OT Immigration.

[harry]

Uncovers a lot of the lies we are told.

[geoff]

In message , harry writes

Now go through it again using the word "investment banker"

[The Natural Philosopher]

WWIII banks, not tanks.

[polygonum]

... jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Or, in bankerspeak, more-more is even better than jaw-jaw or war-war.

[Nightjar]

There are lies, damn lies and statistics and that is a lot of statistics.

Colin Bignell

[Dave Plowman (News)]

By telling more lies?

[RJH]

An especially hateful interpretation of British society. Nasty.

Rob

[Brian Gaff]

Us Vikings were here first.. grin.

Brian

[Nightjar]

Mere latecomers, after (excluding other than Homo Sapiens) the Beaker People, Celts, Picts, Angles, Frisians and Saxons, not to mention the Romans. Of course, to ignore all of those, Migrationwatch has to set its start date of immigration at 1066. However, 8000 Norman French arriving after the conquest probably (estimates for 1066 vary) increased the population by a greater percentage than 252,000 immigrants in 2010.

Colin Bignell

[dennis]

Just remember Harry is descended from Ethiopians.

[The Natural Philosopher]

bloody nouveaus. Us celts were here before that.

[The Natural Philosopher]

+1 Exactly. You left out the Jutes by the way. Not to mention various flavours of Goths and Visigoths.

Back in AD 400-600 we had an open door immigration policy too, and anyone with a herd of pigs, and enough lusty warriors could carve out a bit ofEngland and call it 'home'.

Of course then, with a population density of about one person per thousand acres, there was room, and it wasn't worth dying over.

[The Natural Philosopher]

who isn't?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Then he needs to stop smoking mind altering substances.

[polygonum]

We heidelbergensis mob wos here first.

But kept wondering who Kilroy was.

[dennis]

Aliens?

[geoff]

Yes dense - she is commonly called Eve