You can thank Gordon and his following of EU rules on that one. We pay £1m a month to Polish families alone that aren’t even living in Britain, where Polish workers in Britain can claim…..
The EU likes this because it fulfils their fantasy of us as one great big happy country. That’s what would happen if it were a single federal state.
It’s all so wrong but it’s too late. We will soon be a single, communist country – the United States of Europe – and there will only be one party leading us (the ones there already!). They will prance around saying we elected the European Parliament to decide on our behalf – haha – yeah right. They get laughed at and ridiculed if they don’t follow what the EUROPEAN COMMISSION want.
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Anonymous2010-09-11 11:05
The economic downturn reveals the underlying resentment against immigration and not 'of' immigration.
This article is pitiful for a number of reasons.
Firstly, Lojek-Magdziarz's objections seem to hinge on the usual strand of Polish snobbery that 'we' are not 'cheap labour'. The underlying assumption that but for our history 'we' would be better than 'you'
Some Poles who see themselves as very 'kulturalny' resent being seen as outsiders having been neuroticaly obseesed with being so Western and more intelligent than those English they routinely describe as lazy and 'glupie'.
My wife is Polish and works in a cash exchange bureau, so if you you want the whole gamut of Polish gossip about how ugly British women are and how Poles look down their noses at Britain then I can provide it.
It must be depressing to have studied Polish philology at Jagiellonin University for 5 years only to work in Coffee Republic but the Polish education system is crap and everybody cheats.
On a PKS bus coming back from Ustriki Dolne on the way to Krosno I heard students saying the only thing they have learnt at university is how to drink and how to cheat in exams.
The reason so many relatively educated Poles 'had' to come to Britain was because their education is useless but gives them a sense of being something.
Usually how to make vast generalisations and dogmatic assertions without needing to consider evidence to the contrary or develop debating skills or techniques.
The result is a culture in which people opine with grandiose statements and florid language what is, in fact, utter drivel and fail to engage or listen with what others are actually telling them.
This is hardly conducive to developing good business skills and the kind of mentality that will help Poland develop economically. Thus meaning mass migration wouldn't be so necessary.
Secondly, Poles were admitted because they are cheap labour and to drive wages down and save the government having to do such tedious and expensive things such as invest in training programmes and apprenticeships.
A common complaint, apart from how stupid British people are to have an economy strong enough to give them employment, is how useless and spoilt they are.
If the average Briton had heard what Poles were saying about them, they might be tempted to write an article making vast generalisations about them and playing the 'lets play taking offence' card.
But that might say more about the writer than the real nature of the problem.
Let's face it:if Poles don't like it in Britain they can go back and, as someone who lives in Poland, I think they should come back where they belong and build Poland.
Or stop the whining and snobbery because it is easy to do so as an outsider and the stereotypes you here from ex-pats are somehat tedious
( eg the Poles stare at you, the customer service is shit, the women are fickle or gold diggers, the men can't dress very well, she's too hot for him, all Poles are quarrelsome snobs who thinks they're always correct, they are Catholic bigots, fanatics, etc etc yawn...........