Q: Who was it that said of one of the UK’s best known and well loved areas of Asian settlement “Southall is a constant on the public purse in Ealing. It is home to the worst concentration of illegal immigrants in the UK. It has gambling, drinking, drug, prostitution and crime issues unlike many other parts of London. “ Adding “It is a largely Indian community who say they deplore this behaviour but yet it is that very same community that harbours and exploits their own people in squalid third world living conditions.”
A: Not the BNP, NF or EDL but Ealing Conservative councillor and handlebar moustache wearer Benjamin Dennehy of Hanger Hill ward. Read the Ealing Gazette story on the event here. He is being cheered by the pro-repatriation extreme right unsurprisingly. After all David Cameron’s efforts to show how inclusive the modern Tory party is with its A-list and his palliness with Obama this is what the true rank and file of the party think.
Jo Sidhu QC the runner up in the Ealing Southall Labour candidate nomination in 2007 and respected criminal barrister says:
Having read the offending and offensive blog I’ve looked to see whether it contains any words that might fall within the terms of the statutory offence of stirring up racial hatred, contrary to section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986.In short, my view is that (whilst this is not the strongest case of its type) there is prima facie evidence that Cllr Dennehy has published through his blog material which is insulting to people of (at least) Indian origin. Further, that whilst he may be able to claim that he did not intend to stir up racial hatred by posting his views, in all the circumstances racial hatred of Indians was nonetheless likely to be stirred up (section 19(1)(b) POA 1986).In other words, just because he says he did not intend to stir up racial hatred does not mean he is not guilty of the offence. If a formal complaint is lodged the police, the CPS, and ultimately a court, will be required to examine the effect of his comments regardless of his claim to free speech.Any potential prosecution would require the consent of the Attorney General. The maximum sentence if the case was committed to the Crown Court would be 7 years’ imprisonment.
The Ealing Conservative group have suspended him and his own blog seems to have had the story removed. According to Ealing Today Dennehy was like Sidhu also called to the bar in the 90s. Looks like he had a few too many however before posting this drivel.
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March 16, 2012 at 2:15 am
monty
Dennehy may not have chosen his words too wisely, but sadly there’s some truth in what he says…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7505574.stm
http://www.ealing.gov.uk/news/article/76/action_to_tackle_anti-social_behaviour_in_southall
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049676/Welcome-Slums-Southall-How-unscrupulous-landlords-illegally-built-squalid-homes-immigrants.html
http://www.foreignersinuk.co.uk/news-news-punjabi_landlords_under_check_by_british_authorities_3401.html
April 13, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Robin Taylor
So then, Monty, you actually believe what you read in the Daily Hate Mail, do you? Well more the fool you. I am a white Englishman who has lived in central Southall for over twenty years and I don’t need that piece of toilet paper to tell me about my town.
April 20, 2012 at 1:51 am
monty
As you can see from the range of the sources I selected (and there are many others I didn’t include) it was not just the Daily Mail that covered this story. Panorama or Dispatches on TV (I forget which) also drew attention to the housing squalor, rogue landlords (Asian) and fake passport scams (Asian again) that are rife in Southall. You need to pay more attention Robin. There is widespread credible evidence that Southall has some very serious social problems that are related to the Asian community there. Don’t hide behind political correctness.
March 17, 2012 at 10:28 am
Benjamin Dennehy
Talk about jumping on the band wagon and trying to making political hay out of nothing. I find your reference to me in the same sentence as the BNP and EDL extremely offensive!
Have you met my wife? She is mixed race, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants. My extended family is Jamaican. I demand you apologise to them and me.
How dare you accuse me of racism!!
The issues I raised about Southall are commonly known and they are being ignored, mainly by the Labour Party and the representatives it has down there. Why is it that it took me to get this issue talked about?
What have you done? I have not heard a peep from you about this issue?
I am happy to work with anyone to dismantle these slum conditions, are you?
I am ashamed that in a country I greatly admire and respect we allow this sought of exploitation to go on.
I may not be William Wilberforce but I am no damned racist or supporter of extremist policy!
I demand an apology and so does my wife!
April 13, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Robin Taylor
Well excuse me, Mr Benjamin Thicky Dennehy, but you attacked the INDIAN community. So what has your wife being JAMAICAN got to do with it? Do you actually know the difference between a Jamaican and an Indian?
So it’s wrong to accuse you of racism is it? What else should we call it when someone launchs a public attack on the Indian community? You say you don’t like being mentioned in the same sentence as the BNP and EDL, yet it’s their ilk who are cheering you on.
I am proud to call myself a resident of Southall, Mr Dennehy. How dare you – a New Zealand national – come to my country and start insulting my town. If you don’t like it here then go back to where you came from, and take your geeky grin with you. As the old saying goes “The boat goes both ways.”
April 13, 2012 at 7:23 pm
clintheine
Robin. This debate would be far more decent if you were not name calling and exaggerating don’t you think?
Mr Dennehy didn’t attack the Indian community, he attacked those within the community that were involved in the criminal activity that is hurting Southall. Big difference.
April 16, 2012 at 2:26 pm
David Sanderson
When are you going to learn that foreigners in this country are not only allowed but actively encouraged to criticise the British, they all live peacefully in this wonderful multi cultural experiment, it’s us nasty, racist, workshy, drug addled, benefit scrounging native Britons who are to blame for everything that is wrong with this country, I always believed in individualism but when I realised that a sizeable number of foreigners in this country actually don’t like us very much and stir up tensions for the minority that do respect our country and culture, I learned to take the decent migrants at face value and pity the anti British racists, say anything about any other race or nationality and you’re shot down in flames, we’re not afforded the same ‘equality’, just one of those things. Personally I think all Indians are equally brilliant people and that is meant most sincerely.
March 17, 2012 at 5:45 pm
Dirk Mersheimer
Ha ha this is like Sepp Blatter. I can’t be racist here’s a picture of me standing next to a black chap.
“I find your reference to me in the same sentence as the BNP and EDL extremely offensive!” < Well don't sound like them then!
March 18, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Jack Dees
Well it seems Mr. Dennehy’s party thinks it’s not perfectly above board or he wouldn’t have been suspended would he?
This I’m not a racist stuff is all a bit Pythonesque isn’t it. “I’m not Brian and neither is my wife”
March 19, 2012 at 8:05 am
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March 19, 2012 at 2:38 pm
rupahuq
Cllr Dennehy, thanks for your comment. You’re the lawyer but anyone can see from above that what you were accused of is possibly posting your anti-Indian comments hastily (after having a drink?) There is nothing about the incompatibility of you being married to who you are married to. Apologies if you and your wife were both upset by the post but it’s rather more worrying if you still stand by the inflammatory bits of your outburst because it suggests you wrote them meaning every word.
I noted your Saturday post
http://benjamindennehy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/dear-southall.html
and was wondering why after the Ealing Conservatives suspended you (disproving the idea that all the rank and file think the same way) you were giving their members room at the Town Hall as your correspondence address but like your old site http://www.benjamindennehy.com/blog/
it’s done a disappearing act.
Nice wedding pic though.
March 21, 2012 at 6:19 pm
clintheine
Having travelled throughout India with Councillor Dennehy for a few months I find it quite hilarious that anybody would accuse him of being even slightly “anti Indian” as you suggest. What is “anti Indian” when it’s a broad range of people that live within its borders; Hindus to Muslims, Gujarati to Goans – is he insulting everybody or are you using a loose (and lazy) brush to tar all immigrants from this country?
Two things that stick out to me in regards to your post. Do you believe that the behaviour of the criminal class in Southall is consistent with the beliefs of law abiding people from Asian countries? Do you believe that prostitution and violent crime that is prevalent in Southall is consistent with the beliefs of the same people I mentioned above? I think not. Why then are the community “leaders” in Southall not standing up like Councillor Dennehy has and spoken out loudly about the tremendous inconsistency of moral structure between their adopted country and their homeland? Why did Labour “representatives” in Southall attack Councillor Dennehy before looking at the newspapers that morning that reported the very same deeds he spoke of.
When you were last back home in Bangladesh would you even consider that the strong values of people there would ever be as accepting of the types of behaviour that is displayed by the criminal classes in Southall? I most certainly would not think so. While we were in India we were overcome by the deep felt sentiment of family, looking after others and low tolerance of crime against one another. We fell in love with the country and the people.
Why is it that the same day that Councillor Dennehy raised these points did the Ealing Gazette (amongst others) published not once, nor twice but several stories about the extremely high crime, illegal housing and anti social behaviour that is rampant in Southall – did you comment on their apparent “racism” or did you think it was easier to pick on a Tory for party political purposes? Are you inclined to call anybody that makes an emotional stand to be drunks?
April 13, 2012 at 7:28 pm
Robin Taylor
What a pathetic post from ‘Clintheine’. You ask Cllr Dennehy’s opponents to define what they mean when they say he is “anti-Indian” and then try a typical obfuscation tactic of talking about the different communities that make up India.
Of course Cllr Dennehy’s comments were “anti-Indian”. He used the term “Indian” and attacked that community, didn’t he? So perhaps you should ask him what he means by the term “Indian”.
Oh, and please don’t give me any rubbish about how he cannot be anti-Indian because he’s toured the country. What typical Powellite twaddle.
Your reference to the “criminal classes” of Southall shows that you are cut from the same cloth that he is. Tell me, where are these criminal classes? I have lived here for over twenty years and have never once been a victim of crime. Does that fact make you uneasy, Clintheine? Unappy about the fact that my circumstances do not conform to your malevolent agenda?
So you “fell in love with the country and people of India” did you? Yet you defend a public figure whose comments are likely to engender ill-feeling (and possibly even violence) towards people of Indian heritage resident in this country.
Shame on you.
April 13, 2012 at 7:44 pm
clintheine
What a nice fellow you must be.. Did you read the post by Mr Dennehy at all? Where was your outrage when the newspapers all reported the same criminal activity occurring in Southall that he bought up in his column or are you one of those types that waits a month after it occurred and then troll on web blogs looking for reaction.
Please desist with the name calling, it doesn’t make your argument any more convincing. I have no agenda, nor am even a Tory voter. The Indian community I fraternise with have great sympathy for Mr Dennehy. If you can’t see the problems in your community I suggest you get out and see for yourself. I’ll leave you to it. Bon Voyage!
April 16, 2012 at 12:14 am
Robin Taylor
How patronising. I actually live (and work) here and you do not. I “get out” in my community on a daily basis. Yes I did read his article. It’s funny how Conservative Central Office have deleted his blog and forced him out of the party if what he wrote was not racist in content.
Regarding your sarcastic remark about “What a nice fellow you must be”, do you hold that contemptuous attitude towards anyone who disagrees with Cllr Dennehy’s inflammatory comments?
His agenda is clear for all to see – as is yours.
April 16, 2012 at 2:16 pm
David Sanderson
Wow, this has opened up a can of worms, people should just stick to criticising the British, especially the white ones, we’re fair game for a bit of ‘positive discrimination’. Robin Taylor, please top telling immigrants to stop running this country down and go back home if they don’t like us or this country, it’s just not on to use such common sense.
April 16, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Concerned Kiwi Citizen
I do apologise David – but I was defending my friend in the UK who really very seriously didn’t mean to offend anybody – Indian, local or whoever. Realistically, he offended political types – which was probably his intent, as they are the ones who can (and should in my opinion) be doing something about the problems in Southall.
April 16, 2012 at 4:24 pm
David Sanderson
The Problems in Southall and many other parts of the UK could be rectified if we stopped referring to areas as ‘Indian’, ‘Muslim’, ‘Black’ etc and if migrants adapted to the culture of the country they live in rather than relying on pulling out race cards like a demented referee, I was in Denmark last year and we travelled over to Malmo, what I saw wasn’t nice, an entire area has become an urban ghetto, we have to stop promoting positive discrimination, surely it is patronising and actually quite racist, ironically enough.
For once, we could take a leaf out of America’s book, for all of the USA’s faults, immigrants retain their native culture whilst still identifying themselves with their host nation, the yanks aren’t averse to a bit of patriosm and flag waving but the Irish, Italian, Hispanic, Polish, African, Chinese etc communities preserve their own cultures and languages whilst adapting to the way of life of the country they emigrated to, American cities are just as multi cultural as London, Birmingham or Glasgow but it works a lot better over there, I’m not saying their system is perfect but in this country many white British people genuinely do feel marginalised, years of political correctness haven’t helped, talk of a common Indian identity is naive at best, it is one of the most religiously, lingustically, ethnically and above all socially mixed countries in the world.
I’ve criticised multi culturalism many times for the simple reason that if it is enforced, it leads to tensions, if the prevelant culture of a country is preserved and migrants retain their own culture whilst respecting their host nation’s, we’d all get along a lot better, a bit less pigeon holing, methinks.
April 16, 2012 at 6:29 pm
David Sanderson
If any problems in any country are caused by immigration, they most certainly do need addressing.
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April 16, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Robin Taylor
David Sanderson, who is backing up Cllr Dennehy’s outburst, says “The problems in Southall and many other parts of the UK could be rectified if we stopped referring to areas as Indian…”
Yet that is exactly what Cllr Dennehy did in his blog when he said this…
“It (Southall) is a largely Indian community…”
David Sanderson also says “many white British people genuinely do feel marginalised”. Well I am a Southall resident and I don’t feel marginalised, so why should you?
Also, what is all this about “political correctness”, Mr Sanderson? Being politically correct is about politeness. It means respecting difference and valuing diversity. Presumably you would like people to respect your identity, would you not? Well it’s a two-way process. You only get respect if you give it. I have lived in Southall for almost a quarter of a century and have been afforded nothing but politeness and friendship by the Indian people.
Please do not try and defend the indefensible, Mr Sanderson. Cllr Dennehy made a specific point of criticising the Indian community for something that all communities are guilty of. To quote his precise words…
“It is a largely Indian community who say they deplore this behaviour but yet it is that very same community that harbours and exploits their own people in squalid third world living conditions.”
Exactly the same could be said of a section of the English community who also exploit their own people with poor housing and low wages. As I mentioned in my letter to the Ealing Gazette a month ago, Cllr Dennehy’s party has never been interested in ending such exploitation when it’s been done by the white middle class.
The problem is when a supposedly responsible politician decides to make unfair generalisations of an apparently racial nature on the basis of the alleged bad behaviour of a few.
If I look out of my upstairs back window, I can see about eight to ten breezeblocks in neighbouring gardens. I happen to know that only two of them are occupied (the others are used to store things like gardening materials).
Incidentally, I see that the far right “British Resistance” website has been having a field day over Cllr Dennehy’s remarks. I hope he now appreciates the damage he has done to community relations as well as to his own political career.
April 18, 2012 at 1:53 pm
David Sanderson
You’re the first person who I have ever seen describe Political correctness as being polite. No doubt back in the 80′s you wore a CND badge and expected the Western countries to disarm first whilist condeming apartheid in South Africa, take a look around this cess pit of a country and we have ghettos populated by just about every minority in the world, go find your sandals and protest about that apartheid.
We all know the tories hate the working class, I grew up under Thatcherism and saw first hand how she decimated British industry, if you’re so hot on respect, let’s see immigrants respecting this country instead of us having to treat them with kid gloves in case we offend them by flying a St George or speaking English, God forbid anyone suggests that Multiculturalism might have not exactly worked as well as the sanctimonious bearded weirdos who imposed it upon us expected it to, but then again, these people have never lived on a council estate or in an inner city.
The British working class will always be the ones who suffer, Lab/Lib/Con, all cut from the same cloth.
Rant over.
April 18, 2012 at 2:08 pm
rupahuq
This post was written while Cllr Dennehy was suspended. He has since been *expelled* from the Conservative party and now sits as an independent councillor. New post penned accordingly.
Sent from my HTC
April 18, 2012 at 11:30 pm
Robin Taylor
Mr Sanderson, please don’t make assumptions about me when you have never met me. I did not “wear a CND badge and expect western counties to disarm first.” In fact, I was an active member of the SDP (a party which REJECTED the CND platform of unilateral nuclear disarmament).
Just because I do not like your bigotry that does not make me a raving leftie.
Further more, exactly who are these immigrants who are offended by us speaking English? I’ve never met them. In fact, most of the immigrants I know speak English a lot better than people of your ilk.
Tell me, Mr Sanderson. You rail against ‘multiculturalism’ but what will happen when you next need the medical help of the NHS? I had an ex-ray at Ealing Hospital today, and I saw that the staff members were drawn from all religions, cultures and ethnic ancestries. I bet you wouldn’t reject their help if you needed it! The number of elderly white people being pushed around on trollies by people of Asian or African origin was a sight to behold. Our NHS would collapse were it not for the contribution of migrants and their descendents.
Oh and by the way, I have a message for “Concerned Kiwi Citizen” who defends Cllr Dennehy’s attack on the Indian community’s alleged refusal to integrate and adopt our customs. Tell me, Concerned Kiwi Citizen, what efforts are you making to integrate with the Maoris (who are the indigenous people of New Zealand)? Adopting their customs and way of life are you?
April 19, 2012 at 9:23 am
Concerned Kiwi Citizen
Two things, Councillor Dennehy never alleged anything of the sort. He alleged that the crime in Southall is not being dealt with by the same people who would never condone it in their own country.
Unfortunately for you Robin, you know nothing about my allegience to my Tangata whenua here in NZ. You are an angry little man with too much time on your hands throwing insults at myself, Mr Sanderson and Councillor Dennehy.
As explained before, this is simply a party political attack by a man who uses ad hominem more than adding any substance to his debate. Good day to you.
April 19, 2012 at 9:36 am
rupahuq
Well… thanks, I guess, for all these comments, good to see that the original post generated some lively debate although the ensuing spat has far outweighed what I wrote in the beginning. Concerned Kiwi Citizen: if my post made you set up a wordpress platform blog then I suppose it acheived something. Would be interesting to see what appears there. Robin Taylor: good to hear your counter-arguments from the Southall end of things exposing the idiocy of the sacked councillor and cohorts. I’m sure Councillor Dennehy didn’t intend parting ways from the Conservative party over all this but it appears that this is what happened – at their instigation – which must say something about who the modern Tories want and do not want within their ranks.
April 19, 2012 at 10:09 am
Concerned Kiwi Citizen
Rupa, the question still begs, why didn’t you answer the questions above?
Do you believe the criminal behaviour in Southall is satisfactory and in line with the same moral code in India/Bangladesh/Pakistan?
Why are you not bashing the BBC?Ealing Gazette et al for their same reporting of the crime in Southall – is a junior Tory an easier target for you?
Indulging the rather ranty Robin Taylor shows you to be rather foolish in all this too, unless you prefer the use of absurd ad hominem to get a point across?
April 19, 2012 at 4:42 pm
David Sanderson
What you fail to understand is that a minority of the Indian community in Southall are not very nice people, the majority no doubt abide by the law and live their lives without making anyone elses quality of life any worse.
Robin Taylor is no doubt a deep down very nice but terribly misguided and possibly very nice person but like a lot of worringly obsessive types, he saw red (no pun intended) before slowly counting to 10 and letting elementary logic sink in, God knows, I’ve flown off the handle in my time but Robin takes it to new levels.
April 19, 2012 at 11:51 am
Ryan
I’ve lived in Ealing 15 years and wonder if this Councillor had been an Indian, would this even be an issue?
If the answers No, then surely we are being racist against non-indians (but british residents) to comment on another part of british (or their) society?
We are all british right? So if only certain parts of british society can comment on other parts we are discriminating against each other, so by default we can’t all be british because if we were we could all comment on anything equally within britain?
If we agree we are actually divided into racial groups and only that racial group can comment on bad things within it then we are living in an a apartheid state – not a multicultural one.
I don’t want to live in an apartheid state!
If the answer is yes he would still be racist – then god knows who can say what about anything!
I saw this blog. In my opinion he didn’t say anything that a lot of people in Ealing don’t agree with. I think the fact he said ‘the indian community’ as opposed to ‘some of the indian community’ has started all this nonesense.
What he said wasn’t racist and moreso if you put the word ‘some’ before it, and anyone who thinks it is racist is an idiot. If I said ‘britain has a binge drinking problem’ am I saying everyone in britain binge drinks? No.
This all seems a storm in a teacup.
On the one had Southall brags about being an indian community and on the other condemns anyone that lumps then together as a community.
I saw the BBC doco in the “Our World” series all about Southall. If you watch it you will see an interview 10 minutes into the program with two Punjab men trapped in a shed, no money, no jobs and no hope. Very saddening to see.They tell the BBC reporter that they can handle the poverty and hardship but what they find the hardest was, and I quote “being exploited by their own people”. They said they believed that they would be helped because Southall was known back in India as being a great Punjab commmunity. They said they are too ashamed to tell family how they are being treated because no-one would believe them.
I suspect if cllr denehy had been an Indian he would have been villified for raising this issue just as much. It’s a human tragedy what is happening to those people and I am amazed it is just being ignored and anyone who raises it gets attacked. This has nothing to do with race but pure politics in my opinion. It’s an issue that no-one wants to tackle so anyone who challenges it has to be shut down, be they Tory, Labour, white or Indian.
England is a mad place, we’re all supposed to be British but we are so segregated into ethnic communities that no-one dare talk about the other. I was born here and am so disappointed at how divided we have become as a nation. For instance, we have the Black police Officers Association, we have the Asian Police officers Association – why? Aren’t they all police and all part of the same Police body? You can’t insist on everyone dividing themselves up into groups and then attack one group for pointing out a problem or issue in another group! Southall is known for being Indian, Brixton Black, Kensington White.
We either have no groups or groups. I would prefer no groups. We should have mandatory quotas for every neighbourhood. Every neighbourhood has an ethnic proportion of residents reflective of their total in the UK. That way we are all equal. Southall would cease to exist, so too would Nottinghill. No ghettos, ethnic lumpning, class based lumping or pockets of wealth. Perfect soultion. It sounds socialist and it is, that’s why it won’t work. It’s a nice idea but unworkable.
Robin Taylor – my god you are a horrible, vitriolic, angry person! You have said more hateful and racist things than anyone on this blog. I was gob smacked that you were calling this councillor a racist and then said this;
“How dare you – a New Zealand national – come to my country and start insulting my town. If you don’t like it here then go back to where you came from, and take your geeky grin with you. As the old saying goes “The boat goes both ways.”
OMG – had that couuncllor told Indians to go home he would have been arrested I suspect!!
You are a RACIST and proved it with that comment. You hate anyone that doesn’t agree with your opinion, a bit like Hitler.
I googled your name. Seems you are a known ranting man around ealing, a true hard core socialist apparatchik.. Shame on you for using a simple blog to espouse your divisive opinions on society and muster up votes for your left wing agenda.
Rupa, – I used to think you had good sense but you seem to have exploited this issue for personal politcal gain. Siding with Robin the racist doesn’t help your political cause.
Will you be speaking out against the plight of these trapped people in Southall? I hope you do. But be warned, you may become a target by the left and centre if you do. But should you, ordinary people of all race and class will respect you.
This is my only contribution to this ranting. Peace and Love to all.
April 19, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Concerned Kiwi Citizen
Thank you for injecting sensibility into this discussion Ryan. I too did a Google search on Robin Taylor and it shows how much Rupa is clutching at straws that she agrees with this man. This was plain and simple a political attack, designed to attack the councillor, the party and lead to hopeful (wishful) momentum to the mayoral campaign.
Bad news. It’s fail on all three occasions. This little bit of drama has washed on by, the storm has settled and things are just the way they were before – except Southall is still being ignored by others – just the way Labour wants it. Otherwise they wouldn’t have made such a fuss over the Councillors comments.
I’m with Ryan, I’m over it. Rupa and Robin can go build a bridge somewhere, I’m off.
April 19, 2012 at 4:35 pm
David Sanderson
So basically if Mr Dennehy expressed concerns about the behaviour and scruples of some Indians whilst making it clear that the sizeable majority of Indians are decent, law abiding people as are most Britons and I’m sure most New Zealanders then his words wouldn’t have been blown up out of all proportion? I don’t know the guy but I’ll hazard a guess that he isn’t a racist, I’ll stick my neck on the line and say he believes there are decent and not so decent native British people and I’ll guess that he believes that a minority of Kiwis in UK might give their country a bad name but the majority are probably decent enough people who just go about their daily lives without offending or upsetting anyone. Robin really has gone off on one here but I’m sure even he will admit that what I have just said may have made a bit of sense, it seems that once he gets his teeth into something, he’s like a dog with a bone, I’m resisting the temptation to google him as what I have seen on this blog alone is enough to be going on with and I’d hate to have him think I’m yet another of his stalkers .
April 19, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Robin Taylor
In reply to Ryan the Racist:
So you’ve googled my name, have you? Is stalking people your pasttime?
You really are so funny. You’ve just had a good racist rant against Southall, you’ve got it all off your chest, and yet in the same breath you claim that people like you are not allowed to express their opinions.
Tell me something, Ryan. If, as you say, I am the racist, then why is it that Cllr Dennehy’s comments are being applauded by far right websites (as well as by you)? Got an answer to that one, have you?
On second thoughts, don’t bother replying. I will continue loving the town in which I have chosen to live and you can continue wringing your hands about how terrible the Southall community is.
It is no longer worth debating with you and the other Tory racists on here for reasons that were once beautifully summed up by Mark Twain:-
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
Adios.
April 19, 2012 at 2:01 pm
David Sanderson
Lot of anger there Rob, Calm down and have a nice cup of non corporate, non political, yeah right on lentil soup otherwise you might get over excited and some nice hospital porter might have to push you to the ‘ex ray’ (sic) clinic. Don’t you have anything more constructive to do? There must be a worthy trendy cause you can latch onto, basket weaving perhaps or you could hug a few trees to unleash some of that nervous energy, don’t worry mate, I won’t google you, I am aware that there are anti stalking laws in this country, I am expecting a visit from plod any day now, given the number of times I’ve googled hotmail. Good day to you, do please try to chill out a bit though.
April 22, 2012 at 3:02 pm
Manria
You seem pretty full of hate yourself. So glad I have anti discrimination laws to protect me from people like Mr Sanderson
April 20, 2012 at 10:54 am
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April 23, 2012 at 10:19 am
David Sanderson
Just got to say this, Rupa Huq is not bad looking at all, there must be a law against me saying that but whatever, anyway Manria are you saying I’m full of hatred? If so, burst that bubble.
April 23, 2012 at 10:26 am
David Sanderson
Manria, if you saw a comment ‘The British/Indian/Kiwis/blacks/Muslims’ are the laziest race in the world’ what would you do?
I abhor racism, I am working hard to publicise a comment ‘The British are the laziest race in the world’, making faux amis and being laughed at but as long as anti British racism exists, I will resisit it, the racist who made that comment knows who he is and I make no apologies for reposting it where appropriate.
We can only believe in equality if it applies to everyone.