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people washing windows at traffic lights
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For about the past year, at some traffic lights not far from my home, there are regularly a gang of people who wash car windows. They look like they may be Romanian or from somewhere near there. When the lights turn red, they approach cars and start to wash them, expecting money in return. Nobody likes it and it's really annoying, why can't the police do something about it?
I have seen it before in London lots of times.
I understand that they need money, we all do, but if they are asylum seekers then the system should be providing for them, they don't need to be hassling people like this.
I have seen it before in London lots of times.
I understand that they need money, we all do, but if they are asylum seekers then the system should be providing for them, they don't need to be hassling people like this.
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YOU try to live on that money.
But I could be wrong of course. Who would want to have a job and earn a decent living when the State pays you the grand sum of £37.50 a week and then you can earn a few extra quid washing windscreens in the cold? Hell, I'm quitting my job today and becoming a sponger, so good it sounds.
I don't hate them, I feel sorry for them, they are all women and children, who should be at school, not washing windows and being verbally abused by motorists. However, they are a nuisance.
I have lived on £32 a week before, when I was 17 and got JSA, which is £10 less than standard JSA because I was not yet 18. It was not fun but it is enough to survive on.
Like what - Bulgaria or The ukrain or Germany, or Slovakia or Macedonia, or Hungaria, or Austria, ......?
What does a Romanian look like?
The kids who wash windows near my house are from Spoltt - thats a suburb of Cardiff. It's possible they are Welsh.
Tell me Ladymuck, do you think culture and background should determine whether somone can have a job? So that means that the State/employers should be able to stop people from having jobs because their culture and background are not adecuate?
Does this mean we can ban all narrow-minded, S*n-reading, ignorant racists from working? Excellent! Where do I sign?
It should determine whether somone enters the Uk and on what basis, the reputation of Roma gypsies is not a good one, fore-warned should mean fore-armed in a sensibly well-run country.
Some Roma people can be a big nuisance, I had a woman knock on my door with all her children who were begging for money, they kept pulling on my sleeves and saying "please please". I felt sorry for her and all other people who feel they need to go to those lengths, but I don't think they need to do this.
The system does provide for people, not great luxuries, but enough to live on, and I don't think it is fair for ordinary people to be targeted for more money.
Anybody ever whispered in your ear that you're prone to exaggeration?
You can't actually deny if you live in London or a big city that there are quite a lot of Roma people who beg, especially with children, or agressively, or who wash windows. Maybe this is acceptable in their culture and that is why they do it but there should be education to help them and explain that it is not here.
There was a 17 year old Romanian girl in court recently in Birmingham, proscuted for aggressive begging, she was always by the markets and had only one leg.
She was found guilty, but said she had a child she wanted to provide for, the judge gave her a conditional discharge. That is really sad to me, but if she could get education she could provide for her child without begging.
Ladymuck if you are going to make comments like this perhaps some evidence to support them would help? I'm sure a lot of peole, no more so than the Roma gypsies would disagree with your assumption.
Perhaps not pigeonholing entire races into the same category might help to avoid the racism that seems to be creeping into your posts.
Never said they would!! I said perhaps the ones in Splott are Welsh. All I'm saying id how can you tell where someone is from because of how they look!!?
Come on, you CAN tell where someone is from looking, or at least make an educated assumption, open your eyes. You can see the colour of their skin, their clothes, the language they speak, etc. You can see a man with brown skin and a turban and make a fair assumption that his family originate from India. Or a black girl wearing traditional Muslim clothes is probably Somali. etc etc etc.
If you live in a very mixed multicultural area, it becomes pretty easy to identify where most people come from.
There are people in Leicester walking around who come from Kenya and they look as normal as the next person. Then there are British sikh/muslim women who have their headscarfs/dress and you would assume they come from abroad.
I've learnt not to jump to assumptions on the way someone looks, because 9 out of 10 times you're wrong. To prove this point further - one of my good friends at school is white, and speaks perfect Enlgish. You'd think he's English, or British. He's actually from Saudi Arabia but you would NEVER guess!
You're a nasty piece of work aren't you?
What do you expect from a BNP troll?
No it doesn't. Are you suggesting that if you see someone who is black then you know 'where they come from'?
Isn't there a very famous example of a US interviewer asking Nelson mandella what it was like being a famouse Afro-American!!!
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:rolleyes:
you may not think you are racist but if you make judgements about people based upon their looks/colour then you are being racist.
It's not an educated assuption it's a racist assumption
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That's on top of what I've observed first hand and what a few Romanian aquaintances have endorsed. No other ethnic group in the UK goes in for organised begging as they do
Well if that's so, then so is the BBC News Editor + reporter who went directly to Slovakia to interview....Roma gypsies. Maybe that Brixton bed-sit isn't the best platform on the World.
APART FROM THE THOUSANDS OF BRITISH PEOPLE WHO DO!!!
Obviously the BBC is not interviewing Roma people often enough, judging by the persisting ignorance, prejudice and disgusting racism displayed towards them.
Asylum seekers have no right to live benefits unless they have contributed something to the "kitty" so the government should create grandiose schemes to provide work for them at a fair wage (at least double what it is now) and give them decent accomodation.
Maybe they can be paid to build affordable home "new towns" for themselves and those who cannot afford house prices.
Assimilate them, don't ostracise them.
The point of the interview was to flesh out the expressed intent of some Roma, one family a deported failed Asylum seeker family who'd lived in Deptford (and they wanted to return:eek: ). This raises concerns Europe-wide (hence restrictions) and once again UK is the fall-guy
Oh give it a rest I'm pretty sure that Princess Rosa isn't racist and that everyone makes assumptions, including you.