The last whites of the East end.

[vetran]

https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/42...d+the+East+End

The Last Whites of the East End, the BBC’s new programme, whips up racism against Muslims and patronises working class people. Relying on anecdotal assertions it claims that Newham’s “Cockney culture” is dying as white people flee to nearby Essex.

The programme comes after a barrage from the right wing press scapegoating migrants, and reinforces that racism.

Nadia Sayed, who studied at Newham Sixth Form College, told Socialist Worker, “It’s going to be really disruptive and intensify divisions in the community.

“Saying that ‘Cockneys’ have been driven out specifically plays to Islamophobic prejudice.

“A bill is already going through parliament and Muslim students are being told that they don’t know about ‘Britishness’—whatever that is.”

The programme presents immigration, and Muslims in particular, as a mortal threat to “white working class culture”.

The last whites of the East End

Newham’s white British population fell from 82,000 to 51,000 between 2001 and 2011 alone. In 1991 white British (and Irish) comprised 56 per cent of Newham residents. By 2001 that proportion had plummeted to 34 per cent and by 2011 halved again to 17 per cent, the lowest percentage of any borough in Britain. Of the 147 languages today recorded in Newham, one would struggle to hear a cockney voice among them.

[OwlHoot]

https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/42...d+the+East+End

The last whites of the East End

The way things are going, the same thing will happen across the whole country in coming decades.

Unfortunately, many people simply don't understand the exponential function.

[MarillionFan]

The way things are going, the same thing will happen across the whole country in coming decades.

Unfortunately, many people simply don't understand the exponential function.

With BREXIT the Cockneys would come back.

[DimPrawn]

Too late to change anything, now, best thing is to feck off out to Essex wot like they is doing.

[LondonManc]

From what I've seen, white natives are making way for eastern Europeans as much as for Asians. I've lived in Bow and elsewhere in the East End and it is very ethnic, no question about it. Multicultural Britain is simply where people of different cultures live in the same street but keep themselves to themselves whenever they can. The whole integration thing is ballhooks unless the immigrants want to live like the locals - something that Islam is not conducive to, wrt pubs, fry ups, etc.

[Old Greg]

Hipsters breeding with cockneys

Hipsters breeding with cockneys
03-03-15


THE influx of hipsters to East London has resulted in a new hybrid species, scientists have announced.

The new species, scientific name newmedius philmitchellum, combines the worst elements of aspirational middle-class trendiness and cockney bulltulip.

Zoologist Donna Sheridan said: “Cockneys probably first encountered hipsters while visiting their local for a traditional evening of boozing and being a character, only to discover it was full of web designers and ‘vintage’ Ms Pac-Man machines.

“Subsequent drunken copulation created a completely new strain of twat with wanky job titles like ‘internet viral imagineer’ and a tedious fixation with the folklore of east London.

“It’s increasingly common to walk down Shoreditch High Street and see a thin young man with a handlebar moustache claiming this is where Ronnie and Reggie Kray shot down a German bomber.

“They are also taking over the local media scene, for example by setting up independent production companies to make pretentious short films about how much they love their old mum.”

Cockney hipster Roy Hobbs said: “My new media start-up is currently developing an app that warns you if you are leaving the vicinity of Bow Bells, which wouldn’t be luvvly jubbly.

“Part of the funding came from my stockbroker father and the rest from turning over a bookie with some tasty geezers with shooters.

[bobspud]

From what I've seen, white natives are making way for eastern Europeans as much as for Asians. I've lived in Bow and elsewhere in the East End and it is very ethnic, no question about it. Multicultural Britain is simply where people of different cultures live in the same street but keep themselves to themselves whenever they can. The whole integration thing is ballhooks unless the immigrants want to live like the locals - something that Islam is not conducive to, wrt pubs, fry ups, etc.

Actually the indigenous people gave way to the Asian and Africans over the 80's and 90's and now those communities are giving way to the Europeans its all progress. A few years ago I was on a bus near my old hunting ground and I overheard a pair of Asian kids moaning about the Poles coming over and ruining Walthamstow I pointed out that it was exactly what my grandad was saying about their parents. Its not the people moving in that is the problem its the fact that there are swaths of the community that are not making enough progress to move on to something better...

[FatLazyContractor]

Actually the indigenous people gave way to the Asian and Africans over the 80's and 90's and now those communities are giving way to the Europeans its all progress. A few years ago I was on a bus near my old hunting ground and I overheard a pair of Asian kids moaning about the Poles coming over and ruining Walthamstow I pointed out that it was exactly what my grandad was saying about their parents. Its not the people moving in that is the problem its the fact that there are swaths of the community that are not making enough progress to move on to something better...

Yes, but the polish women are quite good in few aspects. What were they moaning about?!

[DodgyAgent]

From what I've seen, white natives are making way for eastern Europeans as much as for Asians. I've lived in Bow and elsewhere in the East End and it is very ethnic, no question about it. Multicultural Britain is simply where people of different cultures live in the same street but keep themselves to themselves whenever they can. The whole integration thing is ballhooks unless the immigrants want to live like the locals - something that Islam is not conducive to, wrt pubs, fry ups, etc.

The interesting thing is that the effects of race and immigration are played out in working class areas. The establishment that set the policies do not have to live with effects of their actions. So when "white" working class people complain they are smeared as little englanders or racists. It just shows that, middle class virtue signallers (you know who you are), Labour nor socialist worker are actually at all interested in looking after the people who's causes they pretend to represent.

[LondonManc]

The interesting thing is that the effects of race and immigration are played out in working class areas. The establishment that set the policies do not have to live with effects of their actions. So when "white" working class people complain they are smeared as little englanders or racists. It just shows that, middle class virtue signallers (you know who you are), Labour nor socialist worker are actually at all interested in looking after the people who's causes they pretend to represent.

Sad but true. Unless you're scouse, in which case it appears to be your birth-right to moan about being hard done by.