John Cleese: London no longer English

[Sinny]

It's the same wherever you go really, there are certain parts of where I live where all you can hear is Polish murmurs as you walk past someone, though It's by no means a bad thing, well it's not a bad thing if was controlled which it isnt.

 

[dirtychinchilla]

John Cleese is an ass.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ger-English-city-thats-got-2012-Olympics.html

It is the same in many cities now

Just as a heads up, posting a link and then writing a one sentence 'summary' (I use the term loosely) isn't really a debate. It's essentially a link-and-run tactic which tends to be used by the time-pressured or, more likely, the empty of thought brigade. I'm quite aware which of the two camps you belong to.

Can I ask why John Cleese's opinion is of any more importance than anyone else's? Or was that the only semi-famous person the Mail could find to back its agenda?

 

[explicit4u]

Who should the onus be on to integrate, how do you converse with some one that doesn't speak you language?

I'd say it's definitely down to them to learn the language and try to integrate, sadly this doesn't happen as much as it should.

I really don't think it's good news, sorry.

Why?

 

[smokedog]

Thats just progress, America once wasn't populated by Americans.

 

[Robbo]

Why?

I just don't think a city in any particular country should be overpowered with foreign people in any areas.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

You know what? There's a pretty strong argument to put these types of threads in Speakers Corner only because nothing - nothing - about this issue is ever actually debated. It quickly turns into a flame war with no one giving any ground whatsoever on their beliefs and then 8 pages later it gets locked because some numpty called someone a rude word.

It is so, so predictable and at least in SC it would have a fairer shot at being discussed.

Also, I'm sick of reading the same ill-informed garbage day after day. There, that's my real reason for wanting this thread and all its ilk moved to SC.

 

[StriderX]

I just don't think a city in any particular country should be overpowered with foreign people in any areas.

To bad, prepare to be raped in the next few decades.

 

[Tummy]

Daily Fail.

DON'T GO OUTSIDE IT'S FULL OF BLACKS AND TERRORISTS.

 

[Radiation]

Really all that matters is culture.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

Have we met before Namesake ?

You sound familiar.

 

[banja]

I was in Derby the other week, the Sainsbury's I popped into was staffed by mainly by non white people, the majority of the customers were also non white.

This doesn't mean these people are not English. There are third generation Asian / Indian English people who you can argue are more English than me as my father is Irish.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Ah, intrigue?

Please tell me he's Patient Keeper or any one of the other right wing nutters

e : wow, things moving fast. That was in relation to :

Have we met before Namesake ?

You sound familiar.

 

[Robbo]

Have we met before Namesake ?

You sound familiar.

I was thinking the same.

 

[Cosimo]

Last time I was there I felt like I was in a foreign city, it's very odd. I suppose it depends where you are.

Well if you come from the sticks most big cities will feel foreign.

 

[Robbo]

Well if you come from the sticks most big cities will feel foreign.

Indeed, it's quite different around here!

 

[Tummy]

Yeah man, I went to Cardiff and it was full of non English folk.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

All names taken? Or something similar ..?

 

[Maccy]

Please tell me he's Patient Keeper

I think you could be correct

 

[sigma]

California-based Cleese, 71, moved to the U.S. more than two decades ago, having grown up in Somerset.

Bloody immigrants.