Unemployed due to Polish who work in the UK

Michal, your are polish pretending to be English, aren't you? lol

We went to Woking on Sunday afternoon. We walked around the town and heard a lot of Polish spoken everywhere. Now it explains why there are no Polish left in Poland-they are all in Woking! We went in to a little shop taken over by the Poles called Maria. This is a little food shop selling everything Polish that you can also now buy in Tescos but at twice the price-avoid it if you can.

A similar thing is happening in Leicester, a shop run by Poles just outside the city centre is selling the same Polish foods as a shop less than a mile away run by Turks. Almost everything in the shop run by Poles is between 10-50% more expensive hence the reason I've stopped shopping there.

Michal. Thats a little sad. Shopping is fun with the person you love. When I went shopping with my Ex we talked and laughed and I didnt care who heard that she was from Poland. I loved her and that was that. Dont worry about what people think. As long as you love her isnt that the most important?

I think that you are right but to tell you the truth some of the novelty has worn off. I think that I have already wrote something similar to the fact that fifteen years ago when we started to live together here in England and Polishnes was unique in England really, though of course, there has always been an older generation since the war. However, we go to a nice Chinese restaurant in Woking and we have Polish spoken to our left, Polish spoken to our right. Then on the streets outside you see them all the time and even 'worse' if that is the word, at the A3 car boot every Sunday morning! It is really hard to think that you are not walking around a Russian market on the outskirts of Gdansk! I suppose it is a new World that we live in and I can understand the young wanting to do teaching certificates and travel East. Why not-it is a good education but I remember the old Poland as it was with the old Zloty-the Pewex-the MO before the police came in to being and as for cars, the old East German Trambant-pure luxury! I suppose that whilst the Berlin Wall stood there was something magical about Communism rather like the forbidden fruits, you needed a visa and there was something really special about learning Russian and Polish. Now all these places just look like anywhere else.

The employer got 2 hard working Poles for the same price as one useless lazy 'worker'.
Open your eyes and look around you.Millions off Brits have flooded into Australia,New Zealand,Canada & USA and swamped the original inhabitants.I love Britain but much prefer hard working,non trouble making Polish people than scummy Brit chavs,criminal Somali and Pakistani gangs and all the other trash.Decent people from anywhere are welcome but not the lowlifes.I have not seen many Polish lowlifes compared to other nationalities (especially Pakistani/Somalis)

Truebrit - thanks for your post. You're a great honest man. God bless you.

I think that you are being a bit hard on him

Yes, but then these countries have strict points systems for allowing immigration-at least that is the case in Australia. If I was younger, I would go to Australia, but without being married to an Australian citizen I have almost no chance at all of getting in.

It has taken me 18 months to "flood" into Canada to work and live. And believe me it isn't easy. Only because of my qualifications and the fact i had a company sponsoring me..

Probably you are lucky and have age on your side too.

More likely experience Michal. I'm 41 so not exactly a spring chicken... But thanks :-)

I know that the age limit for Australia is forty five but as you say, you had a sponsor, which helped. For me, my dream was always to go to Australia, even from a very early age but I know now, that it sadly will never be. For that reason I could never accept second best and become a CELTA teacher in Poland as it is simply not the same thing that I always wanted.

I merely pointed out a fact.Tens of millions of Brits and descendants of Brits live in these countries.You applied in the correct way but there are plenty who went there on holiday and overstayed.Also,back in the 1960s and 1970s just being British was the only qualification required.

I wasn't digging you out Truebrit,

I can see some concern with a huge influx of migrant workers, however some people do not put their point across very eloquently.

Let me give you an example, if say a British bricklayer earns 500-600 pounds per week, has a wife and kida and a mortgage that he knows his salary will cover, and a migrant worker comes to UK to do the same job but accepts say 300 pounds. Why should a Bricklayer trained in the UK have to struggle in that field. It doesn't mean he is lazy, just very unfortunate.

I believe that if it affected other fields of work like IT to use an example it would cause some unrest i'm sure.

I would just like to see some stability on earnings so as undercutting doesn't become such an option, or at least not to the extreme that it has happened.

I am all for people fighting for work, but by quality and ability alone.

I don't have any problem with migrant workers before anyone starts to berate me, that is an issue for the goverment.

Oh balls did any of that make sense, i find it hard to concentrate on a friday when the weekend is looming..

Have a good one..

Amen to that, no accent more beautiful than a Polish one. :)

I would gladly take whatever Polish who would care to move to Reading, PA. The current influx of folks in my town is Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. They have a low standard of living, trash up the town and 80% of their children have high hopes of being in a gang one day. On a positive note, hardly any of them are specialized enough to affect my area of the job market. They can gladly take all of the manual labor and grocery store/fast food restaurant jobs. My town is becoming a true ghetto.

I think poles should tip their hats to us or bow when they walk past the the british in a street.
Maybe they should take their jacket off and cover a puddle with it when a brit walks across.

That being said maybe you should go play in traffic

LOL:))