The Big Issue's editor John Bird presented hisown semantic 1,700-word opinion on the burningissue of the continuing influx of foreigners, most
notably those coming from Eastern Europe, to Eng-
land and who then, in so many cases, soon land up
here as so-called "homeless." What he had to say
was headed by his dizzy 12-word caption: "WE
WILL WORK WITH THE POOR AND HOMELESS
WHEREVER THEY COME FROM." Such appeared
in the colourful Janet Jackson edition, No. 782.
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How the Poles, Romanians, Bulgarians,
Estonians and Latvians, who have been flocking
to and flooding England, can suddenly be called
"homeless" is beyond me. Especially, since they
are primarily economic migrants first and foremost
and who oftentimes arrive deliberately with insuffi-
cient funds and skills to contribute to their own
welfare upon arriving at poruous border Britain. I
call them "dehomed foreigners" -- meaning they
freely gave up their home and/or left their country
voluntarily from whence they came -- and are thus
not homeless in the vanacular or sense to which
John Bird peppers his bloated opinion on those who
are "suffering" from poverty of their own making in
all too many instances ...
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With so many jobless and unskilled Eastern Europeans
now embedded in England, such has provided a new
and plentiful and unexpected reseviour and flow of
so-called "new homeless" for The Big Issue to freely
recruit and badge to further flog its weekly publication
on the cold streets of Albion. Such is a growing threat to
the "homeland homeless" who are now confronted with
such "dehomed foreigners" and to which The Big Issue
and John Bird himself seems to be totally oblivious to ...
It seems they don't give a damn as long as they can
get to sell more copies of The Big Issue to make more
profit from wherever the pool of street vendors can be
replenished by foreigners at the expense of the
"homeland homeless." The more I read John Bird's
article, the more it sounded to me like some kind of
New Labour or Internationale Manifesto. God forbid ...
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A few years ago I was hostelled at Mother Theresa's
"Home of Love." At that time, there was about 55%
Eastern Europeans staying there under the eye of
Mother Superior Sister Innocentia and Sister Timothy.
Another 15% were Africans and/or Asians; 20% were
Irish, Spanish, Italians, I guess; while the rest of us,
like me, were white British citizens of perhaps 10%.
Today, Mother Theresa's now houses 90% Eastern
Europeans ... I mention this example to demonstrate
how the local homeless have been displaced and taken
over by the unending influx of Eastern Europeans to the
UK. So great are the number of Poles now claiming
"homelessness" since they left Poland that they now
have their own Polish street paper all for themselves.
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In reading John Bird's opinion, he says: "Let's help
the displaced (like all those Eastern Europeans now at
Mother Theresa's and elsewhere in England, I assume)
to become placed. They can therefore start supporting
themselves. Let's get them into the workforce. Let's
get them started on doing the jobs that are always
on offer, so that they can educate themselves and
they can educate their children." It sounds grand,
but why not pay for them to go back home instead
of them taking up all of our resources and expenses
to do what should have already been done for
them back home in their country of origin? Why
must we educate and feed their childen, too? It's
their problem, not our's. Nor is it the task that The
Big Issue is capable of taking on no matter what
John Bird's says about how it was first set up to
work with the poor and homeless. Locally, yes.
Globally, no. It wasn't set up to do that. It was
set up to make a profit, despite all the talk of
its so-called "benevolence" for the poor and
homeless ... Over the years, the poor and destitute
have brought in millions of pounds for The Big Issue
that is now tantamount to "corporate welfare" as
thousands of its street vendors make only peanuts
at best for most of them ...
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So the reality of The Big Issue is first to make a
profit above all else. It's profits from the poverty of
others who happen to be homeless people. No
people of poverty, no profits. It is those
kind of people who The Big Issue depends
on to sell its weekly to the buying public.
And thus "dehomed foreigners" help propel
greater profits for The Big Issue with no labour
costs to pay for such street vendors who must
then sell the magazine in order for such a foreigner
or native vendor to even buy his or her own cuppa tea.
And thus, they're then left to the elements to survive
or not. Most do not ...
And, of course, if there's no homeless then there's
no street vendors and so no profits for John and
his Vauxhall clique and fat catz at The Big Issue.
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England cannot afford to be the Nanny of the world's
poor and destitute, ad infinitum ... Many of the
so-called "poor" are social and economic failures
before they even stepped foot in Limeyland. They
come to England for one reason only -- to get
freebies galore and to get something for nothing.
They came to take, not to give ... What some of
them get once raw reality sinks in is a sobering
stint at being a Big Issue street vendor that's a far
cry from the rosy stories back home of how Great
Britain is a "soft touch" and is paved with free gold.
"Go West, Young Man," means go west to England
thesedays from Eastern Europe, unlike what it once
meant in America by going West to California during
the Gold Rush.
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There is no gold rush in England only a gold
drain ... The majority of foreigners and natives
will not even see a bar of pure gold in their own
lifetime, except for those high-powered city traders
at The Square MIle and even there the gold is
losing its lustre of late for some traders due to
the global economic turndown ... Yet ironically,
performance bonuses for some company exec-
utives and upper managers are bigger this year
than last despite the economic forcasts of doom
and gloom ... It's like the sub-prime crisis never
happened in America or property prices went
wobblely as they grab bonuses running into the
billions ...
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Aside from John Bird's rhetoric and posturing on
immigration, what is The Big Issue really getting out
of all of the non-ending influx of "dehomed" Eastern
Europeans or foreigners? They're getting a supply of
new alien faces on the city and town streets across
the whole face of the UK. Many of the aliens are only
physically here in Britain, while emotionally and men-
tally they're still back in Krakow or from wherever they
came from. All too many are simply "lost" - period.
Most have not adjusted or acclimatized to England
socially, economically, and culturally. And, most
never will. They're suffering from cultural lag and
linguistic inability and the disease of unprepared
poverty. They turn to The Big Issue oftentimes for
"employment" out of desperation of nothing else
to turn to to get money ... Jobwise or otherwise
they've few place to turn to ... But John Bird's
publication doesn't employ street vendors, so
such "dehomed foreigners" are still at a loose
end for a real job come at the end of the day,
even if they have a few quid in their pockets
after hours and hours on the streets trying to
sell the latest Big Issue. Yes, it does have
its bigjob offers on the internet, but nothing is
there for its street vendors even for the most
talented ones. College kidz love to work for
TBI. It's the "in" thing to "care" about the
homeless yet never having been homeless
themselves. How cute?
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Language is the greatest barrier for the dehomers, aside
from the resentment against them by many local English
because they're seen as unwelcomed foreigners in a
land that is already choking to death on such vexing
people and useless Third World immigrants that have
brought with them all of their crime, all of their diseases,
all of their bad attitude, all of their tribal violence, all of
their anti-White mindset, all of their drug habits, all of
their cultural mishmash, and all of their abuse of the
immigration laws that New Labour seems mindlessly
content to let them further abuse at any time.
Ex-Labour minister Lord Turner has now called
for "no more immigration and babies" for fear of a
racist (the proper word is "racial") backlash in Britain
due to the straggering and overwhelming numbers of Third
Worlders still crowding out our country. If there is a racial
backlash -- and I think it's only a matter of time for such --
then this past Anthony Blair and present Gordon Brown
Labour Government should be put in the criminal dock
and indicted forthwith ... And if the two "B's" -- Blair and
Brown -- are found guilty, then send them to Belmarsh to
get a taste of England's top security jailhouse for awhile.
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In other points regarding John Bird's 1,700-word opinion
on the role that he believes The Big Issue can and should
play in the present growing crisis of masses of EU citizens
invading Little Britain, I will take some of his points and state
what I believe are fallacious ones and some of those that
I think may have some merit. Of course, such is my own
personal opinion and is not intended in anyway to speak for
John or his Big Issue businesses. And make no mistake,
I like John Bird to bits. But I state what I believe without
fear or favour to anybody or to anything, even if I like
them to bits or not.
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I will perhaps have more to say, if I have the time,
about John's article and his Internationalist rationale
to aid and abet all the newcomers from foreign parts
now polluting England like street garbage ... As
promised earlier, I have now uploaded three images
of mine as shown at the top of the page to go with
my observations.
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I think John Bird's comment that has solid
merit is what he stated as follows:
"There is no need to deny that immigration
has moved from the concerns of the extreme
right to centre stage for otherwise liberal-
minded people." But what doesn't have merit to
my mind is when he goes from that arguement
to then declaring: "Surely there is something
even more important in the background. Is this
(in other words "his") magazine that you are
reading worth buying? Is it good value for
money? Is it the kind of magazine that you
want to read?" Whether The Big Issue is a very
good, or good, not so good, or bad, or very bad
magazine is totallly irrelevant, in my candid opinion,
to the rageing issue of immigration and/or de-
homed foreigners flogging the magazine on
the streets of modern day UK.
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Truly, Monty. +Tenth Day of Lent, 2oo8.