Now you've just confused me - lol
No I meant the figures stating the number of illegals CURRENTLY in the UK have been grossly underestimated.
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Chocoholic wrote:Now you've just confused me - lol
No I meant the figures stating the number of illegals CURRENTLY in the UK have been grossly underestimated.
Immigration: The facts we are never told
* There are between 310,000 and 570,000 illegal immigrants in the UK, according to Home Office estimates
* If allowed to live legally, they would pay more than £1bn in tax each year
* Deporting them would cost £4.7bn and leave acute shortages of cleaners, care workers and hotel staff cIf allowed to stay, the net benefit of nearly £6bn would pay for 300 new schools, 12 district hospitals or 200,000 new nurses
* Nearly 50% of foreign-born immigrants leave Britain within five years
* Migrants fill 90% of low-paid jobs in London and account for 29% of the capital's workforce. London is the UK's fastest-growing region
* Legal migrants comprise 8.7% of the population, but contribute 10.2% of all taxes. Each immigrant pays an average of £7,203 in tax, compared with £6,861 for non-migrant workers
* There were 25,715 people claiming asylum last year. If allowed to work, they would generate £123m for the Treasury
shafique wrote:Well, that's EU laws for you. Brits can go and live in the South of France and use the medical facilities etc there, the wives of Danish citizens can claim benefits anywhere in the EU..
Would the Mail kick up a fuss if the couple were blond, blue-eyed Danes? Perhaps, perhaps not.The judges at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg said Mrs Ibrahim must be given a home because 'a parent caring for the child of a migrant worker who is in education in the host member state has a right of residence in that state'.
'That right is not conditional on the parent having sufficient resources not to become a burden on the social assistance system.'
England once colonized much of the developing world, refused to integrate with the locals, treated the natives as inferiors, stole much of their wealth, and with much pride and arrogance beat into the locals the notion that all things English incl. the language are superior to their own language and culture. Look at the Indians. Even today they take pride in being able to speak ENGLISH well instead of their own language, and prize fair skin far above their own darker skin. As far as I'm concern, England now being swallowed whole by immigration is poetic justice. It is simply being reverse colonized by its former colonies. Reap what you sow England!
shafique wrote:Hey arnie - I hear you.
I know many people who seek asylum in Germany, get approved, live and work there for a few years and then come to the UK. When they arrive they know how to milk the system for what it's worth - they have local councils paying their rent in houses in leafy Surrey. I didn't know you could do that - but they know the system.
The opportunities for making money in the UK are better than other countries (who have better medical facilities and education - don't kid yourself that they come for this) and they are following the money.
Powell was wrong in my opinion - he was no different from the Brits who railed against the Hugeonots, the Irish, the Jews, the West Indians, the Ugandan Indians, the Bangladeshis, the Pakistanis etc etc. Now it is the Poles and other Eastern Europeans and the Nigerians. If you study history, you'll realise that the Celts railed against the Germanic Angles and Saxons, who in turn railed against the Normans - and lets not forget the Romans and Vikings.
As the good book says, there's nothing new under the sun.
Edit:England once colonized much of the developing world, refused to integrate with the locals, treated the natives as inferiors, stole much of their wealth, and with much pride and arrogance beat into the locals the notion that all things English incl. the language are superior to their own language and culture. Look at the Indians. Even today they take pride in being able to speak ENGLISH well instead of their own language, and prize fair skin far above their own darker skin. As far as I'm concern, England now being swallowed whole by immigration is poetic justice. It is simply being reverse colonized by its former colonies. Reap what you sow England!
(A comment made on The Economist web site.. I think he makes a good point! )
Cheers,
Shafique
DEBUNKING MYTHS
* Immigrants on average are less likely to be in social housing than those born in the UK, even when the immigrant is from a developing country (LSE study).
* Immigrants are on average more educated than their UK-born counterparts. More than half of the UK-born workforce left school at 16 or earlier, but fewer than one in six new immigrants stopped education at 16 (LSE study).
Then we have every iraquie/algerian and turk coming in by the lorry load claiming asylum and thats on top of every other nationality that see's the UK as a soft touch coming in by air after flushing their passport down the toilet.
desertdudeshj wrote:What do you guys think about canada ? It has a relatively skilled immigration program, and AFAIK doesn't suffer from too much illegal immigration. But there the problem is that skilled workers who move there can never get the work at theor level or in their field of work and have to start from much bottom of the ladder all over again.
Chocoholic wrote:Now you've just confused me - lol
No I meant the figures stating the number of illegals CURRENTLY in the UK have been grossly underestimated.
dee7o wrote:Chocoholic wrote:Now you've just confused me - lol
No I meant the figures stating the number of illegals CURRENTLY in the UK have been grossly underestimated.
Legals or illegals, quite honestly, if the UK spent the next 100 years accommodating all the unemployed people in the world, it still wouldn't amount to sufficient compensation for what they did to the developing world. You are complaining of illegal immigration today when 60 years ago you were still illegally and forcibly occupying like half the planet? The Enoch speech you refer to was this all high and grand nonsense about preserving British history and culture from immigrant evil. The irony is that this speech was delivered barely 2 decades after the British army finally rid the world of their interference. He thinks about the British common man but didn't ask himself what the British common man was doing bullying the Indian common man just 20 years earlier. Give me a break.
If you think people are illegally and unfairly taking advantage of your economy, how about you compensate them for all the raw materials stolen from them and they might stay in their own countries. And no, this is not ancient history that is not relevant today. So many of these illegal immigrants are so desperate because of what their countries have become due to colonialism.
That is not to say i condone illegal immigration Just consider the above a friendly reminder
Dubai Knight wrote:dee7o wrote:Chocoholic wrote:Now you've just confused me - lol
No I meant the figures stating the number of illegals CURRENTLY in the UK have been grossly underestimated.
Legals or illegals, quite honestly, if the UK spent the next 100 years accommodating all the unemployed people in the world, it still wouldn't amount to sufficient compensation for what they did to the developing world. You are complaining of illegal immigration today when 60 years ago you were still illegally and forcibly occupying like half the planet? The Enoch speech you refer to was this all high and grand nonsense about preserving British history and culture from immigrant evil. The irony is that this speech was delivered barely 2 decades after the British army finally rid the world of their interference. He thinks about the British common man but didn't ask himself what the British common man was doing bullying the Indian common man just 20 years earlier. Give me a break.
If you think people are illegally and unfairly taking advantage of your economy, how about you compensate them for all the raw materials stolen from them and they might stay in their own countries. And no, this is not ancient history that is not relevant today. So many of these illegal immigrants are so desperate because of what their countries have become due to colonialism.
That is not to say i condone illegal immigration Just consider the above a friendly reminder
Step down from the soap box!
What happened in previous generations has no bearing on this at all. If I wanted to, I can take just about any country in the world and go back in history to a time when they were exploitative, aggressive, expansionist or even down right brutal, so throwing the history of the UK from the last 2000 years is pointless. We are talking here and now and the future.
The immigrants in the UK are not there to pillage the raw materials of the country, just to exploit the namby pamby do-gooders who have been in power for the last few years and are willing to hand out vast sums in benefits to people who are work shy and know how to work the system.
Try coming to the UAE without a job and getting a free house, cash handouts, a car, medical care...
Knight
dee7o wrote:Dubai Knight wrote:Step down from the soap box!
What happened in previous generations has no bearing on this at all. If I wanted to, I can take just about any country in the world and go back in history to a time when they were exploitative, aggressive, expansionist or even down right brutal, so throwing the history of the UK from the last 2000 years is pointless. We are talking here and now and the future.
The immigrants in the UK are not there to pillage the raw materials of the country, just to exploit the namby pamby do-gooders who have been in power for the last few years and are willing to hand out vast sums in benefits to people who are work shy and know how to work the system.
Try coming to the UAE without a job and getting a free house, cash handouts, a car, medical care...
Knight
Isn't that how most people came to the U.A.E.?
Misery Called Life wrote:dee7o wrote:Dubai Knight wrote:Step down from the soap box!
What happened in previous generations has no bearing on this at all. If I wanted to, I can take just about any country in the world and go back in history to a time when they were exploitative, aggressive, expansionist or even down right brutal, so throwing the history of the UK from the last 2000 years is pointless. We are talking here and now and the future.
The immigrants in the UK are not there to pillage the raw materials of the country, just to exploit the namby pamby do-gooders who have been in power for the last few years and are willing to hand out vast sums in benefits to people who are work shy and know how to work the system.
Try coming to the UAE without a job and getting a free house, cash handouts, a car, medical care...
Knight
Isn't that how most people came to the U.A.E.?
Not all of us are Egyptian man!
dee7o wrote:Isn't that how most people came to the U.A.E.?
Dubai Knight wrote:dee7o wrote:Chocoholic wrote:Now you've just confused me - lol
No I meant the figures stating the number of illegals CURRENTLY in the UK have been grossly underestimated.
Legals or illegals, quite honestly, if the UK spent the next 100 years accommodating all the unemployed people in the world, it still wouldn't amount to sufficient compensation for what they did to the developing world. You are complaining of illegal immigration today when 60 years ago you were still illegally and forcibly occupying like half the planet? The Enoch speech you refer to was this all high and grand nonsense about preserving British history and culture from immigrant evil. The irony is that this speech was delivered barely 2 decades after the British army finally rid the world of their interference. He thinks about the British common man but didn't ask himself what the British common man was doing bullying the Indian common man just 20 years earlier. Give me a break.
If you think people are illegally and unfairly taking advantage of your economy, how about you compensate them for all the raw materials stolen from them and they might stay in their own countries. And no, this is not ancient history that is not relevant today. So many of these illegal immigrants are so desperate because of what their countries have become due to colonialism.
That is not to say i condone illegal immigration Just consider the above a friendly reminder
Step down from the soap box!
What happened in previous generations has no bearing on this at all. If I wanted to, I can take just about any country in the world and go back in history to a time when they were exploitative, aggressive, expansionist or even down right brutal, so throwing the history of the UK from the last 2000 years is pointless. We are talking here and now and the future.
The immigrants in the UK are not there to pillage the raw materials of the country, just to exploit the namby pamby do-gooders who have been in power for the last few years and are willing to hand out vast sums in benefits to people who are work shy and know how to work the system.
Try coming to the UAE without a job and getting a free house, cash handouts, a car, medical care...
Knight
arniegang wrote:
Dee70
Yea the Brits and its allies have also spent the last 100 years occupying and saving everyone else from doing the "goose-step", eating "bratwurst sausage 3 times a day and swilling gallons of Braverian Lager every evening.
Meanwhile, everyone else who did not meet the white skinned aryan profile were probably taking a long rest in a mass grave.
arniegang wrote:Dee70
Yea the Brits and its allies have also spent the last 100 years occupying and saving everyone else from doing the "goose-step", eating "bratwurst sausage 3 times a day and swilling gallons of Braverian Lager every evening.
Meanwhile, everyone else who did not meet the white skinned aryan profile were probably taking a long rest in a mass grave.
dee7o wrote:
Of course you're right. Please tell our saviors that when they are done fighting for the entire human race they need to come and disarm the millions of land mines they left behind in other countries that they were "saving". If they find the time.
Red Chief wrote:arniegang wrote:Dee70
Yea the Brits and its allies have also spent the last 100 years occupying and saving everyone else from doing the "goose-step", eating "bratwurst sausage 3 times a day and swilling gallons of Braverian Lager every evening.
Meanwhile, everyone else who did not meet the white skinned aryan profile were probably taking a long rest in a mass grave.
If someone had a bit of conscience he would not repeat that crap like parrot at least in this holy day. Shame on you!
Dubai Knight wrote:dee7o wrote:
Of course you're right. Please tell our saviors that when they are done fighting for the entire human race they need to come and disarm the millions of land mines they left behind in other countries that they were "saving". If they find the time.
Actually the UK is the global leader in the detection and eradication of mines. We are the ones who go around the world clearing the ordnance left by less scrupulous powers and teaching the local military how to handle them. There is a strong UK lobby to stop the manufacture of mines and an even stronger one to stop their deployment.
The largest proportion of anti-personnel mines made and distributed globally, are Chinese.
Fancy getting legless in Dragon Mart?
Knight
dee7o wrote:Red Chief wrote:arniegang wrote:Dee70
Yea the Brits and its allies have also spent the last 100 years occupying and saving everyone else from doing the "goose-step", eating "bratwurst sausage 3 times a day and swilling gallons of Braverian Lager every evening.
Meanwhile, everyone else who did not meet the white skinned aryan profile were probably taking a long rest in a mass grave.
If someone had a bit of conscience he would not repeat that crap like parrot at least in this holy day. Shame on you!
I agree, there is a strong correlation between your comment and parrot crap
Red Chief wrote:Not realy. It was only my attitude to those turkey cocks, who saved the world most time sitting on the island in their warm houses. On the other hand, this myth looks like a part of national consciousness - so many people repeat it. That's why other time I would say nothing, but not on the 9th of May.
They were allies I'd like to avoid in the future.