[Tim Skellett]

Originally Posted by Shelley_c

Reality is pointed out in this thread. I can only speak for the circumstances in Britain but reality and facts are pointed and conveyed across. You ask any briton, and most will say the EU was a mistake to enter into.

Odd how that most British businesses would not agree with you. Moreover, it may well surprise you, but I do know personally a good many Britons. And a lot of those I know wouldn't agree either, so I really can't see that "most Britons" would see it as a mistake.

If countries that are accepted into the EU is helping there country then this has backfired. The less developed European countries are the same. All that is happened is mass migration to the more developed European countries (Britain, France, Germany).

One thing that is extremely odd is how the Biritish government, both in conservative govts (Thatcher, Major) and Labour (Blair, Brown) have actually supported radical extension of the EU to the rather poor Eastern European countries, often against French and German opposition.

Another odd affair is how Ireland massively benefited from EU membership, economically and socially.

Foreign workers accepted in hospitals who cannot speak english, NHS abused and more overcrowded.

Nothing in the EU regulations to say foreigners who cannot speak English should be accepted as workers into hospitals.

Of course, that has much more to do with the disgusting low pay for health workers in Britain, and the consequent lack of Britons wanting to do health-care jobs, and Britain actively and officially advertising in other countries for health-care workers.

So if you really want to do anything at all real about that particular problem, you should agitate for better rate of pay and conditions for health-care workers in Britain. You should then find that the problem cures itself.

What is certa?n is that the EU has nothing to do with that particular problem.

Why should any immigrant enjoy the luxuries of what our country has to offer (and abusing them) when our own cannot enjoy this. They enter the country with open arms by the government and get everything handed on a silver platter and their arse wiped at the same time. ...

Yeah? Goodness. Of course, this leaves out a lot of facts, but hey.

You might like to speak with British contract building-site laborers in Berlin; British brickies tend to be rather glad of the rights and free movement that the EU gives them. You might also like to talk with the large British colony in Spain. Just to get a balanced point of viw and so on.