Wednesday 22 April 2015

Jeremy Clarkson - the final word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMuO-8S_0Wg&feature=youtu.be

UKIP says every in the EU wants to live here so why have only 1 in 31,000 come this year ?


Just been reading UKIP propaganda saying "in the last 12 months immigration figures were 625,000"
 
As the following table from MigrationWatchUK (hardly known for a positive approach to immigration) shows:  Net migration, (immigration minus emigration) was 298,000 year ending September 2014. Why did UKIP use a misleading higher figure ? I can hardly guess.

Net migration form the EU over which UKIP say the UK has ‘no control’ was 162,000 out of 500,000,000 UKIP says have the presumptive right on entry ! (0.0003%, one in every 31,000)
One wonders what the other 499,838,000 are waiting for before coming over to steal “our” jobs whilst simultaneously ”living” on benefits.
 
Meanwhile, almost as many British people 137,000 went to live elsewhere in the world as came to live in the UK.  UKIP seem confused about whether they will cap immigration, will they cap emigration too ?

All Citizenships
British
Non-British
EU
Non-EU
Immigration
624,000
82,000
543,000
251,000
292,000
Emigration
327,000
137,000
190,000
89,000
101,000
Net Migration
298,000
-55,000
353,000
162,000
190,000


So actually the number of people coming to the UK from the EU is 1/4 of the figure UKIP implies and given that 2-3 million British people who live in other EU countries will lose their right of residency if we leave the EU and be sent back to the UK, presumably net immigration that year will be 2-3 million.

Arthur Scargill has a point !

launching the Social Labour Manifesto Arthur Scargill is reported by the BBC to have said

We believe all faith schools should be abolished as well because they are a breeding ground for prejudice and intolerance. "If Muslims, Buddhists, Catholics or Protestants can go to university together then they can go to school together."

So why aren't there faith Universities ???  I believe in the USA there are. Odd really to think their might be a denominational approach to civil engineering. 

Sunday 19 April 2015

A Lib Dems lots is not a happy one


TUNE/MUSIC – A Policeman’s Lot, Gilbert and Sullivan, Pirates of Penzance
When a Lib Dems out campaigning for election,
His election
Or maturing all his pointless little plans
Little plans
His capacity for losing his deposit
His deposit
Is far more greater than for any other man's
other man's

Our polices we with difficulty smother

'Culty smother
When there's canvassing's and leaflets to be done
to be done.
 Ah, take one consideration with another
 With another,
 A Lib Dems lot is not a happy one.
 
Ah!,   With elections to be fought and lost and won, 
Lost and won, 
A Lib Dems lot is not a happy one,
happy one.

When your stuck inside a Tory coalitionCoalition. When the voters just think your a waste of timewaste of time, And tuition fees and more than what you promised – what you promisedYou can only hope for better luck next time   Luck next time  
When Nick Clegg is up the creek without a paddle
Without a paddle
And the full horror has only just begun
Just begun
Ah, take one consideration with another
With another
 A Lib Dems lot is not a happy one.

With elections to be fought and lost and won, lost and won, A Lib Dems lot is not a happy one, happy one.

The Pirates of Nick Clegg

I am the very model of a modern Liberal Democrat,
People used to like me, now they think I am a total pratt,
I know the by-election wins, and I quote the fights historical
From Orpington to Bermondsey, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with policies impractical,
I understand elections, both the simple and problematical,
It seems opinion polls are teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about all the seats we're going to lose.

ALL:
With many cheerful facts about all the seats we're going to lose
With many cheerful facts about all the seats we're going to lose
With many cheerful facts about all the seats we're going to lose