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Politics / Re: Our Future Prime Minister
Last post by JBR - Today at 09:17:18 PM
Quote from: Alex on Today at 07:36:45 PMWhich places are almost all white British ?
 :hmm:
I'd guess that quite a lot of small villages are all-white, but I'm pretty certain that there are few if any large towns or cities which are.

Today at 09:27:30 PM
Ah, but Knutsford and Macclesfield are about ten miles to the south of us.

Ten miles to the north is Manchester, which is a different kettle of fish!

Being equidistant from both, I feel that our locality is quite a decent place.  Not as posh as the former, but nowhere near as bad as the latter.
Yes, there are a small number of brownies here, but they are exceptionally good people, at least the ones I know.
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Politics / Re: Our Future Prime Minister
Last post by dextrous63 - Today at 08:48:58 PM
Quote from: GrannyMac on Today at 08:18:21 PMHere's one place not a million miles away from you, my son lives in the area.
https://macclesfield.nub.news/news/local-news/more-census-data-on-identity-for-cheshire-east-revealed-165750



Knutsford seems to be of a similar ilk.  
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Politics / Re: Our Future Prime Minister
Last post by GrannyMac - Today at 08:43:27 PM
JBR, I don't recall ever seeing a non-white person til the late 60s in Dundee.  I remember it was when an Asian family took over a local shop.   Moved to Doncaster a few years later, and at first we lived in a cheap area, our neighbours included Indians, West Indians and Pakistanis.  The area now is full of Eastern Europeans.  Then we bought a house in a pit village, exclusively white! 

We moved to a suburb where there were other incomers, and good schools.  There were a few Asian families, one who'd made lots of money on the markets, and others who worked at the hospital.  Their kids were bright! 
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Politics / Re: Our Future Prime Minister
Last post by GrannyMac - Today at 08:18:21 PM
Here's one place not a million miles away from you, my son lives in the area.
https://macclesfield.nub.news/news/local-news/more-census-data-on-identity-for-cheshire-east-revealed-165750


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The Chat Room / Re: Good Morning, Whatcha Up T...
Last post by Alex - Today at 08:06:45 PM
Good old Alexa, I've spend a couple of hours listening to Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Rogers & Hammerstein songs.  In the 60s we had some great music and some will never be forgotten, but there was something special about these old songs.

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The Chat Room / Re: CIgarette Card In The Spok...
Last post by JBR - Today at 08:05:38 PM
Quote from: dextrous63 on Today at 06:59:33 PMWhat about if we make it a legal obligation for pedestrians to wear inflatable smimming rings around their waists and heads?  Sort of personalised buoys?
No, I disagree.
It would serve them better if they continued to walk into each other, hopefully banging their heads together and knocking a bit of sense into themselves.
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The Chat Room / Re: Lets write a Limerick, one...
Last post by Alex - Today at 07:40:19 PM
The pub was packed on Saturday night
Ethel and Maggie pole dancing, what a sight
The pole was greased with thick beef dripping
It stank something horrid, and the pair kept slipping
Their green wooly drawers gave everyone a fright !

Reverend Brown was new to the church
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Politics / Re: Our Future Prime Minister
Last post by Alex - Today at 07:36:45 PM
Which places are almost all white British ?
 :hmm:
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Politics / Re: How can I save my sorry ar...
Last post by dextrous63 - Today at 07:36:29 PM
Quite.  Plus, of course, life expectancy has risen which has created its own problems.
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Politics / Re: How can I save my sorry ar...
Last post by Alex - Today at 07:28:22 PM
What was the UK population in 1947 when NHS was born, 40 million  ?   Now we don't exactly know how many people the NHS is trying to cope with.