My opinion - won't please any daily mail readers

Probably more evil than good

 

Mrx you have pm

 

No, the point I was trying to make was about education & also real life experience.

Too many people react to the right wing press & likewise people from african / asian backgrounds often need to be educated to avoid
negative attitudes to women, gay people & other races & religions.

Without education we might as well all pack in.

Anyway, off to DJ at Mook in Leeds now. Enjoy the rest of the bank holiday folks.

 

PS that was meant to quote LDRed's earlier post. For some reason didn't work.

 

Mmmm.... That can of worms.

 

Like that a lot Mr JP

 

Immigrants taking over? Anybody been to a Spanish seaside resort recently?

 

Good post, JP.

 

Well said, TF

However, do remember people like Hastings in India, who did try to integrate the "natives" into administrative roles in the civil service!

 

They must have made us Wilthorpe lot a bunch of bloody liberals or something.

Good post sir.

 

I went to Withorpe infants and juniors and grew up there until I was 11. I did my cycling proficiency at Wilthorpe juniors.

 

Look up "The Pale Blue Dot" on Google images and then read this, everyone:

The pale blue dot that you can see is planet Earth, taken from over 6 billion km away by the Voyager 1 spacecraft after it had passed the orbit of Pluto.

My feelings perfectly summed up in the words of Carl Sagan:
...
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

"The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand."

 

I enjoyed much of your posting but take objection to your Faith school issue. My kids go to a Catholic school in Wakefield which was built by the Catholic working classes of Wakefield to provide an education when one was not available from the state. As part of the education reform act which created the state education system we have today schools such as this agreed to become part of the state sector, but the school still belongs to the Catholic Church, not the state. Those 250 kids who go to that school need an education, the Catholic Church built the school, and contribute 10% of the ongoing cost, I would say that represents grreat value for money for the state. If you wish to abolish such schools, then the state would need to buy the school from the Church - probably about 10 million? ish? Times that by the hundreds of other Catholic schools, which tend to be in working class areas, built by Catholics, not the state. I reckon you'd need a couple of hundred million to buy them all, or you could "take" them from the people who built them with their own money I guess. Anyway, its quite a complicated situation as you can see, what to do?

 

great post john. Thankyou. i worked in Batley for 6 years. the population was90% Asian, about 90% were were good easy customers and most used to go to watch Batley play rugby, as did i. we used to drink coffee and loved rugby! sport brings folk together.

 

He can't give you any logical reason why she was racist because his post, like 99% of his posts, was inane drivel.

 

Did they have cans back then?