>> I think [in London] it's called 'white-flight'. Is everyone comfortable with that?
Are you serious, Haywain? When did you last visit London? I live in inner London, just round the corner from where Dog was brought up. He left, I arrived. Inner London is a complete mix, with all races living pretty much harmoniously together.
Now, the blacks knife and shoot other blacks. And the death rate amongst black youths is a tragedy.
And the Muslims beat up other Muslims if they don't vote for the right candidate. Or don't wear the right clothing for the region (Tower Hamlets...)
I wouldn't begin to imagine what the Muslims and the Hindus do to each other; I've no idea. I suspect they live in different parts of town so as to avoid each other.
But without the Romanians, Bulgarians, Poles and Spaniards (don't forget Spain has youth unemployment of near enough half of their youths), nobody would: build walls, iron shirts, pour coffees, drive buses. And without the Pakistanis newspapers and petrol wouldn't be sold, and the middle-eastern market traders keep us in apples at 12 for £1.
And as a white middle class professional, I see none of the trouble living amongst it, and reap the benefits of the immigrants' hard work. So this is why I couldn't imagine voting UKIP. If they all 'went back home' then we'd be totally stuffed.
Pat>>Some rather surprising insight into the rest of the country Mapmaker
I think it's something that has come out of these elections that I hadn't picked up on before, but seems to be widely described in the papers this week. It is a problem that the working classes in the regions have with their metropolitan rulers.
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