General Discussion
for the following: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nycpj/features/awards-categories and also: (and yes I know Dawlish is a tourist spot but not all of the parish of Dawlish and what goes on in the parish of Dawlish is, is it?) Suggest a Countryfile location As we look to the year ahead, we want to hear from you. What part of the British Isles would you love to see ...
This was in the news yesterday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25676973 I think it topical for Dawlish as we are to have lots of new development here, and isn't there a history of flooding at Shutterton Brook and the holiday camps adjacent to it? Just wondered if any alteration(s) as to how drainage will take place on these Shutterton developments might increase the likelihood of ...
In a couple of my earlier postings I mentioned the Greek organisation Golden Dawn. This is in today's Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/10/nick-griffin-support-golden-dawn-greece
an informative read for those who would like some facts http://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/myths%20book%202013_0.pdf
and then I thought..........."and I wonder how much of the money earnt by these fictional characters would have been sent home to Blighty, to their families, so as to pay for rents/mortgages, food, energy bills and the like? And just how many Brits working abroad, in real life, have done that very same thing both in the past and also right now? And would these Brits, who have worked and who are ...
"Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna has suggested Labour may be interested in restricting free movement within the European Union for workers who do not have the firm offer of a job." (from the link Wondering has given). Addendum: For some reason (?!) the programme Auf Wiedershen Pet suddenly came into my mind so I just looked it up. Here is an extract about it; "The first ...
2016? This is scheduled to happen http://thepienews.com/news/uk-to-tighten-permanent-residency-rules-in-2016/ but what else?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2535927/Bleak-world-Britains-illegal-immigrants-revealed-troubling-new-investigation.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Leatash - some thoughts that occurred to me whilst watching the programme. 1. Stop people wanting to come here illegally. 2. How to deal with them, repatriate them etc, if they do make it here. There seems to be this belief in some other parts of the world that this country has pavements of gold etc. It doesn't. We, who live here all know it doesn't, but I guess if there is that ...
Tonight (Weds) - BBC2 21.30-22.30 The Hidden World of Britain's Immigrants - programme about illegal immigrants in this country.
