ashamed

[ramtops]

well, here they are, New Labour's shiny new rules for immigration. Here are some highlights:

"Refugees will no longer get lifelong residency in the UK but be given a five-year grace period in case the situation in their homeland stabilises, under a radical overhaul of immigration and asylum policy announced today.

"People who have settled in the UK will have to wait five years before they can sponsor further family members to come to Britain, in a bid to end "chain migration".

"People who have settled in the UK will have to wait five years before they can sponsor further family members to come to Britain, in a bid to end "chain migration".

I'm ashamed of our Government, and our chief "opposition" (and I use the term loosely). But most of all I'm ashamed for all the British people who have allowed - nay encouraged - this to become the main election issue.

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[winter-lily.livejournal.com]

But most of all I'm ashamed for all the British people who have allowed - nay encouraged - this to become the main election issue.
I'm with you on that one :S

[elinor.livejournal.com]

I'm currently cycling through anger, despair and disbelief. :(

[captainblue.livejournal.com]

Bye bye Michael Howard?

It's a plot to get rid of the Tories.

[aca.livejournal.com]

There needs to be plotting to do that? (Says the card carrying Conservative Party member).

There are aspects of Tory policies (or at least Smithist policies) which I like, however I don't see the current party leadership representing them. I'm sorely tempted to vote LibDem next time round from their libertarian/liberal standpoint alone.

Shame about their economics really...

[captainblue.livejournal.com]

I'll be voting LibDem again. Wasted vote around here of course, but it's the principle that matters.

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

if everyone who thought that a LibDem vote was wasted actually *voted* LibDem, they'd have a hell of a lot more seats in parliament.

[captainblue.livejournal.com]

Too right. Unfortunately, South Norfolk will probably always be Tory...

Won't stop me voting though.

[thewingedteapot.livejournal.com]

I grew up in rural Suffolk and, like you, I suspect that the only way those areas will not vote Tory is if sea levels rise so far that they don't exist any longer. Now I live near North Yorkshire, which is also a very predictable area............

[thewingedteapot.livejournal.com]

I agree about being ashamed for all those who want this to be the main issue. While I am sure things may look slightly different (but still nowhere near what they would have us believe) from the vantage points of Dover and Hounslow, I am not aware of disappearing under a sea of what they like to portray as bogus asylum seekers. And I remain fervently thankful that I have never been in the position of my life being so perilous that I need to seek asylum. As a reminder to many of them, charity begins at home. This policy is purely a way of getting votes and is being cynically put forward for this reason, and the main opposition is even worse on it.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Funny; I live in Bradford, a city with a very high percentage of immigrants in the population, and unlike some of the Daily Mail-reading goons around here I've yet to notice the hordes of Al-Qaeda supporting, dole scrounging, baby eating bogus asylum seekers from hell that are supposedly going to compromise our very Englishness. Probably because they don't really exist beyond the limited imaginations of said Daily Mail readers.
As for NuLabr, there's more chance of me becoming Pope AND being selected to open the bowling for England in the Ashes series than there is of any of their candidates receiving my vote in the foreseeable future.