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Britain
Tories demand limit on migrants from Europe
2006-08-20
The Conservatives are to call for strict quotas on the number of workers allowed into Britain from Bulgaria and Romania when the countries join the European Union in January. Damian Green, the Tory immigration spokesman, said the Government should learn the lesson from the "unprecedented numbers" who came to the United Kingdom - particularly from Poland - when the EU expanded in 2004.
I don't recall any Romanian splodydopes, Polish car bombers or Bulgarian spittle-spewers, do you?
The move lays down a direct challenge to ministers and represents a hardening of the Tory position on immigration under David Cameron. The party has avoided addressing the issue after being bruised by the reaction to its hardline policy under Michael Howard at the last election. But the Conservatives will use Bulgarian and Romanian membership to demand "controlled immigration". They want ministers to impose restrictions on workers from the two countries similar to the controls brought in by other EU countries two years ago, when Germany kept its total of newcomers to below 10,000.

Britain imposed no restrictions and saw up to 600,000 arrive from Eastern Europe. The Government estimated that only 13,000 would come in. Last month unemployment climbed to 1.68 million amid claims that migration from Poland had swollen the total.
Posted by:lotp

#13  That would be doubleplusungood.

Thank you for the refreshing Orwell reference, Swamp Blondie. As I told my friend on New Year's eve of 1984;

Orwell that ends well.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-08-20 21:43  

#12  Some some sometimes.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-08-20 16:32  

#11  The Eastern Europeans who are working in the construction trades at my place are here legally. I'm pretty sure I can guarantee that. ;-)
Posted by: lotp   2006-08-20 11:42  

#10  They let let you in, right?
Posted by: Fordesque   2006-08-20 11:35  

#9  Yes, come on over! We have free emergency rooms clinics and health care. Contemplating child birth, no problem, best obstetrics in the world, and free as well! Green cards, blue cards, no card? - no worries mate. We also have multi-ling phones, signs, Social Security, job preferences, business loans, affirmative action, welfare, food stamps, discounted housing, income tax relief. In fact, don't even bother filing taxes if you can't read the forms or find them confusing. Wanna quietly send your tax-free dollars out of the country and back home home? No problems, it's quite simple. The IRS and INS are both clueless, you'll love it here.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-08-20 11:22  

#8  Yup, bring 'em to America. They can join our other good immigrants from Mexico, Honduras, Haiti and Nigeria. We'll all manage to get along, and what us zoom ahead in the world.
Posted by: Steve White   2006-08-20 09:50  

#7  They just want to do the jobs that the Brits and Pakis don't want to do.
Posted by: Jackal   2006-08-20 09:50  

#6  Can't dilute the potential power the Muslim immigrants have. That would be doubleplusungood.

We should invite them to cross the pond. Eastern European immigrants are just fine with me (of course, I'm biased! :P )
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2006-08-20 09:11  

#5  There are also better and adaptable Asian immigrants from SE Asia than just ME muzzies. Somehow Britain has always had that soft spot for Pakis.
Posted by: Duh!   2006-08-20 08:00  

#4  That, and the Eastern Europeans work hard and don't immediately join unions demanding 35 hr workweeks etc.

We have a lot of construction and building maintenance going on where I work. Most of the crew are Eastern Europeans. They come every day. They work while on the job. They are usually skilled when they arrive.

It's what my Ukrainian grandparents did a century ago, too. And yeah, many go to church. Even more know exactly what the far left does to a country when it's in power.
Posted by: lotp   2006-08-20 07:31  

#3  Used to be too Jewish. Now it's too Christian.
Posted by: Perfesser   2006-08-20 05:34  

#2  Yep, Ee-lib, that's the logical thing to do but Britannia has lost it senses by trying to appease the unappeaseable.

Melanie's excellent piece : http://tinyurl.com/ekxqn
Posted by: Duh!   2006-08-20 03:19  

#1  I say let the Romanians and Bulgarians in, and deport an equal number of problem-causing Moslems.
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-08-20 00:25  

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