Occupation: Retired underwriter
Political history: Typically Tory, except when he resided in “the socialist republic of south Hackney” and voted for the SDP
Interesting fact: His specialty in underwriting was kidnap and ransom: “Everyone always says that insurance is dull, but it’s far from it when you’re planning rescuing people from South Korea because the North Koreans have opened the missile silos”
Profession: Psychology graduate
Political history: In her native land, New Zealand, she supported both progressive parties
Amuse bouche: Eva has been employed as a singer on cruise ships; her longest trip was half a year, which is a long time to be on a boat
Eva: Steve seemed focused on enjoying the meal, to be receptive
Steve: She came across as a very intelligent, well-spoken, nice person
She: I had a caprese salad, mushroom pasta, and a creamy dessert thing, it was very good
She: He was certainly on the side of immigration being reduced. He thinks that UK residents who are native to the area, not just Caucasian Britons, face limited access to the essential services, because increasing numbers are entering. However I just don’t think the numbers are so problematic
He: I’m for skilled immigration, I have no desire to reside in a homogeneous, WASP country with warm beer. But I maintain that authorities have exploited immigration to fill the jobs they can’t get people to do without raising wages. Pay are kept low, so levies have to be kept low, so we can’t do things better – spend more money on childcare, on schooling, on innovation
She: I am not deeply informed of the EU referendum, because I was sixteen and abroad when it occurred. He explained it to me in a different perspective. He informed me about “posted workers” – candidates could come here and only be paid the salary of the their nation of origin
Steve: The French president spent two years getting the EU to do away with the system; it was reformed in two thousand eighteen. Before that, migrant laborers coming in were undercutting British workers. Under Gordon Brown, it was petroleum staff that were imported; later it’s been hospitality, agriculture. She grasped that, because she’d worked on a cruise ship and said she was paid a lot more than workers from other countries
He: It would be ideal to have a alternative power, come off of oil. I don’t like pollution, I value fresh atmosphere, I love the countryside. We found consensus on a lot of that. But I said, “What do you think of the Scandinavian nation?” Their energy revenues soared after the conflict began, they allocated those funds to develop green infrastructure
Eva: So we’re dependent on their petroleum. You can see that’s an unfavorable approach to go about things. He was supportive of maintaining domestic drilling for the small amount we’ll require in the coming years. I partially concur with him. We’re still going to rely on air travel. We both think we should be moving towards environmentally friendly options, windfarms and hydro
Eva: We briefly discussed anti-Muslim sentiment, though we didn’t call it that. He seemed worried by extremism coming here – he did note that a many individuals in the Arab world were radical, which I felt was not accurate. I think it’s discriminatory to make judgments based on religion
He: I hail from the eastern part of London. I asked her if she’d been to that district, and she said it had been modernized. Obviously, I would say that: full of yuppies. But when I go down that local market, I look like a foreigner. People gaze at me because it’s become very Muslim. She had a little look at me about that. I used the word segregated area. Eva’s got Polish-Jewish ancestry – she objects to the term, to her it denotes deprivation. I said, “No, it’s an area that becomes their own.” I agreed to use a alternative term – maybe community?
She: I believe that followers of Islam are really overrepresented in the media as engaging in misconduct. It seems a little bit discriminatory, or prejudiced against foreigners
Steve: I think we separated amicably. We had a embrace at the train stop
Eva: We both said that we’d had a lovely time
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