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@sandy_brighton @vicsinghb Thx hopefully you can see its why we want to be left alone by nanny state & m/c intellectuals contemptuous what we about & wrongly seeing nationalistic/community/cultural defence=racism. Quite contrary. Be real trouble if they try to ban/tax meat same goes for @conservatives

@sandy_brighton @vicsinghb @Conservatives And while I am working class dragged up on council estate, I soon became Arts & Ents officer my Uni site and a thorn in side Labour Union mafia; and I fought tooth and nail to get public entry to Uni events so I could see what hypocrite elitists they really were: all busy getting

@sandy_brighton @vicsinghb @Conservatives buildings named after Nelson Mandela & supporting IRA, while wetting themselves when load of black rude boys turn up to a college Mod night, and loads of older Irish folk at a racing night. I studied via anthropology re youth culture & indigenous people btw usurping the sociology

@sandy_brighton @vicsinghb @Conservatives element of my course. So used participant observation techniques. I guess you could say I went native; easy for me given my origins as I have explained actually very diverse working class cultural experience anyway was playing kabadi & bicycle polo at 7. We were eating Indian &

@sandy_brighton @vicsinghb @Conservatives West Indian food and playing & working with diverse communities 50 yrs ago now Labour who have nothing to do but patronize them, call us racists? Go figure. And the link between upper class & working class culturally was always there too still is: you should have been in the

@sandy_brighton @vicsinghb @Conservatives bookies in Notting Hill when Denman won the Hennessy Gold Cup (& every man dog in there knows the link with Barber cheese too), or Sri Lanka won the cricket. If I could have videoed those things, Labour would know exactly how out of touch they are with British AND ethnic cultures

@sandy_brighton @vicsinghb @Conservatives sharing same passions. Its white middle class hipsters voting Labour in London. The Afghan & Pakistani wholesalers hate Khan, as do West Indian van drivers (Ulez) & Somali Uber drivers, and Eastern European bar/retail staff. They all liked Trump (esp as he stopped warmongering)🤣

@sandy_brighton @vicsinghb @Conservatives As for the older indigenous white working class many feel their London has been destroyed: failure of Labour to protect greyhound racing and speedways for eg while places like Walthamstow get influx of hipsters yet the place has lost its soul has left a sour taste. So Khan only

@sandy_brighton @vicsinghb @Conservatives just scraped it this time; and last time only had such a big majority because Goldsmith is such an utter green tosser.

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