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Mr Sceptic
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Yawn! Well, Roy, if your intention was to show the breadth and depth of ignorance and stupidity on Y!A, you have certainly succeeded.
There are not millions of asylum seekers flooding Britain. The net increase in people seeking asylum in the first quarter of 2007 was less than 5,000. That's not millions, and it's a drop in the ocean compared to the 60 million population of UK.
There are in excess of 1 million legal immigrants from EU nations in UK. Are you confusing them with asylum seekers?
As for New Labour's 'plot' to retain power - how would 'flooding' the country with foreign nationals who don't have the right to vote help them electorally? Some of you really should think before you type.
SKUNK: I'm British and I'm not a second class citizen - perhaps it's just you. |
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frank S
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They see them as potential Labour voters.
It depresses the earnings of the indigenous population because asylum seekers and other immigrants are a source of cheap labour without them realising it. They think they are earning a fortune when compared to the earnings in their own countries.
A population that is dumbed down is easy to control. |
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thingy
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What? In 2007 Q2 there were 4,950 asylum seekers in UK. Where do you get your figures from? |
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Lord Percy Fawcette-Smythe.
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to water down any opposition and to create a superstate of idiots all cloned from Tony Blair and his wife, whatsername, they will look and act like him, can you think of anything more horrendous, especially the poor women. I have left that sceptred Isle or is it septic isle har de har har har you will be changed by a national health operation and made to pay for it as well, in 10 years there will be 66 million tony and whatsername Blairs har de har har har and there is nothing you can do about it |
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UTOPIA OR BUST,
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because they have not, the reason you think that is because the BNP statistics person should go back to maths class. 1.3% of 60 million does not make 1,3 million or 2 million that is why this flood has not happened. |
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RX
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Because British with money are running to small EU countries.Beside you don't want them working illegally,you want the taxes,right?Think a bit |
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Sbunch
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They are working and paying tax so that millions of Britons can quit/not go to school, not get a job and survive on the dole that the immigrants are providing via tax!
I think that's great...so here I go, back to the telly.... |
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che
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erm not really.why don't you think b4 you open your mouth.most immigraitns come from eastern europe now due to eu enlargment and the ratio for real asylum seekers has actually fell every year for the last 3 and is comparable with that under the tories who if you remember were the ones who allowed the eu to become a border free zone in the first place |
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Uncle Joe
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They haven't. There are usually about 25-26,000 applicants a year, so 'millions' would be about 80 years' worth at minimum. |
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jimquk
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Yawn. 20,000 applied last year, not "millions". Perhaps you can' t be bothered to distinguish asylum seekers from migrant workers? Still not millions though. |
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Oswald W
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I do not think they were allowed in. They were trusted to behave lawfully and shown every regard for Human Rights.Even when they betrayed that trust, they were given access to legal representation, Medication, and benefits. They used this kindness to leg it into hiding with false credentials. Why do you think that there are so many law abiding Immigrants now getting embarrassed and angry ? It is because they are becoming the people who pay the price of distrust brought in by so many loaferish types. |
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Laurence B
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Why has New Labour allowed you to have an education when it a waste of tax payers' money, would be a better question. |
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Camilla the First
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I believe the Government - New Labour (if you please) were caught on the hop, as in they did no research about what would happen when Eastern Europe countries joined the EU, and now they have no way of stopping it. I am not against immigrants per se, but I just wonder how the infrastructure of this country will hold out, and the NSH, schools, and council housing - there are thousands of British people with no homes and that tragedy has not been addressed either. There are also a lot of people even in my home town who do not work and have been receiving benefits for a long time, long enough to get over any illness! And there are so many teenagers without or not willing to work for the mimimum wage, so the immigtrants do it. There is still a lot of children in this country living in poverty with drug addicted parents.for instance. I fear for this country I really do and for the immigrants in some areas who will get bullied, their children will get bullied. There is an overall impression given to our own people that immigrants reach this country, get a house and benefits for themselves and their children and they do not work. Some of that is true, but the locals are going to be furious, and short of civil disobedience, fights will happen. I would be interested to see your answers. Thanks for the question. Asylum seeking is different from being an immigrant. I meet lots of foreign people as I work for the local council and believe me some of them just ordinary people like me, just want to work and have a quiet life. I wonder tho' if I emigrated to East Europe what would life be like. And its different to those who choose to live in say Spain, or wherever, then even they come back when ill health strikes in old age. |
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Toots
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Same reason America accepts them...
(and I'm American) |
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BlackSheep
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Blair started it with his policy to back any country that wanted to join the E.U. without any regard to the consequences, but then after following Bush into the Iraq war like dumb sheep, not caring about the consequences is New Labour..... period. |
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russell c
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coz there thick |
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ketkonen
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Because they don't really know what their doing. They obviously have a plan but like all plans it will go wrong because of the law of unexpected consequences. Then watch the fun !! |
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teenylittlesuperguy
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'Millions'? Is that the rubbish they're spinning off at BNP HQ? |
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danor
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their heads are up their asses |
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skunk
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What you have got to understand is; if you are British you are now classed as a second class citizen . To answer your question the Labour Party don't care about this country anymore . They are giving this country away with all its assets . Our Grandfathers & our Great-Grandfathers would be turning in their graves if they knew what the ( over paid ) Loony Labour Party was doing .
Camilla please tell me what is New about Labour if you could please |
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Tony Blair
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Its our eventual plan to turn this country into the new Pakistan. Isn't it great all the real Brits will be gone as they are already leaving. |
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Ruphus B Tripehound
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not positive but backhanders come to mind |
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mad keith
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coz thay need voters |
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Bum Gravy.
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They haven't.
They have allowed in economic migrants from countries that recently joined the EU.
They are totally different to asylum seekers.
Your question and these answers show how stupid people are. People like you let bigotry get in the way of understanding the facts.
Whether they should have allowed so many in, in such a short space of time is another matter. |
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private
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Immigrants for votes.
Tony Blair and his unhinged power crazed wife,desperate to cling to power at any cost invited in 6 million new voters with a vested interest in keeping him in power.
he has so much to answer for.The immigrants will reduce our country to the third world heaps they came from within 50 years. |
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diamonds
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it's no different now than it was under the Tories actually!!
do you realise why people seek asylum in other countries...do you understand how terrible their lives were? - people like you dont bother to understand..you just blab out stupid statements like this question!! |
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Osama Bin Lorry
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Why has New Labour's education system produced racist morons like you? |
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