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Mister H   
2 Sep 2012
Life / Polish Born Ethnic Minorities - are they integrated? [10]

I really hate when people bring up these horrendous topics.They may be born in Poland, but they are NOT, I repeat, NOT Polish!

And children born in the UK with Polish parents are ........ ?

And I know this will get deleted.

Which is a shame as it's a genuine question, I'm not trying to stir it up.
Mister H   
1 Sep 2012
Law / Legal Change of Name After Marriage (I'm UK, she is Polish) [12]

When you marry in the UK the marriage certificate can act as proof of a change of name.

You might be able to get the bank to change it to the female version with just a marriage certificate as bank staff are easily intimidated, but not sure about passports etc.

However, unless you're Polish and living in Poland, I don't get why this is something you need to do.

Why do you want it this way ?
Mister H   
1 Sep 2012
Life / Polish Born Ethnic Minorities - are they integrated? [10]

I'm thinking that there are not many non-white people in Poland having children, but there must be some.

What races do they tend to be and which cities / towns are they in ?

Are they integrated?
Mister H   
1 Sep 2012
UK, Ireland / Polish Family stabbed to death in St Helier. [40]

Regardless of where he ends up, he is a Polish national and therefore I do think that the Polish government should be stumping up something for his cost of his incarceration.

It's one of many badly thought out scenarious that don't seem to have been properly considered by those that dreamt up the rules of the EU.

Rzeszowski should either be deported to Poland and spend his time in a Polish prison or kept in somewhere like Broadmoor with the Polish government providing the cash.
Mister H   
1 Sep 2012
UK, Ireland / Polish Family stabbed to death in St Helier. [40]

Just found out - he has been held at Broadmoor (the highest security hospital in the UK) since the time of his arrest, so it's almost certain that he's going to spend a long, long time there.

Good! I hope he never sees the light of day again, at least not as a free man.
Mister H   
15 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / Poles robbing Poles in the UK [12]

But Marek Kowalczyk's motive for doing it not so amusing or the fact that he only got three years.
Mister H   
15 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / Renewing passports for children? We are back in the UK. [17]

Our Little boy was born in Poland when we registerd his birth they could only put my first name on the certificate.

How did you get him into the UK ?

but if he doesnt have a passport on him, how will you come back without being accused of God knows what?if I were you I would just apply for a British passport ASAP for him.

Indeed! Remember the days when children could be named on their parents' passports ?

How did things become so complicated ?!?!

Yes and you will pat yourself on the back in the future should the relationship go pear shaped. A Polish passport = Double Trouble

I hope that there comes a day when all these countries (both EU and non-EU), that few seem to want to live in and came here instead, manage to turn themselve around so that they all start flocking back only to be denied entry......having been told that their "British" children with their "British" passports will need to apply for all kinds of visas before being allowed in.
Mister H   
12 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / Renewing passports for children? We are back in the UK. [17]

I took from what the chap said that his young child is a Polish citizen. Therefore, surely they can't "just get him a British passport" ?

It can't be that simple to change someone's nationality just to make the issuing of a passport easier ?
Mister H   
9 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]

A sample of usual bashing of some Polish driver, driving a truck on Polish plates, they could not resist to leave it as they would do it if it was on English plates.

Utter rubbish !!

You pull over on the hardshoulder of the motorway, it's not long before you get some attention from the police regardless of the reg. no. of your vehicle.

It's people like you that cause trouble !!
Mister H   
9 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]

Nah,seriously,I saw this on the BBC the other night,the poor guy just lost it. Yes,he did make a fool of himself and yes it was quite funny in an uncomfortable *should I really laugh at the "special person" * sort of way but I honestly just think he'd had a hard week,got flustered,saw the cameras and just had a melt down.

Maybe. If you are questioned at the roadside by the police, you don't expect a TV film crew to be there too.

His truck must be pretty well-equipped though for him to be peeling spuds for his dinner.

there is something about PF that makes laughing at the 'special' people perfectly excusable... don't think of it as a malicious, schadenfreude-ridden chuckle rather an expression of your genuine relief and joyous gratitude that you are not that 'special' yourself -- in short: your heartfelt humility gone vocal

I think that's the internet in general.
Mister H   
7 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - the next generation [87]

In the UK you can work, in Poland theres nothing for many, nothing at all.

Fair point and I don't want to start a row about immigration, but it's not the role of the UK to solve all these problems and provide a way out for people.

We've enough problems of our own.
Mister H   
7 Jul 2012
UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - the next generation [87]

"Some" Poles may be leaving the UK and Ireland,but they are not necessarily returning to Poland.

So a Polish translator in a London hospital earns enough to buy an over-priced property in the capital ?

That says it all really about how far this problem has gone.

I wonder how Magdalena Grodzka will feel when her child feels more British than Polish.
Mister H   
18 Dec 2011
UK, Ireland / Polish is an official language in the UK? [68]

As Harry said, public information is published in many different languages here in the UK, one or two signs in Polish hardly make it an 'official language' - it's because the British are so polite..;)

Some might say we are too polite.

Spending money on roadsigns or leaflets from the council in various languages doesn't solve the problems caused by foreigners coming here to live that can't / won't learn English.

This is just like trying to use a plaster on someone that has just lost a leg to a shark.
Mister H   
18 Dec 2011
UK, Ireland / Polish Doctor in UK discriminiated and bullied against gets millions. [28]

Yep, discrimination and racism are wrong unless they are against Polish people, kunt's logic...

Why is she a different race ? Different nationality, yes, but a different race ??

Discrimination is always wrong, but this amount of compensation is insane!
Mister H   
3 Nov 2011
UK, Ireland / Websites for Poles to benefit from Britain! [210]

,uk is a multicultural society now and far richer for it.

Multicultural ? Yes.

Richer for it ? It's not a simple "yes" or "no" answer.

Maybe for Guardian readers that live in the nicer parts of the country and don't feel invaded it is a "far richer" place with a few foreigners.

Controlled immigration is fine, be we don't have that in the UK.
Mister H   
3 Nov 2011
UK, Ireland / Moving cost from UK to Poland (Gdansk) - Anyone heard of IMove International? [16]

Wow could it be?? A Pole going back to Poland after getting a taste for the UK???

It's comments like that, Hudson Hicks, that make it harder to have rational and sensible discussions about immigration. Thanks for taking the debate back a step.

As for your question, Jars, I'm afraid I don't know but I wish you luck in your move :-)
Mister H   
16 Aug 2011
UK, Ireland / Polish Family stabbed to death in St Helier. [40]

The last time they had a murder on the island was in 2004.

The crime rate is very low, mainly due to it being an small island with a small population and nowhere to run and hide.

It's always been a place that I have thought very difficult to into to live unless you were filthy rich. It is a tax haven after all.

It sounds like a crime of passion, but even so...killing your children...

What happened is very sad.
Mister H   
18 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK not a problem as far as i can tell [79]

It's a Polish forum so can be less civilised than 1st world forums. A reflection of this society.

Regardless of that, I still think that the word used by Wroclaw Boy in post 14 is not nice and not really acceptable.

And I'm not trying to be PC just for the hell of it.

George Galloway, a Scottish MP, talking about Polish workers and how good they are. He sees it well. I agree with him on almost everything.

Is Galloway still an MP ? I thought he stood down after being an MP for the Respect Party.

Either way, I think his rather tired arguments about British workers being lazy and not turning up for work etc are a bit unfair. Yes some are lazy, but many are not.

He doesn't make for a good radio host as he is too biased.
Mister H   
17 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK not a problem as far as i can tell [79]

Two days later three guys fitting the same description robbed a paki shop at knife point.

I hope you haven't taught your daughter that word.

Nice to see that this forum is so well moderated.
Mister H   
17 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / Polish Migration to the UK - A moderate speaks! [41]

I'm British. I live in Bognor Regis.

I live just along the coast to you in Brighton.

It is a similar story here in that there are a lot of Eastern Europeans here (not too sure where from as I'm not all that good with accents, but Poland, Hungary and Lithuania would make sense).

There are a lot of foreigners here in general.

On the one hand it's nice to mix things up a bit, but on the other hand you can have too much of a good thing.

We simply do not have enough room for so many people.

I feel like a guest in my own town and it's not uncommon to not hear an English voice on my street all day.

When I go shopping, say for example in the local Tesco, I often feel I am the only one speaking English.

That's not to say I hear Polish spoken all over the place, it's pretty much every language under the sun.

I also feel like a guest at times.

I can't believe I find myself agreeing with David Cameron on capping immigration and the failure of multiculturalism!

You may agree with him (and I do as well), but what is he really doing to follow through on his election promises ?

More to the point, what can he do ?

Anything he wanted to introduce only includes immigration from outside the EU anyway.
Mister H   
14 Mar 2011
UK, Ireland / A Mexican-Polish citizen is moving to UK by summer 2011 [38]

that's such a rubbish sweeping statement, and goes against any kind of personal knowledge I have of immigrants, old and new.

It's what I deduce from my dealings with the immigrant community. There are, quite simply, far too many foreigners in the UK now and a significant amount are the dregs of society.

Yes there are losers and "dogs" who take advantage of our system. The biggest and laziest losers I have ever met, however, have sadly been fellow English. Three generations on benefits, and the expectation of council housing as a "right", and no intention of ever contributing anything except to the workload of social services.

I agree that there is a home-grown problem of British people on benefits that have so many children as a result of various different "relationships" that they are more like litters than families. The difference is that they are our citizens (unfortunately) so we either take their benefits away from them or let the madness continue.

I'd start by putting something in the water supply to all the council estates to make them all sterile.

People I have met from other countries, including Poland, have genearlly been hard working and determined. The only ones I really object to are Big Issue selling Romanians, and Albanian pimps. Sadly British people cannot make these observations without being labelled as "racist" by screaming Bliarites.

The Guardian and The Mirror have a lot to answer for.

I merely report what I see...:)

So do I ........
Mister H   
12 Mar 2011
UK, Ireland / A Mexican-Polish citizen is moving to UK by summer 2011 [38]

I also, think that all this haggling and fighting over benefits is like fighting over a scraps and leftover from a master table!
It actually make you a dog, I refuse to be a dog and growl at the dogs from a neighbourhood because they pick few of my master leftover !
He doesn't care

I agree with you, however, uncontrolled mass-immigration leaves us with the dogs.

The majority of decent immigrants with skills and a desire to fend for themselves have probably already been and gone having earned enough money to build or buy a house "back home".

Those that have stayed and are not reliant on state handouts here are keeping themselves under the radar.

The majority of those that stay contribute little to the economy and cost millions.
Mister H   
12 Mar 2011
UK, Ireland / A Mexican-Polish citizen is moving to UK by summer 2011 [38]

Its down right worrying. The extent of this mass Polish immigration to the UK has a long way to go in order to play itself out.

The extent of mass immigration in general still has a long way to go before there is any kind of result.

I've a feeling it will end in tears.
Mister H   
8 Mar 2011
UK, Ireland / UK: How to create a perfect scapegoat? [54]

I don't think that it works quite like that. I think that monies are being spend freely by politicians!
Also, I think that any-system which compel people to pay is simply an abuse and tax in disguise!

You don't have any choice if you pay NI and tax. Everyone does.

What amazed me at first when I come to live in the UK is the impression that this is a country under the occupation by the foreign power. It seems that the every aspect of "britishness" is targeted and destroyed. Slowly, but systematically.

Five or so years ago I wouldn't have agreed with you, but it's obvious now. The Labour government were anti-British and wanted to destroy as mush of the British way of life a possible in favour of some multi-cultural utopia that will never exist.

What you get instead is the British fleeing the inner-cities and leaving them to the immigrant under-class.

There was a report leaked to the press a year or so ago admitting that the Labour Goverment wanted to "rub our noses" in multi-culturalism.

Cars with the Polish plates are destroyed almost everyday.

I've been tempted to drag a key along the side of Foreign registered cars (not just the Polish though, just all EU plated cars) but I would never actually do it. I get hacked off that they swan about without paying road tax / MOT like the rest of us.

I have a question,after 3 months of work in the UK I am entitled to how many weeks of GBP 250/week unemployment benefits????

Basic JSA (Job Seeker's Allowance) is about £50 per week and after six months you would be expected to be in work. You can also be deported after six months of not working.

However if you have a family with young children you will be quids in.

One of the rather underreported things is just how much crime was brought to the UK - a friend of mine is of the opinion that Poland simply exported the criminal scum to the UK.

The UK's immigration policy is meant to attract the "brightest and the best" according to the speeches, but what we end up with people speaking jibber-jabber everywhere you go that look blankly at you when you ask them a question in English.

I don't know much about the crime figures, but those from the "new EU" are some of the biggest defaulters when it comes to loan and credit card repayments.
Mister H   
8 Mar 2011
UK, Ireland / UK: How to create a perfect scapegoat? [54]

Why do you think the British government doing this to this country? There has to be some logic reason behind this.

I really do not know and I wish I did is the honest answer.

I will need to sleep on it and get back to you :-)