[Politics] Protests/rioting in lots of places

[Bakero]

Brighton is fairly white but this isn't an anomaly. The UK is fairly white.

Nationwide, 81% of people are white. In Brighton, it's 84%.

Bristol: 81%
Leeds: 80%
Middlesbrough 82%
Newcastle: 80%
Liverpool: 84%
Sheffield: 88%

 

[Machiavelli]

My original post was well intended and I do accept that 'champagne socialists' perhaps was not the best turn of phrase to use. I was just attempting to explore a different angle. Identity for me, comes from the sense of belonging and the feeling of connection with your community. I feel a strong connection with Brighton, not just because it's my hometown but because of its LGBT openesss and acceptance. Thats personal to me of course and wont be the same for everyone.

Now, say for argument sake, this was challenged or changed due to a changing demographic of the city, would I feel my connection or belonging to my home town lost...?

I don't know...maybe, maybe not. I personally feel it's not a bad thing to explore these feelings in an attempt to understand wider issues.

Anyways, apologise for getting you cross!

Fair play. FWIW, I arrived in Brighton (well, Hove actually -- but that didn't last that long) in 2002 from Stockwell. I was shocked at how white my new home was. That said, the profile of students that make up c10% of the city has changed in the interim and there are definitely more from diverse parts of the world and heritages, but there's a long way to go before it approaches the profile of other cities and large towns in other parts of the country.
And in terms of the champagne socialist, given that you're intelligent, what's really so wrong with drinking champagne AND being a socialist? I say this as a radical democrat who likes champagne but rarely drinks it because I'd rather drink Burgundy, Riesling, Barolo, claret, Xinomavro or Chianti.
#burgundyswillingradicaldemocrats

 

[Nobby]

This is definitely a valid point. It is easy to sneer at people who live in some dump of a town that immigration really has had a big effect on a thick racists, but if Sussex had been massively affected by it, I do think a lot of people here might think differently about it. And Brighton is definitely a bit of a bubble, with residents that think it is a multi-cultural melting-pot because it is a tolerant left wing city, but it isn't really, it's a very white place.

Yes but the prat who has wound everyone up lives in Feckin Sydney

 

[jcdenton08]

What a silly woman. f***ing up her life to protect her moron son. sentence is appropriate.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Yes but the prat who has wound everyone up lives in Feckin Sydney

He really should be bragging more about the multi-culturalism there rather than showing off about how he has private healthcare and sent his kids to private school.

Population of Sydney: Country of birth (2021)

Birthplace[N 1]	Population
Australia	2,970,737
Mainland China	238,316
India	187,810
England	153,052
Vietnam	93,778
Philippines	91,339
New Zealand	85,493
Lebanon	61,620
Nepal	59,055
Iraq	52,604
South Korea	50,702
Hong Kong SAR	46,182
South Africa	39,564
Italy	38,762
Indonesia	35,413
Malaysia	35,002
Fiji	34,197
Pakistan	31,025

 

[sydney]

You're sort of proving my point , Sydney and Melbourne are far more diverse than many English towns.