Brits, you're easily replaceable

[color=olive:f12fccdb73]No need to feel guilty about deserting the UK, there's plenty more coming in to replace you.[/color:f12fccdb73]

[color=green:f12fccdb73][b:f12fccdb73]Thinktank sees 50,000 migrants moving to UK [/b:f12fccdb73][/color:f12fccdb73]
Tuesday April 25,
07:15 AM

LONDON (Reuters) - More than 50,000 Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants will move to Britain next year if their countries join the European Union, a thinktank estimated on Tuesday.

Some 41,000 will come from Romania and 15,000 from Bulgaria if Brussels gives the countries the go-ahead to join on January 1, 2007, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said.

The estimate is based on what happened after May 2004, when thousands of East European immigrants -- far more than the government expected -- took advantage of EU accession to move to Britain to find work.

Britain was a particularly attractive destination for East Europeans because it was one of only a handful of "old" EU states to open its labour markets to migrants from the 10 new accession countries.

The IPPR, regarded as politically close to the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, said the impact of Romanian and Bulgarian migrants on the economy would be limited and largely positive.

"Romanian and Bulgarian accession should be seen as an opportunity not a threat," IPPR associate director Danny Sriskandarajah said. "We are likely to see turnstiles not floodgates as young and hard-working people come to the UK to work, save, learn English and go home."

Brussels will report on May 16 whether EU states should allow Bulgaria and Romania to join the 25-nation bloc next January or delay them until 2008 so they can step up reforms.

i do find it so ironic, theres us forumites scouring the net finding threads of info to move to a place where we think we may be more content.
then there are thousands and thousands of all walks pouring in with with little or no skills or any real checking(and to suggest such a thing in some company they think you are a member of the bmp)i work on building sites and there is a shortage of good trades men,but would say only a small% of these are trades men theres alot of chancers and many dont speak any english.the latvians and polish are a hard working bunch but i feel they are being explioted (by greedy english sub contractors)but they have a plan work here for two years and go home a weathy man so you cant blame them.heard a disturbing thing that if they become ill they try to get back to poland ect as the health service is better there dont know how true that is mayby just a myth.

Been here 4 months and have had some small feelings of sometimes missing home recently.....................after reading that, just remembered why I moved my family out of Britain!

Fisheress

[color=darkred:a569ffc872]Something else to be concerned about.[/color:a569ffc872]

[color=brown:a569ffc872][b:a569ffc872]Clarke under fire over deportation row[/b:a569ffc872][/color:a569ffc872]
Wednesday April 26, 07:38 AM

LONDON (Reuters) - Home Secretary Charles Clarke was under pressure on Wednesday to explain how more than 1,000 foreign prisoners including murderers and rapists were released without being considered for deportation.

In a major embarrassment to Prime Minister Tony Blair's government ahead of local elections next week, the Home Office said on Tuesday it had no idea where the vast majority of the 1,023 convicted criminals were. They were released over the past seven years and only a handful of them had been traced.

Clarke will make a series of interviews on Wednesday to explain the situation and he is expected to make a statement to parliament later in the day. "I think it is a shocking state of affairs," Clarke said on Tuesday. "The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable."

The revelation will come as a severe blow to Blair's government which says it is tackling crime and has pledged to deport foreigners it regards as a threat to national security. It is also likely to play into the hands of the Conservative Party as well as the fringe far-right British National Party, campaigning on an anti-immigration ticket for the vote on Thursday next week. The BNP is expected to make gains in the ballot.

The 1,023 prisoners had all served their terms and were entitled to release, but should have been considered for deportation before they were freed. Around 160 of them were subject to specific orders from the courts which recommended their removal from Britain.

MINISTER WON'T QUIT

Clarke did not say exactly how the oversight had come about and why it had gone on so long but acknowledged the prison service and immigration authorities were both at fault. However, even though both bodies come under his jurisdiction, he refused to quit his job.

"I think one should be candid with failure (but) I don't intend to resign on this matter," he told reporters.

The prisoners included three murderers, two found guilty of manslaughter, nine rapists, and 12 sex offenders including five paedophiles. Others were jailed for kidnapping, assault and drug and immigration offences.
The Home Office said it did not know how many, if any, of the prisoners had reoffended since their release.

Britain's prison system has been under increasing strain in recent years as prisoner numbers climb. The Home Office says the number of foreign nationals in the country's jails had risen from 4,200 in 1996 to over 10,200 now.

The debacle only came to light thanks to questioning of the government by members of the parliament's Public Accounts Committee. Richard Bacon, a Conservative MP who posed many of those questions, accused the Home Office on Tuesday of "a complete dereliction of duty".

"There's been administrative chaos. There's no other way to explain it other than to say the system has largely broken down," he told Reuters.

Just photocopied all my documents as proof that I live in NZ to give to my brother who has started the sponsorship ball rolling to get my mum and dad out of there too!!!

Roll that ball!

Fisheress

Waaaah! [img:94f04c2727]http://www.invision.smileyville.net/smilies/sad%20(23).gif[/img:94f04c2727] I've got a long way to go yet before anyone can roll my ball.

Hope it all goes smoothly for them, Fisheress. Please keep us (me particularly :icon_mrgreen: ) informed of how things are going for them. I might be able to judge what our chances are of getting in when our turn comes, if the NZIS haven't decided to move the goalposts by then. :icon_rolleyes:

Will do Mother Bear!

Dad has a lot of tying up at home to do yet like selling his business etc.....but he has to stop working one day.

Fisheress

the missing rapist ,peados and the likes saga goes on. the goverment says that they are treated the same as any released prisoner i.e they will be on the data base we will look them up then reel them in.out of the first 80 checked only 20 show up.
so now what tony

[quote:3b4d4ce428="johnty"]the missing rapist ,peados and the likes saga goes on. the goverment says that they are treated the same as any released prisoner i.e they will be on the data base we will look them up then reel them in.out of the first 80 checked only 20 show up.
so now what tony[/quote:3b4d4ce428]

:034: I gotta get outta this place, if it's the last thing I ever do :034: