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cookie65

What is scary is how many people believe unemployment is 1 million instead of the 5 million plus we really have

Populist Lee

As Liberals will discover in due course;
there will be no putting this particular Genie back into the bottle.

Looks like a halt - even if temporarily - to all further Immigration is becoming a quite popular proposal.

Reid's proposal is too little, too late.

eublues

Reid's 'Immigration Minister' (Liam Byrne) got a real pasting tonight from Paxman on Newsnight.

On the same show was a whingeing Romanian spokeswoman complaining about how 'unfair' we are being to her country. Paxman said "why do the British people owe Romanians a living?"

Some common-sense being uttered occasionally now - though it's almost too late for this country, and particularly for the 5 million unemployed (as mentioned above) and British people working on low wages.

Westcountryman

How long 'til we hear that ID cards will sort the Immigration mess out again? :roll:

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Robin

What I haven`t heard much of is the complaints of the new countries against France, Germany,Spain etc!

Colin McNamee

It could simply be that the UK media are holding back on such reports, as they did with the riots in Paris exactly one year ago. The riots had been underway for a week or two before receiving UK media coverage. I think the BBC were the last to report, following on from ITV. It is known that there are problems in France and Germany but the extent is not being reported in the UK.

Similarly in Spain but as many immigrants are just using Spain as the door of entry the numbers problem may not be as great so long as they keep moving through. Logically there must be a problem but not covered in the UK media. It will be interesting if people returning from holiday there start mentioning it in interviews or letters to the press?


Finally if, as appears likely, that the UK is the prefered choice immigrant destination and is known to be an easier touch then any move to make the UK 'harder' will be seen as unfair by the newer EU member countries.

Robin

Colin McNamee,

I`ve heard that the leaders of Bulgaria and Romania are complaining about the "unfairness" of Britain in trying to restrict the flow of people from their countries coming here, but have they complained against the likes of France and Germany who have restrictions against all the workers from new member states ?

Colin McNamee

Romanian Ambassador, newly appointed to UK, gave his first ever UK interview on the Sunday Politics Show today with Jonathan Soper.

He 'mentioned' that 1.5 million Romanians had already left and were in Spain. Doesn't appear to have any reason to complain about Spain then Soper didn't blink an eye on the numbers and moved on. Some interviewer, in the same league as Jeremy Vine and about the same weight - lite !.

Both France and Germany had the self interest common-sense to invoke the 7 year rule, I understand (?). previously so numbers already restricted. Only the UK politicans failed to understand the implications (or did they) by their open door policy. Did Blair really believe that only 13,000 immigrants would arrive from the 10 new members, reported in April 2005.

Problem isn't the EU, it is the duplicity of UK LibLab Con.