| Topic: | Re:provocative article in Telegraph re Acton | |
| Posted by: | David Lawes | |
| Date/Time: | 03/02/13 22:36:00 |
| Perhaps we need to take a step back and try to understand how Jane Kelly thinks. I visited The Vale today and can understand why she feels as she does. I also visited Churchfield Road – the bit of Acton that’s left out of her story - and sampled the delights of the Creperies café (very pleasant if a bit pricey). For some people the upsides of a place like Acton, however well promoted, will never compensate the downsides. Being able to eat gelato and cappuccino in a pleasant homely café in a gentrified street won’t compensate the fact that, a short bus ride away, there’s a parade of shops that look as if they belong in a far-flung continent. So they will write the truth, but a truth that fits their line and their line only. Dare I suggest that negative accusations of bigotry and the like are not helpful? What’s needed is an understanding of what’s behind her way of thinking, even if that appraisal results in a conclusion that she is looking for something that is simply unobtainable anywhere in the 21st century globalised world. I’d have thought that the last time anyone could have gone to a UK hospital and find it occupied by an Anglo-Saxon majority was before the war. |