rendelharris

As Joe says...

When you looked at the baby born a day after you in the maternity ward and thought "Oh God, another blow-in..." ETA Oh, apparently the phrase that rhymes with toe-win gets edited!

Unless there's a real health and safety danger leave them be and enjoy: when I was a kid foxes had a den at the end of our garden and it's one of my fondest memories watching them play on the lawn in the early morning. When the cubs have grown they'll abandon the den and she can then fill it in with earth or, to be sure of no revisit next year, concrete it or put in foxproof mesh.

A) I said 500,000 working and earning, not total. Even the rabidly rightwing anti-immigrant MigrationWatch only estimates 1.1M - are you seriously suggesting that there are 4 million illegal immigrants in the UK? B) I was just taking your arbitrary figure of ?8K and pointing out what it would mean if everyone was paying this to people traffickers. Obviously it's a figure you've just plucked out of the air, but even if it were true (which it isn't) that would be a one-off payment, not year on year. C) Are you seriously suggesting that illegal immigration is responsible for more than 10% (in fact if you take your figure of 4.5M, it'd be about 80%) of the UK's balance of payments deficit? If so please offer some figures in justification (I mean real figures, not something you've made up about every Pakistani paying ?8000 to a people trafficker to get here).

Just heard on Today on Radio Four: "The BBC will not be covering the general election until the polls for local elections close at 10PM." Shall we do the same on the EDF - everyone have a day off? Here's a picture of some kittens. http://i.imgur.com/Z2GbpKu.jpg

Villager Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Any thing that reduces veicle pollution is to be > commended but I am not sure how effectively > running engines whilst stationary could be > effectively or efficiently monitored. > > As a resident on East Dulwich Grove, near the > Village end, I am acutely aware that the peak > levels of pollution co-incide with the morning and > afternoon school runs. > > The worst polluters by far are the large cars and > Chelsea tractors used to ferry kids to and from > school. The majority of these do short journeys > and this is borne out by the level of condensation > emitted from the exhausts. > > This condensation indicates that the engines have > not reached their optimum operating temperature. > As a result the emission control systems are > totally ineffective. The catalytic converters only > become effective when they reach high temperature. > Similarly withh the fuel control systems inject > a richer fuel mixture until the engine warms up. > Under these conditions these engines emit up to 8 > times their regular levels of pollutants. > > Something ought to be done about these as a first > priority. Well said.

Duvalier: Let's take a massive over estimate and say there are 500,000 illegal immigrants currently residing in the UK and earning wages, all of whom are sending back ?8000 to people traffickers. 500,000 x ?8000 = ?4BN: UK GDP = ?2.2 trillion 4000000000/2200000000000 = 0.018 x 100 = 0.18%

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In my experience it is tradesman and builders' > vans that are the main culprits- I have had an EDF > van and others idling in my road recently and they > sit there for 15 minutes at a time- obviously they > are not personally paying for the fuel. I did > speak to a van driver once but he didn't speak > English and shrugged his shoulders- so you might > want to get any notices printed in umpteen > languages Seriously, is there anything you can't turn into anti-foreigner bigotry?

Duvalier Wrote: > Now we have a proliferation of Western Union > franchises that export that wealth of our country > to build villas all the way from Lithuania, > Pakistan and Nigeria. Then > Now to go back to personal remittances, the > similarity with the corporates is with the initial > investment on getting to the UK. Say your average > illegal immigrant from say Pakistan or India > takes on debt/obligation of around ?8,000 to a > trafficker to get them into the UK, they have to > pay off that debt from the money they earn in > the UK. That's where Western Union comes in. > That is the conduit. Why did you include Lithuania? Lithuania is a member of the EU and hence nobody from that country working here is an illegal immigrant. Further, why did you start on about illegal immigrants at all? You said: > > The fact that hundreds of thousands migrate to > the UK every year for work suggests that the > current system ain't all that bad. Many of these folks > make good and good on them for making the best > of the opportunity. They work hard and don't > complain. Presumably you were mainly referring to legal immigrants there, as there are nothing like "hundreds of thousands" of illegal immigrants each year - indeed you seem to be approving of them for their willingness to work hard for a pittance. Then suddenly you start banging on about illegal immigrants who are sending all their money back to people traffickers and how they are a drag on the British economy. All seems somewhat confused. By the way even if all the illegal immigrants in this country were sending back ?8000 a year (which obviously they're not as many are children, elderly, unemployed etc) it would come to 0.16% of our GDP going missing, so I hardly think it's a serious drain on the economy.

I think the fastest speed available on BT is 300mps - not sure what you're looking at but don't think it's your broadband speed. You can check what speed you're getting here: http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/?&again

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Maybe we need more immigrants > > I struggle to get good builders/plumbers etc. > Often > someone will come around to assess something and > you > never hear anything from them again (maybe the job > is > out of there ability - maybe too much work already > ?). You want to ask uncleglen about that, I seem to recall he was telling us a few weeks ago that immigrant electricians work for ?20 a day!

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- A Russian I met (who is on the benefits > fiddle big time incidentally) told me that the > reason people flock here is because they feel > 'safe'...i.e. they have children and will never be > on the streets even if they deliberately do not > pay their rent. Added to that the EU citizens who > are feathering their nests back home at our > expense, and are not ploughing their wages back > into the UK economy, means we are doomed in the > long run- thank goodness for massive rent > increases because at least some of the money stays > here. It's amazing, on the one hand you appear to express nothing but contempt and indeed hatred for immigrants, on the other you're always telling us how they've told you this that and the other, even confessing to you when they're on the fiddle. You must have a very trustworthy face. As for the rest of your post, it's well up to your usual standards of frothing unsubstantiated drivel.

Duvaller Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The fact that hundreds of thousands migrate to the > UK every year for work suggests that the current > system ain't all that bad. Many of these folks > make good and good on them for making the best of > the opportunity. They work hard and don't > complain. Many of those people migrating here to work do so because conditions in their own countries are so poor that working here enables them to provide a better life for their families back home. The fact that Britain has better wages compared to Lithuania (average monthly salary around ?530) is not, in my opinion, much to be proud of.

Duvaller Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If starting out in a low paid job in an expensive > city then one has to minimise living costs such as > accomodation and transport. To many that may mean > sharing and that could be 8 people living in a two > bedroom flat. > > What are the alternatives to a free labour > market? Communism? That didn't work. So in your mind there's no middle ground between a complete free-for-all where employers can pay exactly what they want even if it means people can only afford to live in slum conditions and...communism. Interesting.

sandyman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A while ago i had a problem with the lock on my > car door. The AA man showed me how to open the > door with a screwdriver but warned me that if i > was found carrying a screwdriver I could be > charged with something (carrying a offensive > weapon?). As I understand it the courts have decided that an unmodified screwdriver (i.e. one that hasn't been sharpened to a point) doesn't fall under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 which makes it an offence to have "any article which has a blade or is sharply pointed" in a public place (excluding folding pocket knives of less than 3 inches). However a screwdriver can be classed as an offensive weapon if it can be proved it was being carried for that purpose. So you're not going to get done carrying a screwdriver round to a friend's house to wire a plug for them, or indeed going out to unlock your car (provided your explanation is believed of course), but carrying one around without a good reason is likely to get you in trouble if stopped. (Not legally trained but read up on all the regulations when teaching secondary school in Vauxhall to make sure my lads knew what the law was)

poppet27 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My message seems to have disappeared but I was > just going to ask if sonic plug in devices are > harmful or annoying to cats, if we adopt one > sooner rather than later. No they're above the hearing range of cats, dogs and humans. They might upset a pet hamster, guinea pig or similar. Enjoy your cat, you'll be mouse free and the toddlers will be sure to love it too!

If my true colours are that I have nothing but contempt for petty small minded rightwing bigots of your and apb's ilk then yes, I am showing them. By the way please don't send me any more private messages - not interested.

"Remains critical" according to Standard eleven hours ago. Awful testimony from his friend, sounds as though the perpetrator was determined to stab for no reason: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/dulwich-park-attack-man-arrested-for-attempted-murder-after-italian-national-stabbed-in-the-head-in-a3527606.html

Really sorry about your cat, what a dreadful thing. If it's that out of control it could be a danger to humans, possibly serious enough to call 999?

Green Goose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gotcha again Rendell. You just can't resist can > you. > GG :) Don't try to soften your foul bigoted opinions by making it seem it's just a fun game - a smiley emoticon doesn't cover up what an unpleasant person you are.

Green Goose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > edphstaff , you come across as a militant bunch of > left wing whingers. > > If you dont like the pay rate, why did you take on > the work in the first place? > > If you have the abilities, skills and work ethic > to take on more remunerative employment then why > not do so? > > There are plenty of opportunities out there. > Unemploymentt is at its lowest level for years and > immigrants are flocking to this country to take up > work. > > Stop whinging and get real. The system we live > with does not owe you a well paid job. The system > pays you for the worth of the work you do. Market > realities dictate pay rates. This is no socialist > utopia. Such a thing does not exist. > > Why try to encite others to join your cause and > take up your struggle on May Day when you want to > slope off to rub shoulders with the Corbynistas, > Solidarity types and other delude leftists? What a spectacularly hateful person you are, GG, it does make me sad to think of what a miserable little life you have suppurating in your own bile.

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That try deserved more than 4 points. There's an interview with Spike Milligan which, sadly, doesn't seem to be on youtube, where he says they should build a cathedral at the point he catches the ball inside the 22 and another at the point he touches down - it is one of the touchstones.

They always select at least one uncapped player, don't they? ETA oh and everyone wears their own club's socks. Always good to see that try again - still think the final pass wasn't intended for Edwards though!

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > rh you may want to look at the first spreadsheet > and revise your comments (I know you love having a > go at me but the numbers speak for themselves) > https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/historica > l-crime-data No - hats off for trying but if you look a little more carefully you'll see the column with which you think you've caught me out is for murder and manslaughter, the figures I quoted were for murder only. Numbers may speak for themselves, but it helps to know the language they're talking. ETA By the way, just for interest, 2002 is a "blip" year because that was the year 172 murders attributed to Dr.Harold Shipman were added to the statistics.

jaywalker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Astonishing calls for stop and search (as if no > one has read a thing written by Akerlof). Well, what with one thing and another, I'm not as up on the works of Mr.Akerlof as I'm sure most forum users are, and googling him in relation to stop and search offers no clues, care to elucidate?