRASS ON DE OTHER SIDE IS QUICKSAND 🙄❤
Nah they must stay where they are, or leave their entitlement there…
They find that they have it very easy here with a system that was meant solely for their benefit. We say "LALALALA LALALALA EHEHEHE GOODBYE !!!"
Voetsjek who do you think you are you fool it's the easy system you enjoying designed for you that chased away the best South Africans leaving us with you living freely of the benefits you enjoy with out giving back
I'm black but not black enough to enjoy your gravy train
They are coming back because they think we are going back to apartheid times that they have always been longing for. They have bet on the Ramaphosa hose and it's paying off.
Let's intensify the #RegisterToVoteEFF and make sure they don't get what they want. @EFFSouthAfrica is our only hope
Imagine being led by an angry government yerrrrr.
I bet if people don’t have the same views, will burn the country down. Emotional intelligence is very important in leadership. Just wondering why other leaders are no longer speaking in gatherings🤔🤔🤔. Can they have opinions or it’s a one man’s show.
Eff never....
EFF imagine Malema saying pay back the money but stealing a whole banks money and Sars selling your assets because you don't pay tax. Malema is a thief
The expats have seen it all😂😂
We just can't say we did not tell you; the grass is not always greener on the other side. Let us all prepare for a progressive EFF government #VoteEFF2024❤
😂😂😂😂. Experience is priceless though 👌👌👌. You’ll never know how it’s like neh🫣🫣
EFF Phambili!!
EFF wil never become the goverment! If that ever happen most” clever blacks” wil leave the country!!
This is utter propogranda. Sars released the demographics of those coming home and it is 90% upper to middle class. In South Africa these people have black maids, black gardeners, black workers and the white abroad want R30 000 per month because it's a white country. Dont mistake this rubbish news with South African prosperity. I personally know a bunch of family in Dubai and Australia who never had maids and gardeners in South Africa earning 120k per month overseas and swear to never come home. Every story has a real reason behind it and this is not it.
Business propaganda...from an estate agent of course...always look for the monetary interest..😂
They are also the most racist who now return due to their precarious financial situation
😂😂😂
we remember those that packed for Perth and London now they are scrambling back to Mzansi, what a sad bunch
This estate agent dude is always on the news telling lies about people coming back. It is only a few very rich people who buy houses in secluded seaside areas to escape harsh winter in Europe & only go back once it is summer. Ordinary Saffas are busy grafting at NHS & also in other sectors for their families. They've no intentions of coming back any time soon. Summer is coming & from Bristol to Belfast saffas from all walks of life do those get together parties across the 🇬🇧 & that's where you notice that we're plenty here.
The propaganda machine is crumbling