http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2547562.ece

The Government admitted yesterday that immigration is too high, after
figures were published suggesting that official projections have
underestimated wildly the number of people moving to Britain.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that 190,000
immigrants will be coming to the country every year for the next quarter
of a century. Two years ago the office estimated that the figure would
be 145,000. The projections mean almost 2 million will arrive every
decade until 2031, a total of 4.75 million.

Liam Byrne, the Immigration Minister, said measures must be taken to
limit numbers. He said: “This report shows what could happen unless we
take action now. Frankly, it underlines the need for swift and sweeping
changes to the immigration system in the next 12 months. Migration is
bringing new wealth but also new worries to Britain.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=484632&in_page_id...

Immigrants were given the keys to 10,000 council houses last year.

The Government figures reveal the pressures which immigration is putting
on housing and public services.

Foreign nationals are legally entitled to social housing - including
housing association properties - after spending more than four years in
the UK or successfully claiming asylum.

Some EU migrants are also entitled to be given taxpayer-subsidised
houses, which are in short supply nationwide.

Last year only 25,596 new social housing homes were built.

The figures, released in a written reply to Tory MP James Clappison,
represent around 5 per cent of all lettings to new social housing
tenants last year.

The average cost of social housing is £133,941 a home.

The Government contributes an average of £62,000 of taxpayers' cash with
the rest coming from developers or social landlords.

Based on those figures the value of the homes given to foreign nationals
was £1.3billion - including a £ 620million subsidy from the public
purse.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=484752&in_page_id...

Officials from the top of Government to lowly council officers will be
given unprecedented powers to access details of every phone call in
Britain under laws coming into force tomorrow.

The new rules compel phone companies to retain information, however
private, about all landline and mobile calls, and make them available to
some 795 public bodies and quangos.

The move, enacted by the personal decree of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith,
will give police and security services a right they have long demanded:
to delve at will into the phone records of British citizens and
businesses.

But the same powers will also be handed to the tax authorities, 475
local councils, and a host of other organisations, including the Food
Standards Agency, the Department of Health, the Immigration Service, the
Gaming Board and the Charity Commission. The initiative, formulated in
the wake of the Madrid and London terrorist attacks
of 2004 and 2005, was put forward as a vital tool in the fight against
terrorism. However, civil liberties campaigners say the new powers
amount to a 'free for all' for the State snooping on its citizens.

Guys,
I think someone here can help me. I am Italian and will move to
Manchester soon to join my company which is based in Trafford Park.
I would like to know about the links between the Trafford Park and
other main areas of the city, because I have been to Manchester before
(2 days) and I have noticed there's no public service from city centre
to the Trafford Park, except a metrolink station (exchange quays)
which is quite far away.
Depending on the transport links, I will have to manage an
accomodation so .. if you help me, I'll be really appreciated.

Cheers!

http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/f/CAMPAIGNS/blog//4//?be_id=94

AccB

Watch video secretly filmed in an English abattoir... HEALTHY HORSES
AND PONIES BUTCHERED FOR MEAT EXPORTS
18 September 2007
Animal Aid today (Thursday, September 20) releases footage secretly
filmed in an English abattoir. It shows discarded children’s riding
ponies and unprofitable race horses being shot in the head with a
rifle and then butchered for human consumption.

It is the first time that such scenes have been filmed in Britain and
made public.

Covertly recorded last month at Potter’s abattoir in Taunton, the
Animal Aid footage shows the killing of a succession of apparently fit
and healthy horses. One conspicuous exception was a seriously injured
chestnut mare who was brought to the killing factory on the evening of
August 14. After a long delay, she was finally shot while lying in a
yard.

http://tinyurl.com/yqg33g

AzcB

The ponies abandoned by British children and sent to France as horse
meat
The slaughterman precariously balances a rifle against the small grey
pony's head.

Seconds later a shot rings out, the pony flails on the ground and is
then winched onto a production line.

This is the reality of the slaughter and butchering of thousands of
unwanted riding ponies and racehorses at a British abattoir.

The picture here is one of several taken by undercover investigators
for Animal Aid.

Production-line death: A pony that almost certainly belonged to a
child meets its fate at Potter's abattoir: Picture by Animal Aid

They hope the images will prompt an official inquiry - or at least
touch the consciences of owners who simply abandon pets when their
children have grown out of them.

http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/1017570__hazel_blears_pleads_for_more_ethni...

THE Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth has heard a plea this week
for more ethnic minorities becoming local politicians.

Hazel Blears, the Secretary of State for Communities said involvement
would help strengthen communities across the country including Rochdale,
Oldham and Bradford.

A special commission is currently looking at a range of ways in which
individuals from ethnic communities can stand for council.

The Salford MP explained: "I hope we can debate new ways to get a whole
range of people to stand for the council.

"More people from our black and minority ethnic communities, more
representatives from every community in Britain, so that councils look
like the communities they serve. And certainly more women because the
current inequality between men and women on councils is a disgrace."

Mrs Blears told the delegates that the Labour Party was founded by men
and women who believed in the powerful potential of democratic politics.

She explained: "This happened by working class communities who knew that
by coming together, acting together, working together, there was no
force so powerful it could not overcome."

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1017629_dentist_cut_fees_for_women...

A MUSLIM dentist has admitted reducing his fees to encourage female
patients to wear the Islamic headscarf.

Dr Omer Butt, from Prestwich, told a disciplinary hearing he would ask
Muslim women to cover up in observance of Islamic law before he treated
them.

But he denied refusing to treat a nurse because she would not follow his
rules.

The nurse, known as Patient A, told the hearing she was left `humiliated
and upset' when she went to Dr Butt's Unsworth Smile clinic in Bury, in
April 2005.

The nurse, a non-practising Muslim, claimed Dr Butt said she would have
to find another dentist because she wouldn't wear a headscarf.

Dr Butt told the General Dental Council professional conduct committee
the Islamic ethos of his surgery was a `marketing tool'.

He said: "If they are prepared to wear the headscarf, I am willing to
reduce the fee or completely waive the fee."

He said he identified the woman as a Muslim because of her name, which
has roots in Islam, then `politely' asked her to wear a headscarf.

Q: What's the difference between Madeleine McCann and a bike?

A: A bike doesn't cry when you ride it.

Is anyone here voting Labour?

They spent billions on fuck all, created the conditions for a run on a Bank
(and a House Price Crash and a smashed economy to come), and started a war
they haven't a clue how to win.

But still, at least they've created ASBOs.