by Gill 27 Replies latest jw friends
nelly! I can just imagine those passengers shouting at the bus driver! East European men are spectacularly stubborn as well! Poor bloke! Poor passengers!
The thing is, it's really hard for a young British person to get a job if they haven't got a GCSE pass in English. Yet the Polish seem to be able to get a job without even being able to speak or understand the language!
The whole situation has gone beyond fascical!
http://www.lep.co.uk/viewarticle2.aspx?sectionid=5054&ArticleID=1851888 UK crime alert when Romania, Bulgaria join EU-paper LONDON (Reuters) - Theft, people trafficking and other crimes may rise in Britain after Romania and Bulgaria join the EU in January, according to a leaked memo drawn up by two government ministers, the Sun newspaper said on Wednesday. Romanian gangs already commit 80 to 85 percent of all cashpoint crime in Britain, it cited the memo as warning.
Referring to the accession of the two countries as "A2", the document was quoted as saying: "The police have completed assessments of the potential threat of A2 on all levels of UK crime.
"There is a concern that free movement will encourage people from Bulgaria and Romania to come to the UK, drawn towards organised criminal activities already well established in the UK."
The leaked memo focussed on the impact on crime, in particular cashpoint offences, street violence, people and sex trafficking, fraud and forgery, the Sun said.
The paper said Immigration Minister Liam Byrne and EU Minister Geoff Hoon compiled the memo, which has been shown to Prime Minister Tony Blair and other senior colleagues.
A spokeswoman at Blair's Downing Street office declined to comment.
Gill
I don't like the UK.
I also believe that Enoch Powell was right in his infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech.
Our immigration policies are way too lax.
I don't hate Poles, Bangladeshi's, Pakistani's or any other race but i do hate 'sectarianism' and opening up our borders to anyone who wishes to come is encouraging sectarian behaviour, where different nationalities stay glued together in their own ghetto's not even bothering to learn the indigenous language. That is bad for the unity of any nation. Integration is the key.
Pre-requisites should be firmly laid down. I have great admiration for Australia's firm stand on immigration.
Britain will pay a very heavy price for its vote winning (really?) political correctness.
Peace
Lowden
Sounds a lot like the racial problems we're having in the US due to illegal Mexican immigration. Lots of white folks are up in arms about Mexicans taking jobs from US citizens. I frankly don't mind because Mexican people need to earn a living too and they take jobs that a lot of Americans won't - like picking fruit in the fields. But, it also effects a lot of other low-skill sectors, like construction.
Lowden - I agree with all that you've said. Even the most rational, fair and even minded person minds being thrown out of their job so that someone with no skills, from another country can take it from them.
Why should an Englishman have to have qualifications in English to get a job and someone from another country not even be able to speak the language take the job from under him?
I have European blood. I was born in England. However, I see the unfairness on the sides of the indiginous and the immigrants.
The UK government is totally senseless.
Let's just say I shall not be voting for Labour at the next election!
Our soldiers are off fighting an unnecessary war and dying for it and at home, peoples jobs, livelihoods and hopes are disappearing from them because of Labours stupid political correctness.
Mr Blair! Did you forget about us all?
We'll remind you that we're still here at the next election!
And in fairness to the immigrant workers coming to the UK, the government owes it to them to make sure they are protected from exploitation and also protected from physical harm!
One of the 'benefits' of EU expansion is the import of cheap workers into countries like the UK and driving down the wages of native workers. Companies are allowed to get away with murder (Potters Bar train crash). Quite frankly I have lost all faith in politics, politicans and governments. They serve the interests of the powerful minorities and try to make us feel like we get a choice. The only choice for us is to decide which bunch of ex lawyers we are going to let screw us over for the following 4 or 5 years. I am really sorry to hear about your husband's situation Gill. It's not just the Employers that are to blame though, the Unions have sat on their arses for too long as well. Strange how all the 'progress' we hear about always means the loss of fair and decent working conditions for us isn't it?
jstalin - wait till it affects the high and highest skills workers also.
We in the UK had a horrific shortage of dentists as the govt wasn't training enough also then not paying them enough and they had become private and not NHS dentists.
Scarborough was notoriously short of dentists so they employed a woman from Holland.
Turned out she'd been struck off back in Holland for something or other!
The most skilled nurses and so highly paid nurses in the UK are being made redundant and are having to go abroad to work. We have plenty of low paid nurses and so not so highly skilled, many from abroad and some still needing help with their English.
I won't go into the fiasco at the local hospital when my husband had an eye operation and the nurses didn't speak English properly!!!!
My hair is still standing on end!!
Mutz ! It's very upsetting when you hear that the unions have their hands tied behind their backs!
The Police are extremely heavy handed with any kind of protest now....no matter what and you need to watch a policeman doesn't decide to crack your head open with a baton if you strike!
What the hell happened to this country??
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/10/nimm10.xml
the least they could do is offer them a free plane home, the sangatte holding centre was shut in 2002 and theyre still camped on a bit of wasteland climbing onto moving lorries just to get across the channel.
i've absolutely no objection to people seeking asylum for safety reasons and i'm really pleased that the ghurkas are finally being given a better deal and able to move here but we're getting bombarded by shitloads of economic immigrants and its causing problems, i wouldn't be surprised if the BNP gets its best turnout yet at the next elections.
The same thing Gill, just wait and see. Until people decide to act en mass and do something, those with the power to do so will claw back all the gains our parents and grandparents etc fought and died for. I remember in the 80s how we managed to get sick pay if we agreed to go to a monthly pay system. Now all those things are 'inefficient', but only for us of course. :) Btw, I worked for 20 years as an Engineer so I can appreciate your husbands predicament.
