Bored with this thread now!
Year 2020
Not that unrealistic methinks, a nice little sketch. The broken English is spot on.
Ta!
Disliked it, smug, and racist, and not very funny.
But so what's to come
I liked it & did not see it as racist.
I think I agree with Sooty I'm afraid.
If it's not just plain racist, an alternative reading is that it's a relatively clever skit flipping round the traditional roles we have today of the bearded Asian being wrongfully automatically stopped and searched by a white man who has "English" ancestry, and showing this up to be nonsense.
I'm not sure it's intended this way, however.
*If* it's not, it's pretty diabolical and only plays to people's childish prejudices - which we all have on some level, but are best left untapped by unsophisticated commentary like this.
I'd like to hear how those who liked it read it, how it was intended to be read, and how it's not racist.
Perhaps 3020 would have been a better setting because by then this will be an Islam state and won't be called England any more
Quote: bushbaby @ February 27, 2008, 11:20 PMPerhaps 3020 would have been a better setting because by then this will be an Islam state and won't be called England any more
Deutschland uber alles!
Gah by that stage we will be paying Rumanian and Polish police, to beat the Muslims silly. Whilst we rot fecculently on the dole, in crappy social housing, whilst patient oriental care staff change our diapers, and food bags.
If it seems that Muslims are taking over, it is because we don't believe in anything. Replace Rowan Williams with General Sir Mike Jackson, and lets have a holy crusade against France.
One anarchist phrase I can really relate to,
"When did you consent to live like this,"
Many liberals have their head firmly in the sand. Lebonon was a christian country as recent as the 70s and must have turned their backs for a moment and I guess Kosovons did the same
"BSG Forums: for all your sophisticated socio-political history!"
The sketch was OK but the critiques are comedy genius. 
I can't see how the sketch is racist as its mocking a policy not any particular race. Anyway consult Jake How, he's our resident race relations commisioner 
From the dialogue of "broken english" it seemed more 1970 than 2020.
I can see the point here that we're being overrun by immigrants but again re:1970 is it still Indians and Pakistanis that form part of the current wave of immigrants or citizens of the former Soviet Bloc?
And on a practical note, how can they be frog marched away when they arrived by plane and with passports. What difference does it make about tight borders if they've arrived in a legitimate manner.
Maybe you should set the sketch in Nineteenth Century India when it was the English exploiting them for their resources, it make more sense.
The problem as I see it stems from that it essentially assumes Asians aren't "properly" English. Or that aged (presumably) white folks are "more" English. (Unless the Asian guy still lives in Asia. I doubt this is the case.) That is racism, guys. The portrayal of the Asian and the Scot as casual English-haters preys on people's bigotry.
The voice seemed like an all too easy pot-shot as well. "Lets laugh at Pakis, they're taking over!"
I'm not saying it's intentionally racist, but it does seem to betray an underlying lack of sensitivity and inherent prejudice.
As such the race commentary isn't sophisticated enough for me to find it funny or catch me off-guard. That's all.