Oh dear: Call to help UK's Polish homeless

[Mordac]

That would be because Bucharest is in Romania, which isn't in the EU yet. When it joins the EU, you won't need a visa, or cash in the bank. Just the bus fare.

[IR35 Avoider]

So why did 600,000 + choose the UK?

When the rest of Europe opens up to Poles I suspect the majority of future migrants will choose to go to Germany. Why would they pay the bus fare to come all the way to Britain when they can walk over the border into Germany? (One possible reason: anyone know the relative proportions of Poles with English and German as second languages.)

[DimPrawn]

We need the immigrants to push house prices to infinity.

I hope every 3rd world country in the world joins the EU.

Then I can sell up, have £1M in equity and live happily ever after away from Bliar and Brownstuff.

HTH

[wendigo100]

When the rest of Europe opens up to Poles I suspect the majority of future migrants will choose to go to Germany. Why would they pay the bus fare to come all the way to Britain when they can walk over the border into Germany?

If that were true, why do so many asylum seekers, asian illegals, and other assorted immigrants cross continental Europe to get to the UK?

And even if it were true, we shouldn't feel too relieved about it. The German people (and the French) will get fed up with it too, and something will kick off over there.

[ratewhore]

The German people (and the French) will get fed up with it too, and something will kick off over there.

Didn't something kick off over there about 60 years ago?

[Joe Black]

Don't think so...I was hammered in Bucharest with a quite interesting "visa interview" in order to be able to have on my passport that stamp which said "business visa" , "no right to public funds" and "any form of work must be authorized". Got 10 grands in the bank and property in the home country and the officer carried on asking about my future spendings in the next year...
Now the Home Office has my passport and I'm waiting for another stamp of the same category...

It's only fair...

Poor diddums...

Why would they pay the bus fare to come all the way to Britain when they can walk over the border into Germany?

And the difference in bus fare is between what, from 15 quid to 20?