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This also happened when Trump said there were no-go zones in some European cities. The MSM instantly "fact checked" his claims and said he was lying. Fast forward a couple of years and now even those countries' governments admit that those zones do in fact exist.

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I live in (as I remember it) the prime example here. Birmingham UK. There were many articles about it some years ago. So, to fact check from the ground, there are no no-go areas. We're multi-cultural, and we do it well.

Na mate, you have sharia law, I heard it on the tele. /s

I can't believe people are still sprouting this crap.

Considering the main hobby of Glaswegians is fighting each other over football games, does that mean it's possible to not be violent enough to belong there?

Are there any in the UK? I've not heard of them.

There used be several in London but I assume gentrification has changed that.

Not really. I think it boils down that most cities (and their areas) in the UK are mixed: so you have few streets of expensive houses, and next to it could be a council estate.. In Paris for example, it's not so mixed and you will get whole districts that are poor and deprived. These districts are usually inhabited by immigrants, and forgotten by local govs. Hence the so called "no-go" zones.

>Fast forward a couple of years and now even those countries' governments admit that those zones do in fact exist.

They admitted that they exist before Trump became president!

<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security-police/fr...>

<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-terror-...>

France literally has official names and policies for those areas, but all French politicians were like "what the hell is Trump talking about, is he crazy, ha ha funny Americans"

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