Whatever your political views on immigration, it really was quite sad scenes.
Families with five generations becoming alienated and isolated in areas they've grown up in.
Surely the point of a mixed society is to achieve better managed integration as opposed to flooding an area beyond recognition over a twenty year period.
Caused a bit of a twitter storm today apparently. Beeb being branded as investing tax payers money in racist programming.
Most of the papers carry some type of comment..
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...-a3256261.html
Last edited by 7sisters; 05-25-2016 at 01:53 PM.
I'm not entirely sure it's done by design, these things happen organically. Of course, the east end has always done a fairly good job of assimilating immigrants and then having them bugger off elsewhere within a generation or two.
I cant imagine the systematic purging of local authority housing, gentrification and the willing over/hyperinflation of the london housing market has positive effects on any of these things either.
And this is speaking as someone who could say they've been gentrified out of my natural born area too.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."