Agreed. Immigration was a necessity back in the 50's and enabled the country to survive/strengthen. Those that came into the country weren't particularly well treated but presumably it was better than the alternative.
The Australians make them turn their boats around, haven't got enough fuel to get back - then drown. A few friends have tried to emigrate to Oz and it's bloody hard, got to have a fair wedge in the banks and skills which will benefit their country.
This country at the moment is a European free for all. We have the best (from the immigrants perspective) healthcare, benefits, schooling, housing etc. We have dungaree wearing politicians who seem to fear upsetting anybody other than hardworking, honest, British people. The Policing of the borders is a joke, why would a frenchman wish to detain somebody (at their expense) when they are leaving the country?
Is this enough to make me vote BNP? Prolly not for the reasons Snoopy suggested, skinhead nazi boys in doc m's.
So basically I am concerned about the general standard of immigrant descending on these shores, but then we have the extremists. The people that, from most accounts, have been born in British hospitals, educated in British schools, housed on taxpayers money. Then, apparently, their god instructs them to indiscriminately blow limbs from the general public.
Listening to Talksport yesterday (by virtue of the fact that the digital radio was set to it (???) and I couldn't be arsed to get out of the bath) and somebody from Glasgow phoned in. Returning from work just after the jeep incident passing the rear of the airport, a member of the public spotted an ethnic in a silver merc minivan (his description) and phoned the police. The Police asked him what made this person suspicious and the scot stated that he was parked at some gates when there was an empty car park, that the London incidents involved silver mercs, that he was ethnic. According to this person the Police asked if he'd have phoned if it had been a white person?
So we are to be vigilant but must be PC
Now it's possible that it was a taxi, curry delivery or to not generalise could have been a teacher / social worker / historian stopped to phone his wife and say he was OK. However, if the threat to our security comes from Asians or Muslims or Darkies or however you wish to describe them, are we not best to reflect this.
This is the kind of thing that is likely to get the BNP nearer to the seats of power.
On another point, anybody else think this is Gordon's way of introducing a new powerful leader and Id cards for the masses?
