I am not sorry, looking at the news I have less than zero sympathy for these so called "refugees" at Calais. They have chosen to cross a dozen borders for one reason, and one reason only. To come to England because they have heard that they will be housed, fed and given money (also known as benefits). They are not fleeing from danger - they are fleeing in most cases from backward uncivilised countries which have in turn made them backward, uncivilised people. Their lack of intellect, social skills and even basic English would result in the inevitable if, God forbid, they ever made it here - namely begging, prostitution and committing crime. To the legions of BBC journalists I see currently in Calais wringing their hands over them, I say - smuggle them back in your top of the range cars, let them live for free at your pied a terres in Hampstead, and trust them with your kids and possessions when you pop out to "mwah mwah" at the dinner party circuit in the coming weeks. Then come back and honestly report on the consequences of letting savages into this country in the name of liberalism.
They all seem to say they are students wanting to study yeah right They have the whole of Europe to choose from, why use easy free money simple as that
According to the French it's all Britain's fault for not letting them all in, and that seems to be the universal view of any French person interviewed, not just the officials. Incidentally, I was on jury service recently (you're allowed to talk about the case after it's finished) concerning an armed robbery which went wrong. We found an Afghan guilty of manslaughter, the heavies were Lithuanian, the man who recruited them was Qatari, and the organiser was Pakistani. And they all had jobs and weren't driven by poverty.
I think this is the real concern. It's not just the numbers coming in. It's the violent rubbish you just know are bad news when they get here.
The army needs to be sorting this out. We are being invaded and our citizens (lorry drivers) are in danger. And yet we are told by the EU to take our fair share. Send them to Poland, Bulgaria and Latvia; those countries' populations have dwindled in recent years. I wonder why...
Sounds like OZ and UK are suffering similar things, the amount of people here working for cash at less than 50% normal wages is staggering. People are piling up and getting into the country in all sorts of ways.
What an irony that Poland was recently named the môst racist country in the EU. Less than 0.2%of its population are immigrants, and Muslims have been actively made to feel unwelcome.
Sooner we leave the EU the better. One way to look at it, at least we're not Greek. Or Italian. Or French. Or German. Etc
I really don't think it will be even at all. I think with Starc, Johnson and Harris in their bowling attack including the underrated Nathan Lyon, they will be too good for us. Their batting gives us a bit of hope. Haddin and Watson are past their best, but they are used to winning. I can see a 4-1 series win for them.
Yeah, I cant see us doing much damage this series. Best case scenario I see is a draw, but think we will go down 2/3 - 1
Looks slightly in our favour i reckon, but cricket to me, has always been the one sport where teams/games/series can be more even then it may look on paper, purely because of the nature of the sport. I still think Watson has a big year or two left in him, it has only been injury that has stifled his chance to be dominant in the past. Either way, much love to you Brits, i am not a one eyed naive fan, i love sport for sport and the comradery it brings out.
Back on thread...from the Sunday Telegraph re people smugglers caught this week: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...e-fence-at-Channel-Tunnel-port-in-France.html One was a painter and decorator from Birmingham who said he was only giving a lift to the Somalian found in his car. The other is a debt-ridden father-of-three up caught with two Iraqis in the boot of his Renault. Nasir Nadin Salah and Bashir Haji are just two of dozens of Britons sentenced by the French courts in the past few weeks for attempting to smuggle migrants across the Channel. Salah, 43, from Birmingham, was earlier this month handed a six month suspended sentence by a court in Boulogne-sur-Mer for transporting a Somali national in his car who was carrying a false Dutch passport. It gets better, Salah was arrested by French police at the entrance to the terminal, who took him into custody but released the suspected migrant. The painter and decorator, who is married with children, told The Telegraph through an interpreter last week..... What chance have we got?
The damn immigrants; taking away all of the good jobs that our citizens want to do. Honest work like; Burger flipper in McDonalds Bin and refuse collection Fruit pickers Gardeners It's outrageous!
But those jobs were the traditional route way into the world of work for our kids. Now they have gone, consigning them to a life on benefits. I fail to see the logic in importing cheap East European labour to carry out low skilled work.
Every Jobcentre is packed to the rafters with jobseekers, yet companies such as M&S and Waitrose would rather bring in Hungarians to make sandwiches, and it is these low-skilled workers who come here and pay the minimum in tax but take out the maximum in work-related benefits. Undoubtedly there are thousands of decent, upright foreigners coming to work in this country, but they should only come when they are needed, and not when this country already has a chronic unemployment problem. And that's before we mention the issues with housing, hospitals and economics. And there are plenty of immigrants who are taking work from our own home-grown criminals: pickpockets, burglars, pimps, drug dealers et al. Should they be welcomed with open arms or should they be slung out with the rest of the garbage? Our country is slipping down the pan. Fast. And yet you still believe we have room for all and sundry. Utter madness.
Be that as it may, I think that our country slipping down the pan, is not exactly linked to immigration. We've always have immigration in our country; from 1400 (if you read history books, to today). Yet, we've still existing. Maybe it's because we're letting the wrong lot in.
'If you read history books' Immigrants have been coming to this country since Cheddar Man, so forget 1400. Anyway, your last sentence sums it all up: we let in too many of the wrong sort. We need skills, skills and more skills, just not low-skilled workers.
