What I find unacceptable is , because I live in what was a highly industrialised city , it attracts incomers.
I believe it began with the Industrial revolution .. poorly paid agricultural workers moved to the cities for a better paid lifestyle . Theres many Brummies trace their families to places like Chipping Camden ...rural Warwickshire etc .
When I was a child 70% of our teachers would have been Welsh I reckon , not so many Scots ...but millions of Irish in Brum . Everywhere I ever worked , every factory , building site , players at Aston Villa were Irish . I never experienced racism , no one thought all those Welsh teachers should sod off back , never heard anything of the kind .
And I have heard a million times , in a race discussion , or specially after the B,ham Pub Bombings when a small percent of Irish had taken to running down England at every opportunity.......... the Irish guys I was talking to always said they would never run down England ...they had found employment here when they had no future back home , they had been welcomed here ...they had raised their families here ...many served in the British forces .
Nothing was quite the same after that November night 1974..but thats where terrorists win ..with one dramatic action they cause a massive sea change in public opinion . Same with the Muzzies after 9/11 .
I believe it began with the Industrial revolution .. poorly paid agricultural workers moved to the cities for a better paid lifestyle . Theres many Brummies trace their families to places like Chipping Camden ...rural Warwickshire etc .
When I was a child 70% of our teachers would have been Welsh I reckon , not so many Scots ...but millions of Irish in Brum . Everywhere I ever worked , every factory , building site , players at Aston Villa were Irish . I never experienced racism , no one thought all those Welsh teachers should sod off back , never heard anything of the kind .
And I have heard a million times , in a race discussion , or specially after the B,ham Pub Bombings when a small percent of Irish had taken to running down England at every opportunity.......... the Irish guys I was talking to always said they would never run down England ...they had found employment here when they had no future back home , they had been welcomed here ...they had raised their families here ...many served in the British forces .
Nothing was quite the same after that November night 1974..but thats where terrorists win ..with one dramatic action they cause a massive sea change in public opinion . Same with the Muzzies after 9/11 .
