Reply to: Oh dear: Call to help UK's Polish homeless

[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?

[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?

[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.

[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

[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.)

[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.

[Viktor]

The UK was the only country stupid enough to let in anyone who wanted to come, no questions asked.

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...

[xoggoth]

Weren't the Irish and one other country stupid too?

PS No stupid Irish jokes or I will come and decay all over you.

[mcquiggd]

So basically, no tax to pay and living costs subsidised by the state or living in the car rough, suppose in this arrangement it can actually be pretty profitable for them.

Exactly. And still cheaper than the locals. No wonder unemployment is up and fat cat business 'leaders' are demanding more of them.

[Mordac]

So why did 600,000 + choose the UK?

The UK was the only country stupid enough to let in anyone who wanted to come, no questions asked.

[AtW]

So basically, no tax to pay and living costs subsidised by the state or living in the car rough, suppose in this arrangement it can actually be pretty profitable for them.

[mcquiggd]

Cash in hand jobs mostly. The number of adverts you see from polish cleaners, plumbers etc is huge - even saw one from a blacksmith.

[AtW]

Well, I think its impossible to earn a lot of money in this country on low paid (national minimum) jobs, even though I'd agree that IF living costs are cut by sponging on the state resources, then it might be possible to earn some cash, perhaps that's what they are doing. Suppose this would be the only logical way to explain situation with increasing numbers.

[wendigo100]

Tales of El Dorado here - pimps in 3rd world countries lies through their teeth saying how much money they will make.

I don't believe it is just tales. Numbers are increasing, and they are not going back.
If the UK wasn't an easy touch, you'd think at least those homeless Poles would go back to their home in Poland.

[AtW]

Tales of El Dorado here - pimps in 3rd world countries lies through their teeth saying how much money they will make, if they were getting better commission from sending people to Iraq then you can be sure they'd do it.