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You're an embarrassment to the British working class. As I pointed out earlier, creating an economy with skilled jobs is a much much better way of dealing with immigration than this crass reactive simplistic approach you adhere to. Besides, I class myself as working class and you certainly do...

Not true.

FFS. 27 pages debating something the rest of Europe got to grips with over a decade ago. EU, rail, airports.....can the UK be quick and decisive about anything? And isnt it about time you reformed the NHS again? Or maybe teaching? I mean, this has not been totally over hauled for a while now...

Well put and I agree with all of this.

I'd rather not look at the leather skinned, Sun reading, sovereign ringed lasagne and chips brigade thank you. Anyway, it is time for lunch. I am now going to step out into Mitte, where I live, which has 44.5% of its population with an immigrant background. I hope someone does not steal my job...

True. I personally wish the government would spend all its energy on improving and re-balancing the economy (as Osborne promised). This is surely the priority? If the economy is good a lot of the perceived issues will simply go away. The UK really needs to get its priorities in order.

I'm not sure where you got this idea from. Is it something I have posted? But, of course there are challenges; as there with any new initiative. But, the affected governments and citizens broadly speaking do not have an issue with the principle. In mainland Europe the discussion was had decades...

Maybe the took their private jet to the UK?

Yes, a reasonable target. But how will you achieve this?

Because if they're are more than 14k (ie 14% of 100k UK prison population) then the cost which is of a concern to you will even out ie they lock ours up and we lock theirs up.

How do you propose the UK gets it down to your acceptable 0% then? There is the "prevention" option of not allowing a single foreigner into the UK, whether they be a tourist, visitor or worker, in case they commit a crime; clearly not workable. Or the "cure" which is to ship every foreign...

The penny isn't going to drop with you is it?

Because it puts it in context you wally. It will never be 0% so seeing how it fairs with other nations is of interest. And the UK fairs very very well. And would you agree comparing the amount of foreign prisoners in UK jails with the number of Brits banged up abroad is also of interest? As...

http://chartsbin.com/view/8ns This graph indicates the % of foreign nationals in UK prisons is one of the lowest in the EU.

Very much this. Well put.

Tw@t

Your point. It's not clear to me.

What are you on about?

I'm not disputing there is no negativity but the nation had a chance to democratically tell Merkel how it felt about Germany's position in the EU and it's position with respect to immigration and open borders. The nation voted for her in record numbers. This is democracy at work. And to...

That article was penned almost a year ago. Merkel's record polling in the recent election, not to mention the SPD coming a strong 2nd, demonstrates the view that the majority of the nation is happy with the current approach. If a nation was unhappy with the current EU situation it wouldn't...