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An Englishman's View on Polish flocking to the UK [53]
We dont grumble about the Polish because their race, we grumble because right now as an Englishman i feel like a foreigner in my own country and the most spoken language is Polish. If a million people poured into Poland to exploit your economy in the space of a few years you would moan too.
I've met Poles who would agree with everything you've said and are themselves amazed at how Britain has allowed itself to get to this stage in such a short space of time. Others though(not just Poles) will start shouting 'racism' at you for daring to point out the obvious in the very reasonable way you have.
However, until the problems are obvious and actually effect people directly then some people are just happy to be able to pay a builder tax free or enjoy the comfort their Polish boyfriend/girlfriend provides for them.
For me the issue isnt numbers (as every European economy needs population growth), the problem is the abbreviated timescale in which this growth has occurred. Its too much, too soon.
A million more will probably leave before 2010.
Can you name one other occasion in which there has been mass emigration of a countries people to another country which is then followed by them returning en masse?
It would take a cataclysmic event for this to happen.
