Bold Seagull
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Organising an immigration protest without the far right and racists turning up is like organising a protest against eating meat and hoping the vegans stay away.
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[Politics] Protests/rioting in lots of places
- Thread starter Wrong-Direction
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Just on the bus to Brighton going past the Royal Pavilion. The woman behind us is explaining to her kid that it's a mosque
Nah, it's the Thames Television logo.View attachment 186842
Just on the bus to Brighton going past the Royal Pavilion. The woman behind us is explaining to her kid that it's a mosque
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
I’ve looked after my clients properties for over 15 years. I never once said I don’t like the tenants I’m friendly and have a chat with them just as I would any other customer, rich, middle class, not so well off I treat their homes with the same respect.
Because I go round so frequently I know them by name and they know me.
The point people are bringing up about colour is just daft.
What’s the point of debating if you can’t share life experiences without being accused of racism.
Just yesterday a lovely immigrant called Barb had bought me a can of coke earlier in the day and fridged it for me as she knew I was going round yesterday afternoon and knows I’m partial to a can of coke when working.
So yeah they must really think I’m racist
Peacehaven Wild Kids
Well-known member
I couldn’t remember it so I thought I’d search for it. I turned my Redifusion box to 5 just as Mind Your Language to about start but all I got was a thing called LWT
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
London Weekend Television
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Yet, a real mosque in Peacehaven (which has been egged) looks like a bungalow.View attachment 186842
Just on the bus to Brighton going past the Royal Pavilion. The woman behind us is explaining to her kid that it's a mosque
rogersix
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- Jan 18, 2014
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what is the point you are trying to make?
cheshunt seagull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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My experience of contact with the well-established Somali community in Camden couldn't be more different than what you describe.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
Well-known member
We haven’t had any issues of concern out this way and trying not to read anything into this. Kids do tend to “egg” buildings just for shits n giggles, only last year one got luzzed at my front door. Hopefully that’s as far as it goes.
As a bored 12 year old, just for a laugh my mates and I used to shout insults and do bad impersonations based on ‘It Ain’t arf Hot Mum’ at the local Indian takeaway. Occasionally he’d chase us and we’d run like the wind and the boredom would be broken for a few minutes, objective achieved.
We really didn’t mean any harm and luckily soon grew out of it.
(I’m hoping he’d forgotten us six years later when I became his best customer, I hate to havecc be eaten anything…well, you know!)
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
Think you missed the word "some"
The fact of the matter is that the population of the country has increased by 9 million in less than thirty years. We can, and should, have sensible conversations as to how that increase has happened and whether that is a good thing or not, given that we are told that our services are stretched and that there aren't enough houses being built to accommodate everyone.
I don't know the answer to those questions, but would like to be able to talk about them and get all views without the fear of being accused of racism or bigotry, or anything ending in "ism".
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
There is a ‘bulge’ of baby boomers like myself following the men coming back from war and born 45-50. We are dying off fairly rapidly now.Think you missed the word "some"
The fact of the matter is that the population of the country has increased by 9 million in less than thirty years. We can, and should, have sensible conversations as to how that increase has happened and whether that is a good thing or not, given that we are told that our services are stretched and that there aren't enough houses being built to accommodate everyone.
I don't know the answer to those questions, but would like to be able to talk about them and get all views without the fear of being accused of racism or bigotry, or anything ending in "ism".
Given the birth rate is down to 1:3, we need young people to be working to pay for the old, and soon the population will drop due to us old fogies with one foot in the grave.
Wait.
So they are risking life and limb to come unchecked into the country, gain access to the NHS and then flee the country avoiding checks?
But somehow they are also staying in government funded homes in the U..K that you maintain for them?
And they smell?
You appear somewhat confused.
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
James O'Brien is quite fond of the phrase, and, as usual, is quite happy to explain why.
JOB is a smug know it all with a grating presenting style.
I also suspect he is a deeply unpleasant man with dark skeletons in his closet.
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
I'd be interested to see whether that bears out and the proportion of economically inactive people reduces as the baby boomer generation passes away.
I does strike me that the way the welfare state was initially funded was based on faulty assumptions in that it didn't take into account the potential effect of advances in medicine on the average persons lifespan. So the question becomes do you import more working age people to fill the funding gap (how do you assure that there are jobs for them to do? Does care for the economically inactive cover the majority?), or do you attempt to change the way the system is funded and pays out so that it isn't as dependent on there being a critical mass of working age people?
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
There are 40,000 vacancies in nursing alone, right now. 70,000 in the NHS in total.
Many asylum seekers start their own businesses once their claim is processed. One Syrian lady loved making cheese, similar to halloumi, selling it on Leeds market. She called it Yorkshire Squeaky Cheese. Several years later, she is employing 12 people.
How many immigrants run shops?
Life isn’t black and white (pun intended) and there are good and bad sides to life. There is no place for bigotry or dehumanising people due to ethnicity.