Al-Muhajiroun: It is home to extremists of all sides: The founder of the nationalist English Defence League is from there, and the banned jihadist organization Al-Muhajiroun once had a base there, according to Globe and Mail. The Luton Town soccer club has a genuinely famous gang of hooligans attached to it, known as the Men In Gear or Migs. Now it is has high unemployment and a higher-than-usual proportion of recent immigrants: In fact it is one of three towns in Britain to have a white-British minority. It basically a battleground, this place. Clarke giddily depressed poem Evidently Chickentown is a liturgical cataloguing of everything wrong with a gloomy British backwater: The bloody pies are bloody old/ The bloody chips are bloody cold/ The bloody beer is bloody flat/ The bloody flats have bloody rats. Its festival, slated for March 5 to April 2, will involve performances by John Cooper Clarke, the performance poet famous for reciting his despairing lines in his hardscrabble Northern accent.
(www.immigrantscanada.com). As
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