There could be as many as one million Poles living in the UK, but 750,000 is a more likely figure for Poles who live here permanently. According to The Guardian, around 800 Brits live in Poland. Make of that what you will.
Mate, we're all ****ing human at the end of the day. It's the rich capitalist ****s who are screwing us yet we are to believe it's some wee chap who wants a better life for him and his family.
Calm down, C. All I did was answer Toby's questions. And, once again, I'm no capitalist. I believe in helping the genuinely needy, but this country won't, or can't, do that to its fullest until we sort the wheat from the chaff - and, yes, that includes our own scoundrels. And we're not really talking about a 'wee chap'. We are talking about millions of wee chaps and their families. If it were one or two or 10k, we wouldn't even be discussing it.
I was signing on in Dublin about 2006 and thought when I got my 1st payment it was every 2 weeks. Went back 2 weeks later and the girl in the post office told me I'd lost 200 notes because it only sits there for about 4 days. Mental money for signing on once a month.
If you were born in some ****ehole with zero quality of life what would you do? If people born in Western Europe feel they are at risk in the job market by some guy who walked ran hitch hiked and held on for dear life under a lorry to get here with one set of stinking clothes and battered shoes then they need to have a look at themselves.
If companies paid more...if companies paid the taxes they're supposed to...make the long-term unemployed work for a living... Utter fantasy - never going to happen. There's enough money floating about in offshore accounts to make everyone in Britain a millionaire, including all the Romanians, Poles, Syrians etc. claiming benefits. The fact that the Sun, Daily Mail, Telegraph et al. have convinced so many Britons that the social services, NHS etc. cannot survive immigration is testament to the stupidity of yer average Brit. Aye, David Cameron and his pals have a few billion tax free pounds stashed overseas but we can't afford to hire more nurses because a few thousand Romanians have come here to beg on the street
Its actually insane that people can't see that. You would think with the knowledge we have and the access to information people would w8se up but as long as I get a few breaks a year Virgin TV and unlimited porn on the net then **** sergi and his family. I'm alright Jack.
There's no need for anyone to be poor on this earth. No one. How much money is being spent on wars? Why do some ****s need billions and trillions in their bank accounts? It's all bollocks.
I was born and raised in Thamesmead. I know degradation only too well. You're getting your economic migrants and asylum seekers mixed up. Very few Europeans turn up with one set of clothes and battered shoes, let alone getting here by hanging on to the bottom of a lorry. EU members stroll in. Many non-EU migrants turn up at Calais, only to find themselves in another hell. This country discriminates between the two, yet the majority of EU immigrants could return to a safe homeland. Asylum seekers seldom enjoy such a luxury. There's a huge difference.
I'm not getting anything mixed up. I simply don't care. Who am I, or you, to tell people where they can live?
I'm a UK taxpayer. Are you? As mere plebs, we can only do so much. We'll never empty the offshore accounts of Cameron and his cronies, so we must work with what we have. The majority of EU immigrants could happily return to their home nations, yet the poor buggers in Calais do not have the same luxury. A curb on EU immigration would (or could) allow a greater number of the most desperate to enter this country. We can't do both at the moment. And no amount of moaning about how the rich are getting richer will change that fact.
History proves that, time and time and again, the mob have to band together to seriously threaten the rich and powerful, in order to loosen their grip on power and spread the wealth a bit. All the time the common people are fighting amongst ourselves - North vs South, Brit vs Poles and Russkies, brown skin vs white - the fat greedy ****ers who own 95% of the worlds wealth, are ****ing laughing.
Fine sentiments, AR. Unfortunately our country is full of spineless ****s who spend their time masturbating, smoking joints and watching cartoons.