I did ask you what you thought might be an acceptable and viable maximum population for Britain today and what proportion thereof you might consider to be acceptable as its immigrant content and, although you have yet to answer that, it would be hard to imagine that you did not have answers thereto.
I might add the question of whether you might personally consider that applications for immigration into Britain (i.e from people who are not already British or EU citizens currently living outside Britain and who'd therefore have no need to make them) ought to be restricted not only to a set maximum annual tally but also territorially, i.e. Norwegian but not Somalian, South African but not Mexican, American but not Vietnamese, for example; perhaps you might care to tell us.
Of course there needs to be an overall limit, but equally important is the quality of the immigrants.We want skilled and hard workers that can add to our Society, but we don't want loafers, muggers, pimps, whores, shoplifters and other associated pond life as we already have more than sufficient numbers.To allow people in that are immediately going to be a burden is absurd and only loony lefties would think otherwise.Thal
They, however, are better at integrating those people into the industry and therefore helping industry instead of helping crime.
Fine if you have the vacancies, but difficult if you do not. We have a high rate of youth unemployment as it is, so we need to fix the problems for our existing population before letting in thousands more.
There might be youth unemployment, but in segments like mechanics, IT and healthcare there's still a shortage, usually jobs that are not all that heroic but which the average western european usually does not want to fullfill.
Hopefully Hinty will read this. But since large scale immigration does not affect him in his remote bolthole, I doubt if he will pay much notice.
Few come here to commit crime, but indeed many are forced to commit fraud with social security.
The more we let in, the worse it will get and nobody is forced to commit benefit fraud. These people can certainly make more money per day in begging and thieving than i can. One beggar that was arrested and questioned by the Police was found to be earning £50,000 a year tax free. I can only dream of this. Just because they are discriminated against in their own Country does not mean we should fling open our doors and end up as a haven for the pond life of Eastern Europe. I don't blame them for wanting to come here and hopefully they don't blame me for wanting to keep them out. They have nothing of value to offer a civilised Western European society and are better suited to the filthy hovels from whence they originated.
The more we let in
Get used to it; it's a fact - and laws that seek to control population movements will do very little to stop populations from moving where they want to move.
You're doing it again! - "letting in" doesn't apply when those who are already in possession of British or EU passports can move more or less where they want to within EU, including even Wisbechistan, Petterssonborough, Boston (that famous terrorist centre) and the end where the graves are.
Eventually, out of necessity, population movements will be controlled. The Swiss have very recently announced limits due to concerns on levels of foreigners and they are probably the most laid back and welcoming Country on Earth.In the UK, thanks to sensible policies, thousands of non EU migrants have been kept out due to minimum earnings requirements and hopefully if we can keep Labour out of Government and move further away from stupid EU rules, we can make some ground in limiting EU immigration.For too long we have been a soft touch and I long for a far tougher stance that now looks a possibility. Get used to it, it will happen.
What a silly question. Let us pull some figures out of the air. 68,742,643 and 0.003%. Satisfied??
No doubt all the bright fellows in my photo above have all the required documents. They probably have several each for multiple claims.I hope the NHS is ready when restrictions are dropped on the 1st january 2014 and our Romanian and Bulgarian friends can claim the same benefits and NHS care as other EU citizens.Don't worry though, they will probably not head for Eaton Bishop and disturb your early morning coffee by hunting swans.
As far as legal immigration is concerned, what makes you appear to be so confident that the only country people want to come to is Britain?
How do you view the now widely publicised prospect that dealing with the current backlog of asylum seeker applications will take some 40 years - and even then only if there are no more such applicants during the next 40 years, which is hardly likely. As one Afghan has ruefully noted, "I hope that my application will be treated with sympathy; after all, I didn't invite the British to my country - they just came anyway".
Will you want all Scots to leave England, Wales and Northern Ireland if Scotland becomes independent next year?
Of course not. I just hope that English tax payers money stops going over the border.The Scots will never vote for Independence as long there is still milk flowing from the teat.
Given the level of borrowings, I ratgher doubt what you write here, but I don't happen to think that Scotland will vote for independence for other reasons, although, of course, I could be wrong about that.
Almost certainly they will not. Benefits like free old age care will disappear once they are in charge of their own finances and no longer supported by others.
When too large a proportion of all of these are funded from government borrowings, the writing will inevitably appear on the wall eventually.
Well said that man. All of the problems of England in a couple of sentences.The major problem being is that large scale immigration brings down wages. Immigrants living 15 to a house and sharing rent can afford to work for a pittance, whilst the man with a mortgage, a wife and two children cannot. We have consigned a generation to dependency due to our inability to control our borders. Historically, immigrants are prepared to do more for less.Our government is wisely capping benefits in an attempt to make work pay, but it is going to be a long and hard battle against loafers and left wing imbeciles. Thanks to the last Labour government, in 2010, employment among working age people rose by 181,000, yet employment levels among British nationals rose by just 14,000, or less than 8 per cent of the total. And before Hinty logs on from his cosy remote farmhouse having visited his one Moldovian neighbour who is probably 10 miles away, these figures were produced by the Office of national statistics.Benefit capping is important, but immigrant capping is even more important. We have more than sufficient people already to do the jobs, but lack the backbone to get them to do it.Thal
Believe me your influx is there for the money and not for the weather!
The most important thing however, is despite our immigration problems past, present and future, Hinty will be OK. We are not going to get a gang of Albanian Archivists wanting to undercut his prices, so he can happily carry on with his relaxed attitude.
I will not be "OK" unless thieves stop nicking scores and recordings - and most of those thieves are not eastern Europeans or Asians, in my experience.
Who are the thieves? One answer:
Who are the thieves? One answer: https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21581779-professional-crime-gangs-eastern-europe-are-targeting-german-cities-gang-l-nder
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