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We're Only An Island

from The Other Place by Billie Bottle & The Multiple

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Cannon Street, Dover
10:20-10:40, 6th May 2015

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It’s like you having a party and you say to me right you’re invited now but it’s not a big house bring one guest and I turn up with about four guests - if everybody done that before you know it you be so crowded you wouldn’t know what to do would you?

In a way that’s over the top but in a way it’s like this country. People say ah come in, we’re only an island. Don’t get me wrong immigration is good, it’s a good thing I mean if we bring all these people in from West Indies or whatever, I think immigration’s great I mean...a cosmopolitan place is brilliant I love it you know but when you see the facts and the attitude of some people is like ‘we’ve got a goddamn right to be here
you know who are you, you only live here sort of thing’.

And maybe I’m all wrong and I’m a bit, I’m a crazy mixed up kid. When people from other countries arrive and get jobs it just winds people up ‘cause they just think oh you know, the working class people if you’re working (you might not find this PC) the white heterosexual british male just seems to be on the slag heap you know. It seems like we might be being racist but we’re not racist you know. I mean people are people but when the doors are open and the borders are just open….

No I haven’t spoken to any immigrants, this is just things I’ve seen on TV…

I’m mean I’m not saying, I’m not one of these people slumming down the docks and going with a gun saying ‘oi you, what you gonna do, you gonna get any work? you get back’.

The thing is that, especially young people and that if you’re not, if it’s
your first time voting, it’s very confusing, really because now in this this and this sort of…yeah it’s like a very cosmopolitan world, well this country is and you think…it’s going along nicely and then someone
comes along and says ‘Ere, we don’t want yous ‘ere, they’re taking all our money’, they’re doing this they’re doing, do you know what they’re
doing? Don’t let them get off the bloody boat, blow their ‘eads off.’ And people saying ‘God, he’s saying some truth there’ and then someone else turns up and says ‘look, we need Europe for this
and that’ and you think yeah we do and then, so where I’m sat in,
it’s very confusin’.

As I say I’ll come to vote but I’ve got a couple of manifestos and going through today anyway.

People say ‘oh you vote that, you shouldn’t vote that’ it’s their, their
mind, it’s your right as a human. I was speaking to this lady in Dover last week and I said we’re getting ready for the election she said ‘I don’t vote’ - What? Why? Do you not realise that people like Emiline Pankhurst and that, and that poor lady that threw herself under the horse at the derby or whatever, I said ‘they fought like mad for you to get a vote’ I said ‘if women didn’t have a vote you’d be playing
merry hell’ what are you doing now? I’m not voting ‘cause yeah their all the same, I said well think about it, just think oh it’s only one vote, I said if everybody thought that…

I’ve gotta read this stuff I’ve got, the thing is I’m a bit open minded at the moment.

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from The Other Place, released May 14, 2021
Written by Billie Bottle.
Arranged by Billie Bottle with The Multiple.

BB: Spoken Voice
VGD: Flute
RH: Alto Sax
MW: Violin
LF: Xylophone, Synth, Treatments

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