It's an intresting one because I know on the odd occasion I do visit my Health Center (and once I wait the two weeks for an appointment) it's chocked full with Eastern Europeans.

So there's either an awfull lot of them up here or their all hypochondriacs.

 

Just been reading about these in the Daily Mail today and apparently there is a loop hole in the law that allows them to enter the country and register as a Big Issue seller and therefore be instantly eligible for benefits due to being self employed.

Maybe why all the big issue sellers are foreign now as we are importing them in, god bless em

 

Ah the daily mail

 

But so what, if it's true? Perhaps other papers should try printing the truth and not just what the Z-listers are doing this week?

 

I agree with you completely.

So many people I hear asking why our politicians so keen on selling this country down the river. Those who mention it think that they just don't care about the people or our country.

Les

 

For anyone who cares (and is prepared to believe a word of what he said ), quite interesting interview on the Andrew Marr show this morning with Ian Duncan-Smith. Virtually the entire interview devoted to such topics as overuse of the right-to-family-life exception for convicted foreign criminals fighting deportation, benefit-tourism within the EU, benefit-tourism and immigration generally from Romania and Bulgaria specifically, etc.

So far as the subject of this thread is concerned, he seemed to think that Britain wasn't alone among better-off EU member states in wanting to bring in official curbs on benefit-tourism (he mentioned The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark several times on that point), and with those other countries on-side something might actually get done about it.
He also pointed out that based on stats for where most Romanian and Bulgarian migrants have traveled up until now, the majority will probably end up in Germany or Spain.

Should be on iPlayer as usual, fairly near the beginning of the show:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0080bbs

 

The news broadcast I'll always remember was the BBC from the Sangatte camp in France near Calais. This was back when people were hiding themselves in trucks without the drivers' knowledge or even hiding under trucks or the Eurostar to get over here, and the illegal camp was big news.
The BBC were filming a large group of North Africans who were delighted to be on camera and kept waving and saying " We love Tony Blair".

That smarmy insincere arsehole has always got right up my nose.
And still does when I see him and remember he's still milking us for his own ends.

The Tony Blair Foundation.
Do me a favour.

 

Watched it
First time in an AGE I've been able to watch a politician on TV without shouting at him/her, or switching off.

He'd get my vote....if ONLY he would do as he says he wants to.....

 

There all full of **** .....

 

Jesus WTF happened to Sinead?

 

What the EU....??


We can all see how useless millipede is



Fact is EU are set to even out all states - so that we all become as rich as each other

 

Politicians .............

 

Pointless whining, judges make the rules and they're only answerable to the EU

,as far as I can make out

 

She seemed very nervous and under-prepared.

 

She also looked like someone dragged her by the leg through a second hand shop as well!

 

....and Greggs....

 

I think it is more like that they want to destroy all the Eu countries existence as individual entities and cobble them all together into an amorphous mass with them in total control of us all!

I would much rather that we run our own country in the way that we personally want to with the democratic powers that we still have and which that would entail.

Les