white children in birmingham will be in the minority this year

[stokemaveric]

due to immigration..so the latest census will show...the takeover is finally happening..british people will soon become a minority in their own country..the u.k as we have known it has gone forever...will the last one to leave please turn out the light.....

[jackthehat]

I'll reserve my judgement until they have the results from the census itself; rather than speculate on what its findings MAY be.

[boxtops]

Yes, good idea, jack. Is the religious affiliation question to be in the census again? - more Jedi warriors?

[Whickerman]

so would that be white angles, saxons, celts, norse, normans...? The story of Britain is a story of immigration. Nothing has changed that way, this is just the latest chapter and is a hangover from what happens when a country subjugates half the world and bestows citizenship on the populations!

[stokemaveric]

ok jack we will see in march when the report is made official.

[pa___ul3]

exactly whickerman! It never fails to amaze me how we Brits are so proud we beat the Nazis but won't tolerate anything different 'blemishing' our Britishness!

[clokey]

Funny how a Black person can mention Whites
from 2002

A young British-born Bangladeshi in Burnley will have little shared experience with an Indian pensioner in Slough, let alone an Afro-Caribbean in Bristol; similarly, white teenagers in Shropshire will have a very different understanding of how Britain's racial landscape is changing compared to their counterparts in Birmingham.

[pa___ul3]

what does that even mean clokey?

[clokey]

Read all the posts Paul

[pa___ul3]

I have, then your last one just doesn't make any sense. So people of different demographics in different parts of the UK are different!? No. Sh1t.Sherlock!

[clokey]

What did you say your last user name was on here

[dotty.]

the census data is not published until 2012 as far as i am aware

[pa___ul3]

I didn't but it was pa___ul, forgot my password 'cus I'd been off this for about 2 years and got all creative with my new one. Thanks for the interest

[peter_m]

Thank you boxtops

second and third generation of kids born here. It does not make them any less or more British. More of stating the obvious rather then news.

[jackthehat]

Some have already made their minds up, dotty.......they obviously can't wait until next year before finding a band-wagon to leap on.

[boxtops]

exactly

[dotty.]

do people know why a census is taken? It's not to find out how many none British born people live here, it's to make plans for the future for housing schools hospitals and other publc services. It's to work out how many people might need to take their GCSEs in the next 10 years etc. nothing to do with ethnicicity

[boxtops]

indeed dotty, but it's amazing what conclusions people will draw from the data!

[clokey]

Is that the BBC Bandwagon Jack

[jackthehat]

<Hush, dotty, don't spoil their fun............>

[dotty.]

census means 'count' not 'discriminate'