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Rod Liddle - Immigration, Emigration

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 12:48 am
by Officer Dibble
Rod Liddle, who writes in The Suday Times, is the dude who has the balls to say what you?re thinking. This week he was commenting on the latest statistics on immigration and emigration. His general point being that able, intelligent, half decent and moderately minted Brits are leaving these repressive PC shores in droves, only to be replaced by a lager number of benefit dependent, third world sorts who don?t bring any dosh or technical skills, but who do bring mediaeval cultural practices, four kids, two wives, and third world standards of carrying on and behavior. Which all bodes ill for the future. Here?s a little of what Rod had to say -

?Quite soon ? within 50 years or so ? the only people left in Britain will be cut-price Polish plumbers, angry suicide bombers and obese, flatulent, drunken, educationally subnormal indigenous chavs who haven?t yet worked out the quickest route to the ferry terminal?. the number of British people leaving the country last year was a remarkable 400,000 ? that?s a city the size of Sheffield. And more than half of those were reasonably well-off, tax-paying, palpably sentient human beings.

Even more people came in, of course ? 591,000 according to the ramshackle guesswork of the ONS. But they weren?t quite the same, economically and socially, as those who got the hell out. They were ? now, what?s the nicest way of putting this? ? differently-abled.

The pattern of immigration into Britain over the years mirrors almost exactly the pattern of migration out. So much so that you might suppose there is a causal link between the two; we?re getting out because of all those people coming in. Everybody tells us that immigration is good for the country. The only people, it would seem, who are not quite sure about this are the general public.?







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Re: Rod Liddle - Immigration, Emigration

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:13 am
by planeterotica
Nothing will change under this present goverment because this is the way they want it, if you are travelling into the country via Dover or the Channel Tunnel and you are British you are more than likely to be given a thorough check by customs and immigration whilst they turn a blind eye to those coming in from Eastern European countries, and they are being told to do this by the goverment so if you want a country that in the future will be worth living in then come the next election you know what to do !swear!






Re: Rod Liddle - Immigration, Emigration

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:53 am
by KennySue
A Related Item:

NZ bans Brit immigrant's overweight missus

Fat people 'a significant drain on health resources'

By Lester Haines

The wife of a British man who moved out to New Zealand in September will have to shed a few pounds if she wants to join him after the authorities ruled her too fat to enter the country.

According to the Telegraph, rugby-playing Welshman Richie Trezise, 35, was himself initially turned down for a skills visa after his body mass index (BMI) was clocked at 42, or "morbidly obese". The powers that be apparently don't much care for fatties who might be a burden on the health system.

The former soldier, a submarine cable specialist recruited to supervise the Southern Cross Cable which links NZ, Oz and the US west coast, duly lost two inches round the waist, and jetted off to his new life. His missus, however, is still in Blighty, and Trezise admitted that if she wasn't allowed in by Xmas he might reconsider his decision to emigrate.

Trezise told the Telegraph: "My doctor laughed at me. He said he'd never seen anything more ridiculous in his whole life. He said not every overweight person is unhealthy or unfit."

Robyn Toomath, a spokeswoman for Fight the Obesity Epidemic, described the BMI limit as "valid in the vast majority of people", while stressing her opposition to "obese people being stigmatised".

She added: "However, the immigration department's focus is different. It cannot afford to import people into the country who are going to be a significant drain on our health resources. You can see the logic in assessing if there is a significant health cost associated with this individual and that would be a reason for them not coming in."

Trezise has private health insurance and his employer Telecom runs a gym membership scheme, the Telegraph notes. ?

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Re: Rod Liddle - Immigration, Emigration

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:44 pm
by BGAFD Admin
hmm... this all seems strangely familiar [cue harp arpeggios/waviness as link is clicked]:


Re: Rod Liddle - Immigration, Emigration

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:14 pm
by stripeysydney
That drawing( the first one) of the Irish peasant who has anarchy on his hat is a dead ringer for Liam gallagher.

Re: Rod Liddle - Immigration, Emigration

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:22 pm
by Sam Slater
Typically a US website. Always having a pop at the English, pointing out our faults. Anybody would think the Americans were the first to abolish slavery, and send out their navy to patrol the west African coast, stopping such beastly trade.........which nation was that again?


Re: Rod Liddle - Immigration, Emigration

Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:33 pm
by tommy dickfingers
what a load of racist bollocks probably from the "irish"american lobby.

Re: Rod Liddle - Immigration, Emigration

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 2:25 am
by mart
So what's the beef.
I had to pass rigorous health checks before I got NZ residency for that exact same reason.
Does the article say his wife attends the gym and is covered by his medical insurance?

Mart