goldfinger
- 09 Jun 2005 12:25
Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).
Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.
cheers GF.
optomistic
- 11 Dec 2012 16:54
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What's wrong with having a second wife...much prefer that to having a man as a wife...does that mean I am not normal :-/
doodlebug
- 11 Dec 2012 20:20
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Single woman with two children on Sky news this morning, she gets £15,000 a year from our benefit system and has so far spent £2,000 on Christmas presents for her two children. Having been brought up in a family where both my parents worked their socks off to earn a decent living and I got a Christmas stocking each year filled with some goodies - an orange and some sweeties - I do wonder where this wonderful benefit system in our country is ever going to end.
Stan
- 11 Dec 2012 21:20
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Well if it was on "Murdoch" News it must be typical and representative of 95% of the claimants in the UK .. my arse!
Fred1new
- 11 Dec 2012 22:15
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Doodles
You must be over 90y.
I hope you have save enough to be buried.
Chris Carson
- 11 Dec 2012 23:06
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Census 2011: 7.5m people in England and Wales were born outside the UK
Nearly 3m people in England and Wales live in households where no adults speak English as their first language after the number of foreign-born residents rose by more than 50% in a decade, according to the 2011 census.
One in eight people in England and Wales was born abroad, according to official Census figures Photo: PA
By Steven Swinford
9:26PM GMT 11 Dec 2012
One in eight people was born abroad, according to official figures, following a wave of immigration from Poland, India, Pakistan and Nigeria.
The total population of England and Wales has increased by 7.8 per cent since 2001 to reach 56.1 million, with more than half of the increase due to migration.
Some 7.5 million residents, representing 13 per cent of the population, were born outside the UK, up from 4.6 million or 9 per cent a decade ago.
The census shows that by far the biggest influx was from Poland following its accession to the European Union in 2004.
Labour, which was in government at the time, has been accused of underestimating the number of Polish immigrants who would want to come to Britain and failing to implement tighter border controls.
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The 2011 census shows that people from Poland are the second biggest group of foreign residents now living in England and Wales, behind Indians. By contrast, in 2001 Poles were not even in the top 20. Pakistanis represent the next biggest group of foreign residents.
There are now 694,000 Indian-born people in England and Wales, 579,000 of Polish origin and 482,000 who hail originally from Pakistan.
The Office of National Statistics said that the biggest increase in immigration had been among people from Nigeria, who have almost doubled their numbers to 191,000.
Among the top ten countries of origin for foreign-born residents, only the Republic of Ireland saw its numbers fall between 2001 and 2011, dropping by 66,000 to 407,000
London is also home to the most immigrants, with 37 per cent of the capital’s residents were born abroad and 24 per cent not UK citizens.
The ten local authorities with the highest proportion of non-UK-born and non-UK nationals among their residents were all London boroughs.
The area with the largest number of Poles was Ealing in west London, followed by Slough in Berkshire and Boston in Lincolnshire.
People born in India were most likely to live in Leicester and Hounslow in west London, where they made up more than one in ten of the population.
London continues to be home to a significant Irish expat population, with concentrations in Brent, Islington, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Camden.
The areas with the lowest proportion of residents who did not hold a UK passport were Redcar and Cleveland in north-east England, and Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly in south Wales.
England and Wales are ranked ninth among EU countries for the proportion of residents who are foreign-born, above Germany and France but below Spain and Sweden, with Luxembourg top on 33 per cent.
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migration Watch UK, said the census figures “clearly” demonstrated the need to get immigration under control to allow time for migrant communities to integrate.
He said: "This is the clear result of Labour’s mass immigration policy, which brought nearly four million immigrants to England and Wales in ten years.
"Immigration on this scale is completely unacceptable to the vast majority of the public and is obviously unsustainable.”
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Chris Carson
- 11 Dec 2012 23:11
- 19528 of 81564
Discuss :O) But let's be clear Fxxk all to do with the legacy of the last Labour Gov't God forbid we mention that. Must do better with the old copy and paste, it is late though.
skinny
- 12 Dec 2012 08:09
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X-37B US military space plane launches for third flight
A notoriously mysterious military space plane operated by the US Air Force has launched from Florida, the third flight in a secretive test programme.
The reusable, unmanned craft is designed to operate in Earth orbit for extended periods. Its prior missions in 2010 and 2011 lasted 224 and 469 days.
The US government kept the timing of Tuesday's launch secret and has not said how long the mission will last.
That has prompted fevered speculation as to the craft's ultimate purpose.
TANKER
- 12 Dec 2012 08:12
- 19530 of 81564
vote UKIP
skinny
- 12 Dec 2012 08:18
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Ok
Fred1new
- 12 Dec 2012 09:33
- 19532 of 81564
Good.
Fred1new
- 12 Dec 2012 09:53
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UK unemployment falls by 82,000
The number of people out of work fell by 82,000 between August and October, to 2.51 million, official figures have shown.
It was the biggest quarterly fall in unemployment since 2001.
The unemployment rate was 7.8%, down 0.2 percentage points from the previous three months.
The Office for National Statistics also said that the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance fell 3,000 to 1.58 million in November.
Total pay was up 1.8% compared with the same period last year.
Employment rose 40,000 to 29.6 million, which was the highest figure since records began in 1971.
skinny
- 12 Dec 2012 09:59
- 19534 of 81564
For Tanker :-
Census shows rise in foreign-born
Enter your post code.
Fred1new
- 12 Dec 2012 10:44
- 19535 of 81564
If I do, you would probably try to send me home!
8-)
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How many English beings have home in France, Spain, Portugal and Australia or Cayman Isles?
TANKER
- 12 Dec 2012 12:38
- 19536 of 81564
the problem with immigation is we only get the low life .
and they are a couple on here
TANKER
- 12 Dec 2012 12:39
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the polish girls down here are sluts drop there knickers for any one .
Fred1new
- 12 Dec 2012 12:46
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Tinker.
Do you know them all personally, or is it just voyeurism?
TANKER
- 12 Dec 2012 12:48
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there are in the pub most nights
Fred1new
- 12 Dec 2012 12:54
- 19540 of 81564
It seems strange to me the sort of pub that you frequent.
If the behaviour is offensive, why put yourself through it.
Or are you viewing the world through a haze of alcohol?
Or perhaps it may be down to tinted glasses.
TANKER
- 12 Dec 2012 13:06
- 19541 of 81564
its the only pub i can walk to never drink and drive .
skinny
- 12 Dec 2012 13:08
- 19542 of 81564
Can result in wet trousers if you spill it! :-)