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Overall what exactly has immigration done for the good of the country? Do newcomers come to give or simply to take? The saying goes if they're not the solution they must be the big problem. And how many of the governing body actually fought in the last war giving them the right to give away the country to the immigrants?Naomi Campbell called police white f**king honkeys, thats not a racist remark against white britsbecause there is no such thing! Are we Pommie bastardyes all in good fun!

Look what folk around the world think of usand as that famous humanitarian Dil said yesterdaydoes my face look bovvered and this is taking the piss out of the English only.

All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.
W. C. Fields, US film star, quoted in D. Waliechinsky, The 20th Century, 1995

From every Englishman emanates a kind of gas, the deadly choke-damp of boredom.
Heinrich Heine, German poet

A demon took a monkey to wife the result by the Grace of God was the English.
Indian saying

Pass a law to give every single whingeing bloody Pommie his fare home to England. Back to the smoke and the sun shining ten days a year and shit in the streets. Yer can have it.
Thomas Keneally, Australian writer, The Chant of Jimtnie Blacksmith, 1972

We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, British historian, in the Edinburgh Review, June 1831

The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with
such food.
J. O. de la Mettrie, French philosopher
To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immobilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.
Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish essayist and philosopher

The English are ... perfidious and cunning, plotting the destruction of the lives of foreigners, so that even if they humbly bend the knee, they cannot be trusted.
Leo de Rozmital

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic, The Man of Destiny, 1898

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
Oscar Wilde
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Where would the comment "herd of Pakis" fit in would you say?how about herd of fatsosherd of uglysherd of gingersherd of scroungersheard enough!

The British are full of do-gooders.that in effect do no good at all!
Tabasco [tabracing 2008]

You need to get out more old girl!

Overall what exactly has immigration done for the good of the country? Do newcomers come to give or simply to take?

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A damn sight more than you would care to admit, and the majority contribute hugely, if you actually stopped to think for a change instead of coming up with a load of prejudiced polemic and century-old jingoism

cynic - how very true, but then that seems to be the way with some folk. They see what they want to see.

Cynicas usual you are missing the pointif foreigners entered the country with the correct paperworka job to go toaccommodation organisedand financedas they do in AustraliaI would welcome them with open armsas I have with Rafand Sammyfor many yearsthey are just as sick of the foreign scroungers and villainsas I am. Immigration failed many years ago!

Interesting that not one person among the many posters on these boards (myself included) have offered Maestro a bed for the night. I can think of many foreign communities where help would have been a lot more forthcoming. Says something about our britishness methinks.

Not too long ago, our own head of immigration was found out to be an illegal.

You couldn't write fiction any better than reality.

oilyrag yes you can ............... did you know the Queen of England is Indian !!!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9HJzy3WSYFM


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i don't recollect either the Romans or the Normans, or for that matter the Danes and Norsemen and Vikings having the correct paperwork .... or did it all get burnt in the Great Fire of London?

How Very True Cynic !! ; ) being a Dutchman I better Go Now !! ;)

Harry, I think it says more about Maestro's character.

oh well, after you buggers stopped sailing up the Thames to burn our ships in Chatham, you learnt some manners and waited to be invited ...... mind you, that was just to avoid having a Jewish king!

;)) Our boat ran aground on the sand bar and the Locals nicked all our beer !!

they thought it was like piss (which it is!) and dumped it back in the river

You ARE right they did ................................... It was French ! ;)

Cynictake the line you highlighted Overall what exactly has immigration done for the good of the country? Do newcomers come to give or simply to take?
You could say immigration has given us more doctorsmore nursesmore social workersmore accountantsand so on.the above are more than likely the few that went through the channels in a correct and proper mannerand I thank them.
Let us now go to the others.how many are illegal?how many are unemployed?.how many are professional villains?how many are de-frauding benefits?.how many are working illegally and not paying tax?how many are driving legally?.how many are shoplifting?[my wife reckons 7/10 caught at M&S are foreign out of work]how many are claiming our National Health Service that are here illegally? how many are involved in mugging or drug crime?and so on.
Police chiefs have told the home secretary of the extra demands being placed on forces because of the arrival in Britain of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from eastern Europe.
Peter Fahy, chief constable of Cheshire, who co-authored the study, said: "Migration has had a significant impact on UK communities in past years
"The influx of eastern Europeans has created pressures on forces in some areas, including local rumour and misunderstandings fuelling tensions which police have had to be proactive in resolving, and leading to significant increases in spending on interpreters, which can also make investigations more complex."
It is estimated that up to one million people from countries new to the EU have moved to the UK over the past four years. Figures released by the Home Office this year showed 796,000 eastern European immigrants had applied to work in Britain since Poland and seven other countries joined the EU.
Right Cynic.the first word in my post that you highlighted was overall.while I can confidently say taking all the good and offsetting against all the bad..Overall what exactly has immigration done for the good of the country? !!!!!

SmilerI like your namelike your attitudeand I like the Dutchonly very clever people could make so much money from a flower.now was that racistIm kacking myself in case it was? top man!

No you're safe ............. but no Cheesey jokes !! :)

you answer your question yourself ...... as did the Romans, the Normans, the Danes, the Vikings and so on and so on

however, moving away from (Victorian and earlier) history, I accept that the recent uncontrolled influx of unskilled (other than some criminals of assorted categories who have made a killing!) eco-refugees from Croatia and the like, has been little short of disastrous in these tough economic times .... i too am a great advocate of the Oz points system and see no reason at all why it should not be adopted, upsetting as that might be to Ms Chakrabati and her colleagues.

tulips were an illegal import from Turkey!