So I guess I was right

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The UK has had enough of foreign workers stealing jobs that they are putting a cap on the number of unskilled workers allowed in the country when the EU embraces Romania and wherever it was.
I was in the high street in town the other day, I stood for 15 minutes while I waited for someone and not one group of people who walked past was British. Mind boggling.

[Tonto 1]

Yup. Your muddy little island would have no economy at all if it were not for all those "groups."

I guess that's what they mean by "reaping what you sow." All that colonial expansion has come back to haunt you.

t

It's the year of the Pig.

[NCclimber 0]

Didn't you know that aliens are just as entitled as citizens to take advantage of what your country has to offer. As least that's what many think in this country.

It's our brave new world. Or is it a kinder gentler nation?

Get with the program, dooooooood!

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In the words of rage against the machine (but completely out of context) - 'we gotta take the power back!'

[shropshire 0]

We're all Africans anyway so we should all go back there

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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I'm not saying anyone should go back but we should have limited the access way before now.

How could they not see that unemployed young adults, from countries less economically developed as ours, would flock in there thousands seeking work? It's kinda obvious really. Now they react when there is a problem rather than preventing it in the first place.

Then we got the whole issue of culture integration but thats a whole different topic altogether

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we should have limited the access way before now.

I hear the Indians felt that way about the Brits.
What goes around comes around.

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Maybe these Eastern cousins should go to India instead, that's where most of our jobs are going (certainly from the company I work for attend.)

The problem is, the EU is s'posed to be an open market. If we start to apply barriers so will everyone else... maybe the houses bought by Brits in France & Spain will be nationised and handed out to their poor, who can't afford houses in their own countries anymore because of the inflation caused by the holiday home brigade.

These people are only doing what we would do if we could or had to.

It could be a very slippery slope.

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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Yes but whats ours is ours and whats theirs is ours as well, don't you know!

@ Shropshire... they've done it dude, the government is doing it according to the news. Only 20,000 unskilled workers allowed. People with professional qualification swill not be limited at all. Which makes me wonder if Tony Blair reads dropzone.com's Speakers Corner a few months ago Wheres my Credit Tony, wheres my credit!?

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I'm not saying anyone should go back but we should have limited the access way before now.

How could they not see that unemployed young adults, from countries less economically developed as ours, would flock in there thousands seeking work? It's kinda obvious really. Now they react when there is a problem rather than preventing it in the first place.

Then we got the whole issue of culture integration but thats a whole different topic altogether

Hope it's not too late. How'd that effort in France (giving employers the right to fire people) turn out?

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Don't know? Presumably they did something disruptive like blockade the tunnel! Like they do everytime something annoys them. Wankers

[Andy9o8 2]

Couple interesting articles on the subject

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aAZJxxUBRuNs&refer=uk

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2418925,00.html

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Yeah quite good, what was interesting is the romanian guy expressing his dismay (shock, horror huh) stating that it has brought a lot of skilled people to us to work.

My brothers girlfriend is Slovakian, over there she was an art teacher, but over here she works in a Bed & Breakfast because she gets more money. Shes saving up for a house, then shes going to return home when shes got what she wants to achieve. Part of me can't blame her but part of me thinks its cheeky.

I guess what I'm saying is even so called professionals end up in unskilled employment, which is sad to our average pikey worker and thats a shame, because I like pikeys

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Heck, here in the states, we have been putting up with all the damn Mexicans coming over the border, getting jobs for cash under the table, not paying taxes and using our health system for free, then reporting themselves to INS before Christmas and getting a free ride back to Mexico, only to cross the border again in January and start all over again.

But heck, most of the chicken processing plants employ Mexicans for the most part because nobody else would do that kind of work.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

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But heck, most of the chicken processing plants employ Mexicans for the most part because nobody else would do that kind of work.

Yeah, that is the flipside of the coin

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But heck, most of the chicken processing plants employ Mexicans for the most part because nobody else would do that kind of work.

Yeah, that is the flipside of the coin

Yes. While I do admire the Mexicans' work ethic and family ties (which makes a lot of other Americans look really bad), I just wish they would do things the right way and be legal immigrants.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

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I hear the Indians felt that way about the Brits.

I don't think it's the ex-colonies he's having a rant about; it's Eastern Europeans who we're seeing migrating in droves.

When Europe expanded easterly 2 years ago our Govt. said they expected no more than migrants 15,000 a year. They were told they were nuts at the time but they poo pooed any suggestion that their figures might be wrong.

Well in the last 18 months there have been 600,000 people move here. That's 1% of our total population in only a year and a half and thirty times the figure the Govt. assured us would arrive!

The amusing side of the story of course is seeing the confusion in the ranks of the BNP et al. "Paki go home" was an easy enough slogan for knuckle draggers to remember. They're now having problems changing to "Go home white, English-speaking Christian skin-head wearing jeans and a sports shirt".

Firstly this doesn't have quite the same ring to it and secondly, (and most amusingly), tends to lead to extreme confusion as that's pretty much an exact description of not only your average Pole but also the archetypal BNP member!

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The amusing side of the story of course is seeing the confusion in the ranks of the BNP et al. "Paki go home" was an easy enough slogan for knuckle draggers to remember. They're now having problems changing to "Go home white, English-speaking Christian skin-head wearing jeans and a sports shirt".

Firstly this doesn't have quite the same ring to it and secondly, (and most amusingly), tends to lead to extreme confusion as that's pretty much an exact description of not only your average Pole but also the archetypal BNP member!

Ok seriously, I've just had to pick myself up off the floor The imagery there was brilliant and surprisingly accurate!

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....... I was in the high street in town the other day, I stood for 15 minutes while I waited for someone and not one group of people who walked past was British. Mind boggling.

How do you know they weren't British? Did you ask to see their passports?

[Skyrad 0]

We're full. No worries if people have something to contribute as a professional that we need. But this is only a small place and we're overloaded now. Imagine sqeezing 65 Million people into New Zealand.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Yup. Your muddy little island would have no economy at all if it were not for all those "groups."

I guess that's what they mean by "reaping what you sow." All that colonial expansion has come back to haunt you.

t

LOL. Same can be said for the USA

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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Heck, here in the states, we have been putting up with all the damn Mexicans coming over the border, getting jobs for cash under the table, not paying taxes and using our health system for free, then reporting themselves to INS before Christmas and getting a free ride back to Mexico, only to cross the border again in January and start all over again.

But heck, most of the chicken processing plants employ Mexicans for the most part because nobody else would do that kind of work.

I'm in So. Cal right now. My union is history. No one has any balls anymore. Went to three stores today. Home Depot, being one. I was the only fuckin person that could speak English. And >the only fuckin white person. I don't know how to make this PC. PRESS ONE for Mexican motherfucker

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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How do you know they weren't British? Did you ask to see their passports?

No but I was going to ask them to sew little badges on their clothing so we could clearly identify them