http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodeans

Learn somthing new every day. thanks Paul

I would agree with that 100%. There are people who have made comments on here indicating that they're so sick of this country that they're leaving it to find greener pastures elsewhere. Fine. So...let me get this straight, you consider that you have the absolute right to go and live and work anywhere you please in the world (as long as yo have the legal right to do so), but people who feel exactly the same way about their country and are looking to come into the UK are somehow in the wrong?

These people also seem to be getting stick for the breakdown of law and order in this country. That's tosh. There is no wholesale breakdown of law and order in this country except in the fevered minds of tabloid editors looking to whip up ill-researched stories to suit their own agenda and sensationalise stuff that will appeal to the moral outrage of their readers. Anyone who doubts this might like to go back to the golden age when crime didn't exist in this country - Perhaps they might have felt safer a decade ago, there was no violent crime then was there? Maybe they would've felt safer in Victorian London (probably one of the most violent cities on earth at that time). Truth is, there was no 'Golden Age'. There have always been scumbags in society, regardless of ethnicity or immigration status.

Of course what we need is no more immigration and Draconian laws to punish all scumbags. That should do it. Doesn't really work though does it. The lower you set the criminalisation bar the more criminals you have - until you end up being sentenced to death for stealing a loaf.

Jools I have stated that I am leaving this country for pastures greener, But,I am doing so not to find work, Done that for the past 20 years to get me where I am now. I am being welcomed to my choice destination because I am taking somthing there, My Hard earned, cash that will in turn improve their economy, How many illigal imigrants into our shores even pay tax let alone aid our economy, the opposite they drain our resources to the point that people like me who pay a lot of tax are sick to the back teeth of supporting scum and voting with their feet.

Glyn

Jools,
With all due respect, I believe you are burying your head in the sand. The present levels of vicious crime are unacceptable.
Take it from me (a really old git) there was a time when England was much better and more crime free than it is now.
But there's one thing for sure there's NO hope of an improvement in the future if the views expressed on this board are anything to go by.

Big demand for Koala hunters round your way TP? :lol:

I thought you were just shipped in chains to Australia for stealing a loaf?

Yeah, you're probably right...bloody soft liberals to blame I reckon :lol:

Who is that woman who is famous for establishing a dynasty in Ozz? Forget her name now, but she was originally sentenced to death for allegedly stealing a petticoat. Somehow, she got shipped to Australia instead. Let's not forget that being shipped to Australia was also a death sentence for many. Hundreds of people died on the ships and in the early settlers camps.

Errr ... that's my third job ;)

Nasty little buggers, don't try this at home ...

So thats why I have been having pains in my back. I have a bloody dynasty.....

I am also an old git (in my 50's) and I can't accept that there was a golden age when everything was better and crime free.

I can remember reading about people being robbed at knifepoint and about gangland razor fights when I was a kid. The likes of the Krays and 'Mad Frankie Frazer' were running around. When I was growing up there were regular fights going on between rival village gangs and these same people would regularly nick cars to travel to and from the latest rumble. Violence on football terraces was rife with people using bottles and coins as missiles and every ground had the end where the hard men went for a fight. In my teenage years two people were fatally stabbed (at seperate times and in seperate incidents) in the little market town where I live - both in fights after chucking out time. Gangs of skinheads made a religion out of using their Doc Martens. My dad also used to tell me stories of the street violence that went on in his day - it has always been the same, because human nature has always been the same.

What has changed is the technology available to the law enforcement agencies and the rigour with which they need to report incidents. I'm sure that rather than there being halcyon days of law and order as depicted in 'Heartbeat', the reality of the times was the local beat Bobby dealing out summary justice on the end of a truncheon with no need for tedious paperwork. Same crimes happened, just didn't get reported.

With the advent of greater levels of reporting (and being held to account for performance through the statistics thus produced) it fuels another phenomenon. There has never been more competition in the media. Hundreds of TV and local radio stations all vying with each other, millions of websites and internet based media plus the traditional newspaper press competing in a state of frenzy for their slice of a finite advertising cake. How do the proprietors and editors of these media outlets raise their profile above the clamour? By the time honoured methods of hype, exageration and downright lies, bending statistics to suit their particular editorial stance - the worst of them playing on the fears, prejudices and ignorance of the man in the street to whip up a frenzy of public opinion to suit their circulation figures or political leanings