u/PepperOk1368

I live in Swansea and I've noticed in recent years a dramatic rise in street preaching, mainly from African Christians and mainly Catholic. Some have microphones and some are wailing out God songs/verses. Last weekend I was in town and one of them had their 3 kids, youngest being around 5/6/7 handing out pamphlets.

I''m an atheist and this enrages me, I appreciate we are a historically and still legally Christian nation but I don't think street preaching is acceptable, it's annoying at best and cult like at worst. I would like to walk down the street in peace without having to constantly fob off these preachers.

Are other cities outside of London (obviously there's a massive rise in Islamic street preaching there) seeing the same sort of thing and what's your thoughts? Keep it in your church imo.

Most of us will agree this is necessary and needs to be done. There's no point flogging a dead horse. Europe keeps throwing money at Africa and Asia and nothing is changing, people are still fleeing to our countries and the corruption and war is as rife as ever.

What is the solution? My thoughts would be a soft re-colonisation. Declare we are stopping Foreign Aid but extend the opportunity to former colonies for us to use the money (or a portion) on making their country more habitable under our strict supervision. Make factories, build houses/infrastructure etc and build their countries up in the way we would.

Hopefully once we have taught them how to fish they will be able to sustain their population and we won't see this mass exodus from the developing world into Europe. I'm sure most would reject this but stuff them, you either accept the investment under our supervision or no more foreign aid, very simple.

What's your thoughts? I feel like this should be quite a feasible long term strategy for Europe and will save us a few billion quid in the meantime.