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kcmidlands

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  1. The whole thing is absolutely disgusting, they've tried to test the waters with this in the past with the like of Shamima Begum and this is the next evolution of that, when politicians in the USA are calling this clause a step back into the dark ages you know somethings wrong. It essentially means if two people commit the same offence, protest or speak out against the UK government the guy with the brown skin is potentially going to get kicked out of the country even if he was born and bred here and the white guy either get's a slap on the wrist or a jail sentence and yet they insist it's not racist, the whole "Christmas Party" nonsense from last week, while important in it's own place, was just used as a decoy to make sure people didn't question this clause too much. Harjap's video's are a must watch for anyone who doesn't understand this clause or it's implications, we all need to tell these MP's to go do one when they come knocking for votes at home or at our religious institutions, they're all a bunch of self serving twats bar a few.
  2. They have a good relationship with Birmingham University and work with King Edwards Grammar, there are students who have gone to Cambridge and Kings. Not sure about Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College (I'm assuming that's the one you are talking about in Chigwell), i know they have had their up's and downs and did pretty badly in their ofstead a few years back, as far as the teasing i have no idea, i wouldn't be surprised, it used to happen at our kids school (Sikh ethos school in Leicester) until it was called out by parents and it was handled by the school.
  3. kcmidlands

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    3 out of 4 of my kids have had the jab, my youngest is 6 so we'd probably have to think long and hard if it's approved for the young ones in the UK, it's a personal choice, i have no time for conspiracy theories and anti-vaxxers, that's their choice, I'm sure they have their own reasons, but for me when it comes to things like this, i speak to my GP who I've know for over 20 years and family members including my sister who work in the NHS and have seen first hand what the last 18m months have done and take advice via that route.
  4. It's a very short sighted attitude to think it won't look good on the kids CV, when it comes to schooling (I'm a parent of 4, all of who are varying ages, the eldest is about to go to Uni) the more important thing to look at is pathways through school to secondary school to college then Uni, if you sent you kid to one of the Nishkam Trust schools (for example) then they are more likely to be accepted into one of the top flight Uni's as the trust has built relationships with them, we've had to forward plan what school's out kids go to so they get into decent colleges and Uni's, very few Sikh ethos schools in the UK have this (kids tend to scatter to different colleges after their GCSE's, there's no preferred college or Uni). It's something you only really understand once you have kids going through the education system, 3 of my kids went to (and one is still attending) a Sikh ethos school, they don't have a secondary school for the children to go to so all the knowledge they gain their about Sikhi and how it's built into their day to day education is lost one they enter secondary school. We, as a Sikh community, politicise everything and let in-fighting rule instead of putting the kids and their education first, as much hate as Nishkam Trust get from certain quarters they are one of the few in the UK that have done it right where they have provided schooling from nursery all the way through to sixth from.
  5. DO people still listen to the BBC Asian Network, i gave up years back, they are so disconnected with anything going on in the Asian community you'd be better off listening to Classic fm. They've not really reported on the farmers protest since it started, only when it fit's their narrative, it's the same with getting people like these two on, do the world a favour and stop listening to that station, it should have been shut down (and nearly was) years ago, it's not fir for purpose.
  6. You could see it wasn't going to end well for him at about 20 seconds in, typical security guards though, either failed or ex-coppers (not saying all of them are as dumb as two short planks), god forbid they ever use diplomacy. Uncle in the front was getting a little flustered though, especially when the security guard brushed up against his dastaar.
  7. I think the media in general (in the west anyway) do ignore her, they all have their own narratives to follow. The problem with her "rantings" is that they give a certain portion of society, a voice and that sometimes isn't necessarily the right voice, Trump did the same thing, look how that ended. just because what she say's hasn't resulted in violence (yet) doesn't make it right. I don't follow the in's and out's of what Bollywood actors do, they live on a different plane of existence to normal people and in the most have a huge ego's and think they stand above others, what little interest i had waned after the majority of them decided to stay quite over the farmers issue.
  8. I think calling her acting skill's phenomenal is stretching it a bit really, she's hardly a Helen Mirren now is she, anyway, i digress, she has something that's more powerful than political power, she has a blind following of what's left of her social media platforms and they eat up all the right wing nonsense she spouts.
  9. I think the difference now is most people with half a brain-cell question things they see on Tv and read on social media, it's a result of Trump and the lies he tried to sell, the Indian media has been laid bare for all to see many times over during the farmers protests, the difference is that people go out and find out the truth themselves There will always be those follow blindly (unfortunately there a a lot of people in India who will follow actors and worship them like gods and whatever they say is the gospel truth).
  10. I agree in part, the problem is you drive the ideology of people like this underground and then it can't be tracked as easily which is a dangerous situation, she's taken advantage of a volatile situation for her own personal gain, she's trying to get her foot into politics but has unfortunately decided to go right wing on it and does nothing but embarrass herself all the time.
  11. Yeah, there was a time a few years back where i would completely disagree with most of what you've said but given the events of the past couple of years the idea that these things are allowed to happen doesn't really sound that insane anymore.
  12. It was really more of an observation, every time the government get caught out doing no good there tends to be some sort of "event" that happens to distract the public, whether this particular situation affects voter doesn't really matter, what matters is it affect the pockets of those who got caught out.
  13. It's strange how all of this has come out and suddenly there's an attempted terrorist attack up in Liverpool to distract peoples attention, I'm not a huge conspiracy theory believer but this kind of thing has happened more than once, just sayin....
  14. Liz Kendall's one of the better one's, Ashworth seems to be away from his office most of the time when constituents want to see him but he'll turn up at event's (Nagar Kirtans included) for the photo op, i think I'm just jaded and have had enough of most MP's, the events of the last week or so and yet more majority Tory sleaze to come out just doesn't surprise me anymore, it's the fact that they are able to get away with it with very little re-course, if a member of the public behaved that way they'd be in jail.
  15. They're all the same, it's just different sides of the same coin, as shady as Vaz was he was instrumental in the opening of the Sikh ethos primary school here in Leicester, the original academy was going to get taken over over by another one who were looking to open up a school under their banner instead, the DFE got involved and al sorts (long story, maybe for another thread), bur overall they are looking after themselves first and pretending it's for the community, the ones that are decent don't get far, there are a few good local councillors here that get stuff done but they tend to bypass all the red tape to do it, I used to think Ashworth was decent but he's like the rest of them as well.
  16. She's one of the local MP's here in Leicester, completely and utterly useless, which is a huge feat in itself considering she replaced Keith Vaz. The local Gujrati community absolutely hate her, they tried their best to get her out when it was announced she was to replace Vaz, they wanted one of their own in again, it's completely bonkers that she's been allowed to stay in, Labour have booted her out and most of the local community want her out as well.
  17. They've been trying to find any excuse to enact a law like this, it's already being called out that the murder of David Amess's death had nothing to do with online abuse, just when you think the Tories couldn't reach a new low they try and pull some crap like this and use the death of an MP as an excuse.
  18. Post 9/11 had to be some of the most uncomfortable journey's i ever took on the train into work, a few day's after it happened when the news was blazoned with images of Al-Qaeda people would just stare which, in a way, was way worse that someone saying something, this was in the UK. I visited New York with my wife 2 years after 9/11, we were there on holiday and visited the memorial site as it was originally (a huge pit with chain-link fencing with flowers and photo's of those who had passed attached to it), irrelevant of what people around us were doing (you could feel peoples stares burning in the back of your head) there were plenty of people there not staring or being judgemental, we payed our respects and left, on a personal note it's a moment in my life I'll never forget, standing there showed how cruel we can be as human beings.
  19. He uses Punjabi culture and the Sikh religion when it suits him and serves his narrative in films but turns his back when his support is needed (Farmers protest).
  20. To be honest it's hardly surprising really, they're re-writing history to fit their own narrative, any "non-hindu" is pretty much done for in India unless they behave like sheep and follow their master, as for preserving history, they've never really done a good job of it, I look at old Gurdwara pictures from nearly 100 years ago and look at the state of them now, they really love their white marble over there.
  21. Hope he's changed his ways. http://juniorpip.blogspot.com/2012/09/so-scam-can-actually-be-useful-part-1.html
  22. This guy is an example of how stupid our Sikh community can be sometimes, he rented a electronic billboard and put up a "Never forget 1984" image while advertising his own business and our lot went mad, they loved it, they looked through the fact that he hasn't traded as an estate agent for years and the business was registered in his wife's name, and now the man's been caught out again, i have no personal axe to grind against the guy, i just think he's a bit of a <banned word filter activated>. I get a lot of hate in my family and friends circles because i call out apne who have a dastaar and dhari, they purport to follow Sikhi but do this kind of stuff.
  23. I saw this on Twitter, not just the light show but what they've actually done to the place, it's been reduced to nothing more than a glorified fun fair, Kim A. Wagner, who's a Professor of Global and Imperial History at Queen Mary (University of London) has extensive knowledge of jallian wala bhag has been posting about his disgust at what they've done extensively on twitter over the past few day's, his stuff is well worth reading.
  24. My parent's (and Grand-Parents before them) are devout Amritdhari Sikhs, they live by this rule, they don't eat leftover's from anybody but only share with other Amritdhari's, me and my siblings aren't Amritdhari but because we were bought up like this we live by the same rules. I've come across a few families who won't eat foot that isn't prepared by non-Amritdhari's, we have one in our extended family and their father wouldn't eat anything at his daughter's house after she got married because the son-in-laws family weren't amritdhari, my father's a pretty devout Sikh and even he found that a bit extreme, each to their own i suppose.
  25. I don't think it'll even get to Civil Court, if settled it will be done behind closed door's, there will probably be an apology hidden on their website or social media feeds that starts with something like "We do not stand for workplace bullying..." with no mention of racism anywhere, it's all been done before, it'll be classed as "workplace banter". The best thing to do in today's age is to hit twitter and start tagging them in publicly, to a few @"insert news company here" and @"insert local mp here" and you'll soo get some traction.
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