That's disgusting. The Polish who live and work here, have done nothing wrong. They are in fact, bloody hard workers and do a good job too.
What I will say though, again from my transport perspective, is that EU drivers are most certainly viewed as taking British jobs and work. An example: Polish driver with a new, PL plated curtainside van, moves to the UK to work. They live in their van, following work around the country where ever it takes them. They eat, sleep and piss in their van (seen those bottles full if yellow liquid in the roadside?). They go home to Poland perhaps 1 week in 4, meanwhile sending home the child support they're getting as well as most of their income, as they only need to pay for a small room in an overcrowded HMO, as they're never there anyway. Pay a visit to any industrial site and you'll see what I mean: PL & RO & other vans and trucks all parked together, waiting for the next job that they can under charge for to make their next bit of money.
Meanwhile the British, self employed, courier owner driver, can't get a look in as they're being priced out of work. Many, many good, established and reliable drivers are quitting, because they can't compete with the EU drivers who can afford to charge less and still make good money for their families back in their home countries. This is what I know about, first hand, from the transport industry. Now think of the other trades, where the same thing is happening.
This may make me sound "racist" or "xenophobic". I'm neither. They're lovely people, on the whole, and as I said they're bloody hard workers who could teach a lot of lazy arse Brits a thing or three about work ethic. But, the FACT remains, that because if free movement in the EU, they are able to come here and under cut British traders to the extent they're actually putting Brits out of work. Is that fair? Is that giving
us in the UK a level playing field? Of course not.
Having said all this, I am ABSOLUTELY NOT blaming people from poorer EU countries from coming here to work. It's their right so they're doing nothing wrong. If I were in their shoes, I'd do it too. If I could go to Poland and drive 800 miles a week for 3 weeks a month and make more than I ever could here, I'd do it.
This is why things have to change. The EU, quite simply, DOES NOT WORK as it was intended to. I'm not against Polish or Romanian or Latvian or any other workers, if they follow the law. But I sure as hell am
against the laws that allow them to come here and put British workers out of the jobs they've done all their lives.
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