What Brexit tells us about the British | Professor Danny Dorling

Speaking at Oxford Geographical Society, Friday 19 October 2018

[marconatrix]

Thanks, a most informative and thought provoking talk.
I'd love to hear from him right now as we approach some very _interesting_times_ ...

[ucanprofit]

As the London born child of 2 Irish migrants, I appreciate where he is coming from. My family returned to Ireland and i was educated differently from my English cousins.

[maartenvandam]

Thanks for this, very informative. I never understood why Wales voted to leave. Like NI and Scotland, it was clearly against their own interest. Never knew so many English people with money moved there.
Brexit is against everybody 's interest, apart from a very small number of extremely rich and even more greedy people, but I could understand the disgruntled protest vote by people who felt left behind, up to a point. The vile anti EU propaganda of most of the sorry excuse the UK has for a printing press tipped that particular balance.
But the Welsh leave vote never made any sense. Now it does. So, thanks for that.

[bluenorsky]

we won one world cup, the germans have won 3 nations cups, three world cups and every time we play germany our small minded supporters, mainly southern english, sing ' two world wars and one world cup. It embarrasses me no end, and others no doubt, and like many others we don't watch our national team play any more.

[martynfenton]

I'm not sure how ~8million immigrants since ~2000 into one of most densely populated countries on earth is a myth, surely this is a fact?

[jasonallen]

The Empire thing doesn’t really count when
you’re comparing us with European nations that also had Empires.

[atlantidaunderground]

it tells us that they take things and people for granted.

[SuzanneWheat]

I find it very difficult to understand what Dorling is saying. There's an annoying echo and even turning up the volume doesn't help. Please Danny make your talks more accessible.

[lawrencethompson]

Does rising ethnic diversity correlate with the collapse of the welfare state? This would make sense from a purely genetic/evolutionary perspective. People might be less likely (all else being equal) to share resources with those who they are less closely related to.

[derekmulready]

Back in the Day when British Empire Citizens where coming to the Mother Country From India Pakistan and Bangladesh. An ultra right wing conservative politician decried the the United Kingdom would be overwhelmed with the amount that were coming. He was removed from office and found himself in Northern Ireland.
At a political rally I asked him if it would be possible to repatriate the Planters to the Country that their Ancestors came from. His answer was a Resounding No .
Because they were WHITE.
Irish and EU Citizen

[CharlieVane]

Why are remainers obsessed with empire? It's weird.

[johncee]

Really every member country should have gone full Monty & joined the Euro from the launch. Although with hindsight maybe not Greece. Thatcher individualized Britain 40 years ago. Britain is an embarrassment internationally. All sentimentality for orange marmalade, real bacon, the Sunday Post and Galaxy chocolate aside, I´m glad I left 30 years ago. Maybe Britain should join the United States ?

[MrOohgaryneville]

Balanced? This guy should have stayed at Newcastle Uni.