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PurpleLass · 24-04-2005, 13:27

What's alarming is how any discussion about immigration immediately switches to the racism issue. The two things can be quite seperate. We live in a country that has it's services stretched to the limits, our NHS can't cope (just look at the average waiting times to see a Doctor or specialist), education is struggling etc, pensions are a mess, benefit culture is rife and right here and now this country can not take any more people coming into it - we simply can't cope. It's irrelevant whether these people come from the Ukraine, Pakistan, Norway or even Australia - our country simply can not cope with more people that are going to make any sort of demands on the services. It is not racist to say this and it is not an issue about who would make the best neighbours, it is about the resources of the country being stretched to the limit.

24-04-2005, 13:27	#125
PurpleLass Full Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 269 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 42	Re: Fairground ride imported for Mayor making weekend in May What's alarming is how any discussion about immigration immediately switches to the racism issue. The two things can be quite seperate. We live in a country that has it's services stretched to the limits, our NHS can't cope (just look at the average waiting times to see a Doctor or specialist), education is struggling etc, pensions are a mess, benefit culture is rife and right here and now this country can not take any more people coming into it - we simply can't cope. It's irrelevant whether these people come from the Ukraine, Pakistan, Norway or even Australia - our country simply can not cope with more people that are going to make any sort of demands on the services. It is not racist to say this and it is not an issue about who would make the best neighbours, it is about the resources of the country being stretched to the limit.