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Britain's 'betrayed' white working classes believe immigrants receive better treatment
Daily Mail ^ | 02 Jan 2009 | Steve Doughty

Posted on 01/02/2009 10:52:04 AM PST by BGHater

White families on the country's poorest estates believe they have been 'betrayed' and 'abandoned' by politicians who favour newly-arrived immigrants, a Government report acknowledged today.

It found that people on council estates think they always come second to immigrants for housing and benefits.

Many feel they have been shoved aside by politicians who use political correctness and allegations of racism to stifle honest discussion, it said.

The report for the Department of Communities and Local Government drew an admission from Communities Secretary Hazel Blears that white working class people 'sometimes just don't feel anyone is listening or speaking up for them.'

She said people should be allowed to talk about their worries 'without fear of being branded a racist.'

The findings, produced by Mrs Blear's 'National Community Forum', appear another step on Labour's road away from multiculturalism, the left-wing doctrine that dominated ministerial thinking until the 2005 London July bombings.

Under multiculturalism, ethnic minority groups are encouraged to develop their own identity while critics say values associated with white groups are dismissed as racist.

Today's report was based on interviews with 43 people on largely-white housing estates in Birmingham, Runcorn, Milton Keynes and Thetford in Norfolk.

It found that 'by far the most frequent context for referring to ethnic minorities is that of perceived competition for resources - typically housing, but also employment, benefits, territory and culture.'

On the Milton Keynes estate, 'feelings of anxiety around housing were so acute that respondents claimed they had voted against the regeneration of the estate, which meant pulling down all breeze block houses and rebuilding them with new and better materials, because they feared that their necessary displacement during building work would result in them losing their places on the estate to immigrants.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigrants; immigration; timetoprotest; uk
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1 posted on 01/02/2009 10:52:04 AM PST by BGHater
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To: BGHater

Look who just woke up......


2 posted on 01/02/2009 10:54:07 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR......Monthly Donors Wanted)
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To: BGHater
Many feel they have been shoved aside by politicians who use political correctness and allegations of racism to stifle honest discussion.
I'm sure glad that never happens here in the US.
3 posted on 01/02/2009 10:54:28 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: BGHater

They are just figuring this out NOW?!???


4 posted on 01/02/2009 10:57:16 AM PST by ikka (Brother, you asked for it!)
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To: ikka

Next thing you know, the Brits will demand equal treatment, freedom of assembly, RKBA...


5 posted on 01/02/2009 10:58:55 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: BGHater

They should move here where Uncle Sugar doesn’t take care of you, you’re expected to take care of yourself (at least for another 19 days).


6 posted on 01/02/2009 10:59:44 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: BGHater

Ding Ding Ding

That was the alarm bell of whites in Britain who finally realize that they are being crapped on and taken over.

Lets hope they are fed up enough to speak out and get over the charge of “racist”. I’m over that myself. I could give a rat’s behind if someone thinks I’m a racist.


7 posted on 01/02/2009 11:01:02 AM PST by autumnraine
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Next thing you know, the Brits will demand equal treatment, freedom of assembly, RKBA...

Fat chance, these are native parasites on the dole.

8 posted on 01/02/2009 11:03:32 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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Today's report was based on interviews with 43 people

If they surveyed 1 million and 43 people, including black families who settled here in the 50's and 60's, they'd get the same result. That's because it's completely true.

You'll see this opinion reflected in the next general election, where it's distinctly possible that the Labour Party will cease to be the official opposition.
9 posted on 01/02/2009 11:03:35 AM PST by bethybabes69
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To: BGHater

The British government learned well from California. If they continue this, industry will move out and so will the money. It will become a ghetto.


10 posted on 01/02/2009 11:07:54 AM PST by RC2
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I agree they don’t want equal treatment. They want equal handouts.


11 posted on 01/02/2009 11:08:48 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: RC2

Allahu Akbar!


12 posted on 01/02/2009 11:11:38 AM PST by yorkie01
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To: BGHater

Unless the people of the UK seize control of their nation from the libs they’re doomed. Simple as that.


13 posted on 01/02/2009 11:12:46 AM PST by MahatmaGandu (Remember, remember, the twenty-sixth of November.)
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To: driftdiver
The facts of life are (1) the amount of tax revenues that can be extracted from the tax-paying middle class are finite, and (2) money used for immigrants is money that is unavailable for native Brit citizens.

The Brit lower classes will eventually fully realize that, and that Labour intends to supplant them.

14 posted on 01/02/2009 11:13:10 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (We used to institutionalize the insane. Now we elect them.)
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To: BGHater

No shi’ite!


15 posted on 01/02/2009 11:17:27 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: BGHater

What exactly is a ‘council estate’? Is that government housing?


16 posted on 01/02/2009 11:17:45 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism, it's the new black.)
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To: oh8eleven

Those are the same people who are on welfare here (”council estates” in GB) who expect everything to be given to them.


17 posted on 01/02/2009 11:17:47 AM PST by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Requiescat In Pace)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Well, DUH! Why th’ hell ya’ think I’m learning Spanish, changing my name, and swimming north on my next vacation - across the Rio Grande!


18 posted on 01/02/2009 11:23:03 AM PST by catchem (NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE STUPIDITY OF THE AMERICAN VOTER.)
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To: ReneeLynn

> What exactly is a ‘council estate’? Is that government housing?

Yeah. Run by Local Government. Like a “Housing Project”.


19 posted on 01/02/2009 11:23:55 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: BGHater

Believe?


20 posted on 01/02/2009 11:24:58 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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