I think one of the best examples of the contrast in Birmingham is The Castle & Falcon. A pub and live music venue in what was originally an Irish area, it is now a little enclave of White "alternative" culture in a Pakistani dominated slum. I have heard from women who have been to gigs there how they feel unsafe around the "locals". That would be a more honest exploration of some of the problems with Birmingham than Bastani's interviews.
I don't think these phenomena are very unique to Birmingham though, plenty of other inner cities, suburbs and satellite towns.
Birmingham is interesting in that even more so than other cities it houses some of the most productive and most draining members of the population in very close proximity (although they don't mix much).
Despite all the ‘levelling up’ money that gets thrown at the north in general and Manchester in particular, Birmingham is still larger and richer than the latter; even with the large numbers of often foreign born who are either welfare dependent or work in the black market. An article that explores this dynamic and the other Birmingham - the mostly English, modern industrial, quietly confident, lacking the northern chip on the shoulder Birmingham would be good to see.
Bastani’s doc does very briefly mention yakoob’s career but i agree that blink and you miss
It.
Also while i agree that Lavour cronyism is a hubris the partydeserves to pay for, he doesn't interrogate why someone like Yakoob and his accolites would never make
It through mainstream parties for
Extremely good and legit reasons. Having said that, find me reporting on the “Gaza” independents that lets speak like normal people like Bastani does. Eg the interview he had with the hijabi councillor candidates.. All they talked about was council corruption and cost of living and priorities.
One of the highlights of retirement for me is that I no longer have to go there. A piece of me died every time I spied it from the elevated section of the M6, Bladerunner always came to mind.
' _This is far removed from England’s overall figure of 73.5%. The idea that Birmingham can be more representative of Britain, or of a British future_ ... '
England or 'Britain'? Is that figure of 73.5% applicable to England or 'Britain', it cannot be both. That aside, while I fear that Birmingham is indeed representative of 'Britain's' future, it is not in any way representative of any future England may have, if what is being done to my ancient ancestral homeland by the 'British' can be stopped and reversed, because if 'Britain' goes the way those destroying it intend England is going to become a thing of the past, nothing more than a sad memory in the hearts and minds of the English people.
Birmingham still has a majority white population but some area's have majority Muslim populations and in a few years the Muslims will be the majority population of Birmingham.
At least Birmingham isn't such a shit hole like London , Manchester, Bradford and Leicester have become.
Birmingham is doing just fine. We don’t need the half baked views of people who don’t live here or are even interested in us using the make up of an overwhelmingly tolerant and friendly population to make political capital out of non-existent problems.
Most of us think Wayne Bridge and his mates are complete dick heads and we deal with by ignoring him.
I think one of the best examples of the contrast in Birmingham is The Castle & Falcon. A pub and live music venue in what was originally an Irish area, it is now a little enclave of White "alternative" culture in a Pakistani dominated slum. I have heard from women who have been to gigs there how they feel unsafe around the "locals". That would be a more honest exploration of some of the problems with Birmingham than Bastani's interviews.
Good breakdown of the views of Bastani and co.
I don't think these phenomena are very unique to Birmingham though, plenty of other inner cities, suburbs and satellite towns.
Birmingham is interesting in that even more so than other cities it houses some of the most productive and most draining members of the population in very close proximity (although they don't mix much).
Despite all the ‘levelling up’ money that gets thrown at the north in general and Manchester in particular, Birmingham is still larger and richer than the latter; even with the large numbers of often foreign born who are either welfare dependent or work in the black market. An article that explores this dynamic and the other Birmingham - the mostly English, modern industrial, quietly confident, lacking the northern chip on the shoulder Birmingham would be good to see.
It's almost an acid test, the adjectives people on the left and right use for The YooKay.
We on the right use "broken", "sectarian" etc.
Those on the left like Bastani use "fascinating". He knows something's not right, something is jarring. He sees it, but can't call it.
So reaches for positive works like "fascinating".
I mean, a multi vehicle pile up is "fascinating", but first, it's "tragic", "disasterous" etc.
Bastani’s doc does very briefly mention yakoob’s career but i agree that blink and you miss
It.
Also while i agree that Lavour cronyism is a hubris the partydeserves to pay for, he doesn't interrogate why someone like Yakoob and his accolites would never make
It through mainstream parties for
Extremely good and legit reasons. Having said that, find me reporting on the “Gaza” independents that lets speak like normal people like Bastani does. Eg the interview he had with the hijabi councillor candidates.. All they talked about was council corruption and cost of living and priorities.
You seem to have some problems with writing coherent English.
She's a foreigner
Too right. It’s Pakistan
One of the highlights of retirement for me is that I no longer have to go there. A piece of me died every time I spied it from the elevated section of the M6, Bladerunner always came to mind.
' _This is far removed from England’s overall figure of 73.5%. The idea that Birmingham can be more representative of Britain, or of a British future_ ... '
England or 'Britain'? Is that figure of 73.5% applicable to England or 'Britain', it cannot be both. That aside, while I fear that Birmingham is indeed representative of 'Britain's' future, it is not in any way representative of any future England may have, if what is being done to my ancient ancestral homeland by the 'British' can be stopped and reversed, because if 'Britain' goes the way those destroying it intend England is going to become a thing of the past, nothing more than a sad memory in the hearts and minds of the English people.
But the 90s !
Birmingham still has a majority white population but some area's have majority Muslim populations and in a few years the Muslims will be the majority population of Birmingham.
At least Birmingham isn't such a shit hole like London , Manchester, Bradford and Leicester have become.
I got out over twenty years ago. It ceased being the city I grew up in a long time ago.
Birmingham is doing just fine. We don’t need the half baked views of people who don’t live here or are even interested in us using the make up of an overwhelmingly tolerant and friendly population to make political capital out of non-existent problems.
Most of us think Wayne Bridge and his mates are complete dick heads and we deal with by ignoring him.
Nowadays, I go straight to “get to fuck” as soon as I hear a progressive leftist name, which saves a lot of time.
Leftists always lie. It's a good shortcut to save time.