After six years, we’re finally leaving a country now in a bigger mess than when we (with the United States)  invaded…. all those soldiers and civilians who have lost their lives needlessly…. taxpayers’ cash being wasted along the way…..all for the lie that Saddam had made weapons of mass destruction. When will the government ever learn?

So, if you’re a retired Gurkha, who once fought for the British Army, you now have the right to settle in the UK, but if you’re either an asylum seeker who escaped from a brutal political regime, or an economic migrant coming to work and improve your English, you still aren’t allowed in.

There’s a lot of media hypocrisy over the way that Parliament voted to allow retired Gurkhas the right to live in the UK. Forget about the embarrassment Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered in his defeat on the issue. Almost every day (before the swine flu fever outbreak), there had been headlines in the newspapers claiming that immigrants were ‘swamping the country, taking our jobs, f*cking our women, milking our benefits system’. Put in some of the harsh policies introduced by the present government, and you get a situation where social tension rises and festers.

The Gurkhas may have been delighted to be allowed to settle here. But who in their right mind would want to come if they know they’re going to be subject to this simple anti-foreigner ranting that we see in the media? This should also cause resentment from asylum seekers, many of whom have to wait many years for their applications to be assessed, just to be told by the government that they can’t stay in the country.

The only logical way to end this madness is for the government to introduce a fair and consistent immigration policy, and ministers to tell it straight to the public that we need foreigners to help keep the country going. After all, in this recession, we’re going to need them more than they actually need us.

Oh, for crying out loud:

Honeymoon couple are first Swine flu cases in Britain – London Evening Standard

Killer flu virus ‘already circulating in London’- London Evening Standard

Flu could hit 40 per cent of UK population- London Evening Standard

In other words, more predictions of impending doom from the national press, creating mass moral and social panic. Hospitals and GPs will soon be overwhelmed by people claiming they have got the flu. The country suffers collective nervous breakdown…. and you bet they will blame Gordon Brown for that too!

PS, I also read this bad joke in another newspaper:

Just been to the doctors. He said I might have swine flu so he gave me some oinkment.

AAAAAHHHHHH!

While most of the country’s attention has been focused on the serious issue of the swine flu outbreak, embattled Prime Minister Gordon Brown was forced to scale back his plans for expenses reform in the corrupted House of Commons.

His controversial plans to pay MPs a daily allowance to attend Parliament were rejected by the opposition parties, so he has had to think again. Whatever proposals he put forward may not help win him back both the public and political support that he desperately needs.

He should do the honourable thing…. and scrap the whole thing. Pay MPs  a basic weekly wage  and axe all expenses. It’s as simple as that. But of course, to Brown, nothing is often that simple.

Most of the UK newspapers agree….WE’RE DOOMED!!!!!!

For goodness sake, let’s have the warnings, but keep it in perspective.