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Petition presented at Downing Street

Members of the Bangladesh Caterers' Association, the Ethnic Catering Alliance and Keith Vaz MP, have presented a joint letter of petition to Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, at Downing Street.

The petition presentation followed the successful Day of Action Rally led by Bangladesh Caterers' Association and the Ethnic Catering Alliance in Trafalgar Square where 10,000 supporters from the UK's Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani, Chinese and Turkish catering business communities gathered to protest against the new policies introduced by the Border and Immigration Agency.

The handing over of the petition to Downing Street precedes the debate on the immigration points based system, due to take place this week.

The petition detailed demands of the Ethnic Catering Alliance, calling on the Government to recognise the unique characteristic of ethnic catering in the UK and to put the occupations in these businesses on the Occupations Shortage List.

They also call for a stop to all disruptive Border and Immigration Agency actions and an urgent recognition of the industry as an area of skills shortage, with a relaxation of the rules to allow for urgent recruitment.

The Ethnic Catering Alliance also implores the Government to recognise the unique language characteristic of ethnic catering in the UK and that it work with the communities by investing in training programmes.

This would resolve long-term labour problems in British ethnic catering businesses and provide employment opportunities for local people.

The Ethnic Catering Alliance has further requested the Prime Minister to meet with them to discuss and implement a fairer system that does not further jeopardise or disrupt the UK's ethnic catering industry.

9:37am Wednesday 23rd April 2008

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Posted by: Shamas, Manchester on 9:59am Wed 23 Apr 08
All the caterer in this Country either from ethnic community or not should start employing local people for their businesses and train them properly and also pay them fair wages.
If that is done there will be NO need to recruit people from abroad, and further more they will not have the shortages as they seems to claim.
Employing "cheap" labour is bad for catering business, there are plenty of good workers in this country. The language is a bad excuse to put to the Government.
Posted by: The Answer, Glasgow on 12:18pm Wed 23 Apr 08
This is nothing more than a visa scam!

Seems like the only person who cant see this is vas (born in goa by the way)
Posted by: Shamas, manchester on 11:34am Thu 24 Apr 08
By the way--The Answer-- Mr. Keith Vas was born in Aden, South Yemen son of parents from Goa, India.
Posted by: tony coyle, reading on 4:49pm Fri 4 Jul 08
hrth
Posted by: tony coyle, reading on 5:31pm Fri 4 Jul 08
keith vas is a filthy fat greasy asian. he went from a 2 up 2 down to a 4mill house in primrose hill. he used the usual, "please let me be an asian mp" he wasted no time taking backhanders from indians. this slimeball "would" have voted to get a knighthood. he is a cocky little raghead, watch him on tv, ooh i will have anything going, to make light of this issue. he is a nasty fat ****, like all his kind. this **** thinks he's english, "vas you fat turd, never in a million years" and you had my blog taken off in 1999, you ****. i sussed "new labour" up way back then.
you look at the mp's chambers, it's like a zoo, fat black **** abbot, and the rest of these token black mp's. these people are reducing us to a banana republic, all on the take. the quicker we get shot of them all, the better.
take war criminal blair with you, take his scouse trailer park trash wife with him. has this **** ever thought the knife crime is because kids see these hypoctites stealing, and robbing us blind. this gutter tramp airing her sex life to us all. if her snatch is as big as her mouth, tony doesn't know if he's in it, or out. black kids watching them raking it in. "has this nothing to do with the shithole blair left us in" have these scumbag mp's nothing to do with it?
jewboy levy helping himself, fatboy prescott costing us £400 a week for his food, then puking it up?
sack them all, let the captains of industry run "gb plc" at their own cost, bring the shutters down on our isle, no more in, fastracked the asians and illegals out. gb should be a tax haven for the world, we get everthing tax free. as for paying 70p on every litre of fuel, why should we. we are on this earth for a short time, we are not brown's donkey's. we owe the freeloaders nothing. we are free people, paying for all these mp bastards. it should finish now. we should start dictating the terms. these parasite's have to go, this is a new century, and they better get used to it ! tony@eng1and.com
Posted by: nick rahman on 7:19pm Tue 12 Aug 08
tony coyle wrote:
keith vas is a filthy fat greasy asian. he went from a 2 up 2 down to a 4mill house in primrose hill. he used the usual, \"please let me be an asian mp\" he wasted no time taking backhanders from indians. this slimeball \"would\" have voted to get a knighthood. he is a cocky little raghead, watch him on tv, ooh i will have anything going, to make light of this issue. he is a nasty fat ****, like all his kind. this **** thinks he\'s english, \"vas you fat turd, never in a million years\" and you had my blog taken off in 1999, you ****. i sussed \"new labour\" up way back then. you look at the mp\'s chambers, it\'s like a zoo, fat black **** abbot, and the rest of these token black mp\'s. these people are reducing us to a banana republic, all on the take. the quicker we get shot of them all, the better. take war criminal blair with you, take his scouse trailer park trash wife with him. has this **** ever thought the knife crime is because kids see these hypoctites stealing, and robbing us blind. this gutter tramp airing her sex life to us all. if her snatch is as big as her mouth, tony doesn\'t know if he\'s in it, or out. black kids watching them raking it in. \"has this nothing to do with the shithole blair left us in\" have these scumbag mp\'s nothing to do with it? jewboy levy helping himself, fatboy prescott costing us £400 a week for his food, then puking it up? sack them all, let the captains of industry run \"gb plc\" at their own cost, bring the shutters down on our isle, no more in, fastracked the asians and illegals out. gb should be a tax haven for the world, we get everthing tax free. as for paying 70p on every litre of fuel, why should we. we are on this earth for a short time, we are not brown\'s donkey\'s. we owe the freeloaders nothing. we are free people, paying for all these mp bastards. it should finish now. we should start dictating the terms. these parasite\'s have to go, this is a new century, and they better get used to it ! tony@eng1and.com
you must have a really small reproductive organ Tony, how can you be so bitter..? Say what you will of the politicians, but at grassroots, the UK wouldn't stand where it does now had the gates of immigration not been open for the last 50 years. You're a sad sad man, i feel sorry for you in your world of undoubtedly imported goods.
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