to want ^Typical English^ tourist spots to have English people serving you?

[IwantJoansbag]

I expect to get flamed for this and called all-sorts, but I don't care.
I'm genuinely curious.

We went out for the day yesterday and stopped off at 3 well-known English tourist spots.
Glastonbury, Cheddar and Wells. (with a little stop off at a pretty little 'supposedly' English market-garden type place - selling Strawberries, Plums, etc) plus we stopped off at an outlet village.

It just seemed wrong that at EVERY place we stopped we were served by Eastern Europeans. I didn't hear ONE English accent (except in the shops), but all the eateries and stalls.... foreign accents.

If I go to a Beer Festival in Germany, its nice to be served by somebody with a German Accent - it adds to the atmosphere.
If I were to go to New York and eat in China Town - its great if the majority of people are Chinese.
Stopping off in a typical Italian Pizza place and the people are mainly Italian! You expect a bit of authenticity.

So, is it too much to ask the same happens in England?
It must be disappointing for the tourists when they come here.

For the record:- I am ONLY talking about typical tourist spots and I've got nothing against people coming to our country to work, but I think that some places (tourist spots where you expect things to be traditional) they should have mainly English people dealing with the public.

Why is it, we will go to GREAT LENGTHS to protect the tradtions and cultural differences of other Nationalities, but, to want to protect and 'celebrate' English Traditions is somehow WRONG and a matter for joking?

The English tradition of Lattes and doughnuts always being served by blushing english roses?!

BTW if you want the "proper experience" you should go to Epcot in Florida. All the English people in English town wear pantaloons and you can buy a Curly Wurly for 5 dollars.

You'd love it

The English tradition of Lattes and doughnuts always being served by blushing english roses?!

HA!

I was genuinely bemused upon climbing some unpronounceable volcano in Hawaii that the chap at the top issuing volcano climbing certificates for three dollars was indeed .....Welsh!

"Buy a curly surly for 5 dollars" sounds like the OP would be in heaven.

A little tip OP, please go and find a UKIP chat room. You'll find like minded people there.

Ahh people read the OP and immediately focused on ( or assumed) she meant white English?

Somewhere, it isn't maths but common sense.

We've got a service - nhs - which is amazing but has a lot of strain on it and some of that strain is sheer numbers. Same with education and same with housing and any other public service you can think of really!

I don't pretend for a moment this is all because of immigration but I am anti-Europe and this doesn't make me racist or xenophobic. It's a concern I have related to numbers rather than to ethic origin accent or country of birth.

Oh that should have been Curly Wurly, though I expect the surly describes the OP's face when she's out and about in England's tourist spots.

gamer I will eat a pearly queen if she was bemoaning a lack of 'traditional' British BME staff.

No they didn't Gamerchick.

They assumed she was an arse.

The questions about colour of skin would be a logical hypothesis given the crud she's coming out with.

Talk guidelines this way folks. Thanks awfully.

I notice Op has now fucked off, having started a shitty thread and a few (thank God) people have sided with her.

Hopefully this will be deleted.

The main strain on the NHS is an ageing population, the obesity crisis and a UK population that has no idea of the cost of healthcare and wants to live forever without experiencing as much as a sniffle.

The NHS is propped up by foreign workers - practically every hospital in the UK has had to recruit foreign nurses en masse for example.

We also need the offspring of these foreigners as they are prepared to work as low paid carers to look after our ageing population who often don't have children or have brought up their children not to want to do the bum wiping etc required when they are incapable of living independently.

Of course we don't want to pay for this care for our relatives ourselves, we want our inheritances. And so care continues to be a crap job on minimum wage, done by desperate immigrants, who we complain about, making the job even less appealing than it already is.

A couple of people have asked the OP if she meant white people, actually, gamer.

But she hasn't answered those questions. Funny that.

Notacs the numbers will still increase, regardless of the entry of those from abroad. What actually needs to happen is to stop treating the NHS like a business and let it get on with what it does best. If you got rid of half the managers, put the cleaning back in house, employed enough staff with the money saved, problem solved, no matter how many are accessing its services.

We have various strains on the nhs as I acknowledged and one of these strains is sheer number of people in a very small country.

Why does saying we have too many people equate to racism or xenophobia? I KNOW I am neither!

I haven't come back on, because some of your comments have a nasty, bullying way about them.
I don't/won't respond to posts like that. what's the point?
Thankyou to the ones that answered in a mature, calm way.

I found the Hotelier comments really interesting. And the fact that some mentioned a lot are migrant workers sending money home, which explains things.

I didn't automatically assume she meant white English.. benefit of the doubt and all that.

So you didn't want to answer them.. but did that anyway?

Ok OP. Now you're back.

Would you be happy being served by a non-white person, provided they had an English accent?

Just explaining, why I'm not answering a lot of posts. Fuck Off.

Your ophad anasty, racist tone to it. So expect it back op.enjoy your americano

gamer I don't think everyone is assuming racist intent. It is just that hankering after ye olde worlde traditionalism necessarily precludes multiculturalism. Her vision does sound rather 1950s.

You didn't come back on because the majority of posters called you out on your attitude.

And now they are bullies.

So far, so Mumsnet.

Thread will no doubt be deleted, but OP, afore we go, maybe, if you aren't actually a troll, a wind-up merchant, and you have just led such a sheltered middle Englander life up to now.....maybe the way your attitude has been perceived by what you in your own words have said, maybe, just maybe, you will not make such ridiculous offensive sweeping statements in future.

I shan't be holding my breath, but we live in hope.