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14-11-2013, 05:21 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/nick-clegg/10449064/Nick-Clegg-intimidating-and-offensive-Roma-migrants-must-be-sensitive-to-British-way-of-life.html
Nick Clegg: 'intimidating' and 'offensive' Roma migrants must be sensitive to British way of life
The deputy Prime Minisiter responds to reports of tensions between Roma migrants and other communities near his constituency in Sheffield
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Roma communities must avoid “intimidating” local residents and be “sensitive to the way that life is lived in this country,” Nick Clegg has said.
The deputy Prime Minister described tensions between Roma immigrants and established communities in Slough and Sheffield as a “real dilemma” adding that people find some of their behaviour “offensive” and “difficult to accept.”
This week David Blunkett, who is the MP for the neighbouring constituency to Nick Clegg in Sheffield, warned that tensions between local people in the Page Hill area and Roma migrants to escalate into rioting unless action was taken to improve integration.
The former home secretary said he fears a repeat of race riots that hit northern cities in 2001.
Nick Clegg also raised Mr Blunkett’s concerns about “large numbers of people hanging around outside in streets” in areas of Sheffield. Adding that those Roma “intimidating” local residents “listen to what to the people in the community have to say.”
Speaking on LBC Radio’s regular Call Clegg slot he said: “There is a real dilemma… when you get communities coming into a part of our country and they behave in a way that people find quite difficult to accept, and they behave in a way that people find sometimes intimidating, sometimes offensive I think its quite right that we should say… if you are going to come and live here and you are bringing up a family here you’ve got to be sensitive to the way that life is lived in this country.”
In an interview with BBC on Monday David Blunkett said: "We have got to change the behaviour and the culture of the incoming community, the Roma community, because there's going to be an explosion otherwise. We all know that."
"If everything exploded, if things went really wrong, the community would obviously be devastated. We saw this in Bradford, Burnley and Oldham all those years ago when I first became home secretary. We saw that the community itself were the losers."
Oooooh isn't this strange, David Blunket - then Jack Straw and now Nick Clegg. Imagine if Nigel Farage had said things like this, he'd be hauled in on BBC News and would be asked why he is 'stoking fears' or 'whipping up fear and hatred' etc etc and all the usual rubbish we hear when immigration is debated.
But there you have it again. Clegg is right though, but not that he will do anything about it - the man loves the European Union and he and his party love immigration. This to me seems like a damage limitation exercise because when the borders open in January 2014 and the numbers start coming in and causing trouble it's certainly going to weigh on people's minds in certain areas as we approach the European and Local elections in 2014. A vague warning by Clegg isn't going to stop appalling behaviour by the newcomers.
So what can you take from what he has said? Clegg basically says: grin and bare it.
Thoughts?
Nick Clegg: 'intimidating' and 'offensive' Roma migrants must be sensitive to British way of life
The deputy Prime Minisiter responds to reports of tensions between Roma migrants and other communities near his constituency in Sheffield
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02494/nick-clegg-lbc_2494015b.jpg
Roma communities must avoid “intimidating” local residents and be “sensitive to the way that life is lived in this country,” Nick Clegg has said.
The deputy Prime Minister described tensions between Roma immigrants and established communities in Slough and Sheffield as a “real dilemma” adding that people find some of their behaviour “offensive” and “difficult to accept.”
This week David Blunkett, who is the MP for the neighbouring constituency to Nick Clegg in Sheffield, warned that tensions between local people in the Page Hill area and Roma migrants to escalate into rioting unless action was taken to improve integration.
The former home secretary said he fears a repeat of race riots that hit northern cities in 2001.
Nick Clegg also raised Mr Blunkett’s concerns about “large numbers of people hanging around outside in streets” in areas of Sheffield. Adding that those Roma “intimidating” local residents “listen to what to the people in the community have to say.”
Speaking on LBC Radio’s regular Call Clegg slot he said: “There is a real dilemma… when you get communities coming into a part of our country and they behave in a way that people find quite difficult to accept, and they behave in a way that people find sometimes intimidating, sometimes offensive I think its quite right that we should say… if you are going to come and live here and you are bringing up a family here you’ve got to be sensitive to the way that life is lived in this country.”
In an interview with BBC on Monday David Blunkett said: "We have got to change the behaviour and the culture of the incoming community, the Roma community, because there's going to be an explosion otherwise. We all know that."
"If everything exploded, if things went really wrong, the community would obviously be devastated. We saw this in Bradford, Burnley and Oldham all those years ago when I first became home secretary. We saw that the community itself were the losers."
Oooooh isn't this strange, David Blunket - then Jack Straw and now Nick Clegg. Imagine if Nigel Farage had said things like this, he'd be hauled in on BBC News and would be asked why he is 'stoking fears' or 'whipping up fear and hatred' etc etc and all the usual rubbish we hear when immigration is debated.
But there you have it again. Clegg is right though, but not that he will do anything about it - the man loves the European Union and he and his party love immigration. This to me seems like a damage limitation exercise because when the borders open in January 2014 and the numbers start coming in and causing trouble it's certainly going to weigh on people's minds in certain areas as we approach the European and Local elections in 2014. A vague warning by Clegg isn't going to stop appalling behaviour by the newcomers.
So what can you take from what he has said? Clegg basically says: grin and bare it.
Thoughts?