And the city with most uninsured drivers is...
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tybo said:
fatboy b said:
Is it me or have we been told for the past few years "the net is closing on uninsured drivers", but it isn't really if this article is true. Unless of course 3 out of 4 drivers used to be uninsured in Bradford 
Exactly.I'm sure we had the same headline about Bradford last year (and many years before that, probably)
So, what happens...they have a "crackdown" for a few weeks...then everything's back to normal??
Murcielago_Boy said:
pakistanis/Bangladeshis and Indians are vastly different people. Never confuse the two.
This is reflected in the their economic status pretty much everywhere they have chosen to settle in the world.
The Indians have made money and got on with their lives.
And the pakistanis/Bangladeshis have languished and struggled at the bottom.
There is a VERY controversial theory put forward in many cirlces about why this is so. It relates to which types of people converted to Islam during Moghul rule to escape the caste system, and during the splitting up of India, subsequently became pakistani.... and how the comparison of the relative performance of the two people today is attributable to the "quality" of their ancestor converts many years ago....
thats a tenuous link, even if you could show that indians in general were better behaved than the other 2This is reflected in the their economic status pretty much everywhere they have chosen to settle in the world.
The Indians have made money and got on with their lives.
And the pakistanis/Bangladeshis have languished and struggled at the bottom.
There is a VERY controversial theory put forward in many cirlces about why this is so. It relates to which types of people converted to Islam during Moghul rule to escape the caste system, and during the splitting up of India, subsequently became pakistani.... and how the comparison of the relative performance of the two people today is attributable to the "quality" of their ancestor converts many years ago....
odyssey2200 said:
tybo said:
fatboy b said:
Is it me or have we been told for the past few years "the net is closing on uninsured drivers", but it isn't really if this article is true. Unless of course 3 out of 4 drivers used to be uninsured in Bradford
Exactly.I'm sure we had the same headline about Bradford last year (and many years before that, probably)
So, what happens...they have a "crackdown" for a few weeks...then everything's back to normal??
What's the point!
paddyhasneeds said:
fido said:
I didn't think Asians did credit card fraud, or maybe they're just not very good at it. At least compared to Romanians. I reckon dodgy accountancy and company fraud is more the Asian (sub-continent) thing 
Every single case of credit card fraud that I recall reading about has involved a Petrol Station owned or run by Indian/pakistani/Bangladeshi's, totally anecdotal and the actual figures may be totally different.fido said:
paddyhasneeds said:
fido said:
I didn't think Asians did credit card fraud, or maybe they're just not very good at it. At least compared to Romanians. I reckon dodgy accountancy and company fraud is more the Asian (sub-continent) thing
Every single case of credit card fraud that I recall reading about has involved a Petrol Station owned or run by Indian/pakistani/Bangladeshi's, totally anecdotal and the actual figures may be totally different.
But the winner was my second guess Mojooo said:
Murcielago_Boy said:
pakistanis/Bangladeshis and Indians are vastly different people. Never confuse the two.
This is reflected in the their economic status pretty much everywhere they have chosen to settle in the world.
The Indians have made money and got on with their lives.
And the pakistanis/Bangladeshis have languished and struggled at the bottom.
There is a VERY controversial theory put forward in many cirlces about why this is so. It relates to which types of people converted to Islam during Moghul rule to escape the caste system, and during the splitting up of India, subsequently became pakistani.... and how the comparison of the relative performance of the two people today is attributable to the "quality" of their ancestor converts many years ago....
thats a tenuous link, even if you could show that indians in general were better behaved than the other 2This is reflected in the their economic status pretty much everywhere they have chosen to settle in the world.
The Indians have made money and got on with their lives.
And the pakistanis/Bangladeshis have languished and struggled at the bottom.
There is a VERY controversial theory put forward in many cirlces about why this is so. It relates to which types of people converted to Islam during Moghul rule to escape the caste system, and during the splitting up of India, subsequently became pakistani.... and how the comparison of the relative performance of the two people today is attributable to the "quality" of their ancestor converts many years ago....
And if a researcher was to go back to the ol' country that link wouldn't be so tenuous.
eharding said:
Police State said:
try and guess before clicking the link...
linky
Police in ??????? have set up a new roads policing unit after it emerged the city has the highest number of uninsured vehicles on the UK's roads.
Only because Slough isn't a city...and the chances of a cathedral being built in Slough now are...slim, to say the least.linky
Police in ??????? have set up a new roads policing unit after it emerged the city has the highest number of uninsured vehicles on the UK's roads.
Edited by Police State on Thursday 22 October 00:33
For whatever reason, over the past 6 months it does seem that observation of a red traffic light signal in the part of Slough I am blessed to inhabit during the day seems to have become an optional exercise.
Last week the road outside the office was shut, hordes of police and fire crew about, and flames leaping into the air from the side of the road. I'd assumed that the inevitable had happened, and the local security forces had been attacked with an IED, but it turns out BT had cut through a gas main with a digger.
Murcielago_Boy said:
Mojooo said:
Murcielago_Boy said:
pakistanis/Bangladeshis and Indians are vastly different people. Never confuse the two.
This is reflected in the their economic status pretty much everywhere they have chosen to settle in the world.
The Indians have made money and got on with their lives.
And the pakistanis/Bangladeshis have languished and struggled at the bottom.
There is a VERY controversial theory put forward in many cirlces about why this is so. It relates to which types of people converted to Islam during Moghul rule to escape the caste system, and during the splitting up of India, subsequently became pakistani.... and how the comparison of the relative performance of the two people today is attributable to the "quality" of their ancestor converts many years ago....
thats a tenuous link, even if you could show that indians in general were better behaved than the other 2This is reflected in the their economic status pretty much everywhere they have chosen to settle in the world.
The Indians have made money and got on with their lives.
And the pakistanis/Bangladeshis have languished and struggled at the bottom.
There is a VERY controversial theory put forward in many cirlces about why this is so. It relates to which types of people converted to Islam during Moghul rule to escape the caste system, and during the splitting up of India, subsequently became pakistani.... and how the comparison of the relative performance of the two people today is attributable to the "quality" of their ancestor converts many years ago....
And if a researcher was to go back to the ol' country that link wouldn't be so tenuous.
From my perspective (as an outsider continuously amazed and the racist slurs they casually bandy between themselves
) the Indians seem to have a very strong driving belief in investing almost wholly in the generation below and ensuring the best possible educations and career paths. This is why so may of their children are lawyers, doctors, dentists etc and so few go to art school or study history of art at Uni
You must also consider the African equation. Certainly in London the majority of the highly educated Indians are actually East Africans who arrived from Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya in the 60/70s. Already 100% au fait with British culture etc and educated. This gave them a huge head start over genuine Indians, pakistanis and Bangladeshis, many of who have risen to the top from the very lowest starting point as immigrants.
One theory we often moot as to Indian’s apparent success in Britain over pakistanis is that they drink and so meet more local British and find it far easier to assimilate into what is basically a culture that loves nothing more than getting off its gourd at the first opportunity.
We have a saying round our neck of the woods that they only way you can tell an Indian apart from a Jew is by knowing what their Grandfather’s car was. I.E it would either have been an old Volvo or an old Datsun.
Anyway, regardless. Crime, while as someone rightly pointed out does have favourite types amongst groups, is a function of poverty. The Indians have been able to make a better start in the UK than pakistanis for many cultural and also religious reasons and so the statistics will probably point to them being involved in less crime (excluding fashion).
Horse_Apple said:
This is where the lefty loons have gone wrong with the Car Scrappage Scheme.
Don’t pay people to get rid of an old banger, simply stop every single un-insured car, wait 7 days for owner to prove it is not a clerical error and then crush the car and ban the driver for a year. Bish bosh. Job done.
It’s environmentally friendly as these will mostly be old cars. They probably won’t be in good nick so pumping out toxics everywhere, the driver can’t afford insurance so you are protecting him from himself and you are meeting your basic obligations to legitimate tax payers.
I reckon that within 5 years you would have scrapped almost every old car in the UK.
+1 Like the idea.. Plus you wont get people scrapping classic carsDon’t pay people to get rid of an old banger, simply stop every single un-insured car, wait 7 days for owner to prove it is not a clerical error and then crush the car and ban the driver for a year. Bish bosh. Job done.
It’s environmentally friendly as these will mostly be old cars. They probably won’t be in good nick so pumping out toxics everywhere, the driver can’t afford insurance so you are protecting him from himself and you are meeting your basic obligations to legitimate tax payers.
I reckon that within 5 years you would have scrapped almost every old car in the UK.
TheEnd said:
Remember, certain groups mix with certain types, and get involved with the favourite crime.
It won't be that people are genetically predisposed to be fraudsters, or burglars, just that's what their scumbag mates do.
+1 It won't be that people are genetically predisposed to be fraudsters, or burglars, just that's what their scumbag mates do.
I am really surprised this thread has not been "banned". I raised one about ignorance in voters on this forum and it got banned because it mentioned the BNP (in the same sentence as Labour and tories). This thread goes on to stereo type races yet there is no backlash.. People are so brain washed by politicians its almost funny.
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