My Views Of Poles Working in the UK

i don't actually think there are many anti-polish, they are just confused

PinkJewel, good post and cool head. Nice pics BTW.

Thanks on both counts :)


Well, I'm not sure about that one. I think rather than anti-Polish then, they may be anti-immigration...

yes maybe some are anti-immigrant, not immigration, i think there is an important difference here. People like myself are anti-immigration, meaning we think the policy is wrong and needs to be changed. Being anti-immigrant is against the people themselves which i can say i am not against any individuals who enter this country.

I realise trhat, but my own personal experience suggests that England is not very anti-Polish. Is my England too small? Am I in my own little world?

The anti-Polish brigade are the 'There ain't no black in the union jack' brigade, the 'the French are garlic-eating surrender monkeys' brigade, the 'Gerries are all Nazis depsite the fact that we're the real fascists now' brigade. Why give their pathertic views such weight?

And since when has Scotland been so wonderful in comparison?

I am a working class Englishman (albeit one who believes in his own self-education) and in my place of work, there is a Polish chap who seems popular with everyone, as well as a few others from other odd corners of the globe. There is also a new colleague who is engaged to a Polish girl. The other Poles we have had at work have generally been seen in a favourable light, particularly in comparison with some of the other temps we have seen over the last few years.

I was served in one of my favourite old pubs this evening by a Polish lady (I didn't know she was Polish back when I used to drink there about four years ago), and she is liked by the regular drinkers and so oin and so on and so on

and so on and so on...

THE PEOPLE WHO MOAN ABOUT POLES ARE JUST XENOPHOBIC W@NKERS WHO DON'T EVEN LIKE THEMSELVES.

He's a lawyer. He's not supposed to make sense.

Polish people are entitled to claim benefits only after they have worked and paid taxes for over a year.



Alright than, how can I help you?

May I just add that I am a citizen of Rzeczpospolita Polska without any rights that could change Her Majesty's government and alter its immigration policy what so ever.

Yeah, imho 'a Pole' is a synonym of 'immigrant' for them. As if there weren't others, legal or illegal, trying to get into your country.

The following is a link to a previous post in which the request was genuine......
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You forgot to include all the warm welcomes from all those lovely Neds.

Not all of it. Noimmigration is Scottish remember, and I know plenty of people who express the feelings of the OP. I wish they wouldn't express it to me. I hear it often in my workplace, especially since a recent experience in another department of my job. I experienced a lot of bitterness towards Polish and other workers not born here.

On the other hand, the problem does seem to be less here [and it may be just my area which is particularly bad with this bitterness] as people from other areas of Scotland on the forum have expressed the same view you have.

Though, I think someone once said this may be due to proportion.

Actually the majority of British people who have issues with Poles are being financially affected by their immigration to the UK.

Yes, and he has his own thread and didn't get suspended after the awful things he said about the Lithuanian girl whose body was cut up and dumped

I never saw that. He is a very twisted individual. I thought he couldn't get any worse after his other 'joke' about the Polish woman.

Things like this - I find it to be ruining the forum.

Unfortunately I tend to agree with you Sophia. I was just reading through the recent posts with a view to updating the Omnibus Edition. There are so many outbreaks of intolerance, ignorance and downright insulting/vicious behaviour that I gave up. It's becoming a slanging forum. I know we have had debates on this in the past but this time I think it has gone too far. Not much hope for the world when people are so crystallised in their opinions and reluctant to even try to listen.

I'd guess it is hard to find amusing things or interesting things on the forum to sum up when there is so much negativity, and most of it expressed in such a horrific way.

I hope it passes.

I did think of starting a thread "let's all be nice to one another" but then I thought why bother, people would only end up fighting and arguing anyway :(

I think I might go and watch Eastenders Omnibus edition, less violence on that

It is interesting how easily one can draw a line between people using differences among them, like in this case nationality, and set people against each other.

What saddens me the most is that some people might think that those animosities between poles and brits on this forum look the same in the real life. I must say that aside of few chavs and some british men with their subtle patronizing attitude at the beginning of our meeting, I have nothing but good memories of the UK and its people.

And I have nothing but good memories of Poland and its people. Yes there were some difficulties in adapting to life there but aren't there always?

Than maybe there is hope for mankind after all.

Eeekhhem... we better stop right now szarlotka or things may get emotional.

Our friendship was just not ment to be. ;)

PS: Now I know how Romeo must have felt. :)

LOL - the proverbial 'ships that passed in the night'...

That's because Admin is a gay and don't do things, which should be done...

That's just beautiful. heheheh :)

As if I wasn't depressed enough, now you too are going to make me cry!

Don't cry. One day we will all meet on that beautiful little island up there, in the sky, where the immigration policy will be top notch and none shall clean thou toilet… ;P

lol, toilets will always need cleaning though, it just remains to be decided by who :)

Matyjasz, u didn't really answer commensense's position. He said that Polish people should not be allowed any benefits. U said, rightly, that they are but u didn't address his position of SHOULDN'T be entitled. What's ur take?

That's a pretty cheap shot there.

My views on immigration are not based on xenophobia or prejudice. They're just based on having to live with a system that's biased in favour of everyone else but the British.

some people are so far up their own arse with political correctness youve just got to take the p!ss out of them

Point 1: Rational people don't bang on and on about how Polish people should get out of the UK on a forum about Polish culture.

Point 2: Wanting your country to be well-run with a measured level of immigration is not xenophobic.
Point 3: I had been drinking last night.