Yes or No

[Dassie]

Let's suppose that there was a General Election next week and one of the major parties decided to base it's manifesto on the following:-

"ALL non-essential immigration will cease until such time as this Country can catch up with already overloaded public services". ( Hospitals, doctors, prisons, police, etc )

Would you vote for it? No debate!

Answer just .... YES or NO .....as you would on a ballot paper.

[OBonio]

No.

[drchasuble]

No.

I'd definitely vote to deport some waste-of-space Brits though. That might solve a few problems.

[noxlumos]

NO, I'm very pro immigration.

[ChampagneMan]

yes. yes. yes!!!

[ELVIS68]

Yes

[IggyB]

no

[johnizere]

yes

[petesgrayz]

yes

[jenstar]

No. And anyone who says yes and then goes and wears a poppy in the next few weeks is either a hypocrite or an idiot.

[Lonnie]

I'd vote yes, Dassie's post indicates its a temporary measure.

And I will not only be wearing a Poppy, I will be selling them as well,

Sorry jenstar, and I don't feel a hypocrite at all.

[bernardo]

No

[johnizere]

I voted YES earlier, and although Dassie asked for no debate, I have to answer jenstar... I am neither or a hypocrite or an idiot, and resent being called either for wearing a poppy. I'm not going to explain the reasons why we wear poppies to remember those that gave the ultimate sacrifice, I suggest jenstar looks it up elsewhere.

[Little Willy]

Without the slightest hesitation i would vote YES
and to jenstar, may i say that my great grandad gave his life for this country, so please don't call me an idiot or an hypocrite for wearing a poppy

[bernardo]

The question of whether we should have restricted immigration (or not) and the question of whether we should wear a poppy (or not) are two completely different subjects, and it is ludicrous, illogical, insulting, grotesque, splenesterous, vambocuent, nankerous and boolitanical of jenstar to try to link them in such a crude way.

[stevie21]

bernardo, they're not even real words!?

Anyway, I wouldn't have a problem with limiting immigration if it meant we could address problems with out own citizens more effectively.
Then again, I don't know much about immigration policies so the way that I'd limit things might be what's already in place.

[scuzzball]

One of the reasons the public services are overloaded is because not enough 'non-immigrants' are prepared to work in them. Public services are only working at all because of immigrants. You probably wouldn't call cleaners essential immigrants, but the only reason our hospitals are not dirtier than they are are because of immigrant workers. Many immigrants are entrepreneurial in approach - they generate wealth resulting in more tax for the exchequer which means more cash to pay for public services. Your question is simplistic and is evidence that you do not understand simple economic matters. However, its not really about economics is it? These questions are really about wanting to keep this country as racially pure as possible. An this gets back to the point made by jenstar - we honour the combatants in war when we wear poppies. The second world war was a war to defeat a political movement that wanted to impose a philospohy of racial purity on the world. Jenstar's comment about hypocrisy is right.

[stevie619]

HELL YEAH, Before they take over our country