Reply to: Croydon Again

[minestrone]

Is that dog-whistle code for 'lots of black people'?

That's right Greg, you get in there before he says something really racist like "Jews are a bit money driven"

[vetran]

From this website , it looks like another culturally rich place Brixton is worse than Croydon.

ethnic mix roughly 1/3 BAME in Croydon its not just tower blocks where they put the ex cons there are lots of nice little bungalows with old people. Plenty of white people into crime there but I was surprised how low the drug offences were a mate lives over there and he says parts are rife with it.

Ethnic Groups by Borough – London Datastore

try the source

Fairfield | Police.uk

Coldharbour | Police.uk

[darmstadt]

This is one strange shooting and sorry for the officer who was shot, apparently just about to retire however there seems to be some important questions to be asked:

- he was searched away from the police station and found to have cannabis and ammunition but no weapon
- in a secure area with his hands cuffed behind him, he managed to pull a weapon out and then shoot not only the police officer but also himself
- he was known to have been flagged over concerns about both rightwing and Islamist indoctrination but nothing serious, how many times have we heard that?

[SueEllen]

Is that dog-whistle code for 'lots of black people'?

He clearly hasn't been to Brixton for a good while or Croydon for that....

[Old Greg]

racist

Really. Why do you say that? I was politely enquiring whether you were being racist.

[Andy2]

Is that dog-whistle code for 'lots of black people'?

racist

[Old Greg]

From this website , it looks like another culturally rich place Brixton is worse than Croydon.

Is that dog-whistle code for 'lots of black people'?

[Andy2]

Crime In My Area - Interactive UK Crime Map | ADT

Croydon in last 12 only. The total overloaded my calculator.

From this website , it looks like another culturally rich place Brixton is worse than Croydon.

[Old Greg]

I get that people don't like dull but that is hardly tulip in the run down, poverty, dirty, tulip-hole kind of way. My point stands though, that website is full of whingers and their complains about every town because that's what people are like.

Different type of tulipe. It's like how the Kensington public are the scum of the Earth (with some charming exceptions).

[Whorty]

Dull is a form of tulipe. Sterile mock Tudor dullness. But each to their own.

I get that people don't like dull but that is hardly tulip in the run down, poverty, dirty, tulip-hole kind of way. My point stands though, that website is full of whingers and their complains about every town because that's what people are like.

[Old Greg]

Really? I can see it being dull, but it must have something going for it if the average property price is c.£800k

Dull is a form of tulipe. Sterile mock Tudor dullness. But each to their own.

[Whorty]

Weybridge is tulipe.

(QED)

Really? I can see it being dull, but it must have something going for it if the average property price is c.£800k

[Old Greg]

That website is a hive of complainers - there is very little (if any) positive said about any area. Even the likes of Weybridge, in prime commuter belt, is slated.

Weybridge is tulipe.

(QED)

[Whorty]

Croydon - iLiveHere - Britain's worst places to live

Went for an interview in East Croydon once (early 80's) thought it was a bit boring and didn't take the job anyway

That website is a hive of complainers - there is very little (if any) positive said about any area. Even the likes of Weybridge, in prime commuter belt, is slated.

[darmstadt]

Croydon - iLiveHere - Britain's worst places to live

Went for an interview in East Croydon once (early 80's) thought it was a bit boring and didn't take the job anyway