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Immigrants in Peterborough


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djf
Edited by: djf  Mar 11, 08, 08:01  #1

High wages have drawn scores of Eastern Europeans to at least one corner of England. But not everyone welcomes this new workforce even if unemployed locals themselves refuse to do the same jobs.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7288430.stm

Quite an interesting read. The only people who come out looking bad are the work shy 'British' chavs

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aligator_s
  Mar 11, 08, 08:22  #2

excellent article. thank you very much for posting

I particularly like the comment ....

Resident Hema Patel agrees. "They should put a stop to immigration totally," she says "...whether they be Europeans, from the Far East, whatever. And they should sort out the problems now."

It is ironic that Mrs Patel being a native of the Indian sub-continent should be against further immigration :-)

In fact the population of Peterborough was 150,000 until 25,000 Poles moved there

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Mister H
  Mar 23, 08, 17:50  #3

aligator_s wrote:
I particularly like the comment ....

Resident Hema Patel agrees. "They should put a stop to immigration totally," she says "...whether they be Europeans, from the Far East, whatever. And they should sort out the problems now."

It is ironic that Mrs Patel being a native of the Indian sub-continent should be against further immigration :-)


I agree that it is ironic that they quoted Mrs Patel, who is probably 2nd or at the most 3rd generation British. However, the fact that they did gives a much stronger message than speaking to (yet another) white British person and asking for their views on immigration.

Someone like Mrs Patel speaking on such an issue is similar to her speaking into a microphone, while the rest of us yell at the top of our lungs into the middle of a hurricane......and at best get ignored, or at worst get dismissed as having a racial motive.

However the bloke who wouldn't "work with a load of foreigners" for £7 an hour needs his backside kicking from here to eternity. Lazy, ignorant bar steward !!!

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truebrit
  Mar 23, 08, 17:59  #4

aligator_s wrote:
It is ironic that Mrs Patel being a native of the Indian sub-continent should be against further immigration :-)


To be fair she was probably born in Britain.If someone born in Britain has Polish,Italian,German,French or Russian parents they are considered British.If someone born in Britain has Carribean/African/Indian parents,has a British accent,likes British sport,music etc and is culturally British they are often still not considered British.I wonder why?

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Mister H
  Mar 23, 08, 18:20  #5

I know this was in the Express and they may have their own agenda etc etc but why don't people such as those in this article admit defeat and go home ?

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/37869/Outrage-as-jobless-migrants- set-up-an-illegal-shanty-Town

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