On 2 Jun, 20:59, Tom Barry wrote:
Quite possibly. But then the polish drunks or chavs probably wouldn't
come over here and wouldnt get a job if they did. Doesn't change the
fact that plenty of jobs are going to immigrants because the bone idle
wasters in this country can't be arsed and would sooner chuck some
tenants or strongbow down their gobs.

One of the few bits of immigrant scaremongering that has any basis in
fact is that Polish immigrants tend to increase alcohol related crime.
They are decidedly fond of the falling down water.

Indeed - last Saturday aside, the majority of people I've seen
drinking on the Tube over the last couple of years have been Polish
workmen enjoying a tin of Zwiec or Tyskie on their commute home.

[at least, I'm hoping they were heading home...]

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

On 2 Jun, 20:30, (Neil Williams) wrote:
Hmm. Have you ever been out in a Polish town on a Saturday night?
Makes last Saturday look like a tea-and-cake picnic...

Yes, I have (Poznan[1]), and it was as civilised as any other European
country. A breath of fresh air compared with the UK, and an
experience that seriously lifted my perceptions of the country and its
people.

Hmm. I've been out in Gdansk and Wroclaw on Saturday nights, and both
towns featured the same kind of good-natured-but-utterly-drunken-
carnage that we do so well in the British Isles.

(I've also been out in Warsaw on a wet Wednesday. This was somewhat
less riotous...)

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

Colin Rosenstiel wrote in uk.transport.london on Mon, 2 Jun 2008 09:45
+0100 (BST) .co.uk:

In article ,
] (Dave Hillam) wrote:

James Farrar wrote in uk.transport.london on Sun, 01 Jun 2008
22:06:42
+0100 :

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:06 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

Yes, punishment of the innocent because of a few guilty people they
are unable or unwilling to deal with under existing powers. So New
Labour. I didn't expect it of the Tories too.

You didn't read his manifesto then.

I can't actually see any reference to this proposed policy anywhere
on http://www.backboris.com/ (which I presume is an official site).

Have you got the candidates' manifestos booklet delivered to every house
in London?

Oh yes, and it's not in there.

Apparently press releases are now "his manifesto"; that's the only
place I could trace it.

Dave

On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:05:10 +0100, Dave Hillam
] wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote in uk.transport.london on Mon, 2 Jun 2008 09:45
+0100 (BST) .co.uk:

In article ,
] (Dave Hillam) wrote:

James Farrar wrote in uk.transport.london on Sun, 01 Jun 2008
22:06:42
+0100 :

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:06 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

Yes, punishment of the innocent because of a few guilty people they
are unable or unwilling to deal with under existing powers. So New
Labour. I didn't expect it of the Tories too.

You didn't read his manifesto then.

I can't actually see any reference to this proposed policy anywhere
on http://www.backboris.com/ (which I presume is an official site).

Have you got the candidates' manifestos booklet delivered to every house
in London?

Oh yes, and it's not in there.

Apparently press releases are now "his manifesto"; that's the only
place I could trace it.

Given that formal manifestoes weren't published (only two-page
summaries), it's reasonablt to describe all formal policy
announcements during the campaign as forming part of the manifesto.
What I meant was: it was known before polling day that he would
implement it. It wasn't a surprise he sprung on London after being
elected.