04 November 2014

Reactions to Channel 4's 'Make Leicester British'

Channel 4’s Make Leicester British took eight people from different backgrounds and asked them to spend a week together. The resulting documentary, which some have unfavourably compared to a multicultural episode of Big Brother, has predictably divided opinion. Ciaran Fagan gets reaction and gives an overview.

[TOP RATED COMMENT] .... I don't thing they [Somalians] realise that there isn't a never ending money pit, and that all the money being paid to support them is reducing the funds in the treasury. Maybe they should go to back to Somalia and ask the government to give them shelter, benefits, new car without working for it.

[ANOTHER] As I have said elsewhere, what ever happened to integration? Multi-culturism just means we have a number of parallel communities that don't mix and lead separate lives in a fractured society.

[ANOTHER] .... She's very loud and proud about being a Somalian so why doesn't she go back and let the Somalian government give her a home a car and educate and feed her children. She wants want Britain can give her, but she doesn't want to integrate or contribute. [The Leicester Mercury] Read more