Boston protest held over immigration levels
A protest against "high-levels" of immigration in a Lincolnshire market town has taken place.
The Boston Protest Group said the "peaceful demonstration" was aimed at highlighting the pressure put on local services by migrant workers.
About 300 people gathered at the Herbert Ingram memorial for the demonstration, which organisers said was not aimed at individuals.
An estimated 9,000 foreign workers have settled in the town in recent years.
Protest organiser Dean Everitt said: "We had a good turnout of people, the right people, and we put our point across peacefully.
"I hope national government are going to know what we've done - we'll take it to Westminster until we get this issue sorted out."
He added: "We've proved a point - we're not right-wing thugs, we're not racists, we're just everyday people that are fed up and sick to the back teeth of migration.
"I work with Polish people and even they've said there are far too many here now."
But migrant worker Martins Zagers said some English people were not prepared to work in local factories because "it was a hard job".
"I work in a factory where there are only Polish, Latvian and Lithuanians," he said.
"From my side I am working hard and I will not take benefits - I am too proud to take benefits."
A protest march planned for last year was cancelled after the borough council agreed to set up a task force.
A report on population change was published as a result, but campaigners said it had not gone "far enough" and government still needed to listen.
The Home Office said it was working to cut net migration from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands by the end of this Parliament and its tough new rules were already taking effect.
Mr Everitt said further protests were being organised - with the next one likely to take place in Spalding.
Re: Something starting in Boston
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:35 pm
by Guinevere
Your Boston, not mine.
Interestingly, I just read up on Boston, England and discovered like Boston, Massachusetts, it is situated near Fens.
Re: Something starting in Boston
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 7:42 am
by Lord Jim
There's only one Boston...
You can ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston....
He's the man who never returned!
Re: Something starting in Boston
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 2:43 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Welcome to Farmingville Long Island NY. Hildago Mexico north. Been fighting the illegal immigration fight for 20+ years in my town.
Re: Something starting in Boston
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:12 pm
by dgs49
The U.S. is the only country on the planet that actively encourages immigration by people that no sane country would want.
Since the passage of the 1965 immigration act, our immigration policy has LEGALLY favored unskilled immigrants from the Third World. Since 1968, 85 percent of legal immigrants have come from what is euphemistically called "developing countries." As for the ILLEGALS that our political class insists on protecting, the percentage is virtually 100%.
57 percent of LEGAL immigrant households get government assistance....why on Earth is America taking in immigrants who require taxpayer support? Again, among illegals, it's even higher. Ask our correspondents in California and Texas.
In the last 50 years, California's non-Hispanic white population has been cut in half, from 80 percent to 40 percent. Meanwhile, the Hispanic population has exploded from less than 10 percent to nearly 40 percent -- mostly poor Mexicans.
And with that change, California went from being the state that produced revolutionary anti-tax initiatives to the one that just enacted the highest tax rate in the country.
Some text plagiarized. Sorry.
Re: Something starting in Boston
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:13 pm
by Guinevere
Lord Jim wrote:There's only one Boston...
You can ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston....
He's the man who never returned!
Yep, our T passcards (devised when they eliminated the tokens) are called "Charlie Cards"
Re: Something starting in Boston
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:54 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Tunnel rats were special people. I salute them.
Re: Something starting in Boston
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 12:22 am
by dgs49
It's not "you can ride forever," it's "He may ride forever..."
The conductor told him "one more nickle": Charlie couldn't get offa that (fucking) train!
15c. What an outrage!
Re: Something starting in Boston
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 12:51 am
by rubato
Just remember kids XENOPHOBIA it's the choice of successful demagogues and hate-mongers everywhere.
That's XENOPHOBIA! Ask for it by name next time you need to whip up some mindless hatred to get the vast multitudes of dull but mean on your side.
Everyone hates and fears foreigners, don't they?
yrs,
rubato
Re: Something starting in Boston
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 1:08 am
by Gob
rubato wrote:
Actually if it were not for India and Pakistan, those cultural trend-setters of the sub continent, the number of cricket-playing countries weighted by population would be too small to measure.
Can I hear you say "suicide bomber"! Give it up!
yrs,
rubato
rubato wrote:Other than Pakistan and India who gives a rats ass?
Tiny tiny tiny countries.
And you care desperately about Pakistan because ... because ... because ...
Stupid.
yrs,
rubato
rubato wrote:'We're better than India.' There's a tough standard to match.
There's stupid, and then there's "Quad stupid". Its a whole different thing.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Something starting in Boston
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 2:02 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
But migrant worker Martins Zagers said some English people were not prepared to work in local factories because "it was a hard job".
Probably very true. "English people" who are not prepared to take those jobs but instead claim government benefits should be removed from the dole and told to get to work doing... whatever job is available.
