Open the flood gates, here they come?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/323j65b

If this was to come about, would it be the last nail in the coffin for Britain?

[TTG]

I thought the gates were already open!

[123everton]

You're behind the times, the Indian economy is growing rapidly (they're knowns as the BRICs), it's more likely that you'll see emigration going the other way.
AOG, you're scratching where it doesn't itch, it's not the immigrants that are/have destroyed/ing this country any more than it's Yuan Renminbi manipulation, it's the bankers at home.
The banks have stolen our money, they've stolen our reserves, they're threatening to leave with it and in a few months time will come back and say you owe me money I want your daughter, your dog and your house.
Like they did in Argentina circa 2003.
The buzz word in the next few weeks is "decoupling" look it up (you'll poo ya pants), it looks like the future.

[saxy_jag]

AOG, if your distant ancestors hadn't come here from another country, you wouldn't even be here now complaining about others doing the same.

If life in Britain gets too much for you, you can always go home.

[anotheoldgit]

saxy_jag

So we are all immigrants are we, no such thing as a native born Britain then?

[anotheoldgit]

That should be 'Briton'

[123everton]

http://www.theglobalg...php?id=257&offer=GURU
A good balanced article, it sums up that in twenty years you won't notice the difference between the east and the west, someone pas AOG the smelling salts, lol.

[Gromit]

// A planned "free trade agreement" with India, to be signed this December, will give skilled Indian IT workers, engineers and managers easy passage into Europe in return for European companies gaining access to India's huge domestic market.
The deal has split some of the most senior figures in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition. Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, and William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, argue that the EU-India agreement must go ahead because it is worth hundreds of millions of pounds to business. //


Who needs all these skilled IT workers to plug the shortage in this country? And we don't need the hundreds of millions of pounds of new business do we? We can cope without the best brains and all that money.

[anotheoldgit]

You would be the last person I expected to stick up for 'Big Business'

Do you seriously think all that money that will consequently find it's way into the country, will be showered onto the laps of all those British workers who are put out of work, by the influx of those skilled Indian IT workers, engineers and managers?

There are hundreds upon hundreds of potential IT workers, being spewed out of our own Universities who cannot get a job, and generally finish up stacking selves in supermarkets.

[sandyRoe]

Skilled IT workers, engineers, and managers. Exactly the type of people we need.

[joeluke]

The flood gates have been already open for far too long, it's about time we closed them

Building the channel tunnel was one of the worst decisions ever

[saxy_jag]

"So we are all immigrants are we, no such thing as a native born Britain then?"

Actually, yes. And no. There is no race of people indigenous to these islands. The Britons, Celts, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings and Romans all came from various parts of Europe, some of them way back in the day when the channel didn't exist and was just a land bridge.

I was born in England, as were at least 13 generations of my family, but tell me to go home the way some more recent 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants are told to go home, and I'd probably have to go and live in Germany.

To anyone who doesn't like 'what immigrants are doing to this country' [my quotes], I'm sure there are plenty of other countries that would have you.

[rov1200]

I can never understand when they bring in these immigrants to do a job they are not classed as temporary workers and the permit only lasts for a period of time. As it is they stay forever bring an extended family with them, accept lower wages than their British counterpart, and keep millions of British from ever getting these jobs.