Plan to let 50 million African immigrants into EU

[expat]

True - but let's not forget Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island, the hushed-up fire at (then) Windscale, etc. Hardly encouraging.

And the radioactive particles that keep turning up on the beach near Dounreay. OK so you don't go sunbathing there: don't you think they are in the ocean too? In the fish? being carried round Britain by the current?

All the old technology had problems but the current technology is perfectly safe. Just trust us.

[OwlHoot]

True - but let's not forget Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island, the hushed-up fire at (then) Windscale, etc. Hardly encouraging.

Can't vouch for the first two, but the Windscale disaster was caused almost entirely by politicians (Harold Macmillan's lot I think) being in a tearing hurry to get the thing running at full power and in fact above its design capacity.

At that time I think the reason was to get materials for nukes, as they were desperate to finish a 1 megaton bomb (which was the prerequisite to join the Yank research on something like equal terms).

But the longer the Government dithers today the more likely the same will happen all over again when they finally have to start building new power stations, on the cheap no doubt, in a desperate rush to forestall the blackouts and so on which will otherwise beset us in a few years the way things are going with the existing ageing crap being used.

Edit: Did a quick check, and there's an interesting article on Windscale here. The leak happened in 1957.

[Doggy Styles]

I thought the French were going to build our nuclear power stations for us.

[lilelvis2000]

The I-Robot thing is a fantasy for at least another century. What Europe will need is more workers to fill the demographic timebomb caused by Europeans choosing not to have kids. It's a very simple choice, if you don't have more kids you will get that mob turning up

A lot of people selfishly do not like or want kids. The collective result will be a massive influx of aliens - so whats worse, more kids who will grow up with our culture and values or these immigrant types. European women need more support and encouragement to bear children, combined with favourable tax treatment for families. It would then be possible to avoid this coming invasion. France and Scando countries have quite progress tax / social care for encouragement of families.

Caused by the movement to have more women work (lowering overall wages) and materialism - dinks are very well off and can buy that beemer they've always wanted.

So now the government has attempted to bribe people with subsidised nursery care and 1 year off work. IMHO - lets turn back the clock and have women at home with the kids....everyone knows its the best way to raise children!

But I suppose we need cheap labour - aha! Lets bring in loads of Africans!

[tay]

Good plan, open the borders to the EU, it is only fair.

[BlasterBates]

The fact that the UK opted out of Schengen won't make a blind bit of difference, other than for immigrants to spend an addtional 20 seconds showing their visa/passport at the border.

[Purple Dalek]

The fact that the UK opted out of Schengen won't make a blind bit of difference, other than for immigrants to spend an addtional 20 seconds showing their visa/passport at the border.

Don't need a passport, my aged mum waved an old co-op stamp book on the way back from holiday last time.

[BlasterBates]

I don't know where the Daily Express get their info from , but the idea that any of the other EU countries are battling to get 50 million African immigrants, sounds to me complete bollox.

[Cyberman]

If they cut public sector pensions, they would not need so many people to pay exhorbitant taxes in the future.
Nobody wants to work all of their life to pay other people's pensions and then not have one themselves, but that is precisely the situation that we are in.

It's only fair !!

[Purple Dalek]

Wasn't the pepper pot suit a bit of a giveaway?

Either that, the headscarf, of the prospect of her emptying her volumonous handbag to find it intimidated the young chap.