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Gromit | 11:11 Sat 30th Jun 2012 | News
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Despite the austerity measures and recession we are still the country most likely to grant asylum to people in genuine danger.

// Some 14,360 immigrants were given asylum within the UK in 2011. The figure was the third successive rise in successful claims in the UK and an increase of 41 per cent since 2008. //

http://www.dailymail....rope-We-let-year.html

// UKIP leader Nigel Farage said: ‘Asylum seekers come to the UK because we have long history of looking after people extremely well in this country.
‘We also speak English, the second language most people are likely to learn whichever part of the world they originate from.
‘But the number of people granted asylum remain a very small percentage of the total number of immigrants coming to Britain.’ //

Why is it that some people are not proud of this fact?
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from Huguenot weavers to Germans fleeing Hitler, Britain has offered a safe haven to many, and they have in turn enriched the culture of their chosen country.

Can you imagine a Notting Hill Carnival consisting entirely of morris dancers?
The only real people who need asylum are the likes of Abu Qatada and terrorists on the run. The rest are just freeloaders hoping to make a better life in Britain.
<shrug> Dunno...
Quite so gromit/jno - we should be proud of showing common humanity and the resultant diversity should be cherished.
Absolutely pdq1

It's well known amounst the hard of thought that the outside world is literally full of tolerant liberal regiemes who would not dream of hurting their civillian populations because of their, race religion or political views.

Therefore anyone looking for assylum from places like Syria must simply be scammers here to con your hard earned tax money from you.

Much like all those nasty freeloading jews who came over here trying to get away from that nice man with the little moustache
Very well put, Jake...lol
'Nice man with a little moustache' what's Charlie Chaplin done to upset people?
"Why is it that some people are not proud of this fact?"
Simple: because they're "w*g"-bashing fascists.
I'm proud.

And a mixed heritage mongrel.
jno

/// Can you imagine a Notting Hill Carnival consisting entirely of morris dancers? ///

Yes wouldn't it be great, no drugs, no stabbings, and hardly any need for a huge police presence.
Those black-faced Morris men fight with sticks!
And hankies.
Dirty bu99ers.
lol.
the bells.... the bells...
AOG - just because your beloved Daily Mail has you convinced that the Notting Hill Carnival is always full of drugs and stabbings doesn't mean it's true.
Most of the time it's a great family day out with lots of smiles, happiness and great music.
JNO - LMAO at the thought of NTC being full of hankie wagglers.
It is ok to import thousands into a country if:

1/ That country is large enough to accommodate them.

2/ The one's it imports are prepared to roll up their sleeves, work and pay taxes etc.

3/ That country has enough jobs for all.

4/ It also has enough houses to accommodate them, along with it's own people.

5/ It has enough schools to educate them, along with it's own people.

6/ It's National Health Service is financially stable enough to treat them all, at no decrease in the standard of service for it's own citizens.

7/ Those who come to that country are prepared to integrate fully with the indigenous population.

8/ They are prepared to speak the language.

9/ Are prepared to respect the laws and culture of their adopted country.

10/ Also prepared if the need arose to put their very lives at risk in defence of that country and it's people of which they have chosen to settle in.

Only then could say we are all equally proud to be British.

But as a footnote;

Some are forever trying to state that Britain has such a bad reputation, what with plundering and the raping of the rest of the world, along with the vicious hold our once evil Empire had over the peoples of the World.

So why is it that these people still flock to Britain rather than say, Germany, France, Sweden, Netherlands, and Italy?

I wonder why? I await your answers.
Answerprancer

/// AOG - just because your beloved Daily Mail has you convinced that the Notting Hill Carnival is always full of drugs and stabbings doesn't mean it's true. ///

Where would some be if they couldn't blame the Daily Mail?

What about this from the Independent no less?

http://www.independen...carnival-2055648.html

Or this from The Telegraph?

http://www.telegraph....ictim-speaks-out.html

/// By the close of the carnival yesterday, police had arrested 33 people – 11 for drug offences, five for theft, two for criminal damage, four for public order offences, six for assault, one for possessing an offensive weapon, one for robbery, two for previous burglaries and one of a person wanted on a warrant. ///

The Telegraph.
^ which, considering around a million people a year attend the Carnival, is absolutley bu66er all! In public order terms , that's a love-in!
humbersloop
^ which, considering around a million people a year attend the Carnival, is absolutley bu66er all! In public order terms , that's a love-in!

That may well be so, but the comparison was being drawn between the Notting Hill Carnival and one consisting entirely of morris dancers.

/// Can you imagine a Notting Hill Carnival consisting entirely of morris dancers? ///

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