Sid,
I dunno who whitecloud is but if he has the same attitude to nuageblanc feel free to point him/her to my comments.
As you say i believe the UK are far more open to foreign pilot employment.
I'm not so much jumping on the band wagon of UK airlines for UK pilots. We are a member of the EU now. If thats what we want we should withdraw. I also have no problem with german carriers demanding fluency in german or french with french and so on. If you can speak the local lingo then there should be no reason why you cant be employed by a particular airline (in a perfect world - and what the hell is that!).
No i'm PO'd that someone that cant cut it to get a job has to go down the racist route. I'm from a minority with foreign roots and have never had a problem or encountered racism within the airlies in th UK, and doubt i ever will. In a pub at Dagenham tho.....