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| Originally Posted by TP There's some pretty weird responses in here.
My view is that if you're legally allowed to live and work somewhere then there's no reason why you can't. If you don't like it, lobby your MP to have the law's changed. Most people take advantage of laws that suit them and to then sit back and complain that others do (notwithstanding illegals) smacks of hypocrisy.
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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
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