Reply to: 'Almost 600,000' new EU migrants since 2004

[Asterix]

Top man

Their PM John Howard went on record saying that : 'Australians welcome all cultures, however their predominant one is the Anglo-Saxon Christian model' He is one of the longest serving PMs and has been elected 4 or 5 times in a row. He has vowed to carry on for another term. Good on him !

[expat]

I think you lot are taking this stuff far too seriously

you need to chill out, share the love and accept, it is not your Britain, but everybody's Britain



personally, I think Australia are setting an example to the rest of the world and admire their policies on these issues

They used to have something called the White Australia policy......

[Joe Black]

BBC's 'Have Your Say' section, and select 'Readers Recommended'...

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thre...613&#paginator

It's unrelentingly against new labour policies.

According to this chap's wonderful PC logic, we're also guilty of making them emigrate en-mass to the UK as well. No doubt it's our fault the Polish economy was in such a mess in the first place.

"I haven't seen one post questioning the morality of tempting a country's skilled labour to leave. My wife's polish and back home there are NO builders, doctors, architects etc.
Is it OK for us to squabble about UK immigration without ONCE considering the impact on the home nation.
Remember all the the 'brain-drain' from the UK in the 70's? We're now the catylst for that.
And taking doctors from the poorest countries (India, Africa, etc) after they spent money training them AIN'T RIGHT!

Col, Mobberley Cheshire"

[Mordac]

I particurarly liked the way that the fact that ".. migration had exerted a downward push on wage rates .." was presented as a GOOD thing !

We need to import some low wage Polish leftie journos, that would put paid to this nonsense.

[CaptainUnderpants]

Pass the sick bag !

How puke-making -

We all know that the 'immigration is good for us' liberal orthodoxy that Mr B Liar etc were foisting on the nation was comprehensively demolished by Andrew Green and MigrationWatch, using the Govts. own figures.

Unwilling to abandon their ideological dugouts, the lefties at the Independent are mounting a rearguard action to try and salvage some if the credibility of this tired old argument. Here's a rather cringe-worthy sample :

How immigrants sustain Britain's economic growth

I particurarly liked the way that the fact that ".. migration had exerted a downward push on wage rates .." was presented as a GOOD thing !

W@nkers !

Capn

[milanbenes]

I think you lot are taking this stuff far too seriously

you need to chill out, share the love and accept, it is not your Britain, but everybody's Britain



personally, I think Australia are setting an example to the rest of the world and admire their policies on these issues


bottom line is folks, the UK is going down and it won't get better

you can take it or leave it

Milan.

[stackpole]

BBC's 'Have Your Say' section, and select 'Readers Recommended'...

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thre...613&#paginator

It's unrelentingly against new labour policies.

That is a top link mcq. It seems that the masses are waking up at last!

They are all racists of course.

[Angela_D]

Blair and his crony advisers simply have a profound HATE of Britain, the British and all that means. It isn't sophisticated enough for them. They have their middle class PC guilt running through them.

Their aim is to destroy the nation state, national values and dilute everything once and for all.

We can defend ourselves to some extent against the Islamo-fascists but what can be doen with Blair ?

There is something rotten about Blairite / New Lie ideology. If and when they ever wake up in 30 years .... it will be too late.

4th most densely populated nation and rising. Unemployment quickly rising. Ancient Green belts being destroyed forever. Too many other issues. I want my country back. If Blair etc don't like it, they should **** off to their Tuscany villas and see how Italians deal with poor immigrants.

It would be wrong of me to write here what I think should be done with these politicians and influencers as I could get into trouble.

[mcquiggd]

Despite the BBC slowly beginning to admit there might be a 'downside' to vast population movements to the UK, compare and contrast any article from the BBC on the subject, then got to the 'Have Your Say' section, and select 'Readers Recommended'...

http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thre...613&#paginator

It's unrelentingly against new labour policies.

[hyperD]

The Fiscal Contribution of Migrants. (Revised)

I see Andrew Green has been busy - this just out:

A Home Office report in 2002 claimed that migrants contributed £2.5 billion more in taxes in 1999/2000 than they received in benefits and State services.This claim has been continually repeated to support the assertion that the government’s policy of large-scale immigration is economically beneficial for the country. This claim, central to their case for massive levels of immigration, is now disproved.

http://www.migrationwatch.co.uk/Brie...nts_Aug_06.asp

[GreenerGrass]

Prostitute - 97,020

[Troll]

"Filling the skills shortage".

A typical New Lie statement which leaves out yet another caveat, "for the minimum wage".

Here are the top 20 occupations in which registered workers from EU accession countries were employed between July 2004 and June 2006:
Factory worker - 95,865 registered workers

Warehouse Operative - 25,215

Packer - 24,130

Kitchen and catering assistants - 24,090

Cleaner, domestic staff - 20,430

Farm worker/ Farm hand - 18,105

Waiter, waitress - 15,840

Maid / Room attendant (hotel) - 13,835

Care assistants and home carers - 12,610

Sales and retail assistants - 10,535

Labourer, building - 10,525

Crop harvester - 8,020

Food processing operative (fruit / veg) - 6,295

Bar staff - 6,030

Food processing operative (meat) - 5,030

Chef, other - 4,845

Driver, HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicle) - 3,620

Administrator, general - 3,600

Fruit picker (farming) - 3,580

Driver, delivery van - 2,695

TOTAL TOP 20 - 314,880

Other occupations/not stated - 73,385

[Hart-floot]

Low paid British workers are also seeing their real wages decrease - where do they go?

Check the unemployment statistics. Supposedly growing economy yet unemployment rises by 350,000

I guess it had to happen, Gordon Brown starts by shafting the contractor/free lance community with IR35 and ends up shafting New Labour's low paid core voters

Next on the hit list - making teachers and nurses redundant

[oraclesmith]

....damn......

[hyperD]

If wages are low, then property must be cheap out there. Why don't we all club together and buy a village ?

You are Scott Alexander and I claim my free Bulgarian village called hyperD-ski.