tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post6603448201433612091..comments2023-05-27T12:03:28.241+01:00Comments on Five Chinese Crackers: Slack's back!Five Chinese Crackershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09395982651352498540noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-64888007846643665192008-04-02T13:12:00.000+01:002008-04-02T13:12:00.000+01:00The worrying thing is people really do take this s...The worrying thing is people really do take this stuff seriously. I was in an East End pub on Saturday and some bloke came in, thumped his copy of the Mail, and said to nobody in particular, "28p! That's all they're worth to us! 28p!"<br><br>He was of the large, skinheady persuasion so I resisted saying "But it's in the DAILY MAIL! Don't believe a word! And are you including the Irish landlord standing not three feet away from you in your general disdain of immigrants?" <br><br>And as Septicisle says, that's rougly £1 a month, which for, say 3 million immigrants (DM-style guess) is £3million per month. You can bet your last zloty that if the 28p was a cost, not a contribution, the Mail wouldn't be using the weekly-per-person figure in their headline. "IMMIGRANTS COST US AT LEAST £40M A YEAR, EXPERTS SAY".kenromfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04745195410971047848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21544361.post-38658907108420480002008-03-31T19:55:00.000+01:002008-03-31T19:55:00.000+01:00Hoped someone was going to take this apart. The M...Hoped someone was going to take this apart. The Mail was rather fortutiously opened to the page this article was on when I went to get the Grauniad on Saturday, and my immediate thought was how much, even if the article's right, that means they're actually contributing. 28p x 52 = £14.56 x however many is still hell of a lot.septicislehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03369157723084834549noreply@blogger.com