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Rupert Murdoch takes to Twitter to back Scottish independence
Alex Salmond today welcomed an apparent endorsement of Scottish independence by the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch.
Posted by: tipper || 02/21/2012 12:01 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You wanna know a group that REALLY backs scottish independence?

The English lol.

Darien v2 will be amusing.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/21/2012 17:43 Comments || Top||

#2  IIRC CHNA DAILY FORUM > UK FEARS LOSS OF [Internat = Power, Credibility] INTEREST FROM SCOT SPLIT.

Won't be the "UK" or World #3/4 anymore???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/21/2012 23:40 Comments || Top||


Europe needs more migration to boost growth, says David Cameron and allies
In a joint letter with 11 other conservative leaders, the Prime Minister urges greater “labour mobility” within the European Union to help people move abroad to places with the best job opportunities.

Mr Cameron has claimed that mass immigration in Britain has led to “discomfort” and promised voters that he will bring immigration down to the “tens of thousands”.

Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from Eastern Europe have settled in Britain since countries such as Poland joined the European Union.

However, Mr Cameron is now leading a coalition of countries claiming that Europe should have a “more integrated open labour market”.

The European leaders, including the prime ministers of Italy, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Latvia, want migrants to settle where there are jobs amid high unemployment rates across the continent.
Posted by: lotp || 02/21/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Europe needs more migration to boost growth, says David Cameron and allies

Translation:

Europe needs more migration to boost taxing ponzi schemes and huge central governments growth, says David Cameron and allies
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/21/2012 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Committing suicide by proxy, aren't they? What they wouldn't do for a quick quid...
Posted by: Twobyfour || 02/21/2012 4:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Trading changing a few diapers for having tons of drinks and fun in your twenties just isn't in the Euro genome any more, even if it means extinction.

No kids = this sort of thing.
Posted by: no mo uro || 02/21/2012 5:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Intra-European labor exchange is actually a good thing for the Europeans: it gets the motivated Europeans into the countries that need the labor to get the drab work done. And it keeps the Labour/Social Democrat parties in Europe from bringing in hundreds of Muslim Third World stealth jihadists to do the same work. Other than Albania and Bosnia, there are not major European native Muslim populations, and the Albanians and Bosnians have demonstrated little tolerance for the radical mullah types in their countries. UNLIKE all of Arab North Africa.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 02/21/2012 16:20 Comments || Top||

#5  "want migrants to settle where there are jobs amid high unemployment rates across the continent"

Does not compute....
Posted by: Barbara || 02/21/2012 18:39 Comments || Top||


Border scandal: 500,000 passengers allowed to enter Britain without checks
More than 500,000 people were allowed into Britain unchecked due to the repeated suspension of vital checks, opening up an "unacceptable" breach in the country's defences against terrorists and criminals, an official investigation has found.

At times immigration staff acted potentially illegally by relaxing the supervision of travellers entering this country at least 15,000 times in the last five years, John Vine, the independent inspector of the Border Agency, found.
This was the Labour plan to hold power for a long time, by opening the doors and bringing in many new immigrants who would be grateful and vote for them.
Such was the confusion and mismanagement uncovered that Mr Vine raised concerns about security during the London Olympics.

His report, published yesterday afternoon, left Theresa May, the Home Secretary, facing fresh questions about her grip on border security and the Coalition's failure to get a grip on problems she claimed had began under Labour.

Labour accused her of "hiding from her responsibilities" by blaming her staff after figures showed the number of times that restrictions were relaxed increased significantly after the Coalition came to power in May 2010.
The staff being a lot of Labour hold-overs, I'm guessing...
Mr Vine last night said that ministers, senior officials and border staff must all share the blame for potential security breaches.

The 84-page report paints a picture of confusion, mismanagement and miscommunication.

"Overall, I found poor communication, poor managerial oversight and a lack of clarity about roles and responsibilities," he concluded.

Mrs May responded to the report by announcing that the UK Border Force would be split off from the UK Border Agency and made directly accountable to ministers. She also told MPs that the problems began under Labour.

"There is no getting away from the fact that UKBA, of which the Border Force is part, has been a troubled organisation since it was founded in 2008," she said.

However, Mr Vine's report suggested that relaxations of border checks have been more frequent and widespread under the Coalition.
Posted by: lotp || 02/21/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There are obviously a lot of overtly political (i.e. far-left) operatives in the extortion funded sector masquerading as "public servants".
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/21/2012 6:08 Comments || Top||

#2  The majority never venture north of Hadrian's Wall. Oh the irony.

Tune
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/21/2012 6:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Yep, allowing all those German tribe across the Rhine into the Roman Empire worked out OK for someone.

We could take up a collection to promote repatriation of former inhabitants of the Roman province of Hispania if a projection of a population shortage is an issue.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/21/2012 9:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Ooops, sorry mods, last comment meant for the next entry above "Europe needs more migration to boost growth,"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/21/2012 9:13 Comments || Top||



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