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Cherie 26-02-2015 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Marsh. (Post 7613843)
Ice berg right ahead!!!

More of a frosty reception than an iceberg.

Nedusa 26-02-2015 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 7613599)
The numbers, for the year ending in September 2014, are now well above the level of migration when David Cameron came to power in 2010.

UKIP, which campaigns for Britain to leave the EU and wants an Australian-style work permit system, said the government "should be ashamed of its abject failure to keep control of the constantly rising numbers of those arriving here".

http://gozonews.com/wp-content/uploa...s_Cirkewwa.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31638174



and the odiously put this news out today to be buried by the Jimmy Saville report on the hospital - sad.

Office for National Statistics announces a net flow of 298,000 migrants to the UK in the 12 months to last September


Still, lets just focus on UKIP being Nazis like the present Government want you to focus on :idc:

Good to see this News story, hope there are a hundred more just like it or even worse to come out from now to the election.

I hope everyone in the Country is properly disgusted with this Govt and previous Govt's abject failure to stem the tide of immigration into this small Island.

Great News I hope by the time the election arrives people are rightly outraged about this situation and UKIP benefits accordingly.

user104658 26-02-2015 03:40 PM

Eek! Eeeeek! Help! 300,000?? That's an army! Do you have any idea how many dogs all of those immigrants will eat? None of our pets will be safe NONE of them I say! Plus latest statistics suggest that 299,997 of those immigrants are Muslims who have been genetically engineered to have highly explosive blood. If they start mingling with the general population and then someone lights a match? Boom, guys. Game over. Game ****ing over. AND that's not to mention the fact that, unlike us in the UK, immigrant fetuses have a gestation period of only 3 weeks instead of 9 months. Immigrant women have, on average, 27.9 children meaning that each family has an annual benefits bill of 1.72 million pounds. Think they'll be required to seek work? THINK AGAIN. All immigrants are deemed unfit for work, as where we Brits have hands, immigrants only have razor-sharp claw-like growths (and lack opposable thumbs).

Three hundred freaking thousand. Ladies and gentlemen, this truly is the end of days. Christians, grab your bibles. Jews, grab your... the first part of the bible(?). Jehovah's Witnesses, return to your homes and lock the doors. Atheists, just grab your balls and hold on for dear life. War is upon us. Each and every man, woman and child may be called upon to fight for our homes, for our lives, for our very souls at ANY given moment. To be perfectly frank - our battle will be futile - but what choice do we have? And let me ask you, will you die on your knees, or will you go down swinging?? I say we fight! I say we take to the streets in anger! I say we prepare a great HORSE with WINGS OF FIRE and GATLING GUNS attached to its mighty flanks, and we mount Nigel Farage upon that horse, and we go with him into the very heart of London and ask - nay, we DEMAND - that next year, Immigration be no more than 250,000. We can do this!

Livia 26-02-2015 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier (Post 7614058)
Eek! Eeeeek! Help! 300,000?? That's an army! Do you have any idea how many dogs all of those immigrants will eat? None of our pets will be safe NONE of them I say! Plus latest statistics suggest that 299,997 of those immigrants are Muslims who have been genetically engineered to have highly explosive blood. If they start mingling with the general population and then someone lights a match? Boom, guys. Game over. Game ****ing over. AND that's not to mention the fact that, unlike us in the UK, immigrant fetuses have a gestation period of only 3 weeks instead of 9 months. Immigrant women have, on average, 27.9 children meaning that each family has an annual benefits bill of 1.72 million pounds. Think they'll be required to seek work? THINK AGAIN. All immigrants are deemed unfit for work, as where we Brits have hands, immigrants only have razor-sharp claw-like growths (and lack opposable thumbs).

Three hundred freaking thousand. Ladies and gentlemen, this truly is the end of days. Christians, grab your bibles. Jews, grab your... the first part of the bible(?). Jehovah's Witnesses, return to your homes and lock the doors. Atheists, just grab your balls and hold on for dear life. War is upon us. Each and every man, woman and child may be called upon to fight for our homes, for our lives, for our very souls at ANY given moment. To be perfectly frank - our battle will be futile - but what choice do we have? And let me ask you, will you die on your knees, or will you go down swinging?? I say we fight! I say we take to the streets in anger! I say we prepare a great HORSE with WINGS OF FIRE and GATLING GUNS attached to its mighty flanks, and we mount Nigel Farage upon that horse, and we go with him into the very heart of London and ask - nay, we DEMAND - that next year, Immigration be no more than 250,000. We can do this!


In a small country of around 65 million people, 300,000 is a lot in a year. I have no problem with people with skills coming here, I have no problem with genuine asylum seekers. but there is finite space and finite resources. Our infrastructure is already overstretched.

arista 26-02-2015 06:51 PM

Farage is in USA today giving a Talk.



What makes me Angry
is Illegals that hang under a lorry
and enter the UK
to work in the black market etc.


One bloke even drives over to bring them back

RichardG 26-02-2015 06:59 PM

I'm not one to panic about the country being overflown with immigrants any time soon and I don't have any strong opinions about the current system, I'm not overly fussed so long as they come here to work or invest, which I reckon the large majority probably do. Equally, however, I've never understood why people are labelled as racist for wanting to move to a skill based system like Canada or Australia. It seems sensible enough to me (so long as the intentions of the person suggesting it are in the right place). I'd love to move to Canada but know it's unlikely that will ever happen as I don't have a skill they demand, that doesn't mean Canada is full of racists!!

That being said I'd never vote UKIP, I don't think the situation is anywhere near as urgent as it would have to be to justify a party like them gaining any kind of power. D:

Crimson Dynamo 26-02-2015 07:00 PM

It does however prove that Nigel is and was bang on right about immigration


smh at the pathetic tories and their silly promises

bots 26-02-2015 07:38 PM

Lets have some perspective :laugh:

We need an inward stream of immigrants to fund our current pension demands, we can't have things both ways :laugh:

It is a side effect of europe, its not news, because we signed up to it many years ago and actively encourage it. If we want an insular society then vote to exit from europe and go back to border controls. My prediction however is that even if we did this, the immigrants would still come as we NEED them for our survival.

user104658 26-02-2015 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 7614492)
In a small country of around 65 million people, 300,000 is a lot in a year. I have no problem with people with skills coming here, I have no problem with genuine asylum seekers. but there is finite space and finite resources. Our infrastructure is already overstretched.

Yes but some of the hysteria... is really quite over the top, surely? Also worth pointing out - not sure why it hasn't been yet, unless I missed it - immigration is not "up 300,000" at all. It's gone up to (nearly) 300,000. It was, obviously, not previously zero. At the end of 2013, it's quite clear from the graph that immigration was at over 200,000. Immigration is actually up by around 90,000. The thread title and OP are a bit misleading, no?

Livia 26-02-2015 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier (Post 7614895)
Yes but some of the hysteria... is really quite over the top, surely? Also worth pointing out - not sure why it hasn't been yet, unless I missed it - immigration is not "up 300,000" at all. It's gone up to (nearly) 300,000. It was, obviously, not previously zero. At the end of 2013, it's quite clear from the graph that immigration was at over 200,000. Immigration is actually up by around 90,000. The thread title and OP are a bit misleading, no?

Maybe... but whichever way you slice it up, the fact remains that immigration is high and getting higher. It's not sustainable.

user104658 26-02-2015 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by bitontheslide (Post 7614667)
Lets have some perspective :laugh:

We need an inward stream of immigrants to fund our current pension demands, we can't have things both ways :laugh:

It is a side effect of europe, its not news, because we signed up to it many years ago and actively encourage it. If we want an insular society then vote to exit from europe and go back to border controls. My prediction however is that even if we did this, the immigrants would still come as we NEED them for our survival.

Correct. We have an aging population (damned baby-boomers) and if our own people won't breed, then we simply HAVE to import. But then, everyone is also wailing about how "people shouldn't be having more than two kids that they can't afford :nono: ". Sooo... you can't have it both ways, basically. Either our own population needs to increase the birth rate, or we need migrants, OR we need to start euthanizing the elderly.

I'm not particularly opposed to any of those three options, to be fair... but y'know... people really need to pick one.

Livia 26-02-2015 08:56 PM

Of course we need migrants. But not in the numbers we're currently accepting them. Canada, Australia, all seem to be managing with ageing populations without accepting everyone who wants to live there, you have to be of some worth to them, have something to offer the country before you're accepted or be a genuine asylum seeker. I don't see that as a bad thing.

joeysteele 26-02-2015 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by RichardG (Post 7614534)
I'm not one to panic about the country being overflown with immigrants any time soon and I don't have any strong opinions about the current system, I'm not overly fussed so long as they come here to work or invest, which I reckon the large majority probably do. Equally, however, I've never understood why people are labelled as racist for wanting to move to a skill based system like Canada or Australia. It seems sensible enough to me (so long as the intentions of the person suggesting it are in the right place). I'd love to move to Canada but know it's unlikely that will ever happen as I don't have a skill they demand, that doesn't mean Canada is full of racists!!

That being said I'd never vote UKIP, I don't think the situation is anywhere near as urgent as it would have to be to justify a party like them gaining any kind of power. D:

Exactly, I feel the same too.

the truth 26-02-2015 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 7613692)
When the last scrap of land has been built on, can we then have a sensible conversation about curbing immigration, without being labelled a racist?

nope. even if a radical blows a person up for drawing a cartoon youre not allowed to talk about it freely without the word racist being bandied about. strangely though those who do the blowing up are never called racists?

Kizzy 26-02-2015 11:30 PM

Here we go again... immigrants aligned with extremism.
Aren't most immigrants atm eastern European... how many of those sympathise with ISIS?

the truth 27-02-2015 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 7615493)
Here we go again... immigrants aligned with extremism.
Aren't most immigrants atm eastern European... how many of those sympathise with ISIS?

how many can we afford to drain from the state services? how many people suffer from reduced nhs care when the immigration increases by a million every 3 or 4 years....

Kizzy 27-02-2015 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by the truth (Post 7615711)
how many can we afford to drain from the state services? how many people suffer from reduced nhs care when the immigration increases by a million every 3 or 4 years....

So it's immigration affecting the NHS now... What about immigrant doctors and nurses, don't you want those either?
Can you imagine waiting times without them?

Crimson Dynamo 27-02-2015 10:58 AM

Steven Woolfe MEP, the UKIP Migration spokesman.

"The Government should be ashamed of its abject failure to keep control of the constantly rising numbers of those arriving here", he said.

"This Government's policy is fatally holed beneath the water line and is sinking fast.

"The figures show that 624,000 people arrived here in the past year alone. To put that into perspective that is equivalent to the populations of both Liverpool and Aberdeen combined.

"More significantly perhaps is the fact that the net migration figure was just under 300,000 people.

"This is a 42% increase on the year on year figures from last year. That's a city the size of Hull settling here in the last 12 months.

"No Government can rationally plan to build the services required to cope with these numbers. The schools, the hospitals, the houses, the roads cannot be provided at such a speed, the capital costs required are huge and burden on the taxpayer will be even more strained.

"The Government has planned for failure by deceiving themselves and the country that they could keep these figures down to their infamous idea of "tens of thousands".

"During the course of this parliament, the Government has seen more than a million incomers settle permanently in the UK.

"According to the ONS there have been a "statistical significant" increase under every matrix they use including net long term migration, overall immigration, family reunions, national insurance numbers registered, and those coming here for employment and study.

Mr Woolfe continued, "Migration is one of the top concerns going into this election and it is clear that UKIP is the only party trusted to deal with it.

"We will set a cap on the number of people permitted to work and reside in the UK by introducing a fairer, and more transparent points based system ensuring we get the skilled immigrants we need and in numbers that the economy can manage."

http://www.ukip.org/david_cameron_ha..._uk_since_2010

smudgie 27-02-2015 11:00 AM

I think it is time something was done to stem the flow.
We do need immigrants to do the jobs we can't fill.
Perhaps we should have a points system for Europe, and also encourage more of our young people to train for skilled work, then encourage the unskilled people on the benefits to do the unskilled work.:shrug:
If only life was that simple.

Marsh. 27-02-2015 11:11 AM

Omg, Kizzy's sig. :joker:

Kizzy 27-02-2015 11:28 AM

It's just nice to see they have a view on something other than immigration isn't it?

Cherie 27-02-2015 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 7615895)
It's just nice to see they have a view on something other than immigration isn't it?

:hehe:

Crimson Dynamo 27-02-2015 12:59 PM

yes, sigh

those big windmills are really keeping the national grid alive...


:fan:

Kizzy 27-02-2015 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 7616018)
yes, sigh

those big windmills are really keeping the national grid alive...


:fan:

They do in Denmark :fan:

Vicky. 27-02-2015 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by arista (Post 7613688)
Up North (County Durham)
there are houses at £1

but they can not sell them
15 mins report last night
on Ch4HD news

what? :S


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