Reply to: Priti Patel

[LondonManc]

I've been using a lot of hire cars over the last five years to work with various clients. They are usually delivered by drivers who are recent migrants to this country and I always ask them...

1) Where do you come from and why did you leave?
2) Where have you travelled from/lived before in Europe?
3) How do you find it here?

Most have lived through Europe and found it racist towards them, are much happier here and say the British people are good and nice to them. Everyone admits that they are an economic migrant and not a refugee as such, opportunity is poor in their homeland.

Were any of them called Cotton-Eyed Joe?

[LondonManc]

Where is the fun in that.

Though they don't have good animal stories.

[SueEllen]

The easiest way to deal with this is to stop going on the Daily Mail website.

Where is the fun in that.

Though they don't have good animal stories.

[SueEllen]

Nope. I know Croydon well. I was expecting exactly what you posted. She was lucky it was only a bin that was thrown at her!

Before online shopping really kicked off Croydon was the place where you could easily get work clothes from chain fashion retailers as Croydon residents have a unique sense of style.

[Whorty]

Yep I have a mate down there, they don't seem to have worked on integration much. But this one amused me because of the neighbour, I bet you were all thinking a bulldog owning skinhead?

Nope. I know Croydon well. I was expecting exactly what you posted. She was lucky it was only a bin that was thrown at her!

[LondonManc]

The easiest way to deal with this is to stop going on the Daily Mail website.

[darmstadt]

NIMBY: Patel's paternal grandparents were born in Gujarat, India, before emigrating to Uganda, and established a shop in Kampala. In the 1960s, her parents emigrated to the UK and settled in Hertfordshire.

[SueEllen]

Yep I have a mate down there, they don't seem to have worked on integration much. But this one amused me because of the neighbour, I bet you were all thinking a bulldog owning skinhead?

I would disagree about the integration. There have been news stories over the past few years of "immigrants" being beaten up in Croydon by groups of people. The groups are frequently multi-cultural.

[vetran]

Croydon is infamous....

Yep I have a mate down there, they don't seem to have worked on integration much. But this one amused me because of the neighbour, I bet you were all thinking a bulldog owning skinhead?

[SueEllen]

Croydon is infamous....

[vetran]

nah racism is rife in the UK

Shocking moment North Korean asylum seeker is 'told you're not from this country' by her neighbour | Daily Mail Online

Shocking moment North Korean asylum seeker is 'told you're not from this country' by her neighbour in racist rant during row over their bins

• Footage shows neighbour appearing to push woman and throwing a bin at her
• The resident is told: 'You're an asylum seeker. You're not from this country'
• Two CCTV clips were posted to Facebook by Myunseo, who lives in Croydon
• She claimed row erupted over bins and has been ongoing since last November

oh dear.

[SueEllen]

A stopped clock and all that.

I went to school with someone whose immigrant parents moved to the UK from France because they had more job opportunities in the UK as they found less racism. Funny thing they were highly skilled and worked in a profession that had a well-known problem with racism at the end of the last century. I've now met and worked with quite a few other non-white French people who have said they have experienced less racism here.

[LondonManc]

These are the symptoms. Perhaps sorting out the problem that caused the refugees in the first place would be helpful. Unfortunately the elite and their arms-manufacturing chums have no interest in that because it's not profitable.

[NotAllThere]

It was funny when there was all that fuss about Muslim face covering being banned in French schools, while at exactly the same time, it was banned in Turkish schools.

However, my family have encountered more casual racism over on continental Europe than we ever did in the UK. But some Swiss are xenophobic toward you if you live in a different village!

We've not experienced any hostility due to covid-19, and my sister-in-law in the UK has.

[xoggoth]

Mustn't speak the truth! Few articles here that mention treatment by the French.

Revealed: 10,000 child refugees risked their lives to enter Britain | World news | The Guardian

Channel migrant crossings: who is coming and why? | World news | The Guardian

French police ‘tear-gassing refugee children and tearing up tents’ near former Calais Jungle site as government condemns abuses | The Independent

'Worse than the Jungle': Refugees face 'acute' lack of sanitation and 'alarming' police brutality on Italian border | The Independent

'Get out of France': Paris police tear gassing refugees and stealing blankets in freezing conditions, report reveals | The Independent

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38095810

http://uk.businessinsider.com/calais...britain-2016-2