Comments on: Prime Minister’s Holiday http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2004/08/23/844 Every day the Prime Minister's Spokesman meets a small coterie of political journalists known as 'the lobby' for a topical chat, or 'briefing'. Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:21:10 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: mehmetcitlak http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2004/08/23/844/comment-page-1#comment-4843 mehmetcitlak Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:57:35 +0000 #comment-4843 gamze\xF6z\xE7elik gamze\xF6z\xE7elik

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]]> By: george dutton http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2004/08/23/844/comment-page-1#comment-2050 george dutton Mon, 06 Sep 2004 14:20:39 +0000 #comment-2050 I did say absolute need.READ the post Gregory!.I am all for people coming into this country ANYBODY and staying as long as they like.BUT we are now overpopulated and we face massive problem`s because of it.People from third world countries are in need of much more help then those from industrialized democratic nation`s. http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/population.html I did say absolute need.READ the post Gregory!.I am all for people coming into this country ANYBODY and staying as long as they like.BUT we are now overpopulated and we face massive problem`s because of it.People from third world countries are in need of much more help then those from industrialized democratic nation`s. http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/population.html

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]]> By: Gregory Block http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2004/08/23/844/comment-page-1#comment-2044 Gregory Block Mon, 06 Sep 2004 10:00:08 +0000 #comment-2044 *Emigration*???? That's people *leaving* the country, not coming into it. I wholeheartedly encourage more UK natives to leave the UK and work abroad. Maybe even, shock and horror, learn a foreign language. See the world for the small, little thing that it is, that we all have to live on and get along in. Emigration is a good thing; it exposes individuals to foreign cultures and crosses boundaries. Immigration, on the other hand, is also a good thing - and is well controlled. People from "industrialised nations" don't get free passes to work and do what they want; the process is difficult, confusing, time-consuming, and most of all, tightly controlled. I know. I'm here on a working visa. Don't tell me how easy it is to get one, because it isn't, and stop pretending that we're all here taking your jobs away from you. We have to go a long way to prove that we're fulfilling roles that can't be filled by the local marketplace, and because it's a member of the EU, we even have to prove that we're unique within the EU, as it's EU-nationals before foreigners. So. If there's a job that can't easily be filled within the UK, and can't easily be filled within the whole of the now-expanded 25-nation EU, *THEN* and only then can you hire an American. If you think that's not harsh enough, I'd like to know what is. And if you can, for a moment, just imagine how difficult that must be do manage and administer, you'd probably have a whole lot more respect for those few who have to work, day in and day out, in immigration. *Emigration*???? That’s people *leaving* the country, not coming into it.

I wholeheartedly encourage more UK natives to leave the UK and work abroad. Maybe even, shock and horror, learn a foreign language. See the world for the small, little thing that it is, that we all have to live on and get along in. Emigration is a good thing; it exposes individuals to foreign cultures and crosses boundaries.

Immigration, on the other hand, is also a good thing – and is well controlled. People from "industrialised nations" don’t get free passes to work and do what they want; the process is difficult, confusing, time-consuming, and most of all, tightly controlled.

I know. I’m here on a working visa. Don’t tell me how easy it is to get one, because it isn’t, and stop pretending that we’re all here taking your jobs away from you. We have to go a long way to prove that we’re fulfilling roles that can’t be filled by the local marketplace, and because it’s a member of the EU, we even have to prove that we’re unique within the EU, as it’s EU-nationals before foreigners.

So. If there’s a job that can’t easily be filled within the UK, and can’t easily be filled within the whole of the now-expanded 25-nation EU, *THEN* and only then can you hire an American.

If you think that’s not harsh enough, I’d like to know what is. And if you can, for a moment, just imagine how difficult that must be do manage and administer, you’d probably have a whole lot more respect for those few who have to work, day in and day out, in immigration.

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]]> By: george dutton http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2004/08/23/844/comment-page-1#comment-2039 george dutton Sat, 04 Sep 2004 15:16:09 +0000 #comment-2039 I hope that the P.M.know back from holiday will consider looking at way`s of CONTROLLING emigration.It is I think a good idea to refuse British citizenship to people`s from industrial countries except on ground`s of absolute need.This would then allow more people from third world countries to gain British citizenship.It is all a case of NEED and to improve these people`s life`s and there family`s life`s who are in dire need of HELP.Unlike those from countries who do not need help!. I hope that the P.M.know back from holiday will consider looking at way`s of CONTROLLING emigration.It is I think a good idea to refuse British citizenship to people`s from industrial countries except on ground`s of absolute need.This would then allow more people from third world countries to gain British citizenship.It is all a case of NEED and to improve these people`s life`s and there family`s life`s who are in dire need of HELP.Unlike those from countries who do not need help!.

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]]> By: Gregory Block http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2004/08/23/844/comment-page-1#comment-2030 Gregory Block Sat, 04 Sep 2004 13:49:53 +0000 #comment-2030 The magic 8 ball says... "He looks just like his mother". The magic 8 ball says… "He looks just like his mother".

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]]> By: george dutton http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2004/08/23/844/comment-page-1#comment-2029 george dutton Sat, 04 Sep 2004 13:46:27 +0000 #comment-2029 If I were his defence lawyer I would say "with the parental guidance he had as a child WHAT CHANCE DID HE HAVE".He should get off scott free!. If I were his defence lawyer I would say "with the parental guidance he had as a child WHAT CHANCE DID HE HAVE".He should get off scott free!.

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]]> By: PapaLazzzaru http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2004/08/23/844/comment-page-1#comment-2028 PapaLazzzaru Sat, 04 Sep 2004 13:26:25 +0000 #comment-2028 Umm, that he's a bounder and a cad and should be shot with snakeshit from a wooden gun? Umm, that he’s a bounder and a cad and should be shot with snakeshit from a wooden gun?

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]]> By: george dutton http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2004/08/23/844/comment-page-1#comment-2025 george dutton Sat, 04 Sep 2004 10:21:26 +0000 #comment-2025 Guess what I am going to say when the Mark Thatcher post come`s on. Guess what I am going to say when the Mark Thatcher post come`s on.

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]]> By: PapaLazzzaru http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2004/08/23/844/comment-page-1#comment-2019 PapaLazzzaru Fri, 03 Sep 2004 01:09:26 +0000 #comment-2019 I blame them sprouts I had for dinner. I blame them sprouts I had for dinner.

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]]> By: george dutton http://downingstreetsays.com/briefings/2004/08/23/844/comment-page-1#comment-2018 george dutton Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:02:56 +0000 #comment-2018 As soon as the Prime Minister get`s back from holiday he should tell Prisident Bush that allowing unfettered logging of Alaska`s vast forest`s after/if he get`s elected is not on!. As soon as the Prime Minister get`s back from holiday he should tell Prisident Bush that allowing unfettered logging of Alaska`s vast forest`s after/if he get`s elected is not on!.

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