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Where seven to ten people were cramped into one room.
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This is happening to British families, due to lack of council housig and housing being repossed you end up living in a bed & breakfast for months on end with your kids - something I will have to face in the near future.
Quote by TheladyisaminxI remember those days minxy. I can recollect having a bathing in a zinc bath (in the 60s). Or having to go to the public baths. I can go on, but I won't go on.
I was raised in an upstairs converted Victorian house, we had one bedroom living room and a small kitchen. No bathroom (what luxury), and an outside toilet.
Quote by TheladyisaminxOur move was because of overcrowding, disabled children and overcrowding. this was demolished 10 years later and became a park. The place we moved to was infested with mice.
My parents raised 4 children there 3 girls and a boy sharing one bedroom, we did get moved when the eldest was 15 the youngest 4 not because of over crowding but because the house was condemned we move out and within a week it was demolished.
Quote by TheladyisaminxI'm grateful for the opportunity my parents fought for me.
Maybe it’s why I just appreciate what I have as I have more than what my parents had.
Quote by TheladyisaminxSo did I. I went to school in Hackney and grew up in Stoke Newington (in the days when they were ghettos). There I learnt about different cultures and religions. A recent Christmas it dawned on me when buying one of those last minute things. When shops selling these things where closed. This is one of the great assets of multi-cultrualism. This is one of the reasons why I love London.
I was raised in a very cosmopolitan area we had the first immigrations living amongst us, I went to a school in a highly black white mix in Peckham. I still live within the same area and raise my own children here, why because I have never had any problems with cultural mixing and neither have my children.
Quote by TheladyisaminxI couldn't agree with you more. :thumbup: We all learn form each other. What holds us back is: Fear, Predjudice and Insecurity.
After all we are all human and can live side by side and be accepting of each other and look out for each other, as once you get to know them, we all have a heart a soul feelings and compassion.
Quote by TheladyisaminxI presume you mean the racial tensions that occurred when you was a young girl (me a boy). I would loathe it if they take any foothold. Because, it would a road to disaster. You see minxy, they always use xenophobia as tool to excuse for their lack of ambition.
I would hate for the BNP to get a foot holding in this country for being around the first influx of immigrates (sic.) has taught me after growing up with them in the 70’s I would never like to go back to those days, I thought we have come so far, but seems we like to appoint blame when things are not so cushy for most.
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I agree with all you've said here,so
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The part I highlighted - my understanding is that the profits and properties these people have acquired using the benefits of living in a first world country would be confiscated before their repatriation. The generous settlement would be a percentage of that, and the rest would go back to the public purse so that we can have the health service we and our parents worked and paid for. Then we can pay for fat people to get thin and we won't keep seeing heart-rending charity adverts on TV for Great Ormond St, Childline etc.
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AS has been previously stated the British/European birthrate is falling.......we have an ageing population people live longer fewer children are born....when I reach retirement age and as has been suggested elsewhere stop paying tax...I want there to be a tax payer to replace me ....I want to be able to visit a doctor without checking to see if I can afford it....I want my replacement hip if I need it...I want my state pension and heating allowance...I don't care if the tax is payed by someone of Pakistani ,Iranian,African,Polish or Venusian descent.....I care that the means to do all of this are still in place,the birthrate of the indigenous population of this country cannot and will not support it.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT WE NEED IMMIGRATION
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Can you tell me Browning....if you do not mind, why you are a member and what makes you vote for them? Is there anything in particulars they say that appeals to you, or is it all their policies.
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AS has been previously stated the British/European birthrate is falling.......we have an ageing population people live longer fewer children are born....when I reach retirement age and as has been suggested elsewhere stop paying tax...I want there to be a tax payer to replace me ....I want to be able to visit a doctor without checking to see if I can afford it....I want my replacement hip if I need it...I want my state pension and heating allowance...I don't care if the tax is payed by someone of Pakistani ,Iranian,African,Polish or Venusian descent.....I care that the means to do all of this are still in place,the birthrate of the indigenous population of this country cannot and will not support it.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT WE NEED IMMIGRATION