Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and they’re finally admitting the bleedingly obvious;
Labour’s open-door immigration policy drove down wages and living standards in Britain, party leader Ed Miliband has admitted.
He conceded that the last government ‘got it wrong’ on border controls and said that British workers had been ‘undercut’.
The bombshell confession came amid revelations that, when in power, Labour suppressed a string of damaging reports about the impact of mass immigration on the UK.
But read on, as the article reveals which immigrants remain safe to single out.
h/t Jon
This is unexpected.
Politicians are enemies of the state – their prime concern is getting themselves elected, and if that means bringing in large beholden voting blocs to the detriment of the country, so be it.
One thing though,there is certain balace in the big scheme of things.
Eastern Europeans came to work…..bad.
The thirdworlders came to suck the taxes that the Eastern Europeans generated….good.
….no?
Politicians are indeed the enemies of the state. My jury is still out on the so called Conservatives now in charge in Canada. I hope I’m wrong, but I see nothing much conservative about them. As for England, well, they’re toast.
It’s the evil Poles. They are white and not Muslim, so that makes them an easy mistake to admit. Muslims with four wives on welfare are a bonus to Britanistan.
I noticed that too. I should probably revise it to “half admitting”.
Heads should roll. And I don’t mean metaphorically.
Someone is going to have to work hard to convince me that with unemployment numbers in excess of 4%, anybody needs to be let in. If you can’t employ your existing workforce, under what logic does it make sense to let in more people?
Every election we the people lose, politicians, the government, keeps getting in and sc*ewing us.
A Polish joke from British Labour.
Gallows humour.
Skip asks: “If you can’t employ your existing workforce, under what logic does it make sense to let in more people?”
Gee Skip, you must be one of them-thar heartless Regressive Preservatives.
The genius logic of it is you get to beat your your opponents over the head as being RACIST!!! while importing brand new votes for yourself, and making your Honkey Liberal voter base all proud that they are so enlightened and stuff. It works awesome in a rising economy. Just think of Davenport and you’ll get it instantly.
It crashes and burns under present circumstances, because even Davenport can’t get a job now.
why are there no British in Britain anymore ?
all we see are moonbats that even the ndp would be embarrassed to have around….
Dress witches in pink and avoid white paper to prevent racism in nuseries, expert says
Teachers should censor the toy box to replace witches’ black hats with a pink ones and dress fairies in darker shades, according to a consultant who has issued advice to local authorities.
By Julie Henry, Education Correspondent
9:15AM BST 25 Sep 2011
From the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz to Meg, the good witch from the Meg and Mog children’s books, witches have always dressed in black.
But their traditional attire has now come in for criticism from equality experts who claim it could send a negative message to toddlers in nursery and lead to racism.
Instead, teachers should censor the toy box and replace the pointy black hat with a pink one, while dressing fairies, generally resplendent in pale pastels, in darker shades.
Another staple of the classroom – white paper – has also been questioned by Anne O’Connor, an early years consultant who advises local authorities on equality and diversity.
Children should be provided with paper other than white to drawn on and paints and crayons should come in “the full range of flesh tones”, reflecting the diversity of the human race, according to the former teacher.
Finally, staff should be prepared to be economical with the truth when asked by pupils what their favourite colour is and, in the interests of good race relations, answer “black” or “brown”.
The measures, outlined in a series of guides in Nursery World magazine, are aimed at avoiding racial bias in toddlers as young as two.
According to the guides, very young children may begin to express negative and discriminatory views about skin colour and appearance that nursery staff must help them “unlearn”.
If children develop positive associations with dark colours, the greater the likelihood that the attitude will be generalised to people, it says.
The advice is based on an “anti-bias” approach to education which developed in the United States as part of multiculturalism.
It challenges prejudices such as racism, sexism and ageism through the whole curriculum and teaches children about tolerance and respect and to critically analyse what they are taught and think.
Ms O’Connor, who has worked with Newham and Tower Hamlets councils and recently devised equality material for Lancashire council’s childcare service, said the approach, based on an “anti-bias” model of education, developed children’s empathy and helped early years teachers to explore their own conditioning and possible prejudices.
“This is an incredibly complex subject that can easily become simplified and inaccurately portrayed,” she said.
“There is a tendency in education to say ‘here are normal people and here are different people and we have to be kind to those different people’, whether it’s race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or faith.
“People who are feeling defensive can say ‘well there’s nothing wrong with white paper’, but in reality there could be if you don’t see yourself reflected in the things around you. “As an early years teacher, the minute you start thinking, ‘well actually, if I give everyone green paper, what happens’, you have a teaching potential.
“People might criticise this as political correctness gone mad. But it is because of political correctness we have moved on enormously. If you think that we now take it for granted that our buildings and public highways are adapted so people in wheelchairs and with pushchairs can move around. Years ago if you were in a wheelchair, then tough luck. We have completely moved and we wouldn’t have done that without the equality movement.”
Margaret Morrissey, a spokeswoman for the Parents Outloud campaigning group disagrees. She said: “I’m sure these early years experts know their field but they seem to be obsessed about colour and determined to make everyone else obsessed about it too.
“Not allowing toy witches to wear black seems to me nonsense and in the same vein as those people who have a problem with ‘Bar Bar Black Sheep’ or ‘The Three Little Pigs’.
Children just see a sheep in a field, whether it be black, grey, white or beige. I have worked with children for 41 years and I don’t believe I have ever met a two year old who was in any way racist or prejudice.”
However, recent research by Professor Lord Winston provides evidence that children as young as four can hold racist views. In an experiment carried out for the BBC’s Child of our Time series, children were presented with a series of images of faces of men, women, boys or girls. Only one of the faces in each sequence was white.
Children were asked to pick out the face of the person they wanted as their friend and the person they thought would be most likely to get in to trouble.
Almost all white children in the survey associated positive qualities exclusively with photographs of white children or adults. More than half of the black children made the same associations.
In contrast, people with darker faces were viewed as troublemakers.
Yeah that would be those lazy Poles who are from one of the only Euro economies that’s in good shape. You know, the one where they tossed out the Commies and worked themselves into the 21st century. Yeah those ones.
That would be the lazy Poles who actually have guys that still remember how to run a Bridgeport mill by hand. Or know which end of a shovel goes in the ground.
Judging from various comments made by Top Gear hosts, the Poles seem to be the most industrious group in the U.K (and that includes native born Brits).
“Someone is going to have to work hard to convince me that with unemployment numbers in excess of 4%, anybody needs to be let in.”
That’s because you don’t understand what unemployment figures represent. A nation with a 4% or lower unemployment rate generally has an excess of jobs – not a shortage of them. The figure you should be looking at is average-time-unemployed.
There are other factors that come into play, such as shortages of skilled/educated workers, but really, the biggest issue is your lack of understanding of the stats you’re discussing.
It’s fitting that the Poles are moving to Britain and taking the jobs,maybe it’s revenge for General Sikorski.
“Experienced Polish pilots took part in the Battle of Britain, where the Polish 303 Fighter Squadron achieved the highest number of kills of any Allied squadron.”
I wonder how many Brits know this.
How could this be “covered up”?????? My family in Scotland were speaking to me of this reality 3 years ago when I visited. Walking down streets they would point out all of their ‘economic neighbours’. All were from Eastern Europe. They weren’t angry in any way except for saying that local youth had been displaced from employment opportunities.
You can’t ‘cover up’ something someone refuses to see.
Politicians are enemies of the state – their prime concern is getting themselves elected, and if that means bringing in large beholden voting blocs to the detriment of the country, so be it.
– Mississauga Matt at September 26, 2011 10:46 AM
You screwed that one up good, MM.
Politicians ARE part of the state (along with the public “service”, and security apparti) and therefore can’t be enemies of the state. They ARE enemies of society, however. The state is contra society.
Must read: Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State. Wherein we learn about the two ways of earning a living: via the “political means” or the “economic means”.
The State, according to Nock (borrowed from Franz Openheimer, is: The Organization of the Political Means.
And no, as much as one likes and respects Harper, with power now, he’s no different.
re. Phantom @11:33 – Apparently a Polish troll is soon to take over from Alex. His attitude and his English will be better and we’ll all prefer him.
Oink oink.
re: Phantom 10:36am
Au contraire, this is not entirely unexpected.
There is some resentment in UK concerning economical immigrants from Poland. Poles do work for lower salary, so some people say they “steal” work from Brits. And when there is a lot of immigrants – in 2004 alone UK accepted more then half a million Poles – some of them are criminals, and that gets much publicity. However, majority of Brits do not like to work for the salaries Poles work. They prefer to be on social.
Not a whisper of Islamists with 4 wives or the social chaos commited by this group. Blame it on the Eastern Europians that overcame Communism. Thats a comfortable fit for a leftist Nation.
riddle:
Q) What’s the difference between Alex and a pig?
A) Have you ever seen a pig get drunk and act like an Alex?
And just when you thought it couldn’t get worse?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3835192/Terrorist-free-to-walk-our-streets.html
Thanks or is it a h/t to our human rights apparatchicks.
Brantford’s Alexander Graham BOOM.
“As a result of these lies and omissions, he was ordered deported in 1988. But Mohammad forestalled his removal by applying for refugee status.
Through seemingly inexhaustible avenues of appeal and due process of law, he has staved off deportation
2011 and counting.
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/461592
Alex, your ignorance of the real world is spectacular in its breadth and depth. In your case, google is not your friend, and believe less than half of what your profs are currently telling you.
Posted by: Oz at September 26, 2011 3:17 PM
The sad thing is that your comment was actually rather witty and amusing by SDA standards. Good job … I guess?
Re: Black Mamba at 1:42pm, I for one welcome our new Polish troll. Trollex has been stinking up the joint far too long.
Ella at 2:29pm, I must regretfully disagree. Bad news is always unexpected when Leftists are in control. Unexpected by them, anyway. The rest of us just roll our eyes and keep the powder dry.
Kate even has a special headline for “New jobs data unexpectedly lower!” articles.
The sad thing is that your comment was actually rather witty and amusing by SDA standards.
pftt!
As if you’re a judge of wit.
Keep leading with your chin, oinker.
“pftt!”
I can help you with that lisp … try detaching your mouth from phantoms genitals, for starters.
A small child assisted Alex by typing:
“Someone is going to have to work hard to convince me that with unemployment numbers in excess of 4%, anybody needs to be let in.”
That’s because you don’t understand what unemployment figures represent. A nation with a 4% or lower unemployment rate generally has an excess of jobs – not a shortage of them. The figure you should be looking at is average-time-unemployed.
Nice try, Alex, but juvenile sophistry doesn’t make it past me. The original poster wrote 4% OR HIGHER, which you immediately twist into 4% OR LOWER. So you try to score points by changing what the OP wrote.
Most economists consider 4% unemployment to represent “full” employment; that 4% represents people who are dissatisfied with their current job and looking for a new, taking temporary time off voluntarily, etc. If the rate is higher than 4%, that means there are some people looking for jobs who can’t find them, which is the OP’s point.
Wanna try again, dimbulb?
meanwhile, at home, a tiny flicker of common sense flares for just a moment….a workplace is for work, churches, mosques and temples are for religion…
AG workers nix request for Muslim prayer room
By Tom Godfrey, QMI Agency
TORONTO – A bid to convert a sick room into a Muslim pray area at a downtown office of the province’s top lawmakers has been nixed by some senior Ontario government officials.
A proposal by a Muslim employee to turn the room used by Ministry of Attorney General employees as an Islamic prayer room was rejected earlier this year, according to concerned workers who feared dismissal if their identities were revealed.
The bid was turned down last June at an “employee engagement meeting” attended by about seven staffers, including department heads, union officials and other workers, staffers said.
“We were taken back by the proposal,” one ministry veteran said. “The room is used by anyone on staff who is not feeling well.”
Officials of the Attorney General said they were looking into the issue on Monday.
The request for an Islamic prayer room in a public office has angered members of the Canadian Hindu Advocacy who claim religion should not be tolerated in the workplace.
“A sick room is there for a reason,” said Advocacy director Ron Banerjee. “Religion should not be playing a part in government.”
The group, with the Jewish Defense League and others, have been protesting against Muslims students being allowed to pray under the guidance of an imam at Valley Park Middle School in Toronto on certain Fridays.
“I think this is a bad precedent,” Banerjee said. “Other religious groups will soon be demanding a place to pray in other government offices.”
The Ontario government last July sent a memo to employees telling them to be “sensitive” to their Muslim co-workers during the month of Ramadan, which was last month, because they would be fasting and praying from dusk to dawn.
Managers were told to provide Muslims with a safe place to pray and that they will be using the bathroom more because they have to clean themselves before they worship.
The Ontario Public Service, which has about 120,000 unionized employees, was selected one of Canada’s best diversity employers by an Internet job-search website.
With the formation of a diversity office in 2008, it has increased employee training and created a “quiet room” to help meet employees’ religious and spiritual needs.
“The original poster wrote 4% OR HIGHER, which you immediately twist into 4% OR LOWER.”
Yes, that’s right. If you think this is “sophistry”, you must be some kind of banjo-strumming pig farmer. Normal people consider it a conversation. For instance, if someone were to say that a person with your IQ or higher is intelligent, it would be perfectly valid for me to point out that a person with your IQ or lower is a retard. It doesn’t mean I’m “twisting” anything – it means I’m disagreeing with the statement because the given range is invalid.
“that 4% represents people who are dissatisfied with their current job and looking for a new, taking temporary time off voluntarily, etc.”
Yes, exactly. Nice to see you’ve learned something!
“If the rate is higher than 4%, that means there are some people looking for jobs who can’t find them, which is the OP’s point.”
No. The number varies depending on various societal and economic factors. If you think there’s a cutoff at exactly 4% in every society at all times, you’re an even bigger fool than I took you for (surely that’s not possible?). Since the number is variable, it’s asinine to suggest immigration policies be based solely (or even mainly) on that consideration. Furthermore, if you would actually read and think for a change, you’d see that I mentioned other factors. I don’t care how many liberal-arts majors are out of work – that’s not an excuse to stop importing doctors from other nations. I don’t care that you and Oz have run out of car windshields to squeegee – that’s no reason to stop bringing in competent engineers.
All of which means that the original argument was wrong, and your defense of it absurd. Par for the course.
Normal people consider it a conversation
No, normal people consider a juvenile rhetorical trick. If I said “Ford makes crappy cars”, and you said “No, Toyota does not make crappy cars”, that’s not a conversation. It’s just nonsense, as your original comment was.
Now, I’ll grant your penultimate paragraph. Yes, 4% is just an estimate, and the skill sets of the unemployed may not match up with the needs of employers. There may well be a need to allow the immigration of specific people, such as the doctors or engineers you cited.
However, the facts are that such economic immigrants make up just over half of total immigration; the rest are family class and refugees, all of whom add a burden to our health care and other systems, and contribute nothing economically. You may be happy to pay the health care costs for Omar’s father, or Chin Lee’s grandmother; I’m not. We could reduce immigration by almost 40% immediately by tightening our ridiculously loose refugee system, and by restricting family class to spouses and children. (Although, in Toronto’s Jamaican community, to use one prominent example, the women who came to work as nannies, and then brought over their sons have merely created a criminal underclass of drug dealers and murderers.. great outcome, don’t you think?)
I don’t know how much you’ve travelled; I’m guessing not out of North America. I’ve been to the Philippines many times, and it shocked me to see the number of advertisements for immigration consultants to Canada, touting “Free health care! Free schooling! After five years, sponsor your family!”.
We’re saps as a country. I’d like to see it stop.
“Now, I’ll grant your penultimate paragraph. Yes, 4% is just an estimate, and the skill sets of the unemployed may not match up with the needs of employers. There may well be a need to allow the immigration of specific people, such as the doctors or engineers you cited.”
Cool. Then we agree. The rest of your comment is irrelevant – your car analogy is silly, and the rest is outside of the scope of the original discussion. I agree with much of it, but it has no bearing on whether the unemployment rate should be the basis for determining how many immigrants we take in.
Nice to see you can be reasonable, once in a while. I’ll put you down as a notch above the rest.
This is nonsense. Labor’s socialist policies were the cause of a drop in living standards, not immigration. Immigration is always an economic benefit. This is just more blame-the-foreigners-not-us crapola.
BL@KBIRD >
“It’s the evil Poles. They are white and not Muslim……”
They verified your claim with the lower snippet – “ADVISOR: BRITISH YOUTH COULD LEARN FROM MIGRANT WORK ETHIC “
As with the previous story, they obviously mean the Poles, the target subject of the story. Anyone who has worked in Muslim countries in particular ME, can attest to their work ethics, which is why as soon as they can afford foreign labor, they get it.
They recruit domestic/ slave labor from South East Asia, brute manual constructive labor from India/ Bangladesh, and professional technical expertise from the west. Black Africans need not apply.
Immigration is always an economic benefit.
I thought libertariansaresmarter. It seems that they are not. Immigration is not always beneficial or an economic benefit. Try to discriminate a little. Ups, I know, discrimination is not your cup of tea– all people are equal so all kinds of immigration must also be equal, right?
BL@KBIRD has it right @ 10:59. The Polish people coming into Britain are not a long term problem as they will integrate into society as they have before. On the other hand, those coming from the ME will come in and try to change society to that which mirrors the one they left. As usual the Marxists have it wrong.
ella >
Yea, exactly.
BTW why doesn’t anyone ever get on Japan’s case about their non-immigration policies? They are a G7 country about the size and population of the UK.
Ken said: “On the other hand, those coming from the ME will come in and try to change society to that which mirrors the one they left.”
Only as long as there are White liberals at the helm willing to give them welfare and let them riot all the time. As soon as that changes, immigrants from the ME will no longer be a problem. The lazy will leave for greener pastures, the serious will continue on working as before.
In related news, now that California is on the ropes, Mexicans are crossing the border looking for jobs… in MEXICO. Seriously.
The Muslim is not the enemy, or not the serious enemy anyway. The Left is.
Alex reminds me of this charcter.
Well I actually agree with Phantom. What a surprise. Jihadists could only hope to do a fraction of the damage that our own governments have.
Phantom 9: 35 PM
I think you are wrong.
Islamists are serious enemies. However, nowadays there are two sets of enemies – leftists and Islamists and they are both dangerous. Both leftists and Islamists’ immediate aims are the same, only their long-term aims are different. So at the moment one should treat both similarly because their short-term aims are similar.
btw. I assume you do know that communists (party Tudeh) and Islamists worked together during Islamic Revolution in Iran, and only after triumph of revolution Islamists killed most of communists, don’t you?
Ella, no I did not know that. But it doesn’t surprise me.
My point is that the Islamists can’t do much other than froth at the mouth in the Middle East without the active help and connivance of our good friends the Lefties here at home. They can’t even -get- here without using our airlines and aircraft.
Defeat the Left and the Islamists can do jack squat to Canadians.