Is the Isle of Wight an "inbred, poor, white ghetto'?

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jdw100 said:

"Waaaaaaa wah wah wah super marvellous waaaaahhhh"

Bloody white ghetto trash and their stupid gangsta speak.

[ClaphamGT3]

I'm a member of Seaview Yacht Club, so get over to the island a fair bit. It's a game of two halves; either genteel 60s throw-back full of affluent retirees or banjo-land chav. Very little in between.

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Which begs the question, which one are you?

[ClaphamGT3]

The skint one about forty years younger than everyone else!

[FN2TypeR]

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jdw100 said:

The ones that amuse my parents are not the poor but people at the other end of the spectrum.

At certain times of year their village becomes packed with braying chaps in deck shoes and pink or red trousers....

My mum does a good impression:

"Oh are you going to Bunny's party at the yacht club?"

"Rather old chap, just had a refit on the 40 footer, bloody amazing, chaps a real craftsman and a bloody nice chap as well"

"Waaaaaaa wah wah wah super marvellous waaaaahhhh"

There is a threat level indicator for that:
https://www.facebook.com/IsleofWightCanDepress/pho...

http://lookatmyfkingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk/2...

[mike9009]

ClaphamGT3 said:

I'm a member of Seaview Yacht Club, so get over to the island a fair bit. It's a game of two halves; either genteel 60s throw-back full of affluent retirees or banjo-land chav. Very little in between.

Cliché central in this thread. Although the 'very little in between' seem rather apt following various posters comments......

[Diderot]

Unfortunately I have to got there about 5 times a year for work, and every single time it's just a complete pain in the arse. 25 miles door to door from where I am in West Sussex and yet it always takes 2 hours or so and costs a fortune. No wonder the economy is fked. That the ferry companies are allowed to hold the population to ransom and always block plans for a bridge or tunnel is a disgrace. A permanent fixed link is needed, simple as.

[Gecko1978]

Diderot said:

Unfortunately I have to got there about 5 times a year for work, and every single time it's just a complete pain in the arse. 25 miles door to door from where I am in West Sussex and yet it always takes 2 hours or so and costs a fortune. No wonder the economy is fked. That the ferry companies are allowed to hold the population to ransom and always block plans for a bridge or tunnel is a disgrace. A permanent fixed link is needed, simple as.

I assume no bridge is to stop the inbreed mutants from swarming over to the mainland and infecting the rest of UK with the faulty genes lol

No perhaps its just the cost etc, assuming you get some form of education on the IOW and are aware of the mainland then surely you can consider a move to the mainland to find work.

It sounds like IOW is nice place if you are comfortably well off but if your poor its not so great thus perhaps the key is to promote mobility have firms advertise jobs on the main land and promote opportunities off the island. Come back when your older more secure etc.

It does not sound like a small Island is a good investment opportunity for firms so thus thoes on the island need to venture off it. Education of such opportunities might actualy be key

That an stop marrying your sisters

[DMN]

You're pretty much spot-on with that assessment.

[djc206]

Gecko1978 said:

I assume no bridge is to stop the inbreed mutants from swarming over to the mainland and infecting the rest of UK with the faulty genes lol

Have you ever been to Southampton or Portsmouth? If that was the intention it hasn't worked.

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djc206 said:

Have you ever been to Southampton or Portsmouth? If that was the intention it hasn't worked.

Interestingly (or not) there is a proposal that Portsmouth, Southampton and IOW councils join forces to become a super authority (Solent Council). As usual, despite it having limited support from the public the idea is gathering momentum.

[eldar]

Superhoop said:

How is the ferry to the IOW expensive at about £70

Where else can you get a trip in a time machine that takes you all the way back to 1950 in just 30 minutes for that sort of money?

West Cumbria. Makes the IOW look dynamic, progressive and desirable.

[Grunt Futtock]

eldar said:

West Cumbria. Makes the IOW look dynamic, progressive and desirable.

Ah yes, Whitehaven and its webbed-appendage sporting denizens.

[jdw100]

DMN said:

There is a threat level indicator for that:
https://www.facebook.com/IsleofWightCanDepress/pho...

http://lookatmyfkingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk/2...

Brilliant - will send them those links.

You really are a super chap, do say hello at Bunny's garden party.

[4737 Carlin]

I grew up on the island and left there in my early twenties. Can't say I was ever aware of any real poverty and certainly not inbreeding.
I go back occasionally to visit friends and I always notice how old fashioned it still is. And how terrible the roads still are.

jdw100 said:

They have heard tales of people that live on the island that have never been to mainland...however these are very old folk.

My first job after leaving school was with Red Funnel. One of the old boys there, Dick Hopkins, was approaching retirement. Apparently he'd only ever been off the island for WW2.

[jdw100]

4737 Carlin said:

y first job after leaving school was with Red Funnel. One of the old boys there, Dick Hopkins, was approaching retirement. Apparently he'd only ever been off the island for WW2.

Not surprised he never went back to the mainland then....people kept shooting at him!

[Huntsman]

The berk has resigned.

[dandarez]

'He's gone. Good!'

http://cameronlife.photoshelter.com/image/I0000tN4...

IoW has good memories for me, I'm somewhere in that lot.

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BlackLabel said:

"The chairman of Ofsted is facing calls to resign after he said the Isle of Wight is an "inbred, poor, white ghetto".

David Hoare used the words to describe one of England’s worst-performing educational areas."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/08/05/of...

Any person who passes judgement upon others resident village/town/city/island. generally suffer from a severe case of pomposity'itis. As in this case it reveals underneath a modest minded persons persona a seam of crudeness likely embedded within an unhappy childhood. Alternately just another dhead.