[Margaret Pilkington]

I say it as I see it Monkey Hanger.
I stand by every word I have posted.

I know people who trained with me who have patches in areas of Burnley and Nelson...these lasses are there to promote child health and well being, they go out to see pregnant women and visit new mums, yet they are intimidated by young Muslim males as they go about their work.
Their work is to ensure that the women in their community are looked after.
That cannot be right.
The police do nothing, (other than have a word with the imam)because they do not want to appear racist.

I have never felt so despairing of the way this country is heading.
I do not like the words I have posted. I am not racially prejudiced, I have worked alongside all races and creeds during my career.
I have spent almost 30 years of my life looking after women from these communities and rarely felt in danger.
Now I hate to go to Blackburn and other local towns because there are so many of these people about and I do not trust them anymore.
My feelings have been fostered by their attitudes to our way of life.
No one forces them to come here...no one forces them to stay.
I assume that they came for the freedoms this country affords, the tolerance.
Tolerance is a two way street...so far I can only see it going one way.