Government plans to deter immigration to UK by making it shit (not actually satire!)

Even allowing for the fact that this comes from the Daily Mail, this does seem all-too plausible. Poland and the present Baltic states were the most economically developed parts of the former Russian Empire under the Tsar, American jokes about Polaks not withstanding. One of the travel books I read years ago in the 1990s about the former DDR pointed out that if you slightly tweaked the statistics, East Germany was roughly comparable in economy and standard of living with the North. As that was over 20 years ago, I have no trouble believing that parts of Britain are probably now worse off than parts of Poland.

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(not satire – or is it?)

Over a year ago I wrote what was supposed to be a satirical blogpost:

Government ministers announce plans to deter immigrants to UK by making it shit

Now it seems it wasn’t satire at all – it was reality:

Revealed: parts of Britain now poorer than POLAND with Wales and Cornwall among Europe’s worst off

With Cameron and Clegg in charge, the line between satire and reality is getting thinner and thinner and thinner  ………

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Related articles by Tom Pride:

The harsh reality and unfairness of the government’s anti-immigration campaign

Oops! Daily Mail gets British immigration test wrong

Daily Mail Apologises To Its Readers After Admitting Publishing Something True

UK police step up search for 400,000 missing Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants

Daily Mail admits it was wrong about immigration (and hopes nobody will notice)

The Sun, The Mail et al – sorry, did we say 120,000 problem families? We meant 16.

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