Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Italy is to offer thousands of North African and Middle Eastern refugees visa's to live anywhere in the EU.This move has angered the Krauts as they threaten to re-introduce border controls. However most refugees have expressed their desire to come to the UK. Apparently BEN(i)T(o) Berlusconi's offer of millions to Tunisia to help stem the flow of boat people has been rejected. Well there's a surprise.
Marek
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Brian Dixon
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#2
cant see the problem here.as long as the visa is for the usa and has a green card to go with it.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
Brian
The US have yet to join the EU...
Marek
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#4
marek,exactly.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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You're right Marek, if that agreement means "anywhere" in the EU area, then you can bet they'll make a bee-line for this Country and even more "legal" immigration, which we cannot afford, in just about every way.
Another reason to come out of the EU.
Roger
Jan Higgins
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#6
I wish we could go back to having "border controls", we are getting far to many foreigners coming to this country.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#7
the tunisians that arrived on the italian island have made it quite clear that they are economic migrants.
the current unrest in their country is irrelevant to them.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#8
Italy can only issue visas valid for Schengen countries. The UK is not party to the Schengen Agreement. So these visas are not valid for Britain.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Peter
So we will not need to worry about them making their way to Calais and trying to enter the UK clandestinely. Phew Thank God for that
I was slightly concerned....
Marek
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#10
Who are "the krauts"? I haven't got a clue in which era or epoche you live in!
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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They live a bit further east than the frogs and the cloggies, Alex!
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#12
The kraut is a well known cabbage like vegetable thinly sliced and pickled in a barrel and served either hot or cold with meat or fish. Originates from Germany.
ps epoch is spelt thus
Marek
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#13
There are three large areas in Germany called Saxony! They are Saxons in those areas.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#14
They make stuffing or is it Paxo (ny)...
Marek
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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We happen to be Anglo-Saxons here!
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Speak for yourself my Dad was a refugee from Poland who entered the country illegally in 1941 without a passport or visa and served in the PFC, Free Polish Air Force in France and the RAF - total service time 1933 - 47 but I never heard him refer to the Germans as Saxons!!!
Marek
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#17
alex
to take your ideas a step further it would appear that people who live in dalmatia must be white and covered with black spots.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#18
jan,there are border controlls in calias,dunkirk,ostend,le harve etc.so no worries there then a jan [ps they are manned byukbf personal].
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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No, Howard, it doesn't. One can't change history, and the English are of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon origin.
Yesterday I got a book form the library on the Scots and the Picts, which I will be reading, while complelting the raading of another book from the library: The Celts.
The Saxons in Germany are relatives of the English, and the Celts of Scotland, Wales and Ireland are no less related to us!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#20
Dalmatia has nothing to do with the equation, with or without coloured spots.