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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
This is it Taf. It isn't just the immigrants that come here, they have children that attract benefits, that need educating, that need health and maternity care etc etc.
I'm sure they know exactly what they are doing.
Also, how is it that when people in the UK get a foreign partner, that they usually come to live here?
Even if we discount the sham marriages, mail order Thai brides etc and accept that some relationships are genuinely based on love- why can't the UK partner move to their country if they love them so much?
I'm so pleased that it's become socially acceptable to be able to talk about the problems of immigration without the PC brigade being able to silence people by the inappropriate use of the R word.
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You will be surprised how many DO move abroad, 1.8 million emigrated last year, you don't see it because obviously you are here so you only see what you read and live around. Its easier to base here because a) foreign people tend to learn English as a second language as standard b) English people tend not to bother to learn another language or struggle (me included first part early in my life and now live to regret it later). Believe me I would jump (and still plan to) move to Austria because that's where I see my future (although no idea how that will happen because of you know what but we shall see) As for integration believe or not the vast majority do try and integrate, try and become British culture, eat fish and chips on Friday, get a cricket annual season membership, drink real ale, get plastered on a Friday, pee down an alleyway, try not to blow themselves up etc
Funny enough when I go abroad, you will always spot a brit, a majority of them don't integrate either, speak English everywhere, open up ex pat shops selling marmite, Tetley tea, walkers crisp etc, and yet we have an issue with a Polish delicatessen, go figure
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Originally Posted by Taf
My ex-neighbour, a Czech Roma, has now added yet another child to his brood, and came to see me as he was having problems getting various forms (mostly benefit claim forms) completed for a yet another large group of Czech/Slovakian/Hungarian Roma that appeared on his doorstep demanding help.
I told him to sort it himself as he has been here long enough to have learned how to read and write English.
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Well, the nice Polish family moved out opposite me (who clean outside the flat and took down the rubbish and spoke very nicely with their well-behaved children), in their place, "single mother" courtesy of DSS with live in boyfriend ("he doesn't live here all the time ya know", no job, smoking and leaving cigarette stubs in my plant pot outside). I still await the hammer I lent her last week ("it be only a minute I give it back to ya"). You'll forgive me I f I chose the former "foreign" neighbours (who now bought their own home so good luck to them) to my own indigenous "something for nothing" lot I got now. As I write this, the rubbish is pilling up outside, probably waiting for “someone else” to sort out for her