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Chavs? You mean working class people? How dare they

 

 

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Isn't it classist to assume all people in Thornhill, Lordshill, Millbrook and Swaythling are working class. Can't there be middle class chavs in those areas?

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What is wrong with Poles anyway good hard working people

 

I have nothing against the Polish but to classify them as all hard working is a little bit racist. I think you will find that access to welfare reduces the work ethic of all nationalities. The first generation of almost all immigrants come from countries where life is tougher and you have to work harder to live at any sort of decent standard. In other words, the integrated children of immigrants will be just like the children of native British when it comes to working hard or going on welfare. I say this first hand as a person born of immigrants growing up in the 1960s and 1970s where my classmates were largely Polish, Italian and Irish.

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I have nothing against the Polish but to classify them as all hard working is a little bit racist. I think you will find that access to welfare reduces the work ethic of all nationalities. The first generation of almost all immigrants come from countries where life is tougher and you have to work harder to live at any sort of decent standard. In other words, the integrated children of immigrants will be just like the children of native British when it comes to working hard or going on welfare. I say this first hand as a person born of immigrants growing up in the 1960s and 1970s where my classmates were largely Polish, Italian and Irish.

 

True although some nations do appear to have harder work ethics than others. Often commented on the difference between Pakistanis and Indians in approach to work with the former being perceived as the lazier.

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10% hardly constitutes full....

 

And as the Daily Mail article points out, they make a darned sight bigger contribution to the city economy than chavs in areas like Thornhill, Lordshill, Millbrook and Swaythling.

 

Coming from someone who no longer resides in, or contributes to the city economy that's rich!!

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I emailed to ask where they got their story , received this reply quoting tsf!

Dear Mr Simpson

I have now spoken to the reporter and made some further enquiries and I would like to draw your attention to the following post on the Saints Web fan forum. The reporter also spoke to Southampton fans who confirmed what she wrote in the article:-

 

 

From the Saints Web

As I was walking back to Wigan North Western from the game last night, had to travel over the canal footbridge. Some Wigan monkeys giving it large on the other side of the bridge, shouting "you're just a town full of Polish". Earlier in the day, we shared a table with a Saints fan and his wife that had moved from Shirley into the Waterside 'burbs. He cited the transformation of Shirley to meet its new international needs as a major factor ( he didn't say that exactly ).

 

It occurs to me that Southampton, with its very high ratio of newcomers to original denizens, might be a uniquely qualified city to speak on the effects of rapid inward EU migration.

 

Best wishes

Philippa Kennedy

Sun Ombudsman

 

Philippa using a lot of big words there

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