A Different View of Things

Originally Posted by Samnooshka

True and Australia is one of the hardest to move to Canada and America are not far behind. You get scored on a points system, depending on age, education, job skill, you basically have to have something for that country to use but can't push natives out of there jobs or apply for jobs that can be done by someone already in the country.

The UK is a push over, it really ****es me off so much!!!

Tbh I agree with you, its just a shame that we are so insular over here, my dad,s a scot he put up with years of racist abuse from english people down here and scots back in scotland because he,d moved south, I was even called a half breed cos me dads a scot and me mums english, made a change from being called a half wit though ! lifes too short, deal with it

Originally Posted by stewie

Tbh I agree with you, its just a shame that we are so insular over here, my dad,s a scot he put up with years of racist abuse from english people down here and scots back in scotland because he,d moved south, I was even called a half breed cos me dads a scot and me mums english, made a change from being called a half wit though ! lifes too short, deal with it

I have never had a problem with people moving around Great Britain north or south as long as someone's not a **** then i'll generally get on with people. I don't understand racist abuse, its out of line and uncalled for... got accused of it at school "you don't like me cuz i'm Asian" i said " no Juned i don't like you cuz you're a ****". Same goes for white people too but i don't have all day to list them.

Originally Posted by Samnooshka

I have never had a problem with people moving around Great Britain north or south as long as someone's not a **** then i'll generally get on with people. I don't understand racist abuse, its out of line and uncalled for... got accused of it at school "you don't like me cuz i'm Asian" i said " no Juned i don't like you cuz you're a ****". Same goes for white people too but i don't have all day to list them.

Hope Im not one of em

Originally Posted by Samnooshka

"you don't like me cuz i'm Asian" i said " no Juned i don't like you cuz you're a ****". .

Originally Posted by stewie

Only half english ?Better half is french, I dont think marrying a french person makes you half french

....one of my parents is French.

As for marriage....

This thread is just so depressing All these myths being peddled around, breeding xenophobia I really thought the world had moved on.

Any one of you who has posted about how the benefit system is so open to abuse - prove it. Give me a specific example.

I bet you can't.

Me, my mother comes from Ireland, one of the countries mentioned above. I'm very proud of my Irish roots. Father came from the Isle of Sheppey but that's not desperately relevant. Mother arrived here in 1942, trained to be a nurse in Lewisham Hospital at a time when England was glad of the help, and apart from a short break to have kids (me included) she has always worked, up to age 74 in fact.

My guess is that like her, most immigrants do not abuse the system. Of course there will always be a handful of cases but my overwhelming feeling is that immigrants contribute rather than take. In so many ways, not just economic.

But headlines like 'Immigrant Scroungers' sell copy, don't they?

Originally Posted by Ed

This thread is just so depressing All these myths being peddled around, breeding xenophobia I really thought the world had moved on.

Any one of you who has posted about how the benefit system is so open to abuse - prove it. Give me a specific example.

I bet you can't.

+1

Originally Posted by stewie

Or what about them scots, welsh and irish, better still what about them southereners coming up here for the cheap housing and what about them lancashire people moving to cheshire and what about ? ...... cuts both ways you know
P.s ey up all you southereners can come here if you want too, but thee must learn tha lingo though

Its Only coz the rest of the world wants to live in the South and wont go back to where they came from.
I'm Fed up with the legal imigrants from North of the Thames coming down here and taking all our housing and jobs

Originally Posted by stewie

Or what about them scots, welsh and irish, better still what about them southereners coming up here for the cheap housing and what about them lancashire people moving to cheshire and what about ? ...... cuts both ways you know
P.s ey up all you southereners can come here if you want too, but thee must learn tha lingo though

Originally Posted by the_runt69

Its Only coz the rest of the world wants to live in the South and wont go back to where they came from.
I'm Fed up with the legal imigrants from North of the Thames coming down here and taking all our housing and jobs

lol

Ed, If you lived in some of the area's that have a large porportion of eastern europeans in it youd find that yes they are willing to work but they work for a lot less than the local people so take jobs from local population. They live in the most squalid conditions and send home as much as they can. With the strength of the pound every one they send home is worth more to their families at home than it is to them here so you have a catch 22 situation. they will keep coming to work for what we would call very low wages but will make their families better off but will stir up hate from the locals who cant find decent paid jobs because they're being undercut all the time.
I personally dont care as long as the migrants are willing to work and pay into the system. But a lot of home born of migrants (and a lot of English people) now know the system and use it to their own advantage.
And to admit to have someone in your family from the isle of sheppy
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