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Originally Posted by astroron
Hi DSO, as an ex pomm myself I feel for you, the rot set in when Britain said no to Commonwealth countries people who got independance from Britain to go to Britain as British citizens, unfortunatly Australia was included in this so as not to be seen as a racial policy. The Australian Government under Gaugh Whitlam retaliated with the same policy, and that is where we stand. If you ever get up the dough to come down under, come up to sunny Queensland and I am sure you will very welcome.astroron   |
Trust the UK government (ANY UK government in fact) to stuff things up. Pity Gaugh Whitlam didn't rise above it. Our government of the time certainly shafted AU and NZ by decreeing the UK throw our lot in with people who have traditionally been our enemies, not to mention shafting those of us who desire to leave the UK and go to nicer climes without having to learn another language.
What Britain did to the citizens of other Commonwealth nations is nothing short of betrayal (and yet we let anyone else in!). Ridiculous. We are now ruled, in part, from Belgium by people who we have never really got along with.
Hopefully I'll be able to raise enough dosh to return to Australia (I was last Down Under in 1997) in the not-too-distant future. I can't stay jobless forever and maybe with retraining I'll qualify for enough points to move there eventually.
I know I have probably perpetuated the image of the Brits as "whingein' Poms" and actually for a lot of my fellow UK citizens that isn't too far from the truth, but when you think about our near endless clouds and rain and overcrowding maybe you could cut us a little bit of slack.
Still it isn't all bad, as I said above, I can't stay jobless forever (I hope!) and I can always fly out every few years!
