Who Will You Vote For In May?

[Hammertime007]

Anyone see the immigration figures today, it's mostly from Rominans and Bulgarians, even more reason to leave the EU and may have to vote ukip.

[kamc]

Anyone see the immigration figures today, it's mostly from Rominans and Bulgarians, even more reason to leave the EU and may have to vote ukip.

Just out of curiosity, are there any other issues that will sway your vote or is it just immigration, it's a general question to everyone really, also, in real life terms how is your life impacted on a day to day basis by all these "Romanians" and "Bulgarians", not looking for some huge debate or anything, it would just be interesting to see if people actually care about anything else apart from all these "foreigners" coming into the UK.

[JagsawSingh]

Just out of curiosity, are there any other issues that will sway your vote or is it just immigration, it's a general question to everyone really, also, in real life terms how is your life impacted on a day to day basis by all these "Romanians" and "Bulgarians", not looking for some huge debate or anything, it would just be interesting to see if people actually care about anything else apart from all these "foreigners" coming into the UK.

Very good point. I do wish people would realise that these immigrants are a reason their grocery shopping, in real terms, costs a tiny fraction of what it did in the 1970's and 1980's. These immigrants, pound for pound, pay far more into our economy than they take out. These immigrants have been a life saver for our home services industries.These immigrants have been an inspiration to us all in the way these Polish women, for example, with degrees and masters in Art and Philosophy, are willing to work so hard as cleaners and factory labourers. These immigrants have given our children the wonderful opportunity to mix with, study with, socialise with so many diverse cultures and nationalities.

They are us and we are them.

[Hammertime007]

Very good point. I do wish people would realise that these immigrants are a reason their grocery shopping, in real terms, costs a tiny fraction of what it did in the 1970's and 1980's. These immigrants, pound for pound, pay far more into our economy than they take out. These immigrants have been a life saver for our home services industries.These immigrants have been an inspiration to us all in the way these Polish women, for example, with degrees and masters in Art and Philosophy, are willing to work so hard as cleaners and factory labourers. These immigrants have given our children the wonderful opportunity to mix with, study with, socialise with so many diverse cultures and nationalities.

They are us and we are them.

are you proud of the immigration thats in West London, I've read immigration in West London has been in the news this week. Jagsaw you mentioned mixing and socialising, most of uk is segregated.

I was listening to 5 live this morning and they were in West London, and they interviewed local residents, there was an american accent and a few British with a Hint of south Asia. They all said they are moving due to the news concentrated around west London this week.

[ASKhalsa1]

Very good point. I do wish people would realise that these immigrants are a reason their grocery shopping, in real terms, costs a tiny fraction of what it did in the 1970's and 1980's. These immigrants, pound for pound, pay far more into our economy than they take out. These immigrants have been a life saver for our home services industries.These immigrants have been an inspiration to us all in the way these Polish women, for example, with degrees and masters in Art and Philosophy, are willing to work so hard as cleaners and factory labourers. These immigrants have given our children the wonderful opportunity to mix with, study with, socialise with so many diverse cultures and nationalities.

They are us and we are them.

"They are us and we are them."

Putting that nauseating bit of sentimentality aside, I don't think anyone can be in doubt that the Poles are an upstanding community who work hard and integrate well into British society. But we should not make the mistake of using the term 'immigrant' as an umbrella term to describe anyone from any foreign country, nor of treating all immigrant communities as if they are of the same caliber. I've never met anyone who could tell me that the Somalis add as much to their local communities as the Poles do, except perhaps a copious increase in the number of robberies of old ladies. Not wishing to be unfair, even our young Punjabi men who have recently arrived in this country appear to be possessed of a rather shoddy work ethic.

Not all people are of comparable character by simple virtue of the fact that they come from overseas. Not all of them come here with the intention to work hard. And it happens to be the case that this inertia is more widespread among people from certain parts of the world than people from others.

[Ranjeet01]

Damn those Romanians, coming over and taking our Polish peoples jobs.

[ASKhalsa1]

Damn those Romanians, coming over and taking our Polish peoples jobs.

Lol

As much as that's calculated to be sarcastic, you express my point far more neatly and concisely than I do.

[StarStriker]

Y are poles and romanians being confused with those scumbag roma gypsies? They r different kettle of fish. And i agree askhalsa1, regardin somalians. Anotha complete waste of a community in this country. Theyve been here seen mid 90s, yet wat have they contributed? In leicester, the gujaratis hate them, in w.london, the panjabis hate them, n in e.london/s.london the jamaicans/ghanainans/nigerians HATE them.

[Ranjeet01]

They r different kettle of fish. And i agree askhalsa1, regardin somalians. Anotha complete waste of a community in this country. Theyve been here seen mid 90s, yet wat have they contributed? .

They helped us win 2 gold medals at London 2012 in the middle/long distance events which has not been done since the legendary Seb Coe/Steve Cram/Steve Ovette days. They also advertised to the wonders of Quorn mince, and the term "Practice, protein, practice, protein" as well as the Mobot.

[StarStriker]

They helped us win 2 gold medals at London 2012 in the middle/long distance events which has not been done since the legendary Seb Coe/Steve Cram/Steve Ovette days. They also advertised to the wonders of Quorn mince, and the term "Practice, protein, practice, protein" as well as the Mobot.

Oh please ranj. Mo farrah aside.