Labour Party Conference

and?

Yes.

Sorry Fennel, I'm not sure what point you are trying to make?
There are immigrants from different countries and they have their own shops and take aways?

ps thankyou Lemongrove for explaining.

Old Batty - believe it or not, it's true. Each group has its own grocery shop and most have their own food take-away.
I must say it's difficult to understand how Turks and Kurds can exist so close together.

I don’t think any real killing was intended Granny23

As Scotland is part of the UK it’s only natural that Labour wants to recapture the votes there.
A lost cause probably though.
Perhaps Lavery should attempt to go back in time ‘through the stones’ and thereby prevent the Culloden of the Labour Party in Scotland ( cue bagpipes and celebrations.)

Speaking at the Scots night at Labour conference in Liverpool on Monday, party chairman Ian Lavery told delegates: “We need to kill off the nationalists in Scotland and regain that great country.”

To which the response has to be - 'You and what army?'

I wonder who the WE is in his statement and how THEY intend to kill off around 50% of the Scottish population? It is quite obvious that THEY regard Scotland as the last colony of Lesser Britain and are only interested in Scotland when there is an election and they need a large block of Labour MPs from Scotland to have any chance of forming a Government at Westminster.

At a fringe meeting last night there was a call for a national strike, much cheering and applause.

Please Don’t twist what I’m sure you know I meant OldMeg just to look clever. I was referring to how all political parties look after OUR rf, but of course you knew that anyway.

What on earth has politics to do with the royals?

gilly ask the Romanovs! Do you seriously not know that?

*Kurds,Turks, Roumanians, Poles, Hungarians etc plus some from Africa.
They stick together in their own national groups, seem downtrodden but surviving*

Who are we discussing now?
Eastern Europeans/Turks/Roma/Gypsies/Africans ( what ever that might be)

And as for your advice to calm down, well words fail.

oldbatty calm down, in fact Fennel said ‘ they stick together in their own National groups’ not one group.
There is no need to be insulting because you didn’t read a post properly.

Poland is not East European.

For Gods Sake Roma, Gypsies, Eastern European, Kurds, Turks....cannot be all put in one category. oh and plus some from Africa????

They stick together in one group.

How stupid are you?

The Romani (also spelled Romany /ˈroʊməni/, /ˈrɒ-/), colloquially known as Gypsies or Roma, are a traditionally itinerant ethnic group living mostly in Europe and the Americas and originating from the northern Indian subcontinent, from the Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Sindh regions of modern-day India and Pakistan

I don’t quite see the Roumanian/“Roma” correlation you refer to Fennel
Am I missing something? .

She should borrow Corbyn’s calculator

youtu.be/svqpPHDaSaU

Is it too much to ask that the would be next Home Secretary Dianne Abbott could get it right when referring to 999 calls. Twice in her speech she referred to them as '99 calls'
She never was very good at numbers, was she?

Fennel
Look up Roma villages in Romania, it might give you a clue.

What on earth has politics got to do with the royals ? Seriously oldmeg don’t all parties suck up to the rf?

I was a fully paid up member of the LP until I had my eyes opened and now I think they are all just about the same. Out for themselves. I have had a small business for over 25 years. In JC’s eyes we are all greedy rich fat cats . He should try spending a week in mine and my DH’s shoes. Idiot that he is.

I've just started reading this, having been offline for the last 2 days.
Just to say that we are in a NE town, next to the area where there are many east european immigrants -Kurds,Turks, Roumanians, Poles, Hungarians etc plus some from Africa.
They stick together in their own national groups, seem downtrodden but surviving.
I would love to know why they want to be here?
I asked one Roumanian (or Roma) and he couldn't say.

Lemon
As you can see I'm much more informed now

Petra

Several years ago I was invited to attend a gipsy king’s funeral. He was born just outside this town and wanted to be buried where he was born. Every year some Gypsies use to pass through the town on their to Herefordshire for fruit and hop picking. They came here for potato licking. The women would call st houses to sell their lace, lavender bags etc and their lucky charms. I became very friendly with one lady, Daisy, she called several times a year, I kept a tin of larger in the fridge for her, she would only come into the hall and sit on the stairs , would not come into the living room, anyway she and her husband asked me to attend the funeral, it was an experience, I was so blessed to be present, the Church was packed with people not from the town, after the service and burial we went to the field where his caravan was stationed, it was the same farm where he was born , they set fire to his caravan , waited silently for the flames to die then they left.

as I said, Roma, Gypsies, Eastern Europeans and Albanians are not one interchangeable mass.

muffin It sounds like an uphill struggle finding her work!
Yes, sadly there are some unemployable people, but you have probably done all you can. You certainly have your hands full at the moment, congratulations on the new baby!