Asylum seekers

In 2003 the top countries of origin for asylum seekers into the UK were Somalia, Iraq, China, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and Iran. If anyone actually believes that people who made such applications were sat at home, in their respective countries, with their feet up watching T.V whilst thinking “Gee lets go there! Look what we can get free!” then they are ignorant of what life is like outside of this country (Which pretty much sums up my dad who thinks the BNP are great)

I have a friend who now lives in England but was originally born in Nepal. I actually remember asking him ages ago just why he wanted to come to this country so badly and his reply was ‘if you can’t afford medicine in this country, they won’t watch you die’ that comment stayed with me.

I’m glad that I was born into this country and given the opportunity to pay into a system that in turn looks after me. I think we already pay for a lot of other people in this country - the sick, disabled, single parents, old folks and lazy beggars but for some reason that’s ok. It’s fine to look after those people regardless of the fact that they don’t put in what they take out because they were born into this and that makes them better and more deserving. Why is it so bad for a little bit of mine and everyone else’s cash to go towards helping someone who just by chance wasn’t born with the same opportunities that you or I were?

To me it’s just money and politics. Human life is human life and it gets on my nerves to hear people calling immigrants and asylum seekers ‘scroungers’. Give people a chance to work and they will, they may need a hand to get there first, but so what?

Terror in London

This is an extract of a conversation i had with somone on a forum i belong to;

Are the British too easy going with terrorism?
Some people have suggested they are happy to take it up the ass.
Not for them to get angry and do anything about it.
I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing?

Sometimes I think it’s a bad thing, but in times like this, I think it’s a good thing. I found an American view of the bombings which I found quite interesting.

Having always heard about the British behaviour during the German bombing of London, the so-called “blitz,” I wondered what would happen today after news broke of the four bombs in the London subway and buses. Sure enough, there was no panic. There was even some stoic humour from the thousands who had to walk as public transportation ground to a halt.

I love it, I really love it, the fact that we, as a nation of people, can ‘take it up the ass’ if you will and just get on with our lives. To me that is what being British is all about, cracking a joke despite being surrounded by shit. It’s about getting on with it regardless, never letting people know that they’ve hurt you and retaining a sense of humour no matter what.

I’ve been listening to the news all day and the one thing that really struck home with me was when Mark Easton started to explain what he’d seen in the early hours. He stated how calmly people had reacted and how it was as if ‘they had managed to suck the terror out of terrorism’ – and that’s the key point. If people know they can scare you, make you afraid, then they win. British people don’t do that, collectively they put on a brave face and if that makes us weak, then who the hell knows what it takes to make us strong.

We will not be intimidated.