Posted on 06/10/2008 1:13:52 PM PDT by swarthyguy
Indians are the 'new Jews' of Britain, which will one day day be ruled by an Indian prime minister, according to disgraced Tory peer Lord Archer.
Archer, who is touring India to promote his latest book, said Indian businessmen are 'taking over' Britain and that Indian mayors and councillors are taking over local government throughout the country.
His comments were made following a number of Indian takeovers of major British companies, such as Jaguar, Land Rover, Corus Steel and the Scottish whisky gian Whyte and Mackay.
In a television interview staged in a glitzy new shopping malls near Delhi, Archer said India's impact on Britain will be 'massive'.
"It is going to be taken over by Indians, and I don't joke," he said.
"Now what you [Indians] are doing is what the Jews did 30-40 years ago when the came to England after the war.
"They took over the local councils and they became mayors. Now they are in Parliament.
"The Indians are now taking over the local councils. There are mayors all over England who are Indian.
"You are young enough to live to an Indian prime minister in England," he said.
The number of Indians living in UK according to 2001 Census is 1,051,800.
The interview took place at a bookshop in a mall in Gurgaon, a new city outside Delhi, where Lord Archer was promoting his latest book 'A Prisoner of Birth'.
The novel is based on the time the former Conservative Party deputy chairman spent in Belmarsh Prison after being sentenced in 2001 to years in jail for perjury and intending to pervert the course of justice.
Sauce Goose Gander, Lordie! Too funny.
When they make you drive on the wrong side of the road and introduce silly drinks like gin and tonic you will know you have been properly invaded and colonized .
If he's going to mouth off about non-Anglos in England, he should be able to figure out the problem group.
Hmmmm.....Indians or Muslims....Indians or Muslims....which to choose? Rephrased: intelligent, polite, meek or obnoxious, clickish, and zealots......which to choose? The Brits are gonna have to choose ‘cuz the British civilization no longer has the capability to rule themselves. Thanks, lefties.
The Indians seem to assimilate better than some other immigrant groups. Britain could do a lot worse.
The Indians are Britain’s most successful minority - hard working, law abiding, and highly competitive in the educational system. At the other end of the spectrum are the Moslems - derogatorily called “Pakis” - a large percentage of whom would like to blow up the country.
>.old geezer who can’t handle change
Not that I’m enamored of Jeffrey Archer, but I think he was trying to sell books and to compliment the Indians. After all, he was in one of the new cities sprouting like crazy in India, with US type malls and all.
It may sound weird to American ears, a comment like this being a compliment, but the Indians are not particularly hung up about the whole Jewish thingie.
A few of the British-raised Indians I've met were so British I thought that there were gonna come into work pretty soon dressed for polo riding a polo pony. Indian in name only.
Sometimes, you don't have to choose as you can have both. There are hundred of millions Indian Muslims. Moreover, I'm not surprised if Lord Archer also includes other South Asian in his assessment, ie, includes the Pakistani, the Bangladeshi, and so on.
Sometimes, you don't have to choose as you can have both. There are hundred of millions Indian Muslims. Moreover, I'm not surprised if Lord Archer also includes other South Asians in his assessment, ie, includes the Pakistani, the Bangladeshi, and so on.
“You are young enough to live to an Indian prime minister in England,” he said.”
First order of business for the British-Indian PM: Make the Queen (or King) hand over Queen Vicky’s Koh-i-Noor diamond.
Indians are flexible, they just bought the Jaguar and Land Rover car companies
As far as drinks, lassi and nimbu pani may well be popular in England. Though I doubt bhang is freely available.
And it's also not clear that their rise in society quite parallels that of British Jews, who arrived at an earlier time when ethnic self-assertion wasn't as acceptable as it is today.
But, hey, Archer's been locked up for a while, he gets out, looks around, and what does he see?
Agreed. The Pakis think THEY will be having Sharia law running throughout the U.K., perhaps the Indian expatriates will be a bit LESS tolerant of that nonsense...and less squeamish about putting a stop to that.
Minorities break ‘class barrier’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4434146.stm
By Dominic Casciani
Research into 140,000 children over 30 years found immigrant families breaking through class barriers, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said.
Half of children from Indian working class families went into professional or managerial posts, compared with 43% of white children, it found.
But Pakistani and Bangladeshi children did worse than some white children.
Some 45% of those from Caribbean backgrounds also obtained professional or managerial posts, the study found.
The study into the success of ethnic minority children, many the sons and daughters of immigrants or born overseas themselves, looked at their lives over three decades, with the help of official statistics.
It suggested parents encouraging their children to get educated was one of the factors playing a key role in their success.
Academics at the University of Essex used national statistics to track what happened to 140,000 people born in England and Wales since the 1960s.
A disproportionate number of the young people who are upwardly mobile are the children of parents who came to this country as migrants
Dr Lucinda Platt, Essex University
The study found proportionally more ethnic minority children appeared able to do better than their parents.
The report attributed this to their parents encouraging them to stick at education.
‘Under-performance’
However, those from Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities were found to under-perform compared with white children from working class families.
“The Pakistanis [tracked in the figures] were less likely to end up in professional/managerial families even when taking their backgrounds and their own educational level into account,” said the report.
While there appeared to be clear educational and social reasons for the poor performance of some Bangladeshi children, said the report, it was harder to explain the lack of social mobility in Pakistani children.
The report suggested two factors played a key role in explaining success.
Firstly, children of working class immigrants tended to be motivated by their parents, a phenomenon reported in other studies.
While some immigrants initially do economically worse on arrival in a country, because only the poorest paid jobs are available, many of those who stay see their children do a lot better because of encouragement to work hard at school.
Secondly, the report suggested the upward mobility had been helped by the expansion of Britain’s service industry at the expense of manual jobs - meaning there was “more room at the top” for those who aspired to reach it.
Lucinda Platt, of Essex University, the report’s author, found Jews and Hindus had more chance of upward mobility than Christians.
In contrast, Muslims and Sikhs had less chance of breaking through class barriers. Children born into professional and managerial families, regardless of their ethnicity, were less likely to find themselves in less qualified work than their parents.
“Britain is still a long way from being a meritocracy where social class no longer plays a part in determining children’s chances of well-paid careers,” said Dr Platt.
“There is good news to the extent that a disproportionate number of the young people who are upwardly mobile are the children of parents who came to this country as migrants.
“But their welcome progress is no cause for complacency, especially when it appears to be so much harder for young people from Pakistani or Bangladeshi families to get ahead.”
>>what does he see
What was there before he entered the slammer.
It’s not as if the influx has happened recently.
He was paying the Indians a compliment and trying to sell books.
I thought it was mooslims taking over the UK?
"They're going to convert all our pubs into bloody cybercafes!"
Some of the finest Cavalry the Empire ever had were the Indian units.
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