Apropos of nothing that might or might not be in the media today I have been trying to remember the last time I was verbally abused while cycling by someone not employing demotic Scots or appearing, at least to my untutored eye, to be from an ethnic or minority background.
My conclusion: immigration dilutes the idiots. YMMV.
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Posted 14 years ago #
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I should add that I realise that I am lucky to lead a life so sheltered that almost my only contact with the above mentioned idiots is while cycling. And forthat I am truly grateful.
Posted 14 years ago # -
Doubtless as we assimilate we will adopt local values....
Posted 14 years ago # -
I thought it was funny, wanting something to be done about foreign people purely because they were born elsewhere *is* bigoted.
The spin men badly dropped the ball on this one.
Posted 14 years ago # -
Well, it reflect commonly-held assumptions that it is easy to get into the UK (hah!), and thus that our immigration laws are inefficient/weak and don't do what 'we' want them to do. So, people here are here 'illegitimately' (whether or not they are here legally).
It also reflects the dramatic narrowing of citizenship laws since the 1980s. Many former British colonies still have citizenship laws that accept than anyone born on the soil is a citizen. This has been dramatically challenged in many African countries, but many people do not realize that children born here of foreign nationals without permanent right to remain do not gain citizenship.
Of course, at the same time, many people born here legally of immigrants, holding citizenship, are not considered to be 'really from here'.
And, I suspect admin is about to close this little digressionary thread down.....
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Mrs Duffy says she objects less to being called sort of bigoted and more to being called 'that woman'
Posted 14 years ago # -
On Today they reported that Mr Brown misheard "flocking" for some other similar word and that was why he was annoyed.
It took them a day to think that one up.
The car crash was just dumb luck.
Posted 14 years ago # -
The only candidate who went to a school like mine (modern comp rather than Eton or Westminster) was quite calm and quite mild in his critique of Mrs D. He is despised by London media. Anyway, even without Duffy-gate he would never get elected in England as he is clearly Scottish.
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