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| Subject: The population's are higher than that... | |
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] Date Posted: 15:42:42 12/14/04 Tue In reply to: Owain (UK) 's message, "Britain and Canada" on 08:37:36 12/10/04 Fri No your wrong. Canada has over 30 million and the UK between 65 and 70 million people after taking into consideration the general growth of the UK population and a large amount of new immigrants arriving over the last 5 years. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:12:20 12/14/04 Tue We don't really know. Somehow, they managed to mess up the 2001 Census so completely that they think there are more than 2 million people missing from it! Moreover, the immigration system has just collapsed. I understand that we receive about a quarter of a million LEGAL arrivals per year, and when you think that the legal arrivals are a small proportion of all our immigration, I think that we are looking at about 2 to 3 million over the last 7 years. Anyone who has been to London recently will see how quickly it has changed in the last few years. All the waiters, waitresses, barmen etc. in the late 1990s were either Australian backpackers, French or German students, Americans who couldn't afford their fare home and the occasional folorn cockney. Now, they are all Russian, Romanian and Polish. I was talking to an Aussie barman at a bar caled "Southside" near my London place - from the name you can imagine that it is rather oriented towards the backpacking community from Down Under, and Fosters is drunk and there are plastic crocs on the ceiling and roo burgers etc. He was telling me that his bar was pretty much the last bastion of the traditional London bars where Australians could get jobs about 5 minutes after arriving in London, since they have been priced out of the market by poor Latvians whose labour is controlled by very sinister Russian people whose cars have smoked windscreens and who rent luxury flats in Bloomsbury from such scumbag plutocrats as myself. I had a Russian couple in one of my flats over the summer - a blonde girl in her early twenties and her young son, both clad from head to toe in Burberry and Gucci and bedecked with Louis Vuitton handbags. When the time came for a cheque to change hands, I met the father: dark-glasses, body-guards, black Daimler, monosyllabic and at least 60 years old. Heavy metal objects clinked together in one of the bags which I offered to carry for his wife. If that man was not involved in trafficking illegal workers then my name is Cissy Fairfax... but I needed the money, so stuff it. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 11:31:10 12/15/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:48:35 12/15/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |