It’s official: Immirants don’t queue jump

Posted on 10 April, 2008 by brigidjones

Some interesting figures were published this week by the Equality and Human Rights comission with regards to council housing and immigrants. I quote the facts as published in the Birmingham Post:

New migrants make up three per cent of the total population but account for less than two per cent of the population in council housing.
Nine in [...]

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Lords throws its two cents into the immigration debate

Posted on 1 April, 2008 by mattreeves

The House of Lords has today suggested that the Government has exaggerated just how beneficial immigration is.
Inquiry chairman Lord Wakeham told Sky News: “We recognise that immigrants to this country do a good job, but there is no economic benefit to the resident population and it is damaging to low-paid workers.”
The minister for Immigration, incidentally [...]

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John crosses yet another line

Posted on 23 February, 2008 by brigidjones

Flicking through the Birmingham Post today, I came across some colourful quotes from one of BULS’s more blogged-about councillors, John Lines.
 Of asylum seekers, he remarked:
“Some scallywag, some scumbag can jump on the back of a lorry, come over under the tunnel and never expect to do a day’s work in his (expletive deleted) life. And [...]

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Did John cross the Line?

Posted on 13 February, 2008 by tommarley

Mr Lines, the esteemed Birmingham Cabinet member for housing, made some interesting remarks recently.

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Tory MP in alien shock!!

Posted on 16 January, 2008 by tomguise

Towards the end of Prime Ministers Questions today, a senior Conservative MP admitted his habits of planet hopping.  Brian Binley, arose to ask a question but failed to get the words out of his mouth.  After some gentle nudging from colleagues, Mr. Binley was stirred from his daze, admitting “Mr. Speaker, there are times when [...]

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On the Hastilow business

Posted on 9 November, 2007 by tommarley

There’s an interesting video of Hastilow having his say on the Stirrer.
The BUCF blog has also been inundated with this controversy.

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