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Polish Thoughts on Britain and the British [273]
it is not only English people losing jobs due to the availability of cheaper labour from Eastern Europe. My Polish bf has been in the UK for 5 years and had built up a successful business in painting and decorating.. however since Poland joined the EU and now with the recent influx of Romanians and Bulgarians he is having a hard time finding any work since is is unwilling to work for £50 a day (or less) and there is always someone ready to work for peanuts...
Foxy, but Isn't there a minimal wage, which is something like 5 pounds per h, so If someone, who is cleaning closets gets 5P/h then better jobs simply have to be better paid ? And If some greedy employers pay less than minimum or employ illegaly Bulgarians or Romanians then who's fault is that ? They would find one way or another to cheat people even without Poles, Romanians or Bulgarians. Besides how many Poles is there in UK ? 600 thousand ? Even If all of them work that's what ? 2% of work force ? And unemployment rate in UK is... 5% ? So in fact there's no unemplyment at all. There's no rational reasons for the whole "Poles steal our jobs" crap and I've got a feeling that we are way too nice for you.
