Excuse me, I'm watching Masterchef, where some young people are doing a very fine job, so I'm not 100% fascinated by your puerile ramblings, Hamm - for the record, I'm not injured at all, just disappointed that you had to scrape the bottom of your barrel to come up with gender and age to bolster your grievance, rather than address earlier questions sensibly and factually. But that's typically you - as soon as someone challenges your statements, you dive to the bottom to trawl for something illogical to throw people off your scent. Old and female, whatever, I'm not that easily fooled by your attempts at trickery. I still say you're a hypocrite if you're making your living in the UK and yet spouting so much bile about it. Why don't you see how you get on in, oh, let's see - Burma?
Gareth - the tens of thousands who've come in are not all without any intention of working. Do try to read for sense before you quote out of context. Out of the tens of thousands who arrive in the UK every year, the majority are indeed here to work or to study, but those who have no intention of doing either are families of people already in Britain who have no intention of working because they are too old (grandparents of Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian established families in particular), who have no intention of working because they are here to establish businesses for others to work in (Russians, Chinese, Indian), who are here because they are rich enough to live off their assets without needing to work (Gulf Arabs, dissident Iranians, Afghans - don't delude yourself that they're all poor as church mice; again the Russians' families, etc.), asylum seekers who don't plan to work, per se, but to live here courtesy of existing networks of support and will be planning to return to their homes when it is safe for them to do so (Zimbabwe, South Africa, Somalia, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Iran, Uganda, to name but a handful of those fleeing brutality and repression). You can look up immigration listings for yourself to see the breakdown by demographics. I'm not that interested in providing for you what you can find for yourself if you're really interested, as against just trying to play up. As a young man, I can't believe you're not in some sort of touch with current affairs and haven't figured all this out for yourself. If an old woman like me can, surely someone with your thrusting young intelligence is capable of doing so?
I'm off now - I want to see if Ash's fish dish impresses the Roca Brothers or fails - and then it's Death in Paradise, so play among yourselves for now.
