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8th April 2013, 08:25 AM
#11
Frog
As was a frenchman, probably tried to pretend he was a frog, and got mixed up. John sabourn
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8th April 2013, 08:30 AM
#12
#11
Rob sounds like something out of Hitlers hallucinations of a super race. Who do these people think they are. And we put these imbeciles in power. Cheers John Sabourn
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8th April 2013, 10:29 AM
#13
Who Will Be To Blame ???
Dispatches Channel 4 tonight 8thApril Immigration Undercover.Investigating the system processing Britains Immigrants.
Border staff told: Ignore 50.000 Files. Crates of untouched UK Border Agency files have been gathering dust after staff were told not to bother with 50.000 cases.A senior boss alledgedly told staff in Sheffield that 50.000 of the human rights cases "wont be dealt with anytime soon".
Regards.
Jim.B.
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8th April 2013, 12:03 PM
#14
She cant get shot of a terrorist
Hi shipmates "The border agency staff follow orders' from the top, it cost us the taxpayer £25,000 to deport one person. 50,000 illegals ???? Not the truth ,there are many more than this in the U.K. would put the dept in the red for a few years , With todays' government cuts to all our public services heads would roll, The border Agency have been found not to be fit for purpose, by Theresa May so they are beening replaced by a private company in a few months time . How many will be deported then? wait and see!!!!!
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8th April 2013, 12:13 PM
#15
The problem is the government of Oldie World Britain consisted of representatives of the gentry , then very few people had the right to vote. A survey conducted in 1780 revealed that the electorate in England and Wales consisted of just 214,000 people - less than 3% of the total population of approximately 8 million. In Scotland the electorate was even smaller: in 1831 a mere 4,500 men, out of a population of more than 2.6 million people, were entitled to vote in parliamentary elections. Large industrial cities like Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester did not have a single MP between them, whereas 'rotten boroughs' such as Dunwich in Suffolk (which had a population of 32 in 1831) were still sending two MPs to Westminster. The British electoral system was unrepresentative and outdated..
The three parliamentary reform Acts introduced in 19th-century Britain (in 1832, 1867 and 1884 respectively) satisfied moderate reformers rather than radicals. The Prime Minister, Lord Grey, supported reform to 'prevent the necessity of revolution' and was responsible for the first (or 'Great') Reform Act of 1832. However, the Act gave the vote in towns only to men who occupied property with an annual value of £10, which excluded six adult males out of seven from the voting process.
The Tory politician Lord Derby described the second Reform Act (1867) as 'a leap in the dark'. And yet only two in every five Englishmen had the vote in 1870. Even the third Reform Act (1884) - which enfranchised all male house owners in both urban and rural areas and added 6 million people to the voting registers - fell some way short of introducing universal manhood suffrage.
The changes made in the British political system between 1832 and 1884 were nevertheless important. The electorate increased substantially in size from approximately 366,000 in England and Wales in 1831 to slightly fewer than 8 million in 1885. Parliamentary seats were redistributed to give greater weight to larger towns and cities. Also, the Ballot Act of 1872, which introduced secret ballots, made it far more difficult for voters to be bribed or intimidated.
Then we started getting the men of the people into the house of Thieves in 1906 the first labour government of people like , Ramsey McDonald the Illegitimate son of a farm labourer and a housemaid , Kier Hardy son of a Ships carpenter and a domestic servant and Arthur Henderson another Illegitimate son of a servant , the populous had their own men in the biog house , but now the Labour politicians are all different Ed Balls Private School /Oxford /Harvard father an eminent Professor of Zoology , Ed Milliband son of a Marxist academic , Privately educated /Oxford /LSE another Politics + Economics graduate . Harriet Harman niece of the Countess of Longford private School York university Politics Graduate . Douglas Alexander Doctors son , graduate of Edinburgh and Pennsylvania . Chukka Umuna privately educated ..... These lot representing Labour are all Millionaires , Lawyers or Politics and economics graduates , they impose their academic ideas on the working man , and we fall for it . This lot screwed this country pretending to be labour politicians , pretending to represent the people .
These like the old story about the Emperors new Clothes have us believing what they tell us . We were screwed by teh New LAbour experiment into multi culturalism , Hey dennis Skinner , Coal Miner , bit of an Oaf , vote for him , Never , but he is one of teh few that is true to the 113 year old history of the Labour movement
Rob Page R855150 - British & Commonwealth Shipping ( 1965 - 1973 ) Gulf Oil -( 1973 - 1975 ) Sealink ( 1975 - 1986 ) 

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8th April 2013, 05:32 PM
#16
Sorry John Gill, the rivers of blood thing came from Enoch Powell. Hardly Anglo Saxon was he ( Welsh actually in case you dont know ) . Take away the Irish and Welsh ancestry from liverpool and you would have an allmost deserted city.
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8th April 2013, 05:53 PM
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apart from the ethnics who are growing at am alarming rate cappy
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8th April 2013, 06:56 PM
#18
correction
Political history seems not to be your best subject Eifion- The member for Ulster and Enoch Powell were the same person.
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8th April 2013, 07:06 PM
#19
Post ~5 John Gill - rivers of Blood , Eifion , John s correct , Enoch Powell was Conservative - Wolverhampton south West but left the Conservatives and returned to parliament as the Ulster Unionist candidate for South Down , as well as being a professor at the University of Sydney in ancient Greek pre war , he was promoted to Brigadier ,for his war service
Rob Page R855150 - British & Commonwealth Shipping ( 1965 - 1973 ) Gulf Oil -( 1973 - 1975 ) Sealink ( 1975 - 1986 ) 

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8th April 2013, 08:04 PM
#20
Why on earth should it cost £25,000 to send one illegal back to wherever, Easyjet sells one way tickets to loads of places for £29!
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