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At the time I wondered if the foot and mouth epidemic in 2001 was agro-terrorism, possibly by Saddam Hussein’s regime, since the strain of FMD virus was said a middle-eastern one.
However, while it would have been possible for terrorists to introduce such a disease, they could not have predicted how the government would have reacted with mass slaughter of animals and lock-down of the countryside.
From a feature Radio 4, I gather that a lot of these Poles intend returning to their home country when its economy improves.
Also on Radio 4 I heard that the Republic of Ireland has a similar situation with migrant workers, but from Lithuania and Latvia.
I don’t have a problem with Polish workers coming to live / work over here – we have a lot in our town. Like us, Poles are EU citizens and so have the right to travel / work / live anywhere in the EU.
However the numbers do seem alarming – 450,000 is not far short of 1% of the total population of England (just over 50 million) or indeed that of the UK (60 million).
There is a reverse situation where Brits have been buying up cheap properties in eastern Europe as investmensts or cheap second homes.
When Romania and Bulgaria join the EU their citizens should have full EU rights and so I think the way to tackle the demographics is to postpone their entry until any resulting migrations can be absorbed.
Also, from the Homesearch website:
“Around 700,000 Britons now own homes in Spain and one in eight British over-55s are expected to be living abroad by 2010. It is estimated that one in four properties on the Costa del Sol are now owned by Brits.”
It’s a 2 way thing!
Further to my above post – Sky News has just posted an item about Boeing allegedly building planes with faulty components.
No, but I hope to visit one day.
Islam’s two holiest cities are Mecca (population 1.3 million) and Medina (900,000), both in Saudi Arabia. Non-muslims are not permitted to enter either city.
Imagine if access to the city of Canterbury was limited to Anglicans!
Even the Vatican allows non-catholics, or even non-Christians to visit.
Imagine if only US citizenes were allowed to visit Washington DC.
Imagine if the citizens of Wolfsburg were only allowed to own VW cars!
Does anyone know of other examples of closed cities / areas, restricted to certain groups?
One example I can think of is an island in Greece where there is an Orthodox monastery. Men are free to visit the island but women are strictly forbidden.
The terrorist threat would not put me off flying because I have a fear of flying anyway and have never been in an aeroplane!
But seriously, we can all sit and be all multicultural and PC on our PCs, but in a strange situation where there is a perceived risk who knows how we’d feel.
I understand that the men in question were behaving oddly as well as being of middle-eastern appearance. It could have been the behaviour that decided things.
Next time I go on a National Express coach, if the driver has a Glaswegian accent should I demand he has a breathalyser test? :lol:
An empowered al Qaeda.
Bin Laden appears to be sidelined by his number two, Al-Zawahiri. If Bin Laden had a beguiling, evil charm, a kind of serene charisma that drew young hero-worshippers to his cause, the angry, ranting, finger pointing Al-Zawahiri is likely to do the opposite.
So who’s going to come up with nine ways to solve the current problems?
Now a middle-eastern man has been arrested in Germany after attempts were made to bomb two trains using ‘suitcase bombs’. The man was a Lebanese student and there are possible links to Pakistan reported. What has Germany done? Invade Iran? Invade Afghanistan?
Oddly this was not a suicide attack as the man tried to flee the country.
