Back in Hull: Family thrown out of Bermuda after 20 years and two children please log in to view this image A family from Hull who have lived in Bermuda for the past 20 years have been forced off the island after the country's Government clamped down on UK immigrants. Stephen and Kirsty Tomlinson and their two children, Holly 12, and Joseph, six, have had to return to east Yorkshire, despite the fact their children were born in Bermuda, a British Overseas Territory. They say they were only given a month's notice to leave after Stephen's workplace burned down and he was made redundant. He had been working as a spray painter, whilst Kirsty ran a beauty business. Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas were among her clients. Stephen, 45, said his children were traumatised by the move, adding his daughter is crying herself to sleep at night and asking: "When are we going home, Daddy?" He said he did not understand how the island's Government could order them to leave after they had been there so long and having 'worked hard and paid our way.' Stephen moved the the island when he was 24 in 1991, and met and married Kirsty who was there on a work permit. While Bermuda has granted permanent residency to Britons living on the island since 1989, the couple missed the cut-off point by just two years. please log in to view this image Friends of the family desperately fought the Bermudan Government's decision, but it could not be overturned. Officials vowed in 2010 to make work permits harder to receive and r TOUGHenew, in an effort to boost employment on the island. The Government will now only give work permits to foreigners with particular skill sets or highly trained occupations. Beauticians and painters are not on this desired list. Mr Tomlinson said there were other families from Hull still living on the island, but that more Britons were due to be sent home. IS IT TIME FOR US TO GET
Harsh....... 20 years... But their children were born there so i take it they would have residency, who would need caring for.. Just seems extreme this.
Imagine if Britain clamped down on imigrants? We might not be in a recession. 100's of millions of tax payers hard working money to house and keep them. Im all for people coming for a better life if they have something to add but 1000's are just sucking the country dry. On another note the annual cost of methadone is £700m. Why??? Id love some one to clamp down on all this bulls**t
If ever there was a "special case" sensible decision need this is it. But then maybe the people taking that decision were governed by UK law.
Because everyone is on the dole and bored, so they turn to smack. Then they cry it's killing them, and again, the government is forced to bail them out.
Don't believe the ****e that get printed in the likes of the Daily Fail. On average, imigrants are good for the country. The vast majority have made the effort to move abroad (over here) to better themselves, not to scrounge the dole. They work hard and pay their taxes.
You might want to have a walk along Ocean Road (South Shields) or even across the water in areas like Fenham and then try and write a piece like you just have. I am for immigration, but majorly controlled and skilled workers only. The one thing you can't deny is we have lost our identities through mass immigration.
