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damn - can't do that do an assistant moderator. Still, I can ignore. TTFN.

as you still refuse to acknowledge the original question you don't want to answer, but instead tediously pursue this route, I'll just add you to the ignore list

Someone already had. At post 7.

It's not the other driver that takes the mick, it's the motor repair trade. When you take a car in for a repair estimate, the first question they ask is 'is it an insurance job?'. If it is, they know you won't be quibbling over what you can afford to pay, so they push the job out to the limit and charge every penny they can, changing things that may not need changing and maximising the labour and parts charges. We all pay - through our policies.

Actually, that's exactly what you're doing. Before you asked about colour, you said this: And I challenged that statement by asking this: Which you have avoided answering, instead turning the discussion round into an attempt to label me racist. So, will you answer my question, or do I just ignore your petty attempts to turn this into a pedestal for anti-racism?

Do two wrongs make a right?

You avoid answering and instead come back with a question that contains a thinly veiled accusation. And, as it happens, thanks to the immigration farce we've had over the last few years, very many of them are not born of British citizens, but of recent immigrants. Their place in the world should not be on this crowded island.

So why isn't that reflected in the hugely disproportionate numbers of ethnic minority kids we have in schools?

True, but they are not the ones having massive families and keeping irresponsibly high birth rates more appropriate to a developing nation with high infant mortality levels.

That's because you have very little understanding of what's actually going on in the world, which I find amusing my little friend.

Currently well under 10% of our total population is from ethnic minority groups. In secondary schools, the figure is about 16%. In primary schools, it's about 23%. You don't need graph paper to see where the trend is going, or how terrifyingly quickly.

I can't help but think of the scene in Blazing Saddles where Richard Pryor walks into a Ku Klux Klan meeting and asks "Yo man, where de white women at?"

Originally Posted by Plain Talker As for the pic, I don't know how to upload a "headscarved" picture for my avatar, or I would. Yes, I offered at posts 71 and 73, I'm sure between us all we can assist a damsel in distress.

I'm going to sit down with a bucket of popcorn and watch this one . . . .

Fingers crossed it's confused information and people getting over-anxious. Anything on local radio?