Reply to: I haven't got a clue

[wendigo100]

Personally I feel privileged and quite proud that foreigners choose to live here.

And I feel privileged and quite proud that burglars chose to nick my golf clubs.

And people like that have a vote... (sighs)

[Dalek Supreme]

Like most reflex New Labour voters, he has difficulty seeing the relationship between cause and effect.

[DimPrawn]

Typical Labour voter on BBC feedback page regarding immigration and the fact that all controls have now been removed by Labour:

Personally I feel privileged and quite proud that foreigners choose to live here.

Reading the BBC's news page it clearly states that no report into illegal immigrant numbers has ever been commissioned before.

Although obviously limits need to be set properly in concrete. Our economy, although thriving, might struggle to support them all.

Luke Welly, Somerset

WTF?

[Gold Dalek]

It's amazing how popular a country becomes if you remove all immigration barriers and offer free housing, benefits, education and health facilities.

Such a country becomes popular as the destination of choice for no hopers, criminals and general free loaders.

Weird that.

Should be even more interesting when the Bulgarians get here

[DimPrawn]

It's amazing how popular a country becomes if you remove all immigration barriers and offer free housing, benefits, education and health facilities.

Such a country becomes popular as the destination of choice for no hopers, criminals and general free loaders.

Weird that.

[wendigo100]

A net influx of over 100k a year, no surprise there!

Ay, and you need a new town like Luton to be built every year to accomodate them.

And that doesn't include the balance of legal immigrants minus emigrants which, I believe on last year's figures, comes to yet another Luton every year. Plus roads and reservoirs.

Luton - coming to open countryside near you!

[ladymuck]

following the results of the 2001 Census, the Office for National Statistics recently produced a revised set of international migration estimates. From these, it appears that in 2001 about 480,000 people arrived to live in the UK for at least a year and 308,000 left to live elsewhere

A net influx of over 100k a year, no surprise there!

[DimPrawn]

Once they are in it's fecking hard to get rid of them.

Can you imagine a 100,000 forced deportations per year?

The lefty liberal bleeding heart brigade would be crying into their cardies.

[xoggoth]

Illegal migrants are entering the UK at a rate of 100,000 a year. UN figures.

[Mustang]

Everything I read about and see in "Great Britain" confirms my plan to leave the country as a sound one.

I totally agree!!

[ladymuck]

Indeed.

Though I'm not too sure of these new CyberPersons, they seem altogether too hu-man for my taste... and the flavour of machine oil is a little off-putting...

You could suck their brains out like like people do with monkeys?

[ladymuck]

Lady Muck (and Mr Prawn)

Do you "live" in Malta (Cyprus) and commute to UK for work during the week or are there local IT jobs in those locations?

thanks

Not yet! I'm planning on heading out there within the next two years. In malta there is huge plan for a technology business park to be built that will provide around 5,000 IT jobs. Locally they only produce a couple of hundred qualified IT people a year so there'll be a plenty on offer soon. Do a search for SmartCity@Malta - it's being built by the same people behind the Dubai Internet City.

I am also planning on popping back to work in the UK under the 90 day rule although I have to iron out he wrinkles in confirming (avoiding!) any UK tax liability.

[Dalek Supreme]

And as we say on Gorn, the only good human is a Kentucky Fried Hu-man...

"To Serve Man" is a cookbook...

Ah, a like minded citizen of the universe with a healthy attitude to humanity. I'm sure you are a Gorn we could do business with.

[DimPrawn]

Lady Muck (and Mr Prawn)

Do you "live" in Malta (Cyprus) and commute to UK for work during the week or are there local IT jobs in those locations?

thanks

I currently live in the UK, but own property in Cyprus.

Commuting to Cyprus would be expensive and time consuming (the flight is nearly 4 1/2 hours).

I don't wish to work or live in the UK, so have no interest in commuting.

I have a plan B (Internet based) that today generates enough income to live on in Cyprus and so will be "retiring" from IT contracting. Coupled with other investments I should have a similarly (low) standard of living to that which I "enjoy" in the UK, after UK taxes have taken their "fair" share.

HTH

[eternalnomad]

Lady Muck (and Mr Prawn)

Do you "live" in Malta (Cyprus) and commute to UK for work during the week or are there local IT jobs in those locations?

thanks