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Originally Posted by Less
BULLSHINE, no different to unions? Of course it is, I could join a union, become a leader put the country on one track or the other.
I could not however become an Asian Community Leader, no one would vote for me I'm the wrong race, however that wouldn't come into play, they aren't voted in like union bosses.
That to me is what's wrong, your kind bleat on about what is democratic but won't honestly answer a question about race and people taking advantage which is just as wrong as racialism.
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Well there's the nub isn't it. You believe you've been taken advantage of by the Asian community. I don't know you, I don't know your history, all I can tell you is that if its true its not because of anything they did but because they have something that we, the indigenous folk, for want of a way of putting it, threw away.
Community cohesion, that's what they still have that we don't. They attend their mosques and communal centres and they listen to the imam, they mingle in the street and visit each others houses and talk to one another just as we once did but no longer do. So unlike us they can come to a consensus as a community. So when some MP or councillor wants their votes they see the imam and offer something in return for the support they need. And if they don't deliver they are held to account.
We on the other hand get a leaflet through the door full of promises that we wont hold them accountable for because come the next election most of us will have forgotten any promises made and broken if we even bothered to read it. Because we are isolated, insular, don't attend our churches, no longer have our unions, don't even know our neighbours.
Its probably not what you want to hear Less but that's the dynamic that's been at play for decades. So its no good blaming them for succeeding. Its not them that's taken anything away from us. Its our own apathy and political complacency that's done that.