David Cameron warns of 'huge' influx of Irish migrants

[Joanne98]

Source: Telegraph


Britain faces a “huge” influx of Irish migrants if the country’s economy collapses, David Cameron warned last night.

The Prime Minister indicated that the potential impact of mass immigration sparked by an Irish economic failure had contributed to the Coalition’s decision to offer an unprecedented loan of up to £10 billion to the Republic.

Mr Cameron’s warning came as international financial regulators set out a series of tough spending and tax decisions that Ireland and other European countries must take to rescue their finances.

The Irish government will today outline a four-year austerity plan which is expected to cut public spending by a total of £12.7 billion over the next four years.



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[Steerpike]

1. very cool!

This could revitalize England's Boxing culture and of course it's Bars and Gambling establishments! Plus, plus all around...eh wot!

[Tripmann]

2. Stereotype much??

[Steerpike]

4. i was stationed with the BRN in the mid 70's...

All the Irish I knew were damn proud of their culture and made no bones about it!

[Tripmann]

6. Well I AM Irish. And however proud I am of my culture does not make ignorant stereotypical

comments any more acceptable.

[Steerpike]

10. ha!

I do not speak from ignorance...but from first hand experiance of living with and spending untold hours in the jungle with my Irish pals! In order to become an honorary member of the
BRN I had to drink a gallon jug of "Bulkhead Bouncers" and then get sprayed down with a firehose, only then could you join the ranks of the Zulu Warrior...this ceremony took place weekly out in the jungle in a huge hut built by CB's...Brits, Irish and American blokes took part...other activities included smokers (open boxing matches) in which the irish contingent excelled. And, of course, the ubiquitous poker and or Dart matches. Much money changed hands over a deck of cards in those days.

[Tripmann]

11. I'm sure people also drink, box and gamble where you come from. Remarking on how an influx

of Irish immigrants would increase such activities is fundamentally stereotypical.

[Steerpike]

15. to be sure

to be sure...but we don't deny it either...

[Tripmann]

29. Oh, I'm not denying anything. But if I posted something like 'theres an american moving into my

spare room, better get a bigger fridge' that would be some similarly stereotyping crap, despite the fact there is an obesity problem in america.

Oh, and just to let you know alcohol consumption in the UK per capita has pretty much caught up with, some statistics say even surpassed, Irelands.

[lbrtbell]

35. That's like judging Americans by "Girls Gone Wild"

There are douchebags in every country. Sounds like you found a group of Irish ones.

We Irish-Americans had to put up with too much BS to make it in this country, to find comments like yours amusing.

BTW, I don't drink, and I'm proud of it.

[whathehell]

9. Yes, but their culture consists of a lot more than drinking and gambling

and the brits, in any case, are heavy drinkers themselves.:eyes:

[Steerpike]

17. lol

could be it was the nature of the men who joined the Navy...it did not matter what country we sailed from...we all seemed to share a common culture. Just a bunch of knuckleheads on a cruise!

[pattmarty]

23. I'm Irish and I ain't offended by it.

[Turborama]

3. If I was Irish I wouldn't go there at this time of year.

Why move from one wet, dark and cold country with growing unemployment to another?

[dipsydoodle]

5. Fact remains

they're kinda like brothers to us and as such would always be welcome here.

[Tripmann]

7. Thanks Dipsydoodle. Stick the kettle on, I'll be around soon!

[dipsydoodle]

25. I meant what I said

:)

:hi:

[Tripmann]

34. yeah, me too. Hope you have tetley teabags knocking around!

[dipsydoodle]

38. Are you here

or Dublin ? Come round almost anytime you like.

[The Backlash Cometh]

40. Interesting.

Is this the reason why people ignore the illegal irish immigrants, but not the latino illegal immigrants?

'Cuz I have more in common with latinos than I do the Irish.

[Nihil]

41. At this time of year, most European countries are wet, dark & cold ...

... so at least they would have the benefit of speaking the same language.

We've survived many waves of Irish immigration over the centuries,
one more isn't going to hurt!

:toast:

[Turborama]

42. There'll sure be lots of laughter around the open fires, too

I could imagine. Maybe put in some requests for them to bring some proper Guinness and a couple of rounds of that lovely Irish cheese over with them...?

[Warpy]

8. The pubs around Boston should be a real blast, then

as they were back in the miserable 80s.

The Irish represented the largest group of undocumented workers in and around Boston. They all said Boston looked just like Dublin and they'd have felt they'd never left home if we all didn't talk so funny.

[Gormy Cuss]

12. This time around though, I don't think we'll have as many showing up here

between our weak economy and our obsession with illegal immigration.

It would be an interesting test though to see how throngs of new white "illegals" would be regarded in the traditional Irish-American havens.

[Warpy]

21. Most people looked the other way in the 80s

and that held true for Azoreans, Brazilians, Mexicans, Salvadoreans, Guatemalans, and everybody else who'd overstayed a tourist visa.

Now that unemployment is high, I'm sure that's no longer the case.

Likely the flood of Irish will head to Canada, Central and South America, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia.

(I can't believe "Zealand" shows up as an error on spell check.)

[Gormy Cuss]

31. Warpy, most people looked the other way long before that too.

I think it would be an interesting test case though if throngs of Irish stayed here illegally again. It would be a chance to sort out the racial bigots from those fearful over employment competition.

I agree that the Irish are more likely to head to other places than here this time around.

[Ruperto31]

16. Dublin is the Platonic Form from which Boston was copied.

Complete with insane traffic patterns and nameless streets.

[Warpy]

20. Hey! The streets all have names!

They just tend to change the name every couple of blocks.

[devilgrrl]

13. Not the Irish!!!!

[Mosaic]

14. Warns?

That would be a good thing. English idealism are what are screwing up Europe and the via the United States, the whole world. Irish values are much more moral, more real, and down to earth. Bring it on!

[Boudica the Lyoness]

22. There are a lot of Irish in England.

When I was growing up there in the 60's, my friends mostly Irish. My first boyfriend and his family were all born in Ireland. Still proud to be Irish, my old Irish boyfriend became a multi millionaire in England.

I think the warning was not because we have a problem with the Irish but we over crowded as it is. I really couldn't tell the difference between Irish and English morals. We all seemed the same to me.

[KamaAina]

27. John Lennon and Paul McCartney are/were of Irish descent.

Lennon in particular was a fairly upfront supporter of the IRA.

edit: And both have been knighted.

[BlackHoleSon]

36. Was Lennon knighted?

His late 60's on persona was very anti-Imperialist.

[DavidDvorkin]

18. I assume (hope) he didn't mean it's some sort of cultural threat but rather

a sudden heavy increased load on infrastructure, etc.

It wouldn't seem so, given the difference in population size: UK, 62 million; Republic of Ireland, 4.6 million. Surely the total number of immigrants would be no more than a couple of hundred thousand. But the immigrants wouldn't be spread out evenly, of course. They'd be concentrated where the jobs are.

[mwooldri]

19. And what's the big deal???

They're EU citizens, and before that have had right to work and live in the UK...

Bit like Governor of North Carolina announcing there'd be a big influx of people from South Carolina because of their economy collapsing. Well kind of...

Except ties in EU are a lot looser than in USA.

[Bette Noir]

24. But will Irish have to carry their passports in Arizona?

[KamaAina]

26. Shouldn't he be busy working on Titanic II or something?

Oh, sorry, wrong Cameron. Never mind. :eyes:

[LeftishBrit]

33. This Cameron is also working on Titanic II...

With Britain playing the role of Titanic II, and Cameron the role of the iceberg.

[lunatica]

28. Won't many of them come to the US?

I'm sure a lot of the Irish in Ireland have relatives in the US. It makes sense that they would come here. Our economy doesn't seem to be any worse than England's does it?

[KamaAina]

30. As a matter of fact, a lot of them left here for Ireland when the "Celtic Tiger" was booming

many may well return.

[muriel_volestrangler]

32. Migration between EU countries is unrestricted

so they wouldn't be 'undocumented', 'illegal' or whatever in the UK. They could go to other EU countries too, of course, but language makes the UK the easiest choice, They even get to vote in all UK elections too.

[theHandpuppet]

37. Interesting article on this subject in The Scotsman

"Irish look to Scotland for work"
Published Date: 25 November 2010
By Martyn McLaughlin

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Irish-look-to-Scotland-for.6638643.jp

[The Backlash Cometh]

39. And when they come over here illegally, will they be treated like latino immigrants?