Dear Bhuban da, That link did not work for me. Gives me an error.
Thanks, --Ram On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:31 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Netters > > I posted a couple of letters on immigration which appeared in the > Independent earlier. > I hope you would at least recall the concluding para of one letter(Free the > borders and let the immigrants run the country) which reads: > Let them, as they do now, run Lloyds Banking group, captain the England > cricket team and marry the queen. High immigration means we can again > afford aircraft carriers with planes on them, and free nursing care, homes > and higher education for all. We would have lost the battle for our borders; > but won the economic war. > I do not know who actually run the Lloyd Banking Group (I will have to find > out). > The Cricket Captain is Nasser Hussain who became well known in the late > 1990s. and the reference to the Queen is her marriage to Prince Phillip of > Greece, who is jokingly mentioned as the first immigrant to Great Britain. > > The UK correspondents ignored the funny side of these pieces entirely and > dealt with the matter seriously, covering various aspects.. Since it is > long, I am not attempting a précis of it all.. The web link is > > http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/letters-perspectives-on-phone-ha > .. > > There are other letters on a miscellany of issues on this site, all jumbled > up, so please browse through them with patience.. > > bhuban > > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > [email protected] > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
