Posted on 03/31/2015 5:12:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BOSTON, England - Boston is a typical English town — ancient church, traditional shops, Polish supermarkets, Baltic bakeries. Amid the bargain-hunting crowds on market day, eastern European languages are almost as common as the local Lincolnshire accent.
Immigration has transformed Boston in the last decade. At least one in eight residents comes from eastern Europe, and the population is growing at double the national rate.
"I think there are a few too many of the foreign brigade here at the moment," said butcher Nigel Lote. His customers come almost exclusively from the long-settled English population of Boston, a town of about 65,000 that gave its name and its Pilgrim heritage to the Massachusetts city.
"It's getting to the stage where there's them and us," he said. "We don't mingle."
A short walk away is West Street, a once-declining commercial strip now lined with grocery stores, delis and information centers for the eastern European community. Shelves are packed with pickled vegetables and canned fish. Notices advertise rooms to rent, used cars and agricultural jobs in the fields around Boston.
Karolina Mediancevaite, serving customers in a Lithuanian bakery, paused when asked if the locals are friendly.
"Some," she said. "It would be better if they talked to you and not look at you like 'You are not from this country.'"
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I would think that an English town with an Eastern European contingent is a far better place than if it were overrun with muzzies.
IIRC, those Poles, Czechs, & Balts don’t have much patience with the beard & burka crowd.
They bring up the Poles, leave out the bigger threat.
Rotherham child abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited, report finds
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089
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It's WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too late for that!
All animals demonstrate “unease” when they are being systematically slaughtered. It’s normal.
Welcome to your own personal genocide.
Maybe they were happier when it was all English. Maybe they don't want it overrun with anybody. Maybe they were never asked if they wanted immigrants, or given a chance to vote on it. Kinda sounds familiar.
It all started when the British began to think of themselves as “European”. They clamored for inclusion into the EEC when Charles de Gaulle vehemently opposed it.
Eurovision Song Contest, transnational soccer meets, all the rest of it. Oh, and don’t forget the Chunnel, which was originally Napoleon’s idea.
Whatever became of “this scepter’d isle, this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England”? What became of Times of London headlines like “Fog in Channel, Continent Cut Off”?
But a Europeanized Britain would still be vastly preferable to an Islamicized one.
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