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.

as ever, fred evades the question entirely

i know already what I think, but FRED as always will never stand up and state what his own view actually is

so yet again .......
FRED - do you or do you not advocate an open-doors policy?

don't spout about what this gov't is or is not trying to do ...... WHAT IS YOUR PERSONAL OPINION ON OPEN-DOORS POLICY? ....... ARE YOU FOR IT OR AGAINST IT?

Simpy put for you, to close the "doors" in the way advocated by the looney rights wingers, neo-fascist and reactionaries of similar vein won't resolve the o.

It is a problem for Europe as a whole and the United Nations. Both "governing" bodies need reviewing of their constitution and powers.


Little Englanders will not solve the problem and the kickback in trade agreements from Cameron and crew maybe more substantial than the little england brigade think.

Instead of tapping out another questions sit in a dark room and try thinking for yourself.

what would you do TODAY?
leave the doors wide open?

so what do i think .....
if at all possible, i would bring forward and even toughen benefit restrictions on immigrants who (a) cannot prove they have a right to be here and (b) require any immigrant to have paid his national insurance etc for say at least a year, except for genuine medical emergency

i think legit immigrant relations should be strictly limited to the spouse and their direct children

i also do not think it right, if i have heard correctly, that anyone but anyone who finds himself homeless is entitled to a "home" thus jumping the queue of "our own" young families

i also do not think it is right that, again assuming i have heard correctly, any child on its own who manages to sneak in under the radar is entitled to all sorts of benefits up to the age of 25

i further think it wrong that there is a differentiation in these instances between a local council's responsibility and that of central gov't as that leads to a very obvious culture of buck passing

It is time there were a lot more controls on immigration in the UK itself : I would instigate strict identity controls at bank counters and at the post office, hospitals, and all public buildings : no deals, purchases, transactions without identity being shown first and scanned by an electronic detector.....Cameron has not done enough towards halting this illegal invasion to Great Britain ......many more id checks are required with deportation orders at the ready......this is a major failing for the conservatives....

Shoot on sight is clearly the answer.

especially anyone sneaking back from switzerland!

I doubt they'd let Fred into Switzerland for him to be able to sneak back. But hey, it's certainly an interesting concept.

EU pays jobless migrants to come to Britain

The UK has taken a third of the young migrants involved in the 'Your First EURES Job' programme, it has emerged


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11781637/EU-pays-jobless-migrants-to-come-to-Britain.html

there's a rarity .... fred has managed to post an amusing cartoon

I thought you would like your portrait!

i don't mind the likeness, but prefer the sentiment
of course, it's little different from what was assuredly widespread in the 50s and probably 60s too

The muppet show

or the 30s.

Oak trees from little acorns especially when propagated by government propaganda and misinformation.

Perhaps, you recall.

By the way, is Osborne's selling off the "country's silver" trying to paper future holes in his "financial" policies?

Or goodies and payments for friends in "high" places?

certainly if you lived in thanet/medway and other areas that have been very badly affected by uncontrollod immigation, you might be inclined to temper your silliness, albeit that that is unlikely

It's getting desperate....




The only way to stop the Corbyn juggernaut is for Liz Kendall to pull out

Not only that, but Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper need to get real about the threat they face - and unite against the hard Left



By Dan Hodges

5:35PM BST 03 Aug 2015



Jeremy Corbyn has stumbled. Or rather, he has been tripped up. The offending leg belonged to one of his own supporters, Dave Ward, the Communications Workers’ Union chief. As he was unveiling his union’s endorsement, Ward angrily proclaimed: “The grip of the Blairites and individuals like Peter Mandelson must now be loosened once and for all. There is a virus within the Labour party, and Jeremy Corbyn is the antidote.”


Purging the party of the undesirable elements who were responsible for Labour actually winning general elections is in an important part of the Corbynite project. But no one else is supposed to be in on the secret. Which is why a couple of days later the statement “Unity is our watchword” appeared emblazoned across Corbyn’s campaign website.







More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11781068/The-only-way-to-stop-the-Corbyn-juggernaut-is-for-Liz-Kendall-to-pull-out.html