Britain's most racist town

Blackburn? Burnley? Bradford? Oldham? Darwen?

Let's solve this crucial debate once and for all here.

I mean, the city is actually called "Black, burn".

I imagine somewhere like the South West, or in the Home Counties

whitehaven

I know the big BNP stronghold was some town in Yorkshire but you don't have to be in the BNP to be racist

no, it is Blackburn. if you haven't spent a significant amount of time there you will have to trust me on this. Blackburn makes apartheid South Africa look like that Star Trek episode where Kirk and Uhura kiss.

possibly a slight exaggeration for effect

Somewhere in Derbyshire probably

(They bumped heads?)

xpost.

I'd have thought % of people with racist views would be about the same in all UK towns?

also, there is the argument that everybody is prejudiced to some extent.

will vary by:

levels of poverty
% of ethnic population
% of brainless, shellsuit wearing cunts

Easy to get away with it, of course, if you live in all-white homogeneous communities

"also, there is the argument that everybody is prejudiced to some extent."

let's have a heated debate!

bring on the strawmen!

The shopkeepers of Withernsea seemed to be very into Golliwogs as a window display motif this summer.

I'm guessing there are places in Devon with "Don't Let the Sun Set on 'ou 'ere boy" signs under the speed cameras.

and yet it's london that has the bnp politicians holding office...

The shopkeepers of Withernsea seemed to be very into Golliwogs as a window display motif this summer.

I take it all back, there is a winner. WTF did you go to With for anyway?

I was working. Seriously half the shops had them in the window, like it was a deliberate provocation or something.

Easy to get away with it, of course, if you live in all-white homogeneous communities

OTM, I recall a lot of overt racism growing up in Cornwall but basically no-one to direct it at aside from people's equally white cohorts

The shopkeepers of Withernsea seemed to be very into Golliwogs as a window display motif this summer.

We saw some in Paignton not long ago. I'm sure they can still be found in many seaside town shops, probably under more or less the same reasoning several people used on the ronaldinho bottle opener thread.

there's a golliwog in the window of a shop in the Tron gate in Glasgow.

has been there for as long as I can remember.

also the shop is called ATM Discount. Which is funny.

Any ATP goers can probably testify to the proliferation of golliwogs in Minehead shops, also one of those grab-a-cuddly-toy machines full of golliwogs and cuddly rastafarians.

What's that place that got its own documentary?

Finton-on-Sea or something?

There was some research years ago that had Norwich as the most racist city.

I always assumed "golliwog" was Britisher for tadpole.

As someone born and raised in Whitehaven, I have to ask what's so racist about it nowdays to make it moreso than other places?

I wouldn't be surprised that it is, by the way.

twas a joke. white haven, geddit?

contenderizers, that is a pollywog. which you've now made me think about for the first time ever.

(er, sorry for pluralising you)

Damn! I always thought pollywog was a foreigner who could speak many languages

I stayed in a shitty midlands town called Rugely and the casual racism was really suprising. I mean nothing *nasty*, just assumed crap like "blah blah Paki shopkeepers are all ripoff merchants" and the guy I was dating telling me not to get my wallet out in public in Birmingham because "look at those 2 guys over there" pointing to 2 black men in business suits. I mean jesus.

And KappaSlappa chavs crawling all over alton towers. Ugh.

I didn't even know Kappa jackets were an asshole thing in England until recently. I think they look cool, and I've always kind of wanted one, but now I'm iffy about t because of connotations in a country that is thousands of miles away.

Even in Australia they tend to be worn by bogans and numbnut guys trying to look like eminem or wtf ever.

Oldham has no go areas for white people, i'd say that's pretty racist

xp stay away from kappa

warwick or otherwise

Abbott could reclaim Kappa for all of us

They're worn by like the occasional tennis player in the (western) U.S., if you see them at all.

Warwick is not the most racist town.

Warwick has a nice castle...

Not goodwin is really not good.

essential thread. vote keighley for high profile nick griffin speech and the meeting of the sheltered backwater mentality&an actual south asian community. go for kappa abbott you can make it work.

Warwick Castle is nice but overpriced. The best view of it can be had by visiting the Mill Garden at the end of Mill Street. Admission for a couple of pounds. The best castle is Kenilworth just a few miles away but a lot cheaper.

Signed.

Your guide to central England.

i was referring to this warwick

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/03/24/capper3_narrowweb__300x447,0.jpg

And I was joking. 'Cos you know Warwick is also a town and...oh never mind...

I'm tempted to go with Melton Mowbray here.

Surely there's an ilx catalogue thread for posts where you think people are serious when they're not.

a nice "hate racism, hate working-class" thing going on in this thread: "chavs crawling all over alton towers" ???

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/americanstudies/kingkong.jpg

I stayed in a shitty midlands town called Rugely

Rugeley with an e where I grew up as you might recall hoho. Seriously it wasn't particularly bad when I was a kid. It's in the Midlands after all.

(xxpost) Being a chav is nothing to do with being working class.

Strange that it always always gets used about working class people then.

this thread right next to 'try glasgow more' on new answers

Oldham has no go areas for white people, i'd say that's pretty racist

Was this a joke as well?

This is a great website.

You forgot the link there Matt.

The landed chavtry rule all.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2242804/Rap-music-fan-shouted-n---black-man-CLEARED-racism-magistrates-accept-using-street-slang.html

But the sign-writer claimed he couldn’t be racist because he listened to hip-hop music

Did he even know the people he shouted this at?

"Look. I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was 'That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.'"

so many layers of incredulity in this story

i think it's just about possible that he is stupid enough to believe what he is saying and didn't intend any offence

rmde more at the magistrate