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The awful, shocking...

[Closed] The awful, shocking, terrible, horrible realisation...

RustySpanner · 2013-05-28T23:45:38Z

..that 'someone you know' is a genuine, swivel eyed loon. I'd ignored the 'I'd vote for Boris' & 'UKIP are right' nonsense spouted on the last couple of visits. But tonight, I was reliably informed that a certain Northern ex-mill town, which has had a perfectly integrated British Asian community since the 1950's, is experiencing a drop in property values because of, and I quote, 'the Muslims'. Who are 'taking over'. I tried pointing out that: 1. Property prices in said town have risen steadily for a number of years. 2. There has never, ever, been any kind of religious conflict in said mill town. Not even during the reformation, when it was just a dungheap by a river. 3. The proportion of Asian families in said town has remained constant for the past thirty years. 4. Britain is a country built on immigration & we're a completely raciallly mixed nation. All the usual arguments applied against small minded ignorant racists basically. So. Time to cut loose I think. Shame, her kids are nice and she always brings cake, but I just can't put up with that level of ignorant stupidity in my house or my life.