How Many Foreigners Live There?

I wasn't assuming anyone, native or non-native, breaking any laws of this country, clivex. Clearly, if Hindus wish to burn the live widows of departed Hindu husbands, they would be breaking this country's laws, even if upholding an ancient (and outlawed) religious tenet. While I made the points largely for the sake of discussion, and assumed that readers would accept that they would be in keeping with British law, Hindu inheritance laws, while they differ from ours (as do Muslim and quite possibly Jewish, Sikh and Buddhist), are not illegal.

It's a bit rich to get rather high-handed about foreigners breaking the law in this country, when thousands of Brits go out of the country to puke all over Spanish islands' streets, eff and blind at their police, rut randomly with anything on two legs and frequently expect the State to fund any produce, and pick nasty fights with opposing football teams in THEIR countries. Boy, talk about pots and kettles! :lol:
 
So because the british have overseas hooliganism, we cannot comment on law breaking in our own country... Bizarre

I just used the hindu inheritance laws as a possible example. If they are within uk law...then fine
 
What's bizarre (is that your buzzword of the week, clivex?) is that you don't see any inherent double standard in demanding that all incoming people behave within the laws binding this country, while you don't - it would appear - vex your brain about the British habit of breaking the laws of others, often in the guise of having their version of a good time, but also deliberately - drug dealers in Spain, as one very minor example. I'm sure the Spanish hope that incomers will behave legally, too, but as a fact they don't, so why would all incomers here?

So it's bizarre that you'd expect incomers to be perfect in every way, while our media are full of accounts of our own appalling wrongdoing, yet you and Ted expect them all to be saints? And what do you think they're going to do, anyway, as you let them in - expect them to admit they're going traffick women and set up drugs cartels if you quiz them as to their future behaviour? Laughably naif.
 
Totally illogical. Talk about missing the point by a mile

So a Milwall supporter cannot hold aview about what happened at Heysel say, even if hes totally law abiding, becuase a lot of his fellow supporters are hooligans?

So it's bizarre that you'd expect incomers to be perfect in every way, while our media are full of accounts of our own appalling wrongdoing, yet you and Ted expect them all to be saints?
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what are you talking about?

Living within the laws of the land doesnt mean being "a saint" ffs. Are you saying we should be more lenient towards immigrants when applying the law than towards nationals?

Still, maybe because there is a bit of drug dealing in spain we should have a reciprocal arrangement whereby we allow a little crime by spanish here. That would be fair i suppose....
 
I feel that I am destined to understand nothing you say, clivex, and you likewise. Ah, well, not a great matter in the scheme of things, is it? Have a jolly nice Christmas, if that's your thing, and a divine 2007.
 
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