Re: European migrants plan on staying


<positiveion50@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1180635716.118019.281950@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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A large number of migrants from eastern Europe have no intention of
leaving Britain, even though they originally came over for "temporary"
work.

The hundreds of thousands who plan to stay here will increase pressure
on housing and other services, and makes a mockery of Blair's claim
that they would only be here temporarily.

In 2004, 25% of migrant workers said they intended to settle in the UK
permanently, compared to only 6% who intended to settle here when they
first arrived.

Migrants interviewed for the survey said: "I hope to squeeze as much
as possible out of this country and then dump it like an unloved
mistress" (a Polish migrant); "we will earn a decent pension" (a
Lithuanian migrant).

Blair's government is in favour of migration into the UK. But people
should stop and ask themselves this - who did the businesses who claim
that they would not survive without migrant workers employ before the
migrant workers came here? If these businesses had been devoid of
staff before the migrants arrived then they would not have survived.
Many British people are unable to find work because of the trend for
employing migrant workers, and this situation is only going to get
worse.

God help us if Turkey is ever allowed into the EU, and what happens if we hit a major recession, these people have a perfect right to be here and will be entitled to the same benefits as the rest of us, where will the money come from then?

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