So yu think you know about Britain?
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An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems?
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joinerjohn
Hmm, seems to me there's a lot more negatives than positives.
As for reading the book, I think I'll give it a miss this time. Probably not in the best sellers lists anyway.
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Beval
I have not read it myself.. is it good?
I think the answer is no, nobody else has, nor wants to going by the feelings expressed in the replies.
From what you say it basically highlights statistics to prove what the writer wants to prove to make the book into a commercial success.
However, you can prove anything with statistics, a van with 6 wheels is 3 times more likely to have a puncture than a motorbike ( statistically speaking)
Some years ago the papers printed a story saying that you were statistically far more likely not to have an accident in a yellow car. At the time, there was only one manufacturer offering yellow on it's cars and that was a limlited edition Peugeot, hence the statistics were correct, but it's the undelying reason that is never explored.
You say that we need Immigration to compensate for the Emigration, but has anyone explored how much of the Emigration is as a result of our Immigration policy ?
We are all going to have to work longer to get our pension, because people are living longer and there aren't enough people working to pay for those pensions, which on the face of it is correct, but that being the case, why do we have so many unemployed, if the immigration had been controlled, in theory we wouldn't have what is termed the lost generation.
Also, the above being the case, why did the last government reduce the number of qualifying years required for NI contributions to entitle you to a full pension?
This was supposedly to compenste women who took career break to look after their children, or to compensate people who took career breaks to care for sick relatives. That being the case, they could just have been given credits for those years and the requirement stayed as it was.
The new rules mean that an immigrant can come into the system in their thirties and still be entitled to a full pension.
The book you refer to also you say states that the gap between rich and poor is widening, but that is in part due to immigraetion, because the immigrants are prepared to work for extremely low pay and in some cases for less than the minimum pay rate, whereas the indigenous population know that those pay rates aren't realistic.
Another statistic that is frequently quoted is the amount of businesses and projects that have benefitted from EU grants. The problem with that is that as a nation we have always been a nett contributor to the EU, so those grants were actually our own money.
me and joe on the same wave length?...omg!!i was thinking the same thing.....maybe he could give us all signed 1st editions?
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