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Could we be storing up problems for the future?
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DazedConfused | Report | 2 Nov 2014 13:50 |
It works both ways. Thousands of Brits now live abroad thanks to the relaxing of the EU laws. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 2 Nov 2014 11:01 |
What exactly is wrong with being an economic migrant ? |
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BrianW | Report | 1 Nov 2014 22:23 |
I cannot believe that the illegal immigrants lining up in Calais "willing to risk death to get to England" where many will claim asylum or disappear into the black economy are anything other than economic migrants. |
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Sharron | Report | 1 Nov 2014 20:49 |
Many don't know the difference between owning things and being owned by their own possessions. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 1 Nov 2014 20:19 |
My daughter, age 40, was in the first generation of kids here in Canada to be told in high school NOT to expect to have more than their parents, and to expect to have to re-train for 3 different jobs during their working life ........................ instead of being in one job for 40+ years. |
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lavender | Report | 1 Nov 2014 19:58 |
My mother always says that grown up children expect to start off as adults with the same material expectations as their parents. I think there is quite a lot of truth in that. |
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Sharron | Report | 1 Nov 2014 16:18 |
People do seem to need a lot more things now. |
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Dermot | Report | 1 Nov 2014 15:58 |
OneFootInTheGrave - Pontius Pilate was ahead of his time. He appreciated the benefit of ‘clean hands’ - an idea being reiterated this very generation in an attempt to bar the transmission of some very sickening viruses. |
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Dermot | Report | 1 Nov 2014 15:50 |
Only the poor can afford large families. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 1 Nov 2014 15:46 |
Are we storing up trouble for the future? Unless things change in 3rd world countries, there will always be people willing to work at minimum wage. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 1 Nov 2014 15:18 |
Dermot, allegedly in 1801, during the Battle of Copenhagen, Lord Nelson put his telescope to his blind eye and said - I really do not see the signal. At another point in history, during the trial of Jesus, Pontius Pilate is alleged to have washed his hands in water and said - I am innocent of the blood of this just person. |
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Guinevere | Report | 1 Nov 2014 14:29 |
I don't think people should have more children than they can afford - and there are ways to prevent unwanted pregnancy now. Family allowance is ridiculously high and many families don't actually need it so it should be cut. |
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Dermot | Report | 1 Nov 2014 14:22 |
JSA means very little to the poor blighters who will surely drown somewhere in the Mediterranean while a blind-eye is turned away from their cries for survival. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 1 Nov 2014 14:18 |
Just to clarify the first paragraph in my OP I fully agree that the vast majority of immigrants come to the UK to work. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 1 Nov 2014 13:57 |
The area of Hong Hong is about the same as the Isle of Wight. The population of Hong Kong is 7 million, the Isle of Wight about 150 000. Clearly the UK has some way to go before being literally "full up". Just because when driving around most of the time you see houses, shops and factories does not mean England ( let alone Wales and Scotland) is all "built up". Flying over it in a glider even Surrey is mostly green! Have a look with Google earth. |
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Dermot | Report | 1 Nov 2014 13:46 |
Just because we're old, does that make us senile, febrile or dumb? |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 1 Nov 2014 11:05 |
I have six nieces and one nephew, all of them have more than one child. I posted the thread because I wondered, if all the scaremongering by the gutter press and some elements of the media, about the damage immigration is doing to the UK, might result in knee jerk legislation by government, to show they are in control of immigration, and do so without fully considering the long term consequences of it. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 1 Nov 2014 10:32 |
All of my junior rellies in some kind of a relationship have had two or more kids with several having three or four. My 2nd cousin was married three times and had six children that I know about... |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 1 Nov 2014 09:41 |
I forgot about mentioning that an ageing population would add to the problem - must have had a senior moment :-D |
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Bobtanian | Report | 1 Nov 2014 09:18 |
with an aging population, that could be an issue. |
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