Grenfell Tower Area 'little Africa

[fender62]

i cannot say i ever been near that area, but is the allegation or (slur) true, by the unnamed councilor..the only thing i ever read was flats were sublet to illegals and migrants ?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7112925/Council-officials-called-Grenfell-Tower-area-little-Africa-says-MP.html

[Atheist]

Fender, why do you ask that question?

[Khandro]

fender; If you want to understand the full picture, this is a very big read, but journalism at it's best;

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n11/andrew-ohagan/the-tower

[fender62]

Khandro, thanks ill give it a read

[Peter Pedant]

inter war
so many refugees from Europe
the a\ccident hospital had a resident part called
the Polish COrridor

o god I dont know why I write this
some one is gonna go - foo what dat den - take a deep breath - foo foo etc (*)

the polish corridor was a treaty of versailles (*) creature where by the newly created Poland (*) formerly the Duch of Poland in the Russian Empire (*) had access to the sea at Danzig (*) or Gdansk (*) same place

jesus forgive me - sorry readers

[sanmac]

What's the big deal? New York City has Little Odessa, Little Guyana, Korea Town, Little India, China Town, Little Poland, Little Italy, and others.

[Khandro]

sanmac; The difference might be that all those contain the prefix "little".
The migrant population of the whole of the UK is 9,382,000 or 14%, All of them entitled to the NHS, education and all the other social services. "Little" doesn't really apply.

[Jordyboy9]

So khandro,the figures you quoted are almost twice the population of Scotland surely that can’t be correct?

[JF85]

"Grenfell Tower Area 'little Africa"

"New York City has Little Odessa, Little Guyana, Korea Town, Little India, China Town, Little Poland, Little Italy, and others."

"The difference might be that all those contain the prefix "little""

Quality.

[bainbrig]

West and North West London are marvellous places to live.Lots of British people, lots of people from all over the world. Wonderful, interesting area. (Including ‘my’ lot, from Leipzig and Armagh a while back!)

Long live diversity.

BB

[anotheoldgit]

sanmac

/// What's the big deal? New York City has Little Odessa, Little Guyana, Korea Town, Little India, China Town, Little Poland, Little Italy, and others. ///

Not surprising, the USA was the first mass multi racial/multicultural country.

Watch this 'space', or should that be 'country'?

[youngmafbog]

Jordy

https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/statistics-population-country-birth

"The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimate that in 2017, just under 9.4 million people living in the UK were born abroad, (14.3% of the total population of the UK). Of these, 3.7 million were from countries now in the European Union and just under 5.7 million were from non-EU countries."

[youngmafbog]

As at 2017:
London 3,354,000 36% 38%
West Midlands 784,000 8% 14%
South East 1,211,000 13% 14%
East Midlands 599,000 6% 13%
East 741,000 8% 12%
Yorkshire and The Humber 535,000 6% 10%
North West 677,000 7% 9%
South West 513,000 5% 9%
Scotland 477,000 5% 9%
Northern Ireland 138,000 1% 7%
Wales 193,000 2% 6%
North East 1,000 2% 6%

[spathiphyllum]

Crepid man.

[youngmafbog]

Is he on LSD?

[spathiphyllum]

"Watch this 'space', or should that be 'country'? "

The UK has, and always has, and always will be, a very largely multi cultural country.

[douglas9401]

No it hasn't, junior, a couple of cities possibly, but not the country.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Ah, Channel 5.

[spathiphyllum]

"No it hasn't, junior, a couple of cities possibly, but not the country."

London has for sure. England has been famous for it's multicultural diversity since the early 20th century.

[spathiphyllum]

One of the jewels in the crown of society for Britain has been its diversity. So much culture from all corners of the globe.