Originally posted by Mich the Tester
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostWill the many who do go back home have contributed enough to the economy to pay for their kids' free schooling I wonder?
I don't disagree that sooner or later birth rates among minorities will fall, just as eventually they will all integrate and become part of a more uniform society. But this takes decades or even centuries, why must we keep recreating the same problems over and over again?' Some of them use the first fence on the Moroccan side as a catapult, to hurl themselves on to the third fence, from where they can jump down into Melilla.
I'm not saying migration doesn't bring problems, but the current approach to dealing with it looks to me a bit like the Russian Tsars sitting in their palaces and ordering a few more guards to stand at the gate and a few builders to build the walls a bit higher, while the huddled masses outside become more and more desperate and before long, aggressive. Just blocking out migrants is a head-in-sand approach. We have to be a lot smarter.
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There was an interesting article somewhere, regarding the future of mankind in that eventually we'll all (the educated ones) end up the same colour and far taller (hairless bodies too) through centuries of racial interbreeding.
The underclass will be small and look like trolls
I hope by then we've got over the parochial attitudes we currently have.
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Polish migration is permanent and how much will turn out to be transitory or circular. Poland's economic growth would suggest the pull factors over there are growing and the trend may stop or slowly reverse. Polish culture may go through a similar secularisation to Irish, Italian or Spanish culture leading to a similar fall in birth rates.
I don't disagree that sooner or later birth rates among minorities will fall, just as eventually they will all integrate and become part of a more uniform society. But this takes decades or even centuries, why must we keep recreating the same problems over and over again?
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Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
Yes, Poles have a higher birth rate than other EU nationalities, although I wonder if that's offset by Italians (who form a large proportion of EU migrants recently) having very low birth rates. I also wonder how much Polish migration is permanent and how much will turn out to be transitory or circular. Poland's economic growth would suggest the pull factors over there are growing and the trend may stop or slowly reverse. Polish culture may go through a similar secularisation to Irish, Italian or Spanish culture leading to a similar fall in birth rates. Or possibly the urbanisation of migrants leading to lower birth rates in the second generation. While the numbers are unknowns, what is pretty certain is that a big rich city like London will attract national AND international migrants and it's better for everyone if governments take account of that.
I also think Britain might reduce the incentives to less desirable migrants by reinstating the difference between residence based benefits (like income support) and contribution based benefits, which would enable the UK to quite legitimately send away EU migrants who can't support themselves without resorting to the state (excepting of course contribution based employee insurance), as the Belgian government has just done, telling 2000 Dutch people to leave who were not working, not contributing but claiming residence based benefits. This was a true bugger up by the Labour government in Britain. Free money, apparently!
But then it's difficult to comment as I can't read the article!
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Is it? Are birth rates among other EU nationalities much higher than among Britons?Official data show that more than a quarter of all births are to non-UK born women, which has boosted the population aged 0 to 8 years by nearly 300,000 since the last census in 2001. Polish women overtook those from Pakistan as the single largest group of foreign-born mothers in 2010 and 2011, accounting for more than 10 per cent of births within this group.
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Originally posted by Platypus View PostInteresting. It's my feeling that any attempt to reform or renegotiate our relationship with the EU will quickly hit a brick wall, but for now it suits the politicians to talk about reform as it seems to offer a "third way". Smoke & Mirrors IMO. We should leave the EU.
But then if you live in the UK, hear the conversations in the UK, and primarily read the UK's largely eurosceptic press (on the right at least), you wouldn't get that impression.
Anyway, I'm fooking bored of the whole thing; let's face it, facts aren't going to determine the matter, emotions are, and there's no arguing with emotions. Although the timing of a referendum or future election will be interesting given UKIP's demographics.
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostWell, let's wait and see what can be negotiated. I think a lot of you will be confounded by the results, because I actually see a lot of what's going on on this side of the North Sea. But let's not let knowledge get in the way of a good old harrumph.
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Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View PostThe only way we'd have a chance of reform is we could kick France and Germany out of the EU they hold all the strings, realistically leaving or at least threatening to leave (and meaning it) is our only option
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Originally posted by Gittins Gal View PostFor the hundredth time, I AM NOT, NEVER HAVE BEEN, AND NEVER WILL BE this Gricer bot that you're all so obsessed with. Neither, for that matter, am I a female impersonator.
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostOh well if you care about accuracy, you might have noticed that I am not an 'EU cheerleader', I simply hold a more nuanced opinion on the in/out (false) dichotomy than some others; I call for Britain to stay in and reform instead of leaving and trying to do some deal afterwards. That's not exactly a wholesale approval of everything the EU does, now, is it?
But then I suspect that accuracy doesn't matter.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostYou can't overestimate people's stupidity.
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Originally posted by Gittins Gal View PostFor the hundredth time, I AM NOT, NEVER HAVE BEEN, AND NEVER WILL BE this Gricer bot that you're all so obsessed with. Neither, for that matter, am I a female impersonator.
But then I suspect that accuracy doesn't matter.
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostLots of factors in NHS problems. On the other hand, the problem of shortage of school places really is largely to do with EU membership.
Immigration is causing shortage of school places. But the BBC doesn't want to know – Telegraph BlogsLast edited by Mich the Tester; 16 April 2014, 10:29.
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostOr bring back Gricer.
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