Where to start :) .... Provoked by another thread....
In my local town we have barely f*ck all but nail bars/salons/tanning/vape and takeaways, much the same as anywhere else I suppose.
The locals have a mantra, "What Darwen needs is...." And another for when a retail premises that's been empty for years reopens, "Another bloody P###", but never do anything themselves. Someone I know who was always complaining about such got a big redundancy payout, he spaffed it all on a cruise.
Anyway some time ago I found myself in the unenviable position of urgently needing some soil stack on a Saturday aft so ended up in next door town at the only place that was open for miles and paid a reasonable price at a gaff run by a Southern Asian bloke, thank f*ck for him I thought at the time. There's a plumbers merchant opening in our town soon, S. Asians again, happy days, they'll be open decent hours, well stocked and the price will be right.
So I don't know what people want. They don't want 'these people' 'taking over', but they are , they take on all the empty retail space, they work hard, they're all over the councils etc while the indigenous Brits are sat on their arses, complaining.
As some know we have an opticians, my kids piss and moan about how much optometrists earn vs how much I pay them (again, almost all optoms are S Asian), i've told them to go and train but yeah, right. Similarly i'd walk to work on a Saturday with the dog, and i'd walk past a car wash place, bustling with them working their way through washing a queue of cars and i'd wonder what mine were doing and i'd realise, they'd be at home in their onesies playing on their Playstation or X box. I'm not sure what the point of this rant is but Christ, most of the indigenous are lazy and entitled and if the country is 'taken over' its on them. And potentially deserved.