Golden Dawn to form employment agency for Greeks

As unemployment continues to rise in Greece against the background of a deepening recession, the nationalist party Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi) plans to open an employment agency for Greek citizens. 

 

As the latest figures show that youth unemployment in Greece has now soared to 55.4 percent, the highest in the European Union, To Vima reported "Golden Dawn announced the creation of 'recruiters for Greeks'".

Xryshavgh announced the new measure is a non-profit charitable effort to support and show solidarity for Greek compatriots.

Employers who wish to recruit Greeks in their businesses can contact the local organizations of Golden Dawn, which are now established in many towns.

Golden Dawn further noted that much work is offered exclusively to illegal immigrants According to figures released by the Ministry of Labour, cited by Keep Talking Greece, 47.4 percent of the foreign laborers work without insurance and social security, compared to just over one third of Greeks working without insurance.

The move follows Golden Dawn's calls for blood donors to donate blood for Greeks only, a move slammed by doctors, and the distribution of food to needy Greeks.

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Officials in Boston are so worried about a population boom

Officials in Boston are so worried about a population boom caused by immigrant workers that they have drawn up a detailed plan on how they will cope with the change.

Over recent years there has been a big rise in the number of Eastern Europeans living and working in the Lincolnshire town. The new report makes 28 recommendations - ranging from cracking down on anti-social behaviour to calling on the Government to look at migration levels.

Immigration inquiry papers are released

EVIDENCE gathered during Boston Borough Council’s inquiry into immigration has been published in full on the authority’s website.

Full transcripts from each of the meetings held during the Task and Finish Group process have been released to allow members of the public access to all that was said over the four-month investigation, including information from educators, employers, the police and a specialist in immigration issues.

It comes ahead of the publication of an interim report by the committee leading the process, which will include recommendations on how to deal with social issues related to migration into the local area.

Chairman of the committee Coun Paul Kenny said: “I had always been determined that all of the evidence gathered would be available for all to see, in its entirety. It is now available for all to read through.

“From all of this we will make recommendations for real change to improve situations in areas we can influene, and perhaps some recommendations in areas where we have less influence.”

Next month’s report, which is a precursor to the final document, will go to public consultation before it is completed.

Coun Kenny added there would be no ‘ducking’ of the issues raised during the investigation, which saw evidence collected over eight different sessions based on questions from members of the committee and members of the public.

Click here for the immigration inquiry transcripts of the evidence gathered.
http://www.boston.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4629

Population growing by 1,000 a day, Office for National Statistics shows

The population of England and Wales continues to grow by 1,000 a day, latest figures show. 

Over the past decade the number living in the country has grown by twice the European average, fuelled by record levels of immigration and a higher birth rate.

 "Two-thirds of our population increase is down to immigration.

Only Germany and France, which are far bigger, are now home to more people than Britain, the Office for National Statistics said.

Its latest estimates highlight the scale of the challenge faced by ministers in meeting their goal of reducing net migration – the number who settle each year minus those who move abroad – to the “tens of thousands” from the current level of 200,000.

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the pressure group Migration Watch UK, said: “It is absolutely absurd to find that our population is continuing to shoot up in this way.

“Two-thirds of our population increase is down to immigration. That is the only element that the Government can control and it is high time they did so.”

The ONS’s latest calculations show that the population of England and Wales increased by 95,000 (0.17 per cent) between Census day last year, March 27th, and the mid-year point, June 30th.

This works out at more than 1,000 people a day, taking the total to 56,170,900.
The population changed over the three months in 2011 as 187,600 babies were born and 121,000 people died.

Some 98,200 foreign nationals moved to Britain with the intention of staying for more than a year, while 68,500 people left the country, putting net migration over the period at 28,400.
The ONS noted: “Immigration flows are comparatively lower for the three-month period between end of March and June.”

Historical figures showed the population of England and Wales has grown by 20million over the past century including a 4m rise in the past decade as border controls with Eastern Europe were relaxed.
“The increase in population between 2001 and 2011 was the largest in percentage terms in the last century,” the ONS said, excluding the Second World War.

The population increased by 7.3 per cent since the turn of the millennium, twice as much as the 3.5 average across the Continent.

England and Wales now has the fourth largest population among 26 nations in Europe, but Britain as a whole is third in the rankings.

In order to reduce net migration, the Home Office is cutting the number of visas offered to international students and restricting the number who can stay after graduation. Only the most skilled foreign workers can take up jobs in Britain and must earn at least £18,600 if they want to bring their spouses over as well.

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Ex-Servicemen homeless because of immigrants?

Is it true that homeless ex-Servicemen cannot get into shelters because these are full of homeless immigrants?

A friend rang me the other day and followed up with an email about care of (or rather, lack of care of) homeless ex-servicemen

This is not a new story, regrettably. I had known that perhaps up to 25% of the homeless were veterans, a disturbing enough statistic. But I had not heard what what my friend went on to tell me.

And I should say that she is a former senior diplomat, who has since worked unpaid for a charity, and no ‘pushover’ when it comes to hard-luck stories or urban myths.



Disgraceful: It is estimated that around a quarter of those currently homeless are ex- servicemen

She had come out of Sloane Square tube station to find a man with a placard declaring he was ex-services and homeless. She interrogated him. He had been with the Royal Artillery for seventeen years, serving with 29 Commando Regiment, he said. His name was Stephen.

He gave her his army number, which she subsequently checked with contacts, and the facts tallied.

He was now homeless and had no source of income, he said: the splendid charity ‘Veterans Aid’, which for years has been struggling to cope as a primary point of help to men like Stephen, could only offer him a bed in ten days’ time, he told her.

He had been to SSAFA, to Citizens Advice etc, who signposted him on, and then to ‘Shelter’. And here’s where the story really begins to disgust – to say the least.

He said that all the civilian shelters were full of Somalis and Poles – which my friend tells me, according to her colleagues in the charity sector, is true, except that in rural areas it is more Somalis than Poles.

And it is, of course, true that until you have an address you cannot receive benefits.

Now, I cannot begin to think how a former soldier who was good enough to serve in the Commando Gunners for seventeen years ends up on the streets, but that’s another issue.

I can understand how the purblind immigration and profligate welfare policies of successive governments have made jobs and housing harder to get for British people (and abhor those policies).

What I simply cannot understand – if it is true – is how we have arrived at a situation where our charities are being overwhelmed by immigrant need to the exclusion of our own, as in the case of Stephen.

Is there really an absolute legal right to come to this country to beg? If there is, has anyone calculated the potential cost? If there isn’t, why are our charities having to work in this way?

The old saying that ‘Charity begins at home’ cannot be used to deny charity to those outside the home; – a destitute Pole or Somali deserves the Samaritan’s charity.

What the saying means, however, is that unless there is true charity within the family there can be none worthwhile beyond it.



A vicious circle: Without an address you can not apply for benefits, or in most cases, get a job

And there is such a thing as a national family – of which ex-servicemen are particularly honoured members.

My friend got in touch with me because of my RightMinds blog, adding, however, that there might not be enough to write about without a lot of research; – ‘But I fear there will be many more such cases.’

Of course there will be many more such cases after the last decade of what servicemen have been through. And - exacerbating the consequences of combat stress - we are about to throw out a lot of soldiers under the recently announced redundancy schemes.

I say "redundancy schemes", but many soldiers will be leaving without a compensatory penny - and for the first time will be made to find somewhere for themselves to live.

Now, you may say that "so does everyone coming of age"; but in many cases we have "institutionalized" our servicemen to a great deal in order to get them to do what they do. In other words, we've made them stop thinking of themselves so that they'll keep going back and doing their duty on operations.

We should not underestimate this factor in the lives of men who have served, say, a dozen years or so.

Which is why it’s worth raising the issue here now – at least to see what sort of perception of a problem there is.

As for the research, I suspect that Mail Online readers may have some facts and figures...

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