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Originally Posted by tara
I thought the programme was pretty good on the whole as it tackled a lot of issues speaking a reasonable amount of truth.
They did spout the same old propaganda regarding the health service, what they forgot to mention was that thousands of our newly trained doctors and nurses cannot get jobs here and have had to seek employment abroad.
I felt very sorry for those school children having their education stunted by having to accommodate non English speaking immigrant children and also for those people on housing waiting lists, oooh that made my blood boil!
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The programme covered a number of points which I think alot of us who follow immigration issues are already aware.
For those who missed the programme, among the points made in it by the presenter Jon Snow were:
One in four children now born in the UK have one foreign parent.
Immigration is putting a severe strain on public services.
One in three people in London were born abroad.
Just under half of the immigrants in the UK live in London.
Somalis are the most likely immigrant group to be in a council house (43% compared to 9% of British-born people)
Immigrants can apply for a council house after six months of being here - the programme interviewed a white couple who concealed their identity and who said that they had been on the housing waiting list at Barking for 7 years. An African was then interviewed who said she got a council flat in Barking after just 2 months on the waiting list. Sir Andrew Green of Migrationwatch pointed out that one in three new households in the UK is an immigrant house. A Portuguese family in the UK were shown on the programme living in crowded accommodation and expressed the hope that they could get a council house here and invite other members of their family in Portugal to join them.
The Health Protection Agency said that it was costing the UK NHS over £60 million a year to treat people for diseases from outside europe.
The Polish Consulate said that up to one million Poles are in the UK although only a third show up on UK Government figures.
The town of Boston in Lincolnshire has up to 15, 000 immigrants (a quarter of its population) - a teacher at one school there was shown holding a "multi-cultural day". She said half of the September 2007 intake at the school she worked at would be foreign. It was pointed out that at another school in Boston, one in four pupils could not speak English.
Pakistani immigrants - the fourth-largest immigrant group in the UK - are twice as likely as British-born people to be unemployed; claiming benefits and not paying tax (this is despite the fact that they spend longer in education than British-born people). Of all immigrant groups, Pakistanis are among the most likely to own their own business.
People of Indian origin in the UK (about half of whom were born here) contribute more to the British economy and claim less than either Bangladeshi or Pakistani immigrants in the UK.
Americans are the eighth biggest immigrant group in the UK; are the best paid immigrant group in the UK and pay twice as much tax and National Insurance on avarage as the average British-born person does.
Polish and American immigrants in the UK work - on average - longer hours than British-born workers.
Nigerians are among the most qualified immigrants entering the UK.
Half of all new nurses appointed in the UK over the last decade are from overseas.
The following are quotes of comments made in the programme:
"I feel like it is a foreign place - it is not Boston anymore" - said a lady who lives in Boston, Lincolnshire.
"Enoch Powell had the right idea - what he said years ago" - said a man who lives at Boston.
"Young, fit, fertile immigrants are coming into the country" said Ann Furedi at the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (a pro-abortion organisation).
"In 2004, immigration into the UK changed forever when the UK opened up (its borders) to eastern europe" - programme presenter Jon Snow said - failing to mention that the EU is behind all this (notice his use of the word "forever" implying that the debate over UK entry into the EU is over).
"Somalis represent the worst of people's fears about immigration - alot of them are poor, under-educated and out-of-work" - claimed Jon Snow, who pointed out that one Somali had had five children since coming here.