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Originally posted by Freamon View PostEvening Standard:
I'm pretty sure Brits can go and register and insure their cars in Romania.
When you go on a contract to Belgium, do you really want to have to re-register and insure your car every 6 months, regardless of whether it is cheaper?
In this regard UK has a long way to go - on the mainland there aren't any borders to speak of - you see the signs of entering another country but that's it.
If the fuel in France is cheaper than Germany then people living to the border will drive to the French gas station, nothing really wrong with that, just the market at work.Comment
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The work ethic I see in these Poles will almost certainly be passed on to their kids
Try checking rather than assuming. For example, a couple of big pluses for the Muslim community used to be an avoidance of drugs and alcohol. Alcohol related hospital admissions for are now just the same as for the rest of us and drug use is fast rising to the same levels.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostNo, it almost certainly won't. People follow society and while we have an ethos that discourages responsibility by too ready welfare, an excessive concentration on rights that ignores duties, all these migrants will go down the same hill.
Try checking rather than assuming. For example, a couple of big pluses for the Muslim community used to be an avoidance of drugs and alcohol. Alcohol related hospital admissions for are now just the same as for the rest of us and drug use is fast rising to the same levels.Comment
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostNo, it almost certainly won't. People follow society and while we have an ethos that discourages responsibility by too ready welfare, an excessive concentration on rights that ignores duties, all these migrants will go down the same hill.
Try checking rather than assuming. For example, a couple of big pluses for the Muslim community used to be an avoidance of drugs and alcohol. Alcohol related hospital admissions for are now just the same as for the rest of us and drug use is fast rising to the same levels.
You might be right there.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Indeed. It will be paradise.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostIndeed. It will be paradise.
Where's your beef?Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostNo, it almost certainly won't. People follow society
It likely gets watered down over time/generations depending how insular their community is... but then when they are insular you complain they're not integrating (with our society of laziness).Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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We suffer their drawbacks of lack of integration today, our own drawbacks of a complacent lazy society tomorrow or after a generation or two anyway. Not to mention a greatly overcrowded country. It sounds less than sensible; we should be tackling our own problems like welfare, booze and unmarried mothers rather than continually spending billions on trying to integrate others.
And subsidising some of them via our taxes. As I said, check out the realities with the ONS rather than parrot the permitted line. Welfare, prison population, health and social housing levels are worse for some major ethnic groups and we are not talking percentage points but multiples in some cases.
We should also build on the major progress we have made in the last hunderd years, things like the secular society, equality of treatment for women and gays and humane treatment of animals. Influence is a two way street and those gains are under threat or at least slowed by imported third world attitudes. To some extent even by the rise in Catholic influence from Eastern Europe, it is not the easy going Christianity of the CofE.
PS Specifically on Poles/Hungarians I would agree they are not a major problem. Romania (original subject of this thread), Lithunia rather different.Last edited by xoggoth; 1 March 2011, 18:20.bloggoth
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
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Originally posted by xoggoth View Postit is not the easy going Christianity of the CofE.
“The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”Comment
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