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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Whowhere, you must so love films with happy endings
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Actually what I'm saying has been happening in this country for hundreds of years.
    We are all immigrants, noone in this country is truly English. If you're not Italian then you're most certainly going to be German or French.
    The only people in this country, or even world who are genetically pure are the black people.
    The rest of us are a mish mash of races derived from mass interbreeding and migration over the millenia.


    And if in doubt, you racist piece of scum, always remember where humanity originated. They don't call Africa the cradle of humanity for nothing you know.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by ladymuck
    Whowhere, you must so love films with happy endings

    He's right. Read some history.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Whowhere
    The only people in this country, or even world who are genetically pure are the black people.

    Tosh, there was a lot of inter-mingling between Slaves + Europeans during slavery era
    The rest of us are a mish mash of races derived from mass interbreeding and migration over the millenia.

    not really

    blanket assertions which wouldn't cut it in a school project
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Keep ignoring reality love. It's clearly what you do best.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ladymuck could you possibly list the situations in which immigrants have reduced your standard of living in some way?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    She won't answer, she'll just leave and then join again a bit later when she thinks you've forgotten that you asked a question!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    yes.

    Well can anyone in fact name the circumstances in which immigrants have reduced there living standards?

    Mine = none I can think of, weird that, what with the hoards of thieving gypsies everywhere... :rolleyes:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Would paying immigrants benefit not reduce societies overall welfare?

    Also if you work in a low skilled job have migrants not depressed the wage rate by increasing supply of labour?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Rocksteady
    Would paying immigrants benefit not reduce societies overall welfare?

    And what would not paying benefits do?
    Originally posted by Rocksteady
    Also if you work in a low skilled job have migrants not depressed the wage rate by increasing supply of labour?

    Errrrm...bosses set wages, not immigrants.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well is the wealth of society not more evenly distributed with the addition of extra people?

    Have migrants not depressed the wage rate for British people by increasing the supply of labour and therfore bosses can pay less to employ people when they would otherwise have had to pay more?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    More evenly distributed wealth is a good idea IMO.
    As for the rest of it - well I'm not an economist, but do bosses ever take a wage cut? No. You anti-immigrant lot are aiming your ire at the wrong people.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Perhaps more evenly distributed wealth is a good idea. The question posed was would migrants have reduced the living standards.

    Surely the boss's pay does not matter in a situation of supply and demand, as if there is an increase in supply of unskilled labour the wage rate will fall? Pretty basic enough to understand.

    Who said I was anti immigration?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Your posts seem to strongly imply you're anti-immigration.
    Are you?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm only asking questions :rolleyes:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Just on the note of asking questions how do you get rid of the emails that automatically are sent when someone replies to a post?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Rocksteady
    I'm only asking questions :rolleyes:

    How about answering mine then, seeing as I've answered some of yours.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Rocksteady
    Just on the note of asking questions how do you get rid of the emails that automatically are sent when someone replies to a post?

    Go to user control panel -> edit options and turn off "Use 'Email Notification' by default?"
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No what? No you don't want to turn off email notification? Or no you're not gonna answer my question?
    Either way, you're fucking weird. :eek:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No was the answer to your question idiot!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Aaaah, my bad. Apologies. :o
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Whats this post about then?
    Originally posted by Rocksteady
    How do you know these "legitimate" asylum seekers come here direct by boat and by plane, most surely cross through Europe to reach us first?

    They have an obligation to claim asylum in the first safe countries they reach. Those comming here from Europe are therfore illigitimate in the first place under UN rules!

    Do you think the number of asylum claims has been reduced through the addition of the new European countries?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    What statement did I make that you disagree with?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm asking you why you're slanting your questions in a particular way if you claim to be in favour of immigration.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I do not claim to be in favour of immigration.

    Those questions are not slanted in any political way but address what was discussed in the debate namely the politics of the Geneva convention and if the addition of new European countries reduced asylum claims, do they not?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well you said you weren't against it. So you're neutral on the issue then?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I am apolitical.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No one is apolitical, its nonsense.

    Whats your stance on immigration?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I do not have a "stance"
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