Swamped by immigrant workers

I agree about Brits abroad Gran, and there is little more I can comment on that. My reason for thinking that folk should speak the language of the country is that it must be easier to 'join in', and to know what is happening. We were behind a gentleman in the chemist who thought he could take his repeat prescription there, and get it immediately, he had little or no English, and the poor assistant just did not know what to do. Life would have been easier for both if the man had some English. Just one example, and probably the same thing happens to Brits abroad. There are some older immigrants who have been with us for years and still do not speak the language, but trust their children/grandchildren to translate. No quick answers, just observations, really.

We need to be careful what we vote for next year. I wouldn't like to see this in London.

www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/13/riot-police-violence-refugees-rome

From that Guardian report :

The residents say they are not racist but are fed up with what they say is years of neglect by government authorities who have allowed Gypsies, migrants and asylum seekers to settle in Rome’s peripheries without providing adequate services.

So it seems the locals are attacking blameless refugees rather than demand action from their own government which has allowed a bad situation to develop.

I read in yesterday's i that a group called Britain First, an offshoot of the BNP, has been sending leaflets to Strood calling for residents to protest against a new mega mosque, which they claim will mean "the Medway area will be flooded with more Muslim immigrants."
The police, however, are looking into the group because they have been using a royal crown on their promotional material. No mention of inciting racial hatred this time.

My young American friend has to return to the US as she cannot raise the phenomenal amount of £50,000 to extend her visa. She has established guided loo tours in London, is an historical expert on toilet history and so is often asked for interviews on radio and TV. She works in the arts with workshops for disabled people and has paid her way and contributed to the UK economy from day 1. She is forced to return whilst others are allowed to come into this country and sponge off the State. I will miss her very much. She taught me about twitter and we have our website to work on too and of course thankfully we can keep in touch by email. It's a strange world sometimes

Can she not get the charity she works for to sponsor her, the workshops for disabled people one?
She needs access to £50,000 if she wants to be classed as an entrepreneur, but the visa itself only costs a few hundred.

This is an article from tomorrow's Observer. (That's clever, isn't it?)

I was going to copy a couple of paragraphs but the article deserves to be read in its entirety. The reason there appears to be so much bad feeling about immigration is that those who do not oppose it do not make their feelings known so much.

www.theguardian.com%2Fcommentisfree%2F2014%2Fnov%2F15%2Fimmigration-politics-ukip-british-academy&ei=mHhnVNXRGsznaNeogKgD&usg=AFQjCNHs7Z6dn1NESoklYqE9mGlqyg9tKg&bvm=bv.79142246,d.d2s

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/15/immigration-politics-ukip-british-academy

Sorry, above link did not work. This one should.

djen are you clairvoyant or did you write it?

Hardly, seeing as it's a Guardian article dated 14th November...

It's an Observer article, listed on the Guardian website.
Surely you must have realised, Ana, that an article on the Guardian website timed after the Guardian has been published on a Saturday, must be in the Observer on a Sunday.
Yes, rose, I can be clairvoyant under those circumstances. Wish I had written it!

Yes, I did realise that, durhamjen.

Hence my post...

Did you read it?

Its not just Eastern Europeans and people from Asia who have moved here. My SIL came here in 2004 from South Africa with £400 and a "can do" attitude. He took work wherever he could. He`s now set up several businesses and employs many people. Not only that he`s a VG husband to my DD, a Dad to 2 fabulous wee boys and is generally philanthropic throughout our area: involved in various charities and business groups. Our whole area would be diminished without him. ..............and that's his MIL talking!!
The other side to this is his own poor Mum. She once told me that when she waved him off she never realised that he wouldn't be coming home except for holidays. I do feel for all those families left behind when their youngsters set off for the bright lights of the UK.
At risk of rambling (again), our excellent Romanian cleaning lady once had to return home as an emergency as her mother had fallen off a ladder when climbing up to get the turkey off the roof where it spent the day grazing on the thatch. My mind boggled just thinking about all that that implied.

Who was it pointed the finger of blame at minorities as being the cause of all problems and then proceeded to try and exterminate them. I know it was the Daleks, but wasn't there somebody else as well.....I just can't quite remember....

Haven't been able to find this mentioned in any of the papers.

www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2014/12/02/without-due-process-how-britain-deported-50-000-students

I thought we wanted intelligent immigrants here.