E/Immigration Shocker

Listening to Radio 4 yesterday afternoon and a piece came up about a couple
moving to Canada. A nice statistic dropped out in the middle about people
who *leave* the UK each year on a permanent or semi-permanent basis.

2002 - over 300,000 people *left* the country. Now pray tell me why the ****
this is not mentioned when immigration hysteria strikes? Are all those
proponents of asylum and immigration just too_fucking_stupid to make the
strongest argument possible about scant resources? that there are more going
than arriving.

It's the biggest surprise I've had for a while and googling around it seems
to be kosher. Changes the landscape completely, it's not how many we let in
it's *who* we let in.

Welcome everyone who brings education, skill and of course a minimum amount
of money. We just need to weed out the uneducated and penniless and leave
them for the French and the Germans.

 

Wouldn't that mean that someone somewhere would have to put together a
rational, reasonable, _balanced_ argument based on all the facts?

Why that would set a precedent, they'd have to apply it to road safety
arguments and other such stuff.

It'll never catch on.

 

Hog wrote:

Errr, actually, I left England for Germany. Jolly good it is.

 

*snigger*

 

<flounce> I'll have you know I have *two* degrees!

Anyway, beers cheaper and theres always an unlimited autobahn for carb
setup testing

 

Shirley someone who arrives with education and skills but little money
is *exactly* the kind of person who is going to be industrious and an
asset to the UK, adding value to their employers stock.

Not being the wonderful destination we'd like to believe it is, people
with money are more likely to settle elsewhere.

BTW I've known for ages that more leave this country than arrive. I
thought it was common knowledge. Let's face it, really talented people
with a bit of imagination aren't likely to stick around under a crap
regime like ours if they get a better offer abroad. I happen to like it
here and will be staying, but I'm perverse like that and I run my own
business. I love this country, just hate the way it's run.

 

If they need SS benefits ****'em.
No hold on, Workhouses, treadmills, power generation.....

Where exactly has a better regime? on balance I don't know of any. Sun,
geography, sea yes perhaps.

 

This works for Australia and America.

 

A lot of people seeem to like the laid back places like Spain, Southern
France, and other places near the Med. **** I don't know where they all go,
stats anyone?

 

Only 2?? This is our 3 degrees man here you know...

 

And Canada, Switzerland, Sweden ...............

 

But their govmints and beauracracies are even more pants

 

<EG>
now now

 

Prince Charles is here?

 

But are perhaps more 'laissez faire', which seems to be what people
like.

 

I'm sure you're right. I once got offered a job in Switzerland on pretty
good pay, but turned it down. The place is just too tidy and regimented for
a scruffy renegade like me... There are no scrapyards in Switzerland.

 

Two degrees, and you still can't use apostrophes.

My vote goes with MrMoosehead ;-)

--
John

SV650
Black it is
and naked

 

What do they do with it all, then?

--
John

SV650
Black it is
and naked

 

Make cuckoo clocks and army knives.

 

Hog wrote

They do and they always have done but it has usually fallen rather by
the wayside when the likes of the BNP suggest gangs of granny raping
wogs rampaging through the street every time they open their mouths.

This too has always been the way.