Hey Settle, welcome to the boards and of course welcome to the UK (unless you've been here a while in which case you know what I mean lol).
I dare say your English is better than a lot of the chavs you seen around town, if you don't know the word "chav" you will soon enough.
If you look in AW some girls do say that they'll only see Caucasians, others will list races they don't see, as has been mentioned often times when a girl says they won't see "Asians" they don't include Chinese or Japanese etc. in fact, there's one profile I've seen where the girl says she won't see Blacks or Asians but will see Chinese. I'll see if I can dig this out for you.
Anyway, if a girl suddenly stops replying after finding out you're not local then move on, there's plenty of girls out there who will see you.
Good luck and have fun.