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14th April 2013, 06:20 PM
#51
J,P
Tell me one country in the E.U Or for that matter anywhere in the world that has British citizens fighting against deportation other than the few crooks. This is the reason the Grocer/ the Baker/ and the Candle Stick Maker/ Are shutting up shop in the U.K. No one spends money or will invest in small businesses. As a result Cameron has chosen to cut every benefit under the sun in this country, Not to mention funding of hospitals/ Education / Local Council Services / And just about everything else ordinary people depend on. Everything is going up in price in this country of ours. Osbourn keeps telling us that he has took anyone earning less than £9.000 a year out of the income tax bracket.The only people earning that or less are the bloody immigrants sending there money out of the country. Not one of them have mentioned the hill farmers in England, Scotland,Wales, or Ireland that are going under because of the severe winter we have endured loosing there ewe,s and spring lambs etc.... I think around £10.000.000 would go a long way in keeping them afloat I am bloody bewildered. Regards lads Terry.
{terry scouse}
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14th April 2013, 08:12 PM
#52
i ask again who is picking up the tab!!! add london closing for the day all the hangers on flying people from all over the world the security men police etc i would bet my shirt that £10.000.000 will not come anywere near the final tally? who has the power to spend this kind of money don't forget we are all in this together people my a.se?jp
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15th April 2013, 06:24 AM
#53
Terry has a valid point there about monies going out of the country. We havea similar problem here in Oz, billions going overseas to keep families going, does nothing for the local economy. But the fact remains, every country has the right to say who comes in, how, when and under what conditions. In my opinion the UK has lost thta as a result of EU laws. Under international laws most countries will accept a number of LEGAL refugees, but so many of the ones thta arive in UK and here in Oz are not doing it for what they have to offer, rather what the country has to offer them.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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15th April 2013, 09:45 PM
#54
Who Will Be To Blame ???
Who Will Be To Blame ???
The way her indoors goes on, it will be me ?
K.
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16th April 2013, 06:41 AM
#55
The problem is two fold for UK. You are signaturies to the UN agreement regarding assistance to other nations. Secondly the EU also has a say in who gets paid and tells all the member states they have to shell out. Getting out of such agreements is not easy.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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16th April 2013, 03:55 PM
#56
John, good majority it was a landslide & possibly this one will be too but how long before the masses get the tom bobbies with the new government as they expect instant fix. When we were there what seems so long ago, it was compulsory though you are spot on of course once you had your name crossed of the Er then you could bugger off I guess.
I see a well known ethnic polly (along with some members of family also?) in NSW is up for some form of bribe charge & not just a teeny one but apparently AU$30m one for JC's sake! Bet if found guilty he either gets off with a short sentence on a nice farm, or heads of back to that country adjacent to Israel with his plump pension following each month. Am told majority of funds spirited out of country by a/c who was a vlage mate of his back in the old country, had to laugh at that.
Of late emerge ghetto style areas, JC John out west in Sydney where our factories were just that ghettos & they were before we had them there our factories & just changed the residents ethnic origins as time rolled on. If you look at places like Fairfield, Villawood etc just before we left almost every day there was some form of shooting there, drive by as well as others. Most of it dare I say Arab related.
Great country but now we are told so expensive people are finding it hard to live, well in Sydney, so many doing it tough which is sad? Bet it is still hard to get good staff too, never could. Bugger all response to adds & those who came from the Social Security office did so just to meet their basic requirements had no that is no intention of working. It is they say the same the world around except Asia.
Last edited by leratty; 16th April 2013 at 04:06 PM.
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17th April 2013, 06:50 AM
#57
Interesting comment there about the poli who had his hand in the pickle jar and got caught. He will walk away with his pension and much of what he did will be swept under the carpet while he sits back and enjoys the fruits of his misdeeds.
How ever the tea lady who steals the money from the tea trolley goes to court, get a sentence and is stuffed for life.
So much for justice for all, justice dependent on who you are, rather thna what you did.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller

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