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[DimPrawn]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6907991.ece

Nice to encourage risk taking to up the immigrant count at all costs.

[HairyArsedBloke]

In the US the sky would be, ahem, black with class action suites over being victims of crime, lost jobs, etc.

Yet, 'call me Dave' says nothing. An open goal but the boy won't take the shot. I think that he is deliberately trying to throw the next election (if we have one).

[TimberWolf]

What's the army doing in Afghanistan when it should be over here protecting the government and their pay masters?

[wurzel]

Can't believe nobody is making more of this. It's a frikkin disgrace, worse than the expenses scandal IMO.

[minestrone]

The country is pumped and I am only here because I have not been able to convince the gf to leave, yet.

[AtW]

They let me in.

[minestrone]

They let me in.

Ain't got a problem with someone with your obvious abilities coming into the country and remaining here permanently. I do with the 10 Romanian beggars I will be walking past tomorrow who are already given free housing and free food.

[AtW]

Ain't got a problem with someone with your obvious abilities coming into the country and remaining here permanently.

Labour sure screwed up on immigration front - I don't think it was evil plan though, when it comes to Govt (any for this matter), then the first most likely reason is incompetence (and not giving a tulip about results of their actions or inactions) rather than conspiracy.

[minestrone]

Labour sure screwed up on immigration front - I don't think it was evil plan though, when it comes to Govt (any for this matter), then the first most likely reason is incompetence (and not giving a tulip about results of their actions or inactions) rather than conspiracy.

Was there not some labour advisor in the last couple of weeks that said the goverment did have a policy of 'getting it up the right wing' on immigration to prove a point? Seem to remember a times article getting posted on here.

Edity: Mail linky

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ltural-UK.html

[AtW]

Was there not some labour advisor in the last couple of weeks that said the goverment did have a policy of 'getting it up the right wing' on immigration to prove a point? Seem to remember a times article getting posted on here.

That's what they said, but I don't think this is result of a well implemented policy, I think they just put a spin for internal customers on this failure.

Most certainly they got lobbied by big business on IT front - I got my first work permit in late 2000, they just relaxed rules in early 2000: it enabled to bypass local employment test with job needing to be advertised for X weeks in local press, in my case it was honest application (in my view), but it sure created an easy to abuse loophole.