More trouble with immigrants

[Oneeyedvic]

So there is this town where:

1) Loads of immigrants don't support the English football team (and in fact hope they lose)

2) The crime rate is very high

3) I can barely understand them

4) Only 63% of the adult population are employed

5) Almost 40% of the population between 16 and 74 had NO qualifications.

6) Almost 70% of the population of the town are either immigrants or children of immigrants

Name that town

[scruffscat]

two of my best friends are scottish ,i never have trouble understandin their accents.

[phaloides]

I don,t support English football. It has ruined the television, wireless and newspapers. The sooner these overpaid gits lose and the hype and hysteria deminish the better.
World Cup?...world stupidity.
English born aned bred.

[*ALFIE*]

Oneeyedvic - I know TONNES of british asians supporting England just as much as everyone else. I admit the the asylum seekers fall into a few of the 6 catagories though.

[*ALFIE*]

phaloides - agree, i can't wait for the footy to be over

[Grunty]

Well McDonalds is a pleasure in Corby - and I don't say that about many towns. A young lady took some trouble to be chatty, to run through the menu and to make suggestions. (And not for the reason you might think - I must have been three times her age and I had a lady with me).

[THECORBYLOON]

When were you here Grunty?

[Booldawg]

from observing this thread, oneyedvic was offering an alternative view upon the immigration issues in England from a cynical view. you can all return your high horses to whichever stables they came from.

[scruffscat]

er.... by doin what writing tosh about scottish people?

[Oneeyedvic]

scruffscat - what I was trying to do (obviously very badly) was to try and make people think about immigration.

There are a lot of people who will have seen my 'question' and thought the town would be somewhere like Bradford and that the immigrants referred to were Asian.

There are a lot of posts about the BNP, about how people living in this country should support the national team, how the knife culture is all down to blacks, how 'they' don't speak the language, etc etc.

I was trying to point out that it is ridiculous to think of any type of person as a group - be they Scottish, Pakistani, English, British, Jamaican etc.

I was trying to make people who think that asylum seekers and immigrants are scum (and there are a lot of them on AB) think about the wider picture. A lot of these people will defend their views by providing statistics backing up their point.

I was trying to make the point that you can make statistics do what you want and back up pretty much any argument.

Just to make it absolutely 100% clear - I have nothing against the Scottish - when I can understand them ;-)

[WendyS]

The way things have changed in Britain over the past eight years under the current government I reckon it could be almost any major town in the country.

[shammydodger]

Oneeyedvic

My apologies. I didn't see through my alcohol-induced haze to see what you were getting at and, therefore, bit rather hard. In the circumstances, I think my response proved your point! :)

[sack_6470]

i think everywhere in the u.k is just as bad as the other, putting it down to statistics is a waste of time and a false reading... a lovely quiet village, to a bustling town, from john o groats to lands end there is violence, murder, thefts, peadophiles, unemployment, racism, deprived people, rich people, educated people, in the smallest to the largest of towns these people are everywhere....
corby may i add from as outsider to the town is a lovely place, pleasant and generous people live within it, its fresh and green and a sigh of relief from the place where i was born and bred... a supposedly nice middleclass area on the outskirts of london (becuase statistics say it is!!??)...i dont think so, i recently went on line to read back in the local newsapapers about whats been happening in my old town which "statistically" is better than corby !!! what a joke, the amount of murders in that area just since january alone outweighs corby 12 to 1 (but strangely enough none of these murders i saw on the national news) mmm???
so for these people that are unemplyed, not very intelligent, have a scottish accent etc etc i would rather be living amongst them and put up with the petty crime (which is everywhere) than amongst murderers and peadophiles!!

[sack_6470]

oh and yes the population from where i use to live outweighs corby 4 to 1 before anyone wants to say anything STATISTICALLY ...