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Of course they feel betrayed, every flipping tabloid in the UK and most of the talk show hosts have been bleating on about this for a decade.

From highlighting all the refugees who hitch hike across europe unmolested to claim asylum in the UK, through the scandalous reporting of the migrations of the EU accession states, what other conclusion could they arrive at ?

Not once, NOT ONCE, has a government minister said anything to challenge the public's perceptions. They have accepted this bilge as the status quo becuase, undoubtedly, focus groups decided that to challenge this by doing the right thing, wouldn't go down with target racist groups. So they sowed the breeze... and here we are,

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Jan 3rd, 2009 at 04:20:38 PM EST
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There's huge, odd class issues at work here as well. It's not just the employers of temporary labour who benefit directly, there's a whole raft of slumlords who play fast and loose with the housing regulations, packing tens of people into small living spaces.

There's a lot of emphasis on "competition for council houses" but distortions of the private rental stock are problematic too. Of course, the government are much more interested in "cracking down on benefit fraud" than looking into this kind of illegality...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sun Jan 4th, 2009 at 05:02:39 AM EST
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