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and this is where they

shop every Saturday.

It's just like an old petticoat

lane market, sort of years ago.

How much are they, darling?

(speaks Spanish)

What I like - it's so relaxing

down here, Michael.

You just walk along, and things

are happening, the music's playing.

There's an English pub there

you can just go in,

and it's really home from

home but with the weather.

From here - it's

about 200 yards along -

There's going to be

all commercial units here.

My intentions would be to turn one

of these units into a sports bar.

We're putting all tellies

round in a sports sort of way,

football shirts and

all that memorabilia.

This is tomorrow for me.

This is my future here.

If I happen to get

some sort of business

and I was to bring my Nicky

or bring my Jody

and my Perri out here,

then I'll have

the best of both worlds.

I'll have my family here,

plus, the kids could be schooled.

Well, they can get what

they want, can't they?

If you have got to work for it,

and it's them who can just

ask for money and get it,

and they can buy what they want.

I feel that the economy

will bust within five years

because people like myself have been

giving and giving all the time.

We're hardworking,

family type of people

who have contributed everything

under this Tony Blair's government.

We have to work, we have

to maintain the mortgage,

we have to bring up

the families,

and I feel that I've had enough.

I've had enough of

working all these hours.

Congestion charges,

40 a week now.

Zero tolerance with the police

with parking tickets.

We're paying.

Now someone's gettin'

it at our expense.

Does it make you sad

that you're going to have to

leave your roots, your country?

I can't even go out in the

East End now to have a drink.

The pubs are literally

closing down.

It's - other cultures are buyin'

all my old tradition up.

Everyone likes their own culture,

and I'm no different

from anybody else,

but being in England,

if you suggest this,

you are targeted as,

you know, an oddball.

"Oh, you mustn't say that."

Safety by numbers, eh,

is that what they call it?

On the contrary,

I would say, I'm sorry.

If you don't like it,

it's not to be offensive,

it's just to let you know

that my way of being brought up

was all my own people,

and I like being with me own people,

and I'm a traditionalist.

How much do you want

play for? Fiver?

10 pesetas.

Whoa!

(Michael) What's the dream now?

It is to be happy, which I am.

I am happy now being healthy

with all my family.

We all want happy and health for our

family. Anything else will be a bonus.

And that's all I really want.

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