A neighbour of mine, council binman, daily record reader
often comes out with lines about how the area is going downhill with all the brown and black immigrants taking all the jobs and the benefits and making the crime rate go up.

Slightly ignorant, but not an unusual opinion to have in modern Britain, you might think.

Thing is, we live in one of the most rural backwaters of west coast scotland where everybody is whiter than white - I think there's two non-caucasian folk in a fifty mile radius, who run the local curry joint, and I know he doesn't have a problem with them.
(meepmeep is, Fri 19 Mar 2010, 0:30, 1 reply)

My auntie is the same
About 20 years ago she lived as an ex-pat in Spain. The only Spaniards she ever spoke to - in English, of course - were manning the supermarket checkout or cleaning her pool. When she'd split up with the bloke over there she'd been shacked up with, and sloped back to Wales to live with us ('cos she didn't have a pot of her own to piss in), she once speculated on whether to start taking Spanish lessons at night school.

In the next breath, in response to a Daily Mail article she was reading (wouldn't you know), she went off into an extended rant about foreigners coming over here, not knowing any of the language or ever talking to anyone outside of the closed community they lived in except when they absolutely had to and, when they did, expecting to be able to do it in their own language.

"Er, isn't that what you just did in Spain, Auntie?"
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 16:55, closed)