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We are in Canada for the week, well I am in Canada for the week, Laura and Evelyn will be here for perhaps two months. With everything that has gone on we weren't paying attention while Laura's fiance visa ran out and even though we are married, the retards that work in and manage the Home Office said she had to go back to Canada and re-apply for a spousal visa that they actually have no choice but to grant as it would contravene European law to refuse it. Sorry, but it's this sort of thing that really gets me down about the United States of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and that other place that no-one in the Scottish run UK government seems to give a shit about. Until the general public noticed what they were doing, the Labour party had a more or less open door policy to immigration from poor countries so they can grow their voter base in England. They covered what they were doing with crap about immigration being great for the economy stating how much tax the immigrant population had contributed without mentioning the cost of social security payments, healthcare costs, council/government/court translation fees, prison costs, available accomodation and housing stock depletion (with the consequent increase in house prices and non-availability of social housing) and the cultural destruction caused by large scale settlement of people that would prefer on the whole to change England rather than fit in with the indigenous population.


Don't get me wrong, this isn't a race thing, I feel the same way about a large number of the British ex-pats in Spain, but at least most of them are paying their own way.


If you can't positively contribute, (which means you give more than you cost) to the country you move to then stay home. Of course if you can, then go live wherever you want or move in next door, it's fine by me!


I have always worked, haven't claimed any benefits in 22 years, pay over
£40,000 per year in direct taxation (for which I get more or less nothing in return) and to keep my English speaking, fullied supported by me, wife in the country it has cost me:

Douglas Adams observed in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy that, "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." The same could I think be said for most all politicians and the bureaucratic lickspittles of the Civil Service that serve no-one other than themselves. I have come to realise over the years that the working for the government is: the lazy man's alternative to a real job; like sitting on a cart laughing while someone else pushes you uphill; the governments mendacious way of reducing unemployment statistics or a combination of all three. It is not important which party gets in, once they have been in power for a while their tongues are so deep in the sphincters of the people that buy their favours they can no longer see or hear the people that they are supposed to serve. When will they realise that they should answer to the tax payers that work so that the politicians can sit on their arses thinking up more ways to asset strip the middle classes.

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On a different note I read a hilarious book on the flight over: the autobiographical Don't tell mum I work on the rigs she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse by Paul Carter, buy it, read it and lend it to your friends, I'll be buying the sequel for my flight back.