At Last Labour Speak Out About Immigration

[VHG]

After decades of all the parties being scared to utter a word about immigration at last we now have a party leader who is willing to talk about it.

"Curbs on non-EU immigration will be a key priority for an incoming Labour government", said Ed Miliband on the BBC's Andrew Marr show.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24193771

There are those of us on AB who have been shouting this for years.

Low skilled immigrants, who cant speak English, don't want to integrate, and are happy to milk the benefit system for all its worth. Many of them offer nothing to this country.

There are areas of Birmingham near where I live (Sparkhill and Small Heath for example) that are virtually 100% Asian. They have been turned from poor but fairly nice suburbs of Birmingham into sh*t holes in the last 30 years as the Asians have arrived the whites have left.

If any of you went through these areas you may believe you have wandered into Pakistan or a suburb of Calcutta, with the rubbish everywhere. 30% of cars in these areas are not insured.

I find it so upsetting to drive through these areas I find other ways to drive into central Birmingham, even though one area is on a direct route into the city for me.

Hopefully all the parties will at last realise the damage unrestricted immigration has done and will start to discuss it as part of their policies.

[hawksley]

It is all coming out now, sp1814 does not like people from Birmingham, because his ex came from there, I wonder why she or him left him???

[DTCwordfan]

That's a wee bit harsh, personal and unnecessary, hawksley.

[sp1814]

hawksley

I have never been dumped in my life!!!

[emmie]

i said in my experience, why do some take issue if there are things you don't like, agree with.

[sp1814]

emmie

No idea.

[Svejk]

/// I have a friend who automatically assumes that someone with a Scouse accent is 'dodgy'///

He's right,they are

[tonyav]

sp1814
Actually...let me clarify - not all of Birmingham...there MUST be nice areas...it's just I never found any.

And that accent.

That...accent.


LOL, just read this, of course there must be some nice area's in London outside of Belgravia just that I have never found any.
Your talking botox yet again sp1814.

[Svejk]

A 2nd/3rd generation 'black accent' is,imo,an affectation.

[solvitquick]

I suppose this site had to deteriorate into the trash it has become!
VHG put rubbish in so rubbish had to come out!
EVERYONE SPEAKING ENGLISH DOES SO WITH AN ENGLISH ACCENT although it varies from place to place or the persons' ethnic origin. In extremis this can result in certain DIALECTS which are hard to understand but I see no reason to dislike the people on those grounds!
The dismissal of citizens of great cities like Liverpool or Birmingham which put the "Great" into "Great Britain" on the basis of dialect or other diffuse "reason" is just innane bickering and far away from VHG's rambling racialist-cum-political diatribe.
Surely we should call time on this VHG instigated "debate". Oh.... whatever happened to VHG after he hurled his grenade into the AB site?
SIQ.

[Svejk]


solvitquick
///EVERYONE SPEAKING ENGLISH DOES SO WITH AN ENGLISH ACCENT although it varies from place to place///

You're mistaken there.
Ps. If you don't like this site,try another. There's no lock on the gate.

[solvitquick]

Dear Sveck,
Opinion is divided on this accent matter. On the one hand everyone in the world thinks I am wrong but on the other hand, I don't.
Actually I knew it was wrong as soon as I read my own post! Unforunately I suffer from a serious AB disorder: the inability to apologise.
That said, I seriously do think this topic is a burnt-out case.
Thanks for telling me the way out but I'll stay and watch if that's OK by you.
Regards,
SIQ.

[solvitquick]

Oh, by the way Svejk (spelt it right this time), what is that little symbol at the top left of your post and what does it mean?
SIQ.

[sp1814]

tonyav

Whatever - you don't like London accents, and I don't like the Brummie accent.

No biggie.

[Svejk]

SIQ. I'm glad you're staying. I admire a chap who can admit to being wrong when they're wrong.;) As for me squiggle, I don't know. It appears when I paste but not when I copy. I think perhaps MI5 or 6 are monitoring my posts.

[emmie]

there is no such thing as a London accent, nor like New York, we don't all sound the same, never have.

[emmie]

and black people do often switch back and forth between the patois of say Jamaica or Barbados to whatever passes for the the local accent be it London or outside. I know this because i have had many Jamaican and Bajan friends, that included the bloke i was involved with. Between themselves they often reverted to patois sometimes so heavily accented i couldn't understand then back, you hear youngsters on the street do it, no big deal.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// And that accent. ///

/// That...accent. ///

Yes second and third gen Brummies speak with the same accents as their parents and grandparents.

[anotheoldgit]

solvitquick

/// Racialist rubbish VHG.One of my (white) relatives lived nearby in a quite well-to-do (whites-only) area. Sparkbrook was the absolute pits then - inhabited by whites and some coloured. ///

If it was a quite well-to-do (whites-only) area, how come it was inhabited by "some coloured"?

Incidentally before you call others racist, perhaps you should think before called people with dark skins "COLOURED".

/// One of the reasons these ghettoes arise is because racialist whites won't sell or rent houses to COLOURED people. ///

There you've said it again so you can't use the excuse that it was a slip of the tongue.

[solvitquick]

Dear svejk,
Very generous of you to accept my stupidly wrong post. Ty for your good manners.
Interesting about the symbol - certainly sets your posts apart. Yup it's GCHQ but we are all on their list. Maybe you're a red-alert.
Aaaw now I've rubbed AOG up the wrong way - now that's a deadly serious error!
Kindest regards,
SIQ.

[solvitquick]

Dear AOG,
First: my post quoted a relative living in a white area NEAR Sparkbrook. Sparkbrook was always the pits in appearance and local reputation. It was never well-to-do but when I used to pass through, on foot, it was mainly white. I hope that is clear.
Secondly: As I understand it coloured people, by which I mean
ethnically partly or fully determined as having light brown, brown or dark brown skin are not offended by the term "coloured". Indeed they are rightly proud of their origins. Similarly, black people are proud of their colour and origin. It was the blacks who reclaimed the term after white do-gooders searched for another term to describe them.
I do not regard the terms "coloured" or "black" as racialist when used solely as an adjective to describe skin colour.
No bull about "whites" being pink, sun-tanned etc please. We've heard all that!
SIQ.