Extraordinary City...

[vetuste_ennemi]

...full of extraordinary people.

Our Tess has got a grip on this, innit?

[jno]

you either agree with her or you don't, but you haven't said which.

[vetuste_ennemi]

...think you could have a stab about my opinion of Tess, JNO.

[wolf63]

What city are you talking about? My city has about 45k people in it and is a great place to live

[vetuste_ennemi]

Very good luck to you, Wolf. I'm envious.

[wolf63]

That was the nicest sarcastic remark that I have heard. :-)

[Arksided]

We all know London is the centre of the universe... however she did go on to say the Country.

[douglas9401]

Possibly the roiling, fetid cesspit with a few shiny bits that is London, wolf63.
It usually is. World class

[Gromit]

It was what you would expect the Prime Minister to say, and was gaffe free.

Corbyn has been at Finsbury Park all night (it is in his constituency), and is expected to attend payers in the mosque.

That will undoubtedly be compared to May's statement behind the security of the Downing Street gates.

She hasn't really done anything wrong this time but the contrast in approach will be noticed.

[vetuste_ennemi]

False equivalence. Nutter v Salafists.

Don't people like May have experts to advise them as on what's going on and why?
How do they persist in La-La Land?

[mushroom25]

//expected to attend prayers in the mosque //

being only female, would the PM be afforded the same privilege?

[youngmafbog]

I certainly will.

I do not want my Prime minister going to prayers at a Mosque thank you very much and I doubt many true "working men" will either. it might be all right-on in Londonistan but there is a much wider world out there.

[jim360]

Would not Theresa May attending prayers at a mosque speak well to the "United we Stand" message you wrote earlier, ymb?

[youngmafbog]

That is not what I meant and you know it.

Standing together does not mean pampering the minority, the minority need to start getting to grips with our culture first.

[jim360]

I was asking the question sincerely. I don't think that Theresa May needs to do something like that, and so far as I can see she's responded in the appropriate way. But I'd think it sad if she were criticised for showing solidarity in that way.

That's all I mean.

[cassa333]

Actually, knowing our PM isn't all touchy freely she should set up a 'mini task force' of a couple of MPs and ministers to be her tears on the ground crew.

It is only right that cOrbyn is there all day An s visits the mosques etc. He has the time, he is not PM and it I shall afterall his constituency.

[jno]

the minority need to start getting to grips with our culture first

it sounds as though you want them to stand with you, and by "united" you mean "they have to unite with me".

Spirit of compromise, right there.

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// it sounds as though you want them to stand with you, and by "united" you mean "they have to unite with me". ///

It is them who chose to settle here, so yes to be polite don't visitors or long staying guest generally unite with their hosts?

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Would not Theresa May attending prayers at a mosque speak well to the "United we Stand" message you wrote earlier, ymb? //

No, Jim. The Muslim populations of Europe have (through their vanishingly small - but highly effective - percentage of nutters) inflicted great pain on their host nations. They should be apologising to us, not we to them.

Tess has got it wrong yet again.

[youngmafbog]

OK jim, appologies fr being snappy, it's the ruddy heat here in the South!

What I really meant is i dont want gesture politics, I dont want her praying in Mosques nor do I want Muslims praying in Christian or any other denomination houses of prayer.

I want to see action from all sides and a coming together fully integrated and non of this "communities" rubbish that cannot last long term. We are, or should be, one community - Great Britain.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//We are, or should be, one community//

You just haven't grasped the point (and value) of multiculturalism, Youngmafbog.

If you ask him nicely Jim will explain it to you.

Diversity is our strength. Please try to keep up.