The map in my article actually shows it was Tower Hamlets that seems to have the most difference. I found it shocking that right next to the world's leading financial and business centre the majority of children needed free school meals. The difference from neighbouring boroughs was particularly stark. It really suggests there is some sort of cultural problem with the Bangladeshi community there.
If you read the judgment in the recent Lutfur Rahman case, you will see that there are people living there for decades who speak no or little English. Effectively you have a mini-Bangladesh in London. You should not be surprised to find that such an area will have many of the problems that the original country has. That is why (a) we should not have immigration from such countries; and (b) it should not be possible for people to live in England as if they were still living in their home country i.e. all the societal pressures should be on the immigrants to become British in a meaningful way, which means more than simply having a British passport, starting with learning the language.
I agree. This creates a breeding ground for all kinds of problems. LR thinks he's done no wrong and KL agrees with him so he cannot have can he.
The only way most of those non-voters would vote would be if voting was compulsory, and even then it would be doubtful. The number you could enthuse with a big idea is minimal.
RANT COMING
As for immigration, the NHS, the building trade, agriculture and domiciliary care would grind to a halt without it. No-one's offices would get cleaned, no late night garages would stay open, and there would be an acute shortage of bartenders and waitresses, and Indian restaurants everywhere would close (that one is already starting to happen due to not being able to get British-born chefs prepared to do the work and restrictions on visas for people from the Indian sub-continent). No-one would ever get a parcel delivered. University funding would plummet to the point of unsustainability without foreign students.
In other words, we have constructed a society in which we import people to do low paid work with poor working conditions which we think we are entitled not to have to do, and then we whinge about the fact that those people need somewhere to live/send their children to school/walk about the streets looking different/dare to speak their own language or want some familiar reference points from home around them.
And Ignoring the fact that hundreds of thousands of Brits live in Spain, Cyprus, France etc etc etc insisting on eating English (not British) food, speaking English, watching English TV, sending their children to "international" (English-speaking) schools and complaining when their winter fuel allowance is under threat.
I'm not advocating a complete open door system. I am saying that older people who feel uncomfortable because things are changing around them more rapidly than they can cope with need to be helped to adjust to the reality that foreign people are still people. And something needs to be done to make sure that those areas where there is pressure on services get money to relieve some of that pressure in a timely way.
It would also help if politicians would set a lead occasionally by talking about immigration as if it involved real human beings who are mainly coming to work and for the good of the country, and not some vampiric subspecies coming to leech on us.
RANT OVER
The people that "import" migrants to do low paid work aren't the ones that "whinge", that's the key point
No but even people who oppose migration are quite happy to enjoy (but turn a blind eye) to the advantages of said low paid work. A quite significant proportion of takeaways outside of the large brands (eg not Domino's/Pizza Hut but independents) employ less than legal workers. People are happy to enjoy a cheap pizza or kebab being delivered to them by a cash in hand worker if it means paying less.
Who actually uses these cheap independents? I certainly wouldn't.
Except that is not what he is saying, is it? He is saying that families are being forced out of their neighbourhoods as a result of rents and other living costs becoming too expensive for them to afford.
When it is immigrants that change a neighbourhood this is deplored. When it is the rich, it does not seem to be a problem. I am not sure why that should be so.
That's his own spin being put on statistics. It's not clear at all that the falling number of children on school meals is due to emigration rather than improving wealth of the city during the economic recovery.
Also, "above the income level to get free school meals" and "rich" are very different standards. These numbers don't show London has more rich people. It shows London has less poverty. That is a good thing for the city. Poor immigrants coming here and creating more poverty in London is a bad thing for the city.
it is surely just as bad for them to change because of gentrification. In both cases, the original inhabitants are being pushed out.
You mean like Dartmouth Park? ;-)
It sure has changed. Ed's place used to be flats - hence his two kitchens.
Want it owned by a refugee from Nazi Germany who died in a botched NHS op?
My memory didn't entirely fail me:
Mrs Iliff, who was 76, died after an operation at University College Hospital went wrong.
Yes - that's the article which points to the previous owner of Ed's house - left to the National Trust (as a single property) after she died in a botched op on the NHS and sold by them to Ed (or Justine, to be precise)....
University of Tennessee tells staff and students to stop using 'he' and 'she' - and switch to 'xe', 'zir' and 'xyr' instead
Gay rights official at Knoxville campus wrote new language instructions Tells students and staff to use unusual, gender-neutral pronouns like 'xe' Donna Braquet said that the new regime would make campus 'inclusive' University clarified that guidelines are not compulsory after critics called them 'absurd'
About the only sensible thing Corbyn has said. The SNP is not winning because it is an anti-austerity, left-wing party; it is winning because it is a Saltire waving nationalist one.
But also rather revealing that Corby seems to think there are a wrong sort of voter.......I doubt that was a delusion Blair laboured under......
Isn't Labour currently in the process of sorting out the wrong sort of voter?
University of Tennessee tells staff and students to stop using 'he' and 'she' - and switch to 'xe', 'zir' and 'xyr' instead
Gay rights official at Knoxville campus wrote new language instructions Tells students and staff to use unusual, gender-neutral pronouns like 'xe' Donna Braquet said that the new regime would make campus 'inclusive' University clarified that guidelines are not compulsory after critics called them 'absurd'
Can I recommend following the link to the Pride Centre. I cringed but I couldn't tell whether I would otherwise have laughed or cried. Are there really supposedly educated "people" in the World's military super power who think and act like this? Do they exist outside of the USA? Should this be of concern or have I just led too sheltered a life, notwithstanding being scared shitless during the Cuba missile crisis?
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The policy is here:
http://diversity.utk.edu/2015/08/pronouns/
They say you can choose.
When referring to me I insist that everyone use the personal pronoun:
llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
That is all
Can I recommend following the link to the Pride Centre. I cringed but I couldn't tell whether I would otherwise have laughed or cried. Are there really supposedly educated "people" in the World's military super power who think and act like this? Do they exist outside of the USA? Should this be of concern or have I just led too sheltered a life, notwithstanding being scared shitless during the Cuba missile crisis?