Record immigration from eastern Europe [ti UK]

The Telegraph ^ | 8/21/06 | Philip Johnston

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

They'd be smart to send the muslims packing, and take in even more Eastern Europeans.

[monday]

zactly

[Angelas]

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[Grzegorz 246]

Thanks.

[nopardons]

Exactly so.

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[A. Pole]

They'd be smart to send the muslims packing, and take in even more Eastern Europeans.

The sad thing is that Eastern European have almost as low reproduction rate as the West. So the young, energetic people leave and old or sick people are left. This spells demographic disaster.

Having more children and having jobs for your own countrymen is necessary for long term survival.

[CobaltBlue]

I wonder what the "illegal, illegal, illegal" crowd would say if the illegal immigrants to the US were from Eastern Europe?

My guess is that they'd be singing a different tune.

[Gaetano]

truer words have never been spoken than these:

It's been said that one can't generalize about any nationality--except Hungarians. All Hungarian men are scientists, composers, or philanderers; all the women are great cooks and sex pots. Any two Hungarians in a room will begin to argue, any three will start a revolution. They all love good food. You can delay the revolution by serving Chicken Paprikas. According to Hungarian mythology, paradise is a land of sour cream and paprikas

[CheyennePress]

Well, for starters, these are legal immigrants to the UK. That said, Eastern Europeans are generally educated and speak English very well. So yes, they're hands down better equipped to live here than Mexicans.

[monkeywrench]

Not if they were coming in the huge numbers we're seeing or closing hospitals and draining social services.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

My sentiments exactly. I say let the Eastern Europeans into the USA. They will assimilate and become Americans.

[hinckley buzzard]

My sentiments exactly. I say let the Eastern Europeans into the USA. They will assimilate and become Americans.

Britain should thank its lucky stars. These euro-immigrants will help balance the scruffy moslem hoards no one has had the courage or sense to identify as a threat to the nation.

[Bokababe]

"It's been said that one can't generalize about any nationality--except Hungarians......"

That's pretty funny and true!

My husband is half-Hungarian and half-Montenegrin Serb & he agrees!

[Polak z Polski]

I like Hungarians. Perhaps because of how similar they are to Poles. I love a good spicy gulasz. It's interesting that the Polish and Hungarian languages are so different, but somehow, we have always understood each other.

Do you know that stalin said that if there was only one peson left in the world, and he was a Pole, he would start arguing with himself? :)

I too agree that it is stupid to allow muslims to do practically whatever they want, but be restrictive on allowing people who actually work to enter britain. Of course, no one wants more foreigners in their country than natives, but it looks like britain is going that way because of the muslims. Still, much better than say france.

I have a friend who went to britain to work, and she is making in a week what her mother makes in a month in Poland, and that is considered a low wage job in Britain. She says people from Britain don't want to do jobs like that.

Many things in Eastern Europe are good, but without a good wage, life is not easy for most. I think one major problem is the fact that a great many stores and companies in Eastern European countries are owned by West Europe. If most of the market could be made domestic(ex. stores in Poland owned by Polish companies), perhaps things would improve.

[speekinout]

I wonder what the "illegal, illegal, illegal" crowd would say if the illegal immigrants to the US were from Eastern Europe?

That's one of the problems we don't talk about. We have a lot of illegal immigrants from Europe. The number I heard from Ireland alone (not Eastern Europe, but still...) is about 35,000.
Our immigration problem is not just Mexicans crossing the southern border on foot. But too many are quick to hop on the "problem of the day" and ignore the "rest of the story".

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

There are many of the same arguments in Western Europe--particularly the United Kingdom--about recent Eastern European immigrants. However small, there is a racist component against illegal immigration that hinders the proper points against aliens coming into the country.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

They will assimilate probably to the same degree as other immigrants from across the oceans: European, Asian, or African. Other than that, they would also probably have the same degree of not assimilating.