This makes grim reading
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Re: This makes grim reading
Given the average percentage across the UK, I am not sure how real the risk is of "changing the whole culture". I think the greater concern/ risk is the failure to integrate immigrant communities, when large cities across the UK have become Balkanized, with significant areas of immigrants that haven't been integrated into the UK mainstream, and worse, apparently don't even want to integrate.
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Re: This makes grim reading
Although that situation may only be transitory, and could significantly reverse over the next 20 years. Indeed the data suggests that the trend may have already been reversing for the past 8 years, with a pre-Brexit blip in 2018-2020. It will be interesting to look back in 5-10 years and see how things have changed.
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The same is true of a sizeable number of British immigrants in Spain. They have no interest or intention of learning the language (indeed the person in this thread who is most concerned about the issue is clearly terrified by the prospect of having to take a theory exam and driving test in Spanish - why, he lives here?), like to shop for familiar British foods at places like Iceland, eat and drink in British owned and run establishments,watch British TV and have British tradesmen (who tend to charge much higher prices) to do jobs on their homes. They like to criticise "the Spanish" for all kinds of things. Nearly 26% of Barcelona's population was born outside Spain - he had better start looking around for a new place to live if that number increases,not far to go before it reaches the same level as Bradford, shock horror.
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Although that situation may only be transitory, and could significantly reverse over the next 20 years. Indeed the data suggests that the trend may have already been reversing for the past 8 years, with a pre-Brexit blip in 2018-2020. It will be interesting to look back in 5-10 years and see how things have changed.
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I live in a village up in the hills from Barcelona...about 25km away. I´m the only English person here and I have integrated with the locals
It´s not that I´m terrified of taking a driving test in Spanish....how many of us would even pass an English driving test after driving for 40 years....not many I suspect.
I have never shopped at Iceland...I have a bit more class than that. i don´t have British TV and there are no British owned establishments to frequent.
So...know it all Lynn R....you haven´t a clue what you´re talking about.
It´s not that I´m terrified of taking a driving test in Spanish....how many of us would even pass an English driving test after driving for 40 years....not many I suspect.
I have never shopped at Iceland...I have a bit more class than that. i don´t have British TV and there are no British owned establishments to frequent.
So...know it all Lynn R....you haven´t a clue what you´re talking about.
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Re: This makes grim reading
Maybe Lynn R should move to Leicester, Luton or Slough...See how she likes it then...or better still, move to Whitechapel.
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Re: This makes grim reading
Britain never applied for EU funds for research, infrastructure etc.?
https://www.myeu.uk/
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Re: This makes grim reading
In the municipality I live in here, there are more than twice as many Moroccan immigrants as British ones, and more Romanian ones than British. That does not bother me one bit.
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Generally I would suggest that any group that exists as an "immigrant community" has not integrated. ..... I go weeks, if not months, between speaking to any one in the US who is British, and there is only one who a socilaize with occasionally. I am not a member of any "physical" British expat club or association, nor even so much as an informal group. I rarely even buy imported groceries. I consider myself to be integrated.
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Ah.....Rochdale ....Child abuse capital of the UK.....Where the Police are so frightened of doing anything about it in case they get called Racists.
A monumental cover-up by local politicians and social workers of a left-wing persuasion. We can´t be seen to upset the sensitivities of the locals can we. That´s Racist....even though we are talking about child molesters.
And still it goes on today...not only in Rochdale but in many other parts of the country too.
A monumental cover-up by local politicians and social workers of a left-wing persuasion. We can´t be seen to upset the sensitivities of the locals can we. That´s Racist....even though we are talking about child molesters.
And still it goes on today...not only in Rochdale but in many other parts of the country too.