Run by idiots?

Why is it that the UK seems to be run by idiots? Who are completely out of sync with the population that voted them into power.

In a bizarre attack on the public, Vince Cable suggested voters were ‘schizophrenic’ because they wanted curbs on migration despite enjoying holidays abroad.

Cable went far further, in BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show, when he accused the Conservatives of inflaming public fear, and behaving like Enoch Powell, who was sacked from the Tory frontbench in 1968 after warning that new arrivals would lead to social unrest. Well, Mr Cable, social unrest has already arrived. Did you not see last week when two young men were sent to prison for offences when they tried to impose Sharia law.

Cable said: ‘It was summarised for me in a debate I had on the doorstep recently. Somebody said they are so absolutely fed up with all of these immigrants coming into Britain, and that they’re going to go away and live in Spain.

Having sampled living in France, I can tell you Mr Cable that unless you have your own medical insurance you wouldn’t get past the receptionist to get medical treatment. In most European countries you have to prove your health cover, and means of payment before treatment.

Do you not understand that social migration for holidays, spreads wealth, whilst benefit migration takes wealth from a country.

The UK is a small island that is struggling socially and economically there has to be a limit on its population.

If Roumania and Bulgaria are such wonderful places why are these immigrants coming to the UK? Why are they passing several other European countries before settling on the UK. Could it be that the liberals amongst us are happy to give away what little wealth we still have.

Ministers have come under pressure for failing to draw up any estimates on how many more people might move to the UK to help schools, hospitals and the police to plan ahead.

Britain is required to lift temporary restrictions on the free movement of people from Romania and Bulgaria at the start of 2014. That is a all very well if they have a guaranteed job to come to, but to come on a wing and a prayer, and then camp in Hyde Park and saturate Oxford Street with Beggars is not acceptable

‘Romanians account for more than 11 per cent of all foreign offenders arrested in the UK, despite making up, at the moment, just a tiny proportion of residents.

Last year, Romanians accounted for almost half of all arrests for begging, and one third of all arrests for pickpocketing in the capital.

Labour MP Keith Vaz has criticised the government for failing to produce an estimate of how many more people would move to Britain

There have been repeated demands on the Government to give an estimate on the number of Roumanians and Bulgarians that are likely to come to the UK after the removal of restrictions on their movements on the 1^st January. The lifting of restrictions in 2005 led to many more Polish migrants arriving at British ports than initial estimates by civil servants, and in fairness to the Government, it is difficult to estimate, and to what ends, when in EU law, the whole population of Bulgaria and Roumania would have the technical right to move to the UK.


In The Sunday Times, Mr Clegg said immigration was ‘the biggest dividing line in politics today’ and plans for a cap were ‘arbitrary, pointless and distracting’.

 ‘Sticking a big no-entry sign on the cliffs of Dover may be politically popular, but at a huge economic cost. What would happen if tonight every European living in the UK boarded a ship or plane and went home?

'Are we really that keen to see the back of German lawyers, Dutch accountants or Finnish engineers? Do we want the NHS to fall over and the City of London to grind to a halt?’

He forgot to mention Dutch MPs!, and his scenario is unthinkable, so why throw the argument into the mix. To use his own words, they are distracting.

The huge economic cost is in the schools and hospitals of the UK, that are being submerged to breaking point. If proof was needed go to the schools and hospitals in Peterborough and Boston. If you want to see saturation go to Southall, and Brixton in London. Go to Bradford and Rochdale
 In 2001, the biggest foreign community in Boston comprised 249 Germans. Census figures then showed Boston as having a population of 55,753, with 98.5% indicating they were white British. Ten years on, 10.6% of the town's 64,600-strong population comes from one of the "new" EU countries such as Poland, Lithuania, Latvia or Romania

Dear Mr Cable, we are not complaining about all immigrants, if they want to work; have a job to go to; pay taxes and observe our ways; laws, then all are welcome.

The problem lies with migrants who come here deliberately to milk the social setup of our country with no intention of contributing to it, in other words the criminal element of Europe.

EX-Pat Voter registration - 

It was good to hear on the BBC Radio 4 news last night that the Deputy Prime Minister is now aware that there are a couple of million of British citizens living in other EU Member States. We also hear from the All-Party Inquiry into voting reforms that they hope to publish their report in early January. It is good news, as they are setting themselves an ambitious objective, and putting money into on-line advertising, in various countries including France.

 

It was good to hear on the BBC Radio 4 news last night that the Deputy Prime Minister is now aware that there are a couple of million of British citizens living in other EU Member States. I further hear from the All-Party Inquiry that they hope to publish their report in early January. Meanwhile, the attached briefing paper has been published by the Electoral Commission. Pages 1, 2 and 4 are particularly relevant to us. It is good news, as they are setting themselves an ambitious objective, and putting money into on-line advertising, in various countries including France,  to identify British expats unaffected by the 15-year rule, and send an appropriate, personalized version of this "how to register" message to them. Any help you can provide in terms of identifying would-be registrants and sending out the information would be much appreciated!

 

To support our campaigning efforts to have the 15-year rule lifted, we must get registration levels up very significantly! 

 

To support our campaigning efforts to have the 15-year rule lifted, we must get registration levels up very significantly! Below I suggest a message which can be sent out to as-yet unregistered voters, not affected by the 15-year rule, to get them to register (before 7th May 2014 ) and vote in the European Parliament elections in the UK rather than in their country of residence. I will ask the BCC webmaster to put it on the britishinfrance and votes-for-expat-brits site.

 

As and overseas voter registration is only valid for one year, we have to use the "European Parliament elections" argument, otherwise the registration would not be "useable", and would have to be renewed in a year's time.

 

The challenge now is to identify British expats unaffected by the 15-year rule, and send an appropriate, personalized version of this "how to register" message to them. Any help you can provide in terms of identifying would-be registrants and sending out the information would be much appreciated!

 

how to register

 

This is what you should do. You will need the postcode of your last address in the UK, and your current passport number and its place and date of issue.

Go to https://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/register_to_vote/british_citizens_living_abroad/register_to_vote.aspx and enter the postcode of your last address in the UK at which you were previously registered to vote. Click on GO in the green bar.

 

The next screen enables you to download the form, and tells you where to send it once you have printed it out, and completed and signed it.

 

If this is the first time that you have registered as an overseas (as opposed to UK-based) voter, you will need another British citizen to countersign the form as witness. The countersignatory must also provide his/her passport number and place and date of issue.

 

The form also enables you to register for a postal vote, or a proxy vote.

I hope this has been useful to you, and that you will take the important step of registering as soon as possible! 

Send them all back home': UKIP councillor and key Farage ally in astonishing racist video rant... then insists: 'I stand by every word'

 is the headline in the Mail on Sunday, presumably to create a problem for UKIP in the face of Tory voters vowing to switch their vote to UKIP

In a film made by her husband Rob, from whom she has since divorced, Mrs Ayling,  said: ‘We must basically repatriate those that shouldn’t be here. That’s not quite policy yet. Maybe I should soften it a bit.’ She then added: ‘OK. Send them back.’

She further talks about the need to control the numbers arriving in the UK and to repatriate "the illegals and failed asylum seekers".

We cannot sustain the numbers coming in; the strains on our infrastructure are enormous",

"Control should be done fairly and the points system like they have in Australia and all those coming here should be encouraged to speak English so they can integrate."

Mr Farage, the leader of UKIP, said: "I have met her two or three times and I have discussed policy at length before accepting her into the party.

"I had no reason to believe she held views that were extreme or inconsistent with ours. While this comment looks odd and unpleasant there may be a context here that is slightly different to the way it appears."

Mr Farage, I hope that you are not going down the same path as the other main stream parties. THERE IS AN IMMIGRATION PROBLEM IN THE UK, AND IT IS TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO GRASP THIS NETTLE. Her remarks were not extreme and reflected the views of a large part of the population of the UK.

The film was made to promote her political career, which has stagnated since she became a high-profile recruit to UKIP when she confronted David Cameron during this year’s Tory conference and told him she was leaving the party.

The Daily Mail tactic has backfired for when you read the readers comments at the bottom of their article the overwhelming response has been to agree with her remarks.

One MP said he was ‘disgusted’ by the comments that had ‘no place in front line politics’, and that is why the UK is in the situation it is as far a immigration is concerned. Our politicians have been, for too long, frightened to grasp the nettle on immigration and if something is not done shortly, I predict that there will be mass civil disobedience in some parts of the UK.

SERIOUS HEALTH CONCERNS FOR OUR LEADERS

I am not a Doctor, in fact my only health training is a one day, yearly refresher course in first aid over a 25 year period, but I have serious concerns over the health of the Socialist leadership.

Did you see Ed Ball’s response to George Osborne’s Autumn Budget Statement on Thursday? Ed’s face got red and redder, and I was concerned that he was going to have some serious breakdown.

In the meanwhile Ed Milibands face got white and whiter. I wasn’t sure if it was the result of anaemia or the abject failure of Ed Balls to face down the Tory benches opposite. On the other side of Ed Ball was Harriet Harmen and she looked as though she had a serious case of toothache.

Ed Balls is supposed to be a bright bloke, but there was no analysis of the Autumn Statement and when he came out with the one liner that he thought George Osborne was in denial, the Tories erupted in laughter and the Socialists were left in silence, trying to grasp where it had all gone wrong.

Even Labour MPs denounced his performance as one of the worst they have seen in the Commons.

Red-faced and shouting, the Shadow Chancellor faced mockery as he refused to acknowledge rising growth and continued to insist that he was right to oppose austerity all along.

Labour MPs questioned whether their party’s focus on the cost of living was enough to win them the election without a better economic message. The answer is simple, NO. 

Balls had two quite shocking performances in his last two big appearances in the chamber, and the other Ed must be wondering what to do about him.

Balls tried to put a brave face on his performance. He said: ‘I’ve got a bit of a sore throat. It was very, very loud. There are a lot of working people in this country who are seeing their living standards falling and no one to speak for them. I’m not going to allow 300 Tory MPs to shout me down.’

In his previous disaster he blamed his stammer, which he had fortunately got over on Thursday.

Since the Coalition was formed in May 2010. Ed Balls has been George Osborne's sternest critic. Increasingly his words have come back to haunt him.