The Travel Diva

Got to love the British Government

Bankers are counting their losses but we’re all paying for the risks they took. In the UK (pop. 52-million) unemployment is dangerously nearing 10%. There are more ‘For Sale’ signs up that lamp posts; home repossessions are running at +100 per day; 45% of UK households have negative cash-flows. Every 5 minutes someone is going bankrupt; our consumer debt tops £1.4-trillion – more than our entire GDB, and the highest in Europe.

Thankfully our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, promises British jobs for British workers; then promptly okay’s an Italian company bringing in Italian and Portuguese staff to work on a £200-million UK contract. No wonder our skilled workers are angry.

And as for overcrowding the country with more foreigners - do you have any idea, other than in a vague theoretical sense, just how desperately jam-packed Britain already is? Did you know for instance that to achieve the same density of population in the USA you would need to uproot the entire population of Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado and Texas and pack them all into Iowa?

Do I have your attention now?

Then you’ll appreciate my angst at learning the British Government estimate that by 2019 there we’ll have 65-million people living in the UK; and a further 5-million by 2031. Statisticians say at least 70% per cent of the population increase over the next 20 years will be attributable directly to immigration.

Whilst on the subject of immigration: more than 605,000 people immigrated to the UK in 2007, and in the last quarter of 2008 there were near 29,000 asylum applications; and the number of illegal immigrants is estimated to be in excess of 244,000.

Our Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, admitted that more than 11,000 illegal immigrants have been cleared to work as security guards; further still, hundreds of illegal immigrants (including suspected murderer and criminals) are working in UK care homes, entrusted with caring for old and vulnerable people (some paid £3 an hour - just over half the minimum wage of £5.73). The government’s solution? Threaten illegal immigrants via text message!

We live in a United Kingdom that’s no longer united. We are muddled. And this must surely be the only country in the world that sees its national flag as a symbol of oppression.

We Brits are sleepwalking into a population, environmental, and financial nightmare that’s only just begun.

Labels: asylum, Gordon Brown, illegal immigrants, Jacqui Smith, unemployment

posted by Cindy-Lou Dale @ Monday, February 02, 2009