good :),and I agree,some ignorent "brits" do take the attitude you highlight Matyjasz. Not myself Im afraid,so I take umbridge at being lumped into a homogenous mass of "the brits" that is as insulting as saying all Poles are rascist skinheads,some are,most probably not.
I shall not call you a homogenous brit no more. :P Besides, that previous post was tongue in cheek.
yes,Im afraid I take the fact that britains schools and NHS were overstreched even before 2004 a little seriously,especially when Poles are just the latest,and by far the largest groups of imigrants to add even more presure to those sevices many of us have been paying for for a very long time with our taxes. Would you be happy if your childs primary school suddenly had say 10 non Polish speaking kids in each class and your child lost out due to all the resources being pumped into the non polish kids?
I don't know about the state of NHS before the huge influx of Poles into your country. I also don't know in what percentage the accusations of the likes of noimmigration are true and in what way they are just the outcome of mass hysteria instigated by the tabloids. Bu what I do know is that the poles in your country are playing by your rules. They are doing only things that you allow them to do. Nothing more and nothing less. The outcome of this situation is that a group of your country men are blaming my people on the decisions made by other group of your people. Quite funny actually.
Now, as for your question:
Would you be happy if your childs primary school suddenly had say 10 non Polish speaking kids in each class and your child lost out due to all the resources being pumped into the non polish kids?
I doubt that anyone would be happy about it. And if you and other Brits are as well than why don't do something about it? Allow children in to a school only if its English language skills are on a satisfactory level. Let the people think twice before moving into your country. You will see that the problem will solve itself by ITSELF. You don't like that Eastern Europeans can claim benefits after a one year working in the UK? Make it 5 years! You will see that no one will complain because it is YOU who make the rules in GB and not immigrants. But than again it's definitely easier to b!tch about the darn foreigners than actually do something. (and before you get offended I wasn't thinking about you in this paragraph).
Personally I understand more or less what your people are going through right now. I’m sure that sooner are later I will have a similar conversation here in Poland with some xenophobic Poles. Still I don’t like the fakers like noimmigration spreading bollocks about my people, like about the threat of molesting English children as the age of consent in Pl is 16 years old.
You don’t like that more and more people are talking in polish on your street and feel intimidated by it? Fine. I’m sure I would feel the same way if suddenly half of my street talked in English, German, Mozambique or whatever. But say it as it is and don’t make things up and talk crap on a internet forum.
