Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!
You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
You are not logged in. If you are already registered, fill in the form below to log in, or follow the "Sign Up" link to register a new account.
You may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
you really are a sad little man. name a county/country/region/income demographic etc, and you'll always denigrate it. you are a xenophobic, misogynistic ass, with an obsession for adolescent smut** and delusions of your own importance.
IMHO of course.
* i'm not from Norfolk, but when have facts stopped vetty's venting?
*see 'jokes' and 'funny pics' threads for illustration.
The Labour MP Ann Cryer has called for British Pakistanis to stop marrying their first cousins after a study suggested that they were more likely to have children with recessive disorders than the general population.
An investigation by BBC Newsnight claims that British Pakistanis account for 30% of all British children with recessive disorders, which include cystic fibrosis. Dr Peter Corry, a consultant paediatrician at Bradford royal infirmary, says his hospital sees a disproportionately high rate of recessive genetic illnesses.
He and his team have identified about 140 different autosomal recessive disorders among local children and they estimate that a typical district would see between 20 and 30.
Speaking to the Guardian, Ms Cryer said: "I'm not calling for a ban or a change in the law because that would mean changing the law for everyone. I'm simply calling for an enlightened debate. We've avoided discussions on this subject. People are being politically correct.
"It's not racist. It's a challenge, but not to the Pakistani culture. It's an opportunity to improve the lot of communities that still have this tradition. It's time they discussed it and asked if it's a good thing."
Ms Cryer said Asian communities had to adopt a different lifestyle and look outside the family for husbands and wives.
On tonight's Newsnight Ms Cryer also says: "There is something very wrong going on. I think the sooner we start to have a debate and we start to encourage the Asian community to address it themselves by saying we have to stop this tradition of first-cousin marriages."
Birmingham primary care trust estimates that one in 10 of all children born to first-cousin marriages in the city's Pakistani community either dies in infancy or goes on to suffer serious disability as a result of recessive genetic disorders. Recessive genetic illness is one of the main reasons for admission to Birmingham's children's hospital.
The variant genes that cause recessive genetic illnesses tend to be rare. In the general population, the likelihood of a couple having the same variant gene is 100-1. In cousin marriages, if one partner has a variant gene, the risk that the other has it too is more likely to be one in eight.
A report on the impact of genetic risk on Britain's Pakistani families, published by the Wellcome Trust in 2003, found that infant mortality and childhood morbidity rates were higher among British Pakistanis than other ethnic groups but that marrying relatives did not always result in the birth of children with recessive disorders.
People from islands in the a***end of nowhere have little choice in being related to their spouse/partner there as if you are from somewhere like Norfolk it is much easier to find someone you are only extremely distantly related to.
You are aware that everyone in the world is related? Otherwise we each would have more ancestors than people who were alive 400 years ago.
So I achieved my intended purpose and made it clear I believe Saddo is probably the result of an incestuous union between a retard and a warthog then?
Not everyone in the world is so closely related as saddo.
My ancestors are, by definition, dead. therefore somewhat difficult to offend.
but, if anyone could, you'd be top contender.
By which definition? Your father and Grandfather are ancestors, it is commonly used for older predecessors. So then for you your sister/aunt/mother whatever you call her probably counts.
oh apologies I seem to have offended saddo's ancestors who were Norfolk residents , I suspect you are more from the Pitcairn Islands!
That's unfair.
People from islands in the a***end of nowhere have little choice in being related to their spouse/partner there as if you are from somewhere like Norfolk it is much easier to find someone you are only extremely distantly related to.
You are aware that everyone in the world is related? Otherwise we each would have more ancestors than people who were alive 400 years ago.
you really are a sad little man. name a county/country/region/income demographic etc, and you'll always denigrate it.
you are a xenophobic, misogynistic ass, with an obsession for adolescent smut** and delusions of your own importance.
IMHO of course.
* i'm not from Norfolk, but when have facts stopped vetty's venting?
*see 'jokes' and 'funny pics' threads for illustration.
oh apologies I seem to have offended saddo's ancestors who were Norfolk residents , I suspect you are more from the Pitcairn Islands!
Its not like Norfolk where they only date their brothers & Sisters where Saddo King billy comes from*.
you really are a sad little man. name a county/country/region/income demographic etc, and you'll always denigrate it.
you are a xenophobic, misogynistic ass, with an obsession for adolescent smut** and delusions of your own importance.
IMHO of course.
* i'm not from Norfolk, but when have facts stopped vetty's venting?
*see 'jokes' and 'funny pics' threads for illustration.
Leave a comment: