Calling the faithfull I believe , Apprentice .
I despair to be honest , how can governments of all types justify saying that mass immigration is "a good thing and brings prosperity" and then ..as all the huge factories and employers disapeared one by one , we stopped making cars & everything else........they allowed , over a 20 year period , this city (and many others) to be swamped by immigration .
And as all those employers have gone , where does the government imagine all these wonderful , prosperity bringing immigrants actually work & where does their , now , two new generations also work ?
What a bleedin' situation ... thousands of immigrants drawing benefits funded by whom ? :C
Two generations now, of white , unskilled , pasty faced English who have lost the will to work or look after their own futures, fuelled only by weed, fags , cheap lager , daytime telly & child benefits .
Havn't even got the gumption to start a car cleaning site , drive a mini-cab or open a chippy .
The area Apprentice has mentioned , once had dozens & dozens of buses lining up at clocking off times as did many other parts of the city , Fort Dunlop, for the tyre workers , The Cincinatti Machine Tool site ...Austin/Rover at Longbridge... Morris Commercial Vans and Metro -Cammel Rail Carriage Works at Washwood Heath ....the Stuarts & Lloyds Steel Works ..and the old Rootes Group , Hillman , Humber , Sunbeam etc cars ...Triumph Motors on the Covo Road ................................how can you loose all these companies AND swamp the city at the same time AND remain economic ?
We let it all slip away , starting with the Motor Cycle industry , many made in the Birmingham , BSA , Triumph, Velocette , James, Ariel , Norton . The Japanese came with a much more attractive product & blew it all away.