E-Petition on overcrowding hits 100K

CLAPTON

StevieJ wrote: »

I can't imagine anyone in this country who whould be in favour of unlimited immigration BTW the question looked rhetorical to me.

you made a link between discussion of growth in UK population numbers with 'non white immigration' although you then curiously talked about people 'assimilating quickly' (normally right wing code for non muslims and/or indian subcontinent)

so I was curious what level of immigration you were in favour of.

StevieJ

CLAPTON wrote: »

you made a link between discussion of growth in UK population numbers with 'non white immigration' although you then curiously talked about people 'assimilating quickly' (normally right wing code for non muslims and/or indian subcontinent)

so I was curious what level of immigration you were in favour of.

I am in favour of a level of immigration that will benefit the country, today and in the future.

CLAPTON

StevieJ wrote: »

I am in favour of a level of immigration that will benefit the country, today and in the future.

you must be a lib dem

Jimmy_31

reweird wrote: »

It's quite a sad day when people sign up to such a petition. England has some of the most fantastic countryside walks views and rolling hills in the World. I'd be extremely irate if people were allowed to develop cheap nasty housing on it. PROTECT OUR GREENBELT.

It was a happy day when i signed.

Immigrants are only one of your worrys, my estate is full of scumbag british spongers and the surrounding estates are almost full, they will get all your greenbelt at some point:D or move next door to you:D.

Add immigration into it and you are going to end up with a tower block in your back yard.

Koicarp

To me we should be dragging in skilled young heterosexual couples in particular. We keep hearing all about the "aging population" but a big part of the problem is that white anglo saxon Britons don't seem to want to breed. We should each be producing 2.75 kids and we're producing 2ish. Birth rates have been around 100 000 per year up over the last decade, but it's still not enough to replace todays tax payers when (if) they retire. If we're not careful we'll all be working forever because we didn't make enough babies, and we stopped other potential tax payers coming into the country.

Going4TheDream

nomoreboomandbust wrote: »

Going to back to non-white immigration, why do people assume that is the problem people have, it's the Eastern Europeans doing the real damage, also why do we have so many South Africans here doing jobs that aren't particularly highly skilled .

Commonwealth ancestry through UK grandparents, being married to a UK, working holiday makers between 17 and 27 (ie same a UK kids going to Australia)

I lived there for a while and came back in 1994, just after the fall of apartheid. It was very grim and every person I knew who could through ancestry were planning to come over. There is/was affirmative action meaning blacks took preference to whites irrelevant of skills and experience in the job market, Crime was rising even higher.

Great country and very beautiful but I couldnt get out of there fast enough after the change. It became a very frightening place

paulmapp8306

CLAPTON wrote: »

the e-petition will makae no difference

we can't refuse eu nationals in any event and we have no effective way of keeping anyone else out either

We could - if we pulled out of the EU

Going4TheDream

paulmapp8306 wrote: »

We could - if we pulled out of the EU

Spot on, and the way things are going in the Eurozone we cant discount the possibility. It has been in the news today that the government is looking at a plan for every eventuality................

Wheezy_2

CLAPTON wrote: »

we can't refuse eu nationals in any event and we have no effective way of keeping anyone else out either

paulmapp8306 wrote: »

We could - if we pulled out of the EU

Pull out of the EU and do what? Refuse entry to EU nationals?
Will that work both ways?
What's to stop Spain from kicking their 800K UK expats out? That will do wonders for the demographic pyramid here.

StevieJ

CLAPTON wrote: »

you must be a lib dem

You have moved me from a number 7 to LibDem then again not much to choose these days.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.