No, no, you misunderstand.....
Mar 10th 2004, 3:42 am
#16
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Joined: Apr 2003
Location: San Jose, CA
Posts: 148
Britain has absorbed wave after wave of migration - just like the US.
Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Normans, Huguenots, Russians, Poles, Chinese, Italians, Irish, West Indians, Asians, East Europeans etc etc etc
Every wave has been greeted with the same suspicion, resentment and fear. But, as Duncs says, (most) immigrants (legal or illegal) work hard to make their way in their new country. And, guess what, everyone reading this board is descended from one or more of the groups I listed above.
Duncs is correct in that the birth rate in the UK is less than the death rate. So, the UK needs immigration to pay for the 'native' population as they head into old age.
If you don't believe me, look at Japan. Aging population, no bugger wants to move there - they'll slowly go (even more) bankrupt over the next few decades.
:lecture: Rant over
Pat
(Raving liberal - in the JFK sense, rather than the Jeremy Thorpe sense
)
Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Normans, Huguenots, Russians, Poles, Chinese, Italians, Irish, West Indians, Asians, East Europeans etc etc etc
Every wave has been greeted with the same suspicion, resentment and fear. But, as Duncs says, (most) immigrants (legal or illegal) work hard to make their way in their new country. And, guess what, everyone reading this board is descended from one or more of the groups I listed above.
Duncs is correct in that the birth rate in the UK is less than the death rate. So, the UK needs immigration to pay for the 'native' population as they head into old age.
If you don't believe me, look at Japan. Aging population, no bugger wants to move there - they'll slowly go (even more) bankrupt over the next few decades.
:lecture: Rant over
Pat
(Raving liberal - in the JFK sense, rather than the Jeremy Thorpe sense
)
Mar 10th 2004, 4:03 am
#17
British/Irish(ish) Duncs
Joined: Jan 2003
Location: Cambridge MA, via Mississippi and Belfast Northern Ireland.
Posts: 700
Originally posted by superpat
Britain has absorbed wave after wave of migration - just like the US.
Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Normans, Huguenots, Russians, Poles, Chinese, Italians, Irish, West Indians, Asians, East Europeans etc etc etc
Every wave has been greeted with the same suspicion, resentment and fear. But, as Duncs says, (most) immigrants (legal or illegal) work hard to make their way in their new country. And, guess what, everyone reading this board is descended from one or more of the groups I listed above.
Duncs is correct in that the birth rate in the UK is less than the death rate. So, the UK needs immigration to pay for the 'native' population as they head into old age.
If you don't believe me, look at Japan. Aging population, no bugger wants to move there - they'll slowly go (even more) bankrupt over the next few decades.
:lecture: Rant over
Pat
(Raving liberal - in the JFK sense, rather than the Jeremy Thorpe sense )
Britain has absorbed wave after wave of migration - just like the US.
Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Normans, Huguenots, Russians, Poles, Chinese, Italians, Irish, West Indians, Asians, East Europeans etc etc etc
Every wave has been greeted with the same suspicion, resentment and fear. But, as Duncs says, (most) immigrants (legal or illegal) work hard to make their way in their new country. And, guess what, everyone reading this board is descended from one or more of the groups I listed above.
Duncs is correct in that the birth rate in the UK is less than the death rate. So, the UK needs immigration to pay for the 'native' population as they head into old age.
If you don't believe me, look at Japan. Aging population, no bugger wants to move there - they'll slowly go (even more) bankrupt over the next few decades.
:lecture: Rant over
Pat
(Raving liberal - in the JFK sense, rather than the Jeremy Thorpe sense
)
Any moment somone will start posting figures from Migration watch or some other nonsense.
Agree entirely with your view the only problem with immigration i can see is more diversity and that never worried me.
Mar 10th 2004, 9:01 am
#18
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Apr 2003
Posts: 808
Originally posted by superpat
If you don't believe me, look at Japan. Aging population, no bugger wants to move there - they'll slowly go (even more) bankrupt over the next few decades.
If you don't believe me, look at Japan. Aging population, no bugger wants to move there - they'll slowly go (even more) bankrupt over the next few decades.
Dang!!!:scared: Does that mean they won't be making all those cool video games any more?!!
