The Tale Of An Economic Refugee.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/syrian-woman-who-almost-drowned-in-the-mediterranean-urges-uk-to-help-migrants-10202906.html

Read this in full to realise how this woman and her young child finely arrived in Britain.

The story brings tears to one's eyes, but I am afraid not tears of pity, but tears of despair.

Marvellous she is at least housed and her child has a place in school, more than can be said for some of our own.

[Zacs-Master]

Dear dear dear. How can the unerring fact that the Home office select housing in the poorer urban areas be a conspiracy? If they housed them in the leafy suburban lanes of Guildford you'd be waning your pseudo communist arms around shouting about wasting even more money.

[Zacs-Master]

Waving.

[Svejk]

The avatar is meant to be ironic. It is a Marxist conspiracy.

[ummmm]

Yeah, Svejk, I read they opened a Chinese takeaway in Bellmullet.

[anotheoldgit]

sandyRoe

/// An economic refugee? Could she have fled in order to escape the civil war raging there? ///

Yes I agree a fleeing refugee from a war torn country, when she arrived in the first safe country, but then became an economic refugee when she arrived in England,

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// The media would have you believe that people come here, get benefits, and a free house. ///

And will put you up in a hotel until such times when they can house you, how many of our own people get that chance?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10499829/Asylum-seekers-put-up-in-luxury-hotel-at-cost-of-400000.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2761600/The-madness-hotel-asylum-600-migrants-crammed-98-rooms-London-hotel-500-000-bill-paid-YOU.html

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/newS/11499974.Asylum_shock_with_155_in_Bournemouth_hotels_due_to__overcrowding__in_London/

[ummmm]

B&Bs and hotels are also provided for indigenous people.

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

/// If they housed them in the leafy suburban lanes of Guildford you'd be waning your pseudo communist arms around shouting about wasting even more money. ///

Never mind the leafy suburban lanes of Guildford, why England all the time? Move them to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, perhaps then the rest of the UK would realise the problems of mass immigration?

[ummmm]

AOG....Scotland, Wales and Ireland have immigrants too.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// AOG....Scotland, Wales and Ireland have immigrants too. ///

What in the same numbers that England has been forced to accept?

[icecreamicecream]

Up here in the North-East of Scotland our main non oil related businesses rely on economic immigrants to survive.I run a fish processing factory and 90% of our labour force are Eastern Europeans.Most if not all of what could be our workforce i.e. the locals,are either too lazy or get too much money from the benefits system to bother getting out of their beds in a morning.

[Svejk]

How long have you been there. Have they always used foreign labour. Isn't it possible that, as in construction, your firm took advantage of cheap foreign labour to keep costs down. Weren't the fish processed by (lazy) British workers in days gone by. You've got 10 minutes to answer all the above questions. Extra marks may be awarded for imaginative answers and fishy puns at my discretion.

[icecreamicecream]

Yeah,still here,Svejk.Whenever we tried to employ local labour they either didn't turn up on the Monday or if they did they would disappear at 11 am heading to the nearest hostelry.The Poles,Latvians and Lithuanians we employ now like a good "bevvy",but they are always working like Trojans from the moment they arrive till the moment they leave.No problems with them whatsoever.Now we wont employ the locals.Too much trouble.

[Ellipsis]

I have made several donations to DEC to aid the Syria crisis and I think immigration is a good concept, but this isn't asylum or immigration - it's people-smuggling.

Please, anyone who supports this woman's right to be in Britain, explain why we should accept her being smuggled here in a refrigerated lorry, rather than being dealt with in one of the other countries she travelled through to get here. According to her own story, these countries included Greece, The Netherlands and France; and for her to make that journey, they probably included Austria, Germany and Belgium too. So why "flee" all that way, through all those countries, to here?

[anotheoldgit]

icecreamicecream

/// Now we wont employ the locals.Too much trouble. ///

Who also demand decent working conditions, along with a British living wage.

As Svejk asked which you conveniently failed to answer, "Weren't the fish processed by (lazy) British workers in days gone by".

[Ellipsis]

You are going significantly off-topic if you make this about legal immigrants doing legal work, rather than the sad and sorry tale in the OP ...