is britain being flooded with imigrants?
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Short answer... yes.\n\nLong answer... The government really needs to look at having the "right type" of immigrants permitted entry. Back home in Australia, the government has a restriction on immigration. You have to prove that you have the funds and/or job to support yourself and won't be sponging off the government and taxpayers. Over here, it just seems that they'll let anybody in and then give them a house and benefits too. And just from what I've seen, a British person has to first prove they don't need any help before they get some. I'm not surprised British people are leaving the country in large numbers.... they seem to be becoming a minority in their own country.
200989
yes becuz canada is having a people shortage i mean canada does not have enough people,,and legal imigrants would be a great thing to have!!
1145416
No, it doesnt seem to be be the british done thing (plus our residential roads / blocks tend to be longer / larger). Not since the end of WW2 / the queen's coronation anyway. Too many weekend workers, too much traffic, not enough open space, gardens too small etc.\n\nWish we did though - beautiful summers day like today (doing homework out in the garden, wi-fi + outdoors viewable LCD = fantastic!) it would be awesome. Get a BBQ going, crack out some beers, put a little party music on, get about a hundred neighbours together who might not otherwise meet up...\n\ntoo many old folks live round here though, think there'd be complaints :-)
407044
At last someone apart from myself that has noticed the large vacuum of intelligence that is apparent across the Atlantic!\n\nEven better this person is putting this statistic to some beneficial use.\n\nUnfortunately, it may take some time to get these idiots over here as the vast majority have never been outside of the almighty USA. Hence do not possess a passport!  \n\nThe British government has promised to "fast-track" any such passport application in order to assist.\n\nBoth UK and US major flight operators have also promised to increase seat sizes on their transatlantic flights in order so these idiots can get they fat butts in safely!
799904
Then you are a fascist idiot;\n\nhow can you want to refuse a certain section of our people from entering into our country? surely you believe that the holocaust was wrong, surely this is persecution as well? everyone in the UK is, or is decended from an immigrant, even if your family has lived in the same town for millenia, 'foriegn' blood will have got in.\n\nI can only guess that you are a short minded, sighted and assed idiot who spends too much time down the pub with his mates discussing how they 'would do things differently' without looking at the full picture. how mnay muslims do we have in the UK? 6 million, i think, please correct me if I'm wrong, how many have tried to bomb us? 4, do the maths and work out what percentage that is (trust me, its low)\n\nI hope your opnions change, but I fear that they will not
898406
it would be a legitimate control to resort to if we needed to limit the number of immigrants coming into the country.  i don't know why it has never been done before.  i suppose that the hope is that the incentive of being a valued member of society and playing a part in it will be enough for them to quickly learn the language once they are here.  of course learning the language and playing a part in british society could also mean that people choose to reject their old traditions and customs, so preventing your family from learning the language may also help keep them in their place.  i suppose that in time the children of the immigrant families become integrated or am i just being too idealistic ?
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I'm not English - I'm Welsh\n\nIts not just "England" its the UK as a whole - Wales Scotland and England.  We all have the same problem.  Wales is just as bad.\n\nIts because the whole of the UK is overrun with Muslim immigrants and our Government are too spineless and PC to stand up to them.\n\nAny hint of restricting their activities and they go mad and start screaming about "racism", protesting and taking everyone to court (see the latest news story about the muslim female teacher - who has links to the mosque used by the 7/7/05 bombers btw - who was told she couldn't wear her horrible head to toe black outfit and veil in the school, so she goes to court and tries to sue everyone.) \n\nMuslims can do what they want over here - anyone who tries to stand up to them or complains is called a racist.\n\nAnd there's always some stupid bleeding heart liberal who will go on about the British Raj and how our ancestors "raped" their country so we today have to let them all into the UK to trample all over us and disrespect us and treat us like crap (Umm - no we don't.).    There are too many PC liberal idiots in this country.\n\nThe fact that many native Britons have turned in desperation to the BNP (British Nationalist Party - a far right political group) shows how desperate the situation is and how many Brits are sick to the back teeth with these ranting crazed lunatics trying to bomb us all the time.  We had all that with the IRA, now its the bloody Muslims.\n\nWell this is one Brit who has no sympathy with their cause whatsoever and wishes all Islamic extremists and ranters would get the hell out of this country.  they are not wanted and no way will this EVER be a "muslim state"  as they love to brag it will be.  Our fathers and grandfathers didn't lay their lives down in WWI and WWII for this.
329123
Immigration and naturalization service... a lot of them.
291724
Its due to a lunatic politically correct government who operate a free for all policy. Other countries in Europe have a benefit system which is contribution based meaning you only get benefits if you pay into the system...the UK system will give you anything you want unless you are a tax paying law abiding English man then you have to fend for yourself. There are queues of immigrants waiting to come to the UK from France. the UK government are so frightened of being accused of being called racist that the easiest way to get whatever you want is to belong to a minority group.....The government also allows you do do whatever you want to do in the UK as long as you pretend that you don't speak English. Normal rules that apply to your average English citizen don't apply to immigrants be they black white yellow or blue.
808349
yes yes yes!!! we are a british and we are allowing our heritage to be stripped away,pandering to a minority of whingers who have nothing to whinge about, if its so bad why are they here.i believe immigation should follow the lead of aus or usa...skilled people or people with money in the bank who can support themselves. they should have to pay for private health care and pensions as we do if we emigrate, maybe then the nhs wouldnt be so overloaded and we woudnt have to work to our graves supporting people who have no intention of being productive british citizens.going away from the point slightly i know but i also think there should be a return to the old system where if you havnt paid into the economy you cant take out..would put an end to all the phoneys and lazy layabouts on benefit. And before anyone accuses me of being racist i am 3rd generation mixed race. i have no problem with colour or immigration..just a problem me funding wasters and listening to do gooders talking out of their backsides. this country has no backbone and is going to the dogs. the laughing stock comment is highly accurate.
559580
I agree with camoman73. U answered my question by saying britain is full of jerks! you are the jerk buddy
770816
IMMIGRATION - time to say ENOUGH! \n\nOn current demographic trends, we, the native British people, will be an ethnic minority in our own country within sixty years. To ensure that this does not happen, and that the British people retain their homeland and identity, we call for an immediate halt to all further immigration, the immediate deportation of criminal and illegal immigrants, and the introduction of a system of voluntary resettlement whereby those immigrants who are legally here will be afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin assisted by a generous financial incentives both for individuals and for the countries in question. We will abolish the 'positive discrimination' schemes that have made white Britons second-class citizens. We will also clamp down on the flood of 'asylum seekers', all of whom are either bogus or can find refuge much nearer their home countries. \n\nEUROPE - back to British independence! \n\nWe are opposed to the Single European Currency, and support the overwhelming majority of the British people in their desire to keep the Pound and our traditional weights and measures. At the same time, we are for the best possible relationship with our European neighbours and believe that the nations of Europe should be free to trade and cooperate whenever it is mutually beneficial, though without being forced into a political and economic straitjacket - political unification. Accordingly, we stand for British withdrawal from the European Union. In place of the EU, we intend to aim towards greater national self-sufficiency, and to work to restore Britain's family and trading ties with Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and to trade with the rest of the world as it suits us. Following our withdrawal from the EU, the BNP will use the £43 million per day net contribution Britain at present makes to the European Union to fund many far more useful projects at home. \n\nLAW AND ORDER - crack down on crime! \n\nThe BNP will crack down on crime and restore public safety and confidence. We will free the police and courts from the politically correct straitjacket that is stopping them from doing their job properly. The liberal fixation with the 'rights' of criminals must be replaced by concern for the rights of victims, and the right of innocent people not to become victims. We support the re-introduction of corporal punishment for petty criminals and vandals, and the restoration of capital punishment for paedophiles, terrorists and murderers as an option for judges in cases where their guilt is proven beyond dispute, as by DNA evidence or being caught red-handed. \n\nECONOMY - British workers first! \n\nGlobalisation, with its export of jobs to the Third World, is bringing ruin and unemployment to British industries and the communities that depend on them. Accordingly, the BNP calls for the selective exclusion of foreign-made goods from British markets and the reduction of foreign imports. We will ensure that our manufactured goods are, wherever possible, produced in British factories, employing British workers. When this is done, unemployment in this country will be brought to an end, and secure, well-paid employment will flourish, at last getting our people back to work and ending the waste and injustice of having more than 4 million people in a hidden army of the unemployed concealed by Labour's statistical fiddles. We further believe that British industry, commerce, land and other economic and natural assets belong in the final analysis to the British nation and people. To that end we will restore our economy and land to British ownership. We also call for preference in the job market to be given to native Britons. We will take active steps to break up the socially, economically and politically damaging monopolies now being established by the supermarket giants. Finally we will seek to give British workers a stake in the success and prosperity of the enterpr
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That sounds like... GLOBALIZATION!\n\nLots of people are afraid of globalization, but not me. (Mass, cross-cultural communication and electronic technology are actually allowing us to diversify and retain separate identities. (See Marshall Mcluhan, Thomas Hylland Eriksen or Google for an article called 'My Hometown is a URL in cyberspace' about the resurgence of ethnic identities due to the internet.))\n\nHowever, I find it difficult to cope with the many layers of bureaucracy in my current life. First of all I have the local government which is 'the city and county of Swansea', then above that is the national government - 'the Welsh Assembly', then above that is the British government, and overruling them is the European Union and (supposedly) the United Nations. Before you could start a World government you'd have to weed out a few of these, preferably the British Government as Blair is growing increasingly irritating.\n\nThere's also the problem of which political system to use. We hear so much about the glory of democracy, but some cultures just don't seem to want it. Also, democratic elections could cause mayhem in a world government; there'd be so many parties that there might not be a majority and they'd never ever agree on anything! And for such a moral force as a world government, you'd be aiming to get as close to consensus as possible. Would there be proportional representation of votes? Would minority groups resent this?\n\nSo much to decide... but who would make the decisions?
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There are many many Brits on yahoo.\nMost are posing as Americans or Canadians.
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No mate... you're not..\n\nI live in a large city with a very high ethnic/immigrant population. I have grown up with people from all cultures and am pleased that my children don't recognise racial and religious differences. I am now way racist and shirk from saying anything because of the fear of being branded as such...\n\nBut...... enough is enough...\n\nI work in a small town where the majority of people are racist and I hate their attitudes... but you can see the popularity of what they say growing...\n\nI have concerns for the future.. I worry that it will be ok in the future to be openly racist and aggressive to minorities, as was acceptable in Nazi Germany...\n\nAll of our politicians, irrespective of political persussion must do something soon to stop the "immigration" issue becoming a negative issue upon which bigots can campaign and stand. It's a worry... but equally worrying is the fact that we really are being swamped.\n\nI recently completed a canvass for the local Council by completing their electoral registers in a few wards. Iwas shocked at the number of nationalities represented: Poles, Czechs, Russians, Italians, French, Germans, Gambians, Ghanaians, Phillpinos, Burmese, Jamaican, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Croatian, Indian, Chinese, Danish, Potugeese and Hungarian.\n\nIt came as a shock to find so many confined in such a small area. It was like a ghetto...\n\nReally... it's time to act with sense and decency before more radical steps have to be taken.
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I wouldn't say that it's normal but it seem's to be very common.  I lived in London for 3 years after college and I met very few Brits who were proud of their country, culture or heritage.  Many were planning to move away - usually to Australia.  I often heard that the British policy on providing amnesty to foreign nationals was too soft and that Britain wasn't Britain anymore.
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Yes, there's quite a lot of us from the UK, although we don't all still LIVE there, some of us are in other countries now!\n\nThe UK link at the bottom is a bit of a waste of time ... the questions are still the same .com ones!!!\n\nAnyway, lots of people ask questions like "For Brits only - what does this mean ...??" so just go ahead and post those Qs!!