BBC Documentary on illegal immigration from Punjab

[Azaad]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01g86qm/Our_World_No_Mans_Land/

[Shaheed Singh Khalsa]

I caught this earlier today and was shocked at what I came to learn. I bow my head to SWAT for their seva for sure.

[Raaj.Karega.Khalsa]

It's actually truly sad!

But there are people in Punjab who still don't actually believe in this all when you tell them. BBC iplayer isn't accessible from outside the U.K. If anybody from India or so wants to watch it, it's on youtube as well.

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[VanHelsingh]

It's actually truly sad!

But there are people in Punjab who still don't actually believe in this all when you tell them. BBC iplayer isn't accessible from outside the U.K. If anybody from India or so wants to watch it, it's on youtube as well.

They still wouldn't pay heed to the warnings. They'd think you're trying to rob them of living the dream. It's sad because there's absolutely nothing wrong in trying to improve your lot in life. Our fathers and / or grandfathers did the same!

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They still wouldn't pay heed to the warnings. They'd think you're trying to rob them of living the dream. It's sad because there's absolutely nothing wrong in trying to improve your lot in life. Our fathers and / or grandfathers did the same!

Yes, but that was in the 1960s when Britain had an industrial base and was switching it's manufacturing to be reliant on more efficient electric and oil power.

For those who dont know, in the 1950s Britain started building its welfare state to end inequality. In the century before the rich were stinking rich and the poor were stinking poor even with Britian stealing a quarter of the world's resources.

The building of institutions for the poor (NHS, transport etc) as well as free trade in the western world led to a massive demand in labour. Most poor europeans were locked in countries with dictatorships so the Brits turned to the Commonwealth instead.

Sikhs came to the UK and worked in factories and other industries. This turned Britain into a modern country. Japan did something similar in the same time period. Korea did it in the 80s and 90s. China did it in the 00s and will carry on in the 10s.

The money from working in factories paid taxes for schools in the UK that educated the kids of the immigrant Sikhs. This allowed them to escape the drudgery of the English working class life.

Thatcher came along and destroyed British industry as it was the backbone of Labour and the trade unions/socialists. The opportunity for uneducated Sikhs to come and work in British industry ended right there and then.

Then in the early 2000s the EU was enlarged and labour that had been locked up in Eastern Europe was allowed to go where they wanted in Europe. This closed the other two main areas that uneducated (by Western standards) Sikhs could work in: agriculture and labour. The Eastern Europeans are far more fluent in English and simple enough to take instructions without overcomplicating things or getting bored. Anyone telling you that you need to know how to build a wall or hold a wrench will get you a leg up in the UK is talking rubbish. They just want pindus that they can abuse for cheap labour in their construction companies - which means more money for them. Dont fall for it!

Then the credit crunch happened. Work dried up. People cant borrow to live lavish lifestyles and the government doesnt have the cash to pay people to sit on their backsides. Low wages and inflation are eroding the worth of the British pound. The EU will enlarge this year and even more Romanians and Bulgarians will come here to undercut the very Eastern Europeans who undercut the Faujis. There are an awful lot of sharks in a small ocean over here.

If you want to improve your lot in life get Badal to go around other countries and drum up trade and investment in East Punjab rather than touring the deras. Other countries build factories and we build fake prophets and cults. East Punjabis turn their noses up at the thought of it, but this kind of factory work is the exact thing many grandparents did in the UK so that their kids could get an education and not have to travel the world looking for work. The Japanese, Germans, Koreans and now the Chinese all had a generation that slogged it out in the factories so that their kids wouldnt be poor and have to be immigrants in someone else's country to have a better life. What is wrong with East Punjabis that they dont get this?

[singh135]

cant help but feel very sorry for these men.