Kids these days, eh?

Armageus said:
Easy to blame everything on Eastern Europeans but this is the same Boston where some very English sounding people rioted, looted shops and set police cars on fire not that long ago

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I remember that all too well. I was visiting home that weekend from Uni and had been in the New England hotel with my dad having a pint. They overturned police cars then set them on fire and they looted threshers and superdrug but left Dixons alone lol. It was a hell of a sight and we quickly went home before the rioting got too mental as we didnt want to get stuck in town with it all.
 
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Nearly 20 years?
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Doesn't feel like that long ago, but thanks for making me feel old :D

Zenduri said:
I remember that all too well. I was visiting home that weekend from Uni and had been in the New England hotel with my dad having a pint. They overturned police cars then set them on fire and they looted threshers and superdrug but left Dixons alone lol. It was a hell of a sight and we quickly went home before the rioting got too mental as we didnt want to get stuck in town with it all.
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Yep it was almost surreal going into town the following days and seeing the shops boarded up.
 
Armageus said:
Easy to blame everything on Eastern Europeans but this is the same Boston where some very English sounding people rioted, looted shops and set police cars on fire not that long ago

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Not only was that 20 years ago but the cause of it was immigration related. It all started with fighting between England fans and other nationalities and quickly got out of control. I wasn't living there at the time but knew all about it. Football hooligans will be football hooligans but the police should have known better and been ready. The 2006 world cup had a massive police presence on the street by contrast.
 
Lol all this talk of "no go" areas, my god you'd have to be a petrified little snow flake to think Boston town centre is a no go area when the sun goes down! :cry:

I was living down Skirbeck Road in the early 90's and all the time the locals said the same thing, my local pub was a "no go" area according to 'the word on the street' because the Portuguese who owned it didn't allow the locals in, LOL, I used to go in there all the time and a revelation that will only shock the petrified xenophobes, they were a really friendy chatty bunch.

Boston was a run down dive in the 90's, west street mostly boarded up and I've no idea where these upmarket shops were! Apart from Oldrids it's always been run of the mill. The immigrants breathed some life into the town, they opened the empty units and things improved over the years. The quality of the women vastly improved too compared to the local swamp donkeys :p I remember when Boston got the dubious award for the fattest town in the Country, the Eastern Europeans brought that average right down ;)

What it has suffered from is the same as every town that saw such high levels of localised immigration (which happened because the work was there to do) the infrastructure didn't cope. Schools, doctors, the roads all became overwhelmed. But that comes down to the same issue across the country, that central Govt didn't use the economic benefit of migration to target investment to the areas to alleviate the infrastructure issues. And to be fair, this was the main reason the town was the highest voting percentage for Brexit, not because of racism, but because the local population was suffering with overwhelmed services, hence why when UKIP put a candidate up to stand in the area, he got absolutely nowhere.

Currently the town centre seems to be on the decline again, just like every town centre that has been hit hard by Covid and shops just giving up their presence on the high street.
 
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I am blaming the Eastern Europeans, they've turned Boston into a dump. That's not racist, it's fact.

Obvs, not all of them, some are very hard working, but the crime rate, the look of the town now - it looks more like an Eastern European town than what it once was.
 
ivrytwr3 said:
I am blaming the Eastern Europeans, they've turned Boston into a dump. That's not racist, it's fact.

Obvs, not all of them, some are very hard working, but the crime rate, the look of the town now - it looks more like an Eastern European town than what it once was.
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I stayed there for a few nights this time last year, some parts were run down, and some parts were fine, some of the outskirts of Boston were nice.
Skegness on the other hand was a complete dive, benefit capital of the UK.
 
Kids today hey, all of the rights, none of the responsibility.

If I had behaved even half as badly as some of those on the glide thingy, I'd have been clipped around the ear and dragged home in a police car then grounded for an eternity, but I didn't I grew up respecting authority and adults, and certainly wouldn't have talked back to my parents.
 
beachBOYken said:
I stayed there for a few nights this time last year, some parts were run down, and some parts were fine, some of the outskirts of Boston were nice.
Skegness on the other hand was a complete dive, benefit capital of the UK.
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Given the rents in London surely that's got to be the benefit capital of the UK. No average person could afford to be based there without the taxpayer footing the majority of the housing cost. :cry:
 
ivrytwr3 said:
I am blaming the Eastern Europeans, they've turned Boston into a dump. That's not racist, it's fact.

Obvs, not all of them, some are very hard working, but the crime rate, the look of the town now - it looks more like an Eastern European town than what it once was.
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lol "Thats not racist" but then the thing right before it is as racist as **** :D The town has been a dump for years well before the eastern europeans arrived. At the end of the day they only backfilled labourer jobs the locals couldnt be arsed to do as they were too content being dole monkeys!
 
Was quite shocked to hear it's a man they were after for questioning. Was expecting it to be a kid of a similar age like the last few child murders.

What bloke goes round and stabs a 9 year old.
 
Zenduri said:
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The locals love to blame the migrant population for the decline of the town but in reality it was happening well before any migrants moved to the area and the jobs the eastern europeans do are the jobs the local layabouts refuse to do so its hardly a "They took er JERBS" situation <snip>
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You'll be hoping for Liz Truss to be our next PM then, or even voting for her should you be a Tory Party member?

"In an awkward moment during the first televised head-to-head Tory leadership debate, Liz Truss was challenged about a passage in the book Britannia Unchained, which she co-authored in 2012 when she was a new intake backbencher seeking to make her mark as a next-generation Thatcherite.

The passage in question is infamous, reading as it does: “Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor. Whereas Indian children aspire to be doctors or businessmen, the British are more interested in football and pop music.”

From today's Guardian :)
 
Zenduri said:
lol "Thats not racist" but then the thing right before it is as racist as **** :D The town has been a dump for years well before the eastern europeans arrived. At the end of the day they only backfilled labourer jobs the locals couldnt be arsed to do as they were too content being dole monkeys!
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Crime rate is significantly up, Boston became the murder capital of the UK for a while and now a 9 year old girl has been stabbed and killed.

There is only one demographic responsible for this. But ofc I'm racist :rolleyes:
 
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