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"Roger" <> wrote in message
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> "Harry Keane" wrote in message
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>> "Knight Of The Road" wrote in message
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>>> Bollen)
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>>> . There are also too many foreigners
>>> coming in and using up all our resources.
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>>> No doubt they say the same in New Zealand.
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>> Excellent point. During my door-knocking for t'Labour Party, I've come
>> across many bitter, twisted and angry people who announce with a sort of
>> sulky triumphalism their intention of leaving this rotten corrupt country
>> "because the Government does everything for f***ing foreigners". I
>> invariably smile sweetly, wish them luck in their shortly-to-be-adopted
>> new land and earnestly hope on their behalf that their new hosts will
>> display the same level of tolerance and understanding. Some of them
>> manage to get it before I regain the safety of the pavement, other times
>> I have to run...
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> I've noticed there are two types of people who emigrate from the UK. There
> are the impatient, go-getting, young, ambitious types, who owe allegiance
> only to their salary. They will go to the highest bidder where ever that
> is, work their socks off and invariably do well. Culture, history,
> sentiment, mean little to them.
>
> The other type are the whingers. They are the if only brigade, if only
> they had lived somewhere else, if only they had been able to go to a
> better school, if only their boss was fair, if only a whole list of
> things, none of them their fault. After much deliberation they finally go,
> it used to be to Australia, now I think the Aussies are more discerning
> and won't let them in, (I don't know where the whingers country of choice
> is now, perhaps New Zealand). They soon find it's no better there, at
> least for them, than here. After more whinging they come home and carry on
> where they left off. Just whinge more. Whinging poms? About right in some
> cases.

That "Wanted Down Under" programme that was on until recently illustrates
that - "Whingeing Poms" is right (on the whole). It makes me glad that we
didn`t emigrate to Australia when it crossed our minds some 50 years ago,
though, although we often think we`d have loved New Zealand.

Pat