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    Someone likes Slough!

    Stolen from BBC News Webtulipe

    Europe children flood into Slough
    A Berkshire town has been struggling to cope with nearly 90 children who have arrived unaccompanied from Eastern Europe.
    The Roma children, one as young as ten, have apparently paid someone in Romania to send them to Slough.

    The Borough Council does not know why it has been singled out but has been forced to set up a special team and spend £150,000 helping the children.

    It has called for more government help to offset the strain on other services.

    Family members

    The authority has revealed that since 1 January, when Romania joined the European Union, 88 Romanian Roma children have arrived asking for help.

    The children usually arrive in groups of three, but six have had babies of their own and seven have been pregnant.

    The local authority has had to set up an emergency Roma assessment team.

    It is currently supporting 53 children while others have been sent to live with family members who have been located in other parts of the UK.

    The Council say more money is needed from the Government to help them with migrants otherwise other services could be cut.
    Everything's coming up roses...

    #2
    I think Romania has sussed out a cheap way to sort out its orphan probem
    Last edited by Troll; 13 May 2007, 09:48.
    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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      #3
      Excellent! Ferenc Gyurcsány has been masquerading as a leader of the country, formerly from the Communist party (wonder where all the old commies went after the Berlin wall?) and now the leader of the Hungarian Socialist party (Communism Lite) has had the burden of Roma gypsies to deal with for many years.

      A self-proclaimed friend of Tony Bliar, he has preceded over poorly funded welfare policies (such as giving gypsies free mobile phones to help them get jobs, which as we all know in the UK, will ultimately fail and has caused huge resentment within the a growing nation of entrepreneurs freed from the evils of communism and struggling to gain independence from state control).

      However, another solution has been presented to Ferenc: the infinite horn of plenty – the good old united kingdom who will receive all who are needy.

      Bring ‘em in boys, there’s plenty of taxpayers here…

      Still, makes my plans to move over there a little more concrete...
      If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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