A quick google of FOI's submitted to various Police forces requesting ethnicity stats of arrests under the Vagrancy Act (across the UK) suggests that your city might be an anomaly.
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What on earth are you talking about? Are you really suggesting all those without homes are street homeless? You really have no idea of the situation. Many of these people are trapped in "jobs" they don't get paid for, they sleep on a mattress in a house where every single inch of space has a mattress on it that is occupied 24/7.
The street homeless I refer to are pretty much that, they're homeless and live on the street (interspersed with hostel accom, which isn't for everyone, as can also be incredibly dangerous). They tend to be the groups who beg on street, where I live, anyway. I'm sure there are other groups who beg who do have accommodation, but I'm unclear how that's linked to small boats and immigration. How do you know the immigration status of these gangs you see?
Honestly, I just can't anymore. it's clear you have no actual idea about any of this. So we will leave it there.
You would have to open your eyes first and that's not going to happen 
Mark Corrigan is Scottish and Pete is London metropolitan liberal probs middle class. I love them both like I do all tattlers but they doooo not get what it’s like being poor and living in a deprived area where immigration has segmented communities
I don't live in Scotland now and I'm originally from (what was at the time) and also now live in a diverse working class area of a large city. A large % of my classmates weren't White British eitherMark Corrigan is Scottish and Pete is London metropolitan liberal probs middle class. I love them both like I do all tattlers but they doooo not get what it’s like being poor and living in a deprived area where immigration has segmented communities
I meant to add, my husband (from the city I live in now) is in his late thirties and was one of a grand total of two white kids in his class. Like Pete says, nowt new.
You should be more concerned that your demigod Nigel has no idea of this, with his privileged background and considerable bank account.Mark Corrigan is Scottish and Pete is London metropolitan liberal probs middle class. I love them both like I do all tattlers but they doooo not get what it’s like being poor and living in a deprived area where immigration has segmented communities
I suspect he sodding does see the issues living in London and is self aware enough to know he hasn’t experienced/isn’t experiencing the worst of it
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Irish and Italians? Hardly a sink/deprived school then, they’re wealthy immigrants to the UK in general. Greece is a poorer country but Greeks don’t tend to cause social problems.
Not a personal dig at you Pete, I understand the sting when someone attacks personal information about you and I’m not doing that, just making the point already made above that we all have blind spots regarding immigration
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Sounds like a dump I’d go back to ScotlandI don't live in Scotland now and I'm originally from (what was at the time) and also now live in a diverse working class area of a large city. A large % of my classmates weren't White British either
lovely scenery and open space there ( I’m joking)
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My point is that he's privileged and very much a product of the establishment.
And the Irish being wealthy immigrants to the UK when I was at primary school - please, my sides are splitting. My parents came over without the proverbial pot to piss in, like many of their country men and women, with Ireland being far from the comparatively prosperous country that it is now. Found it hard initially to get lodgings because of the "No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs" bull in windows. I grew up in a rundown part of London that didn't have a good reputation.
And you talk about blind spots re immigration...
And the Irish being wealthy immigrants to the UK when I was at primary school - please, my sides are splitting. My parents came over without the proverbial pot to piss in, like many of their country men and women, with Ireland being far from the comparatively prosperous country that it is now. Found it hard initially to get lodgings because of the "No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs" bull in windows. I grew up in a rundown part of London that didn't have a good reputation.
And you talk about blind spots re immigration...
Okay but Irish don’t cause issues (language and culture the same/similar) and they’re also not coming in millions. I don’t think anyone’s ever included them in anti immigration rhetoric since the 1990sMy point is that he's privileged and very much a product of the establishment.
And the Irish being wealthy immigrants to the UK when I was at primary school - please, my sides are splitting. My parents came over without the proverbial pot to piss in, like many of their country men and women, with Ireland being far from the relatively prosperous country that it is now. Found it hard initially to get lodgings because of the "No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs" bull in windows. I grew up in a rundown part of London that didn't have a good reputation.
And you talk about blind spots re immigration...
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Most politicians are part of the establishment including Starmer/Corbyn, and I actually think that’s a real failing in our society. What we really need is someone who has first hand experience of benefits etc to provide some empathy. I’m sick of all the parties tbh. At least Nigey is funny and cuddly and sticks up for himself and says what a lot of us are thinking
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The school I went to was in Scotland. I moved to England as an adult.I suspect he sodding does see the issues living in London and is self aware enough to know he hasn’t experienced/isn’t experiencing the worst of it
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Irish and Italians? Hardly a sink/deprived school then, they’re wealthy immigrants to the UK in general. Greece is a poorer country but Greeks don’t tend to cause social problems.
Not a personal dig at you Pete, I understand the sting when someone attacks personal information about you and I’m not doing that, just making the point already made above that we all have blind spots regarding immigration
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Sounds like a dump I’d go back to Scotland
( I’m joking)
ETA I had an Irish friend who lived near me (when I was at school) who lived in a two bed council house with her mum, gran and her sister. They were not living the rich immigration dream.
You've not heard of the rhetoric around Irish Travellers that has been fairly common over the last at least ten years?
No? I mean don’t think Nige has said anything so maybe a bit off topic, but I haven’t heard anything. Understand I may have blind spots there though
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Oh okay the big gypsy wedding stuff but that was like 2013
Wait if that’s true that’s pretty grim
Not that there’s anything wrong with immigrants or British people who aren’t white, but it really shows demographic change That seems strange as I’m mid thirties and I just can’t see that being the case when even I was young? There was the occasional area that’s very Indian such as Southall in London, but small pockets