Finnish Prime Minister being bothered by a butterfly
Hopefully not been posted, amused me this.
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quackpipe swings like a pendulum do, Sun 14 Sep 2014, 16:47,
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He does seem to be a rather good prime minister
This is a great interview on Channel 4. Now, just imagine Cameron (or Blair, or Brown or ...) being interviewed on Finnish TV.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2sJ_ynEeok
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Ghoti Fingers, Sun 14 Sep 2014, 16:58,
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Blimey, a politician who knows what he's talking about. Can we have one of those please?
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quackpipe swings like a pendulum do, Sun 14 Sep 2014, 17:04,
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Its easy for him to be in favour of Immigration, Finland only has a population of 5 million
16 per square kilometre, the UK has something like 250 per square kilometre.
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Sun 14 Sep 2014, 17:13,
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Scotland is underpopulated, which is why the SNP are very pro immigration.
Its easy to be 'nice' when your country is near empty.
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I liked the bit where the butterfly goes behind him.
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quackpipe swings like a pendulum do, Sun 14 Sep 2014, 17:16,
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the right honorable gentleman is trying to distract me like I was a toddler
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*waggles milk bottle tops on a bit of string*
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quackpipe swings like a pendulum do, Sun 14 Sep 2014, 21:10,
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Well, that escalated quickly.
By the way, Helsinki has about the same population density as Newcastle upon Tyne or Middlesborough and about twice that of Sheffield or Leeds.
Remember that the rules which allow free movement of Poles and Bulgarians to the UK also allow UK citizens to move to Denmark or Finland or Italy and which allow Great Aunt Agatha to retire to Spain and still collect her pension, and allow UK service families to collect child benefit while stationed abroad, and allow UK families to buy holiday chalets in Austria and allow UK citizens to apply for jobs in French universities, and ...
Really this is no different in principle to people from Cornwall being able to move to Surrey.
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Ghoti Fingers, Sun 14 Sep 2014, 17:28,
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but who wants to move to Poland or Bulgaria?
you end up with extremely poor and rich areas, like you get in England. The poor areas are cess pits of crime and the rich areas are cess pits of socially acceptable crime. You need things to be more balanced.
And that's why I hate Pakistanis, muslims and coloureds.
Vote UKIP - get Nazis.
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You mean people from Surrey moving to Cornwall surely?
No-one from Cornwall could afford to live in Surrey
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A Rory Borealis here under duress, Sun 14 Sep 2014, 19:29,
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You know, it works both ways.
Young people go to London to make their fortune, as they grow older they move back to Cornwall for their retirement,
(Yes, I know that's speaking in very broad strokes, but it chimes with the trans-European migration. Intra-national migration is very similar to trans-national migration. If it makes it easier, consider the USA where one is free to move from Arizona to Idaho ... etc).
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Ghoti Fingers, Sun 14 Sep 2014, 19:59,
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the only young people I know who make their fortunes in London are kids from already wealthy families
they play the stock market and fund the rest of their lives as a hipster
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Their capital has the same population density as Newcastle?
don't know who Aunt Agatha is, will never have enough money to buy a chalet in Austria. Not really the same as allowing people to move from Cornwall to Surrey at all, At current immigration levels Cornwall would be completely empty after 18 months.
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Sun 14 Sep 2014, 21:20,
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> Now, just imagine Cameron (or Blair, or Brown or ...) being interviewed on Finnish TV.
Okay... I haven't reached the horizon of my imagination, so now what?
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