One Has To Admire His Rise To Power, But An English Lord Mayor I Ask You? No Wonder We Are Losing Our Culture.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5918355/Sheffield-Lord-Mayor-bans-Donald-Trump-city-ahead-UK-visit.html

[youngmafbog]

Delusions of grandeur and clearly showing he does not understand the problem.

He appears to be backing illegal immigration, odd.

[youngmafbog]

Just out of interest why would the POTUS want to visit that dump anyway?

[gulliver1]

And where is The Dump where you live YMb ?,

[youngmafbog]

Bournemouth, as stated many times on here.

Sunny, sandy beaches and very pleasant. I have been quite a few times to Sheffield so I do know the comparison. Do you?

So chew on that.

[-Talbot-]

Nowt wrong with Sheffield.

He's not much more than a court jester, so calm down AOG.

Anyway, you will be pleased to hear he has been arrested for cultural appropriation

[Zacs-Master]

There's that phrase again 'our culture' i.e. a mythical period which never existed. Surely if he's English it's his culture too?

[Togo]

Ali G made real. Perhaps Boeing will think again about building a factory in Sheffield now.

[Zacs-Master]

To be fair, Sheffield is a bit of a dump. And that's from a Yorkshireman.

[youngmafbog]

"Surely if he's English it's his culture too? "

He is Somalian, didnt you read the article?

"The ex refugee came to the UK aged five from Burao in northern Somalia (now in Somaliland)."

[youngmafbog]

Having said that I have been to loads of places worse than Sheffield in the UK and other countries.

[Zacs-Master]

Togo, Sheffield is already home to quite a few companies who supply aerospace products. 1 example:
http://www.cwfletcher.co.uk/case-study-ip8-bleed-valve-duct.html

McLaren also have a factory there
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/02/08/mclaren-reshores-work-opens-new-factory-sheffield/

[Zacs-Master]

YMB, I was hoping AOG would comment on my point....you know....bearing in mind his OP headline.

[bednobs]

he is not the first non - white british lord mayor. I worked in High wycome around 15 years ago, and we had a pakistani origin LM If i am reading you right, your complaints are a bit late!

[Jennykenny]

I despair of the narrow-minded, sad and bigoted attitude of so many people in this country.
You should be ashamed.

[Zacs-Master]

Bradford has had an Asian LM since 2009.

[dannyk13]

We had the first one and he made a good job of it.
//https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Ajeeb
Mohammed Ajeeb CBE is a former Lord Mayor of Bradford, and was the first Asian (Pakistani) Lord Mayor in the United Kingdom.//

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

/// There's that phrase again 'our culture' i.e. a mythical period which never existed. Surely if he's English it's his culture too? ///

Are you for real or just a wind-up merchant?

Of course we have a culture just the same as other countries have, some very different to others.

Since Magid Magid was a refugee who came to the UK aged five from Burao in northern Somalia, it would seem he has not shook off his African culture and honoured the country that took him in and educated him by adopting his chosen country's culture.

But then it seems that this 'togetherness' only works one way.

[dannyk13]

Mohammed Ajeeb was Lord Mayor 1985/1986.

[Mothman]

So, an immigrant enters the country at the age of 5, integrates into his adopted society, works for charity and founds his own business and then gets himself elected as the local mayor. Isn't this the kind of immigrant that the Little Britons, frothing with indignant rage at every Daily Mail headline, want? Apparently not judging by some of the comments - might it be because he's, you know, NOT WHITE?

Then, heaven forbid, he squares up to the genital groping racist currently dragging the USA back into the dark ages and tells him he's not welcome in the city. Well done him!

I see no reference to him backing illegal immigration, but don't let that get in the way of yet another mis-informed comment

[Zacs-Master]

So, describe our culture, AOG.