Dedworth
16th August 2013, 10:21
Imagine you live in a country where the minimum wage is less than 80p an hour - always supposing you can find work, that is.
Where 40 per cent of houses have no indoor flushing toilet. Where the nearest doctor can be 50 miles away along a dirt track. Where it's impossible to keep warm in the winter, there's not enough money to buy meat regularly and holidays are an unaffordable luxury.
This bleak existence is typical of the lifestyle endured by millions of Bulgarians and Romanians, whose countries are the poorest in Europe.
Be honest: if one of the richest countries in Europe offered you a new life in a land of milk and honey, with free healthcare, free education and plentiful cheap food, you'd grab it with both hands. That's why so many Bulgarians and Romanians are flocking to Britain in such numbers that 100 a day are getting jobs here - and that's before the labour market is officially open in January.
And their presence is being felt everywhere. In February, a police survey of regular beggars in Aberdeen found that almost half were foreign and, of these, the majority were from Romania and Bulgaria.
Politicians will spin weasel words to try to convince you that all is well but we know better than to be taken in. Labour can't admit its disgraceful open-door immigration policy has inflicted such damage on the British way of life - and the Conservatives can't admit that, despite all their huff and puff, they're virtually powerless to stem the tide.
We all know our country is bursting at the seams. In our big cities and towns, classroom numbers are rising and many children speak English only as a second language. Hospital waiting rooms are packed with huddled masses claiming free treatment from an NHS system to which they've never contributed a penny.
YOUTH unemployment continues to rise as the unskilled labour market is dominated by eastern Europeans who work long hours for low pay. Last year there were 307,000 more people in employment - but 204,000 of them were born abroad.
Scotland Yard warns that 90 per cent of cash machine crime is caused by Romanian gangs who get away with £30million a year. Romanians are brought up in a culture that accepts that when someone steals your property you go and steal it back from someone else. Bulgarians come from the poorest, most corrupt country in the EU.
We are playing with fire allowing these lawless bands to come here unfettered and unchecked. Of course many want to live here so they can work hard and better themselves and there is no harm in that if their numbers are strictly controlled. But is anyone daft enough to believe anyone in officialdom has the vaguest clue how many spongers and scroungers are heading our way? Remember how the incompetent Labour government got it all so horribly wrong in 2004 when the influx from eight eastern European countries was criminally underestimated.
Despite official predictions that less than 20,000 would arrive some 669,000 people from those countries were working in the UK last year, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Small wonder coalition ministers refuse to put a figure on what's likely to happen this winter. That's because they don't want to scare you.
They know the facts but they are too unpalatable for them to air in public. Dig around in offi-cial websites, however, and you discover that around 100,000 Bulgarians already live in the UK. That's many more than the 30,000 in France or 75,000 in Germany, even though Britain is further away. Of course the actual figures may be higher.
A survey carried out for the European Parliament found around 400,000 people - more than five per cent of Bulgaria's population - would leave Bulgaria in the next two years. Britain was the destination of choice for nearly 100,000 of them. Migration Watch estimates that net migration from Romania and Bulgaria will be 50,000 a year for the next five years. Would you bet against them being right? They've been spot on so far.
For the first time ever there are more Romanian and Bulgarian workers in Britain than there are from Australia and New Zealand. When Labour came to power in 1997 there were about 2,000 Romanians and Bulgarians working here. Today the figure is 141,000 and over the past year it is up by a worrying 37 per cent.
AND it comes down to simple economics. Figures on 2012 average wage levels show that Bulgarians are paid £3.15 an hour compared with £18.40 in Britain. In Romania the minimum wage is 79p while in Britain it's about to rise to £6.31.
The political classes in London and Brussels are taking a huge risk with our futures by allowing this madness to happen.
Worst of all they know full well that if you and I were given a vote on whether we wanted our country to turn into a melting pot of the world's poor and wretched the answer would be an overwhelming No.
Consider this: if David Cameron wins the election and carries out his promise of a referendum on whether we stay in the EU, as many as a million eastern Europeans living here could be entitled to vote if the referendum is deemed to be a European issue.
Would they vote for Britain to leave? Would they endanger their livelihoods, their benefits, their healthcare, their children's education? There's more chance of turkeys voting for Christmas.
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/422472/Government-must-halt-next-flood-of-immigration
Truly frightening :cwm23:
Where 40 per cent of houses have no indoor flushing toilet. Where the nearest doctor can be 50 miles away along a dirt track. Where it's impossible to keep warm in the winter, there's not enough money to buy meat regularly and holidays are an unaffordable luxury.
This bleak existence is typical of the lifestyle endured by millions of Bulgarians and Romanians, whose countries are the poorest in Europe.
Be honest: if one of the richest countries in Europe offered you a new life in a land of milk and honey, with free healthcare, free education and plentiful cheap food, you'd grab it with both hands. That's why so many Bulgarians and Romanians are flocking to Britain in such numbers that 100 a day are getting jobs here - and that's before the labour market is officially open in January.
And their presence is being felt everywhere. In February, a police survey of regular beggars in Aberdeen found that almost half were foreign and, of these, the majority were from Romania and Bulgaria.
Politicians will spin weasel words to try to convince you that all is well but we know better than to be taken in. Labour can't admit its disgraceful open-door immigration policy has inflicted such damage on the British way of life - and the Conservatives can't admit that, despite all their huff and puff, they're virtually powerless to stem the tide.
We all know our country is bursting at the seams. In our big cities and towns, classroom numbers are rising and many children speak English only as a second language. Hospital waiting rooms are packed with huddled masses claiming free treatment from an NHS system to which they've never contributed a penny.
YOUTH unemployment continues to rise as the unskilled labour market is dominated by eastern Europeans who work long hours for low pay. Last year there were 307,000 more people in employment - but 204,000 of them were born abroad.
Scotland Yard warns that 90 per cent of cash machine crime is caused by Romanian gangs who get away with £30million a year. Romanians are brought up in a culture that accepts that when someone steals your property you go and steal it back from someone else. Bulgarians come from the poorest, most corrupt country in the EU.
We are playing with fire allowing these lawless bands to come here unfettered and unchecked. Of course many want to live here so they can work hard and better themselves and there is no harm in that if their numbers are strictly controlled. But is anyone daft enough to believe anyone in officialdom has the vaguest clue how many spongers and scroungers are heading our way? Remember how the incompetent Labour government got it all so horribly wrong in 2004 when the influx from eight eastern European countries was criminally underestimated.
Despite official predictions that less than 20,000 would arrive some 669,000 people from those countries were working in the UK last year, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Small wonder coalition ministers refuse to put a figure on what's likely to happen this winter. That's because they don't want to scare you.
They know the facts but they are too unpalatable for them to air in public. Dig around in offi-cial websites, however, and you discover that around 100,000 Bulgarians already live in the UK. That's many more than the 30,000 in France or 75,000 in Germany, even though Britain is further away. Of course the actual figures may be higher.
A survey carried out for the European Parliament found around 400,000 people - more than five per cent of Bulgaria's population - would leave Bulgaria in the next two years. Britain was the destination of choice for nearly 100,000 of them. Migration Watch estimates that net migration from Romania and Bulgaria will be 50,000 a year for the next five years. Would you bet against them being right? They've been spot on so far.
For the first time ever there are more Romanian and Bulgarian workers in Britain than there are from Australia and New Zealand. When Labour came to power in 1997 there were about 2,000 Romanians and Bulgarians working here. Today the figure is 141,000 and over the past year it is up by a worrying 37 per cent.
AND it comes down to simple economics. Figures on 2012 average wage levels show that Bulgarians are paid £3.15 an hour compared with £18.40 in Britain. In Romania the minimum wage is 79p while in Britain it's about to rise to £6.31.
The political classes in London and Brussels are taking a huge risk with our futures by allowing this madness to happen.
Worst of all they know full well that if you and I were given a vote on whether we wanted our country to turn into a melting pot of the world's poor and wretched the answer would be an overwhelming No.
Consider this: if David Cameron wins the election and carries out his promise of a referendum on whether we stay in the EU, as many as a million eastern Europeans living here could be entitled to vote if the referendum is deemed to be a European issue.
Would they vote for Britain to leave? Would they endanger their livelihoods, their benefits, their healthcare, their children's education? There's more chance of turkeys voting for Christmas.
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/422472/Government-must-halt-next-flood-of-immigration
Truly frightening :cwm23: