Am not a great follower of politics, however I read in the papers today that many eastern european countries will join europe on saturday, which will basicly open up the british boarders for imigrants from these countries. If are Mr Blair does his job he needs to close these very quickly as most plane tickets to the Uk are already sold out. Not sure how all this will effect effect our situation with gettin visa's for our honey's but if things are tightened it can only be bad news, unless your lady is in lativa in which case you could have her on your doorstep sunday morning...dont all rush to send mail to the lasses in lativa at once now boy's
you are quite right southern, I welcome them all, it is rare for a lazy stupid person to uproot his life, and we have skill shortages and in a lot of areas zero employment, on the whole I think it will ber a good think, hurry up Russia and join the EU, before we leave.:)
If you look on the positive side, possibly there will be a type of brain drain of qualified people going to the UK first, by the time the other countries in the EU open their borders alot of the people most committed and qualified will have come to the UK, so the less qualified may end up going to the other countries later, which could work in the UK's favor.
By the time other countries open their borders the economies in the former FSU countries may have inproved to an extent that less people will want to become economic migrants anyway I presume.
SG:
Latvia has had a no visa for 90 day agreement with the UK for a long time mate, your Latvian lady could be here tomorrow, never mind Sunday !!
It will be a very long time before Russia (The big bit I mean) joins Europe to the point of no visa`s required, until then its defiantely going to be a case of "if you names not down, youre not comin in !!"
The ones that are joining this week are not the ones we are currently seeking ladies in as these countries which are joining are already very westernised anyway, they dont have a population of women who want to move here, also many of the women we seek wil still want to come here even if Russia did join the EU, simply to get that which they cannot get at home, a good man, a good life, and a loving solid and stable family life.
Dont worry guy s!! We will all be dead from sexual exhaustion long before it becomes a problem to find a Russian lady to love and be loved by :o)))
In a copy of the "Hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy" which slipped through a time warp from the distant future, there is an entry, under Earth history, which reads as follows.
Tony Blair and the UK Labour Party (AKA New Labour) "A bunch of mindless morons who were the first against the wall when the revolution came" !!