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To quote the lefty academic who did research into 'white flight' from London four years ago.

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'This does not make ethnicity irrelevant. Ethnic minorities haven’t fully caught the white British fever for the countryside. Between 1971 and 2011, London minorities lost only about a quarter as many as the white British to the rest of the UK while gaining immensely from international migration. Minority reluctance to flee seems to be linked to discomfort at being ethnic pioneers. Data shows that groups like pakistanis and Afro-Caribbeans are leaving their ethnic concentrations, but, compared to whites moving from the same areas, are more reluctant to enter overwhelmingly white areas. Since new pockets of relative diversity such as Woking or Watford have opened up outside London, the share of minorities leaving the city has taken off, doubling in each of the past two decades.

White British, on the other hand, tread migration paths to rural and coastal idylls first romanticised in the nineteenth century. They may move in chains of family and friends, as with the Cockney migration from East London to Essex following slum clearances in London’s old East End. The challenge for integration is not ethnic self-segregation but the fact minorities are notably less keen than whites on moving to places which are over 90 per cent white – i.e. the majority of England and Wales. Meanwhile the continuing depopulation of white British people from dense, deprived, and therefore diverse, urban Britain leaves behind an ever more diverse population. This is not because they dislike minorities – whites moving out are more tolerant than stayers. However, as friends and family leave and few enter, favoured amenities disappear and a spiral may begin which is difficult to arrest.'

A question to people on here talking about those knobs pictured making salutes at the Tommy march...

'FA condemns England fans' anti-Semitic chants' [Link]

So does that mean all England fans are anti-Semitic and/or racist? Or the players and FA?

Edited by Penge Eagle (20 Jun 2018 9.17pm)

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To quote the lefty academic who did research into 'white flight' from London four years ago.

[Link]

'This does not make ethnicity irrelevant. Ethnic minorities haven’t fully caught the white British fever for the countryside. Between 1971 and 2011, London minorities lost only about a quarter as many as the white British to the rest of the UK while gaining immensely from international migration. Minority reluctance to flee seems to be linked to discomfort at being ethnic pioneers. Data shows that groups like pakistanis and Afro-Caribbeans are leaving their ethnic concentrations, but, compared to whites moving from the same areas, are more reluctant to enter overwhelmingly white areas. Since new pockets of relative diversity such as Woking or Watford have opened up outside London, the share of minorities leaving the city has taken off, doubling in each of the past two decades.

White British, on the other hand, tread migration paths to rural and coastal idylls first romanticised in the nineteenth century. They may move in chains of family and friends, as with the Cockney migration from East London to Essex following slum clearances in London’s old East End. The challenge for integration is not ethnic self-segregation but the fact minorities are notably less keen than whites on moving to places which are over 90 per cent white – i.e. the majority of England and Wales. Meanwhile the continuing depopulation of white British people from dense, deprived, and therefore diverse, urban Britain leaves behind an ever more diverse population. This is not because they dislike minorities – whites moving out are more tolerant than stayers. However, as friends and family leave and few enter, favoured amenities disappear and a spiral may begin which is difficult to arrest.'

My parents did the same at the same time from neighbouring Clapham, taking us with them. What a complete and utter f*** up that was. Same as your family leaving Stockwell. We’d both be minted beyond belief now and so posh we coukdn’t give a f*** about what is going on outside of our socialite bubbles. White flight certainly buggered my inheritance right up. I remind the old sods about it every time I see them too.