Funny, this was Shoreditch High Street after the England Colombia game... [Link]

As someone who works in the area, I can assure you that, unlike what breitbart and guido tell you, it is still England.

Edited by serial thriller (17 Sep 2018 8.21pm)

Just look at how London has changed in the past couple of decades. Local libraries have closed, local shops, local cafes and community centres. Public toilets, public benches, public water fountains are pretty much a thing of the past. They have been replaced by replica chain stores, high level security systems and empty flats.

What that signifies, in my eyes, is a culture going backwards. It is the death of community and the corporate colonisation of where we live. It symbolises the cavernous gap between the power off the wealthy and the power of independent voices in our society, something which goes against our society's recent history, and which no one voted for and many are voting angrily in response to.

And yet you blame immigrants. Mainly, you blame poor, disenfranchised immigrants, such as pakistanis, who actually propped up many of the local services and shops which made living in London so vibrant and desired.

Before you go worrying about other cultures, I suggest you go and see what we are doing to our own culture. We are turning it in to a faceless, profit-driven monster.

Just look at how London has changed in the past couple of decades. Local libraries have closed, local shops, local cafes and community centres. Public toilets, public benches, public water fountains are pretty much a thing of the past. They have been replaced by replica chain stores, high level security systems and empty flats.

What that signifies, in my eyes, is a culture going backwards. It is the death of community and the corporate colonisation of where we live. It symbolises the cavernous gap between the power off the wealthy and the power of independent voices in our society, something which goes against our society's recent history, and which no one voted for and many are voting angrily in response to.

And yet you blame immigrants. Mainly, you blame poor, disenfranchised immigrants, such as pakistanis, who actually propped up many of the local services and shops which made living in London so vibrant and desired.

Before you go worrying about other cultures, I suggest you go and see what we are doing to our own culture. We are turning it in to a faceless, profit-driven monster.

I don't blame the immigrants, I blame the politicians and activists who support their coming.

England is principally for the English....the hint is in the name.

Without a majority of English people within it.....it is no longer England. Demographics matter.....apparently to the brain washed this is controversial.....yet not for other countries.

Tell me Serial....Do you think Tibetans have a right to Tibet? At what point does Tibet become Chinese due to immigration?

Is there a right to a Tibetan culture...a Tibetan homeland.

Without Tibetans being the majority......it no longer exists.

Edited by Stirlingsays (17 Sep 2018 9.13pm)

the Costa Del Sol is now very very English. With very low levels of integration to the surrounding cultures. Ask the local spaniards how they feel about the wholesale colonisation ?

You are totally wrong about the meaning of Gammon.

The term refers to older middle aged (admittedly mostly white but not exclusively) men (always) that work themselves into a lather as seen on Question Time. The original meme was the infamous "wall of gammon" (attached) which were all Question time audience members mid rant. They are NOT working class- but tend to be all sorts. I would say that many are Tory middle class types - often Parish council, Church Warden types. Also pub bores and UKIP fruitcakes. But 100% they cannot be described as "White Working Class".
The usual source of their puce faced indignation is Brexit - but can also be "Political Correctness gone mad" and "Bloody Jeremy Corbyn".
I have been using the term for a couple of years and find it extremely useful and ridiculously funny. The main source of the humour being that Gammon nearly always live up to their stereotype.

Tommy Robinson marchers are NOT Gammon. They are just f***ing racist dickheads.