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Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]
statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/adhoc_analysis/2012/nat_nino_regs.pdf
See above for number of Polish benefit claimants.
"There are, in fact, fewer than 7,000 Poles claiming the Job Seekers' Allowance. Indeed, there are fewer than 13,000 JSA claimants from the "Accession Eight" countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Slovenia). Whatever else these eastern europeans have been doing in Britain, they've not been mooching off the benefits system. And it is a lie - dirty and simple - to suggest they are. "I think the problem is and this has been the issues before with previous waves of immigrants, Asians, West Indians, ghettoisation.
Although the Polish effect can be felt in London, due to London being a melting pot for all and sundry it merely adds flavour to the capital and youth, both absolutely necessary for London, which is it's own world, quite separate from the rest of the UK.
However, in the rest of the UK certain towns and areas have had mass influxes of Poles and other Eastern European nations for example, Luton, Boston, Doncaster, Swindon etc the established communities often sustained by SMEs and agriculture have felt the impact of the new arrivals.
Amongst the new arrivals businesses have been built by Poles and for Poles, which often exclude the established British people, food shops, hairdressers, mechanics, builders etc, BUT they tender for business within both communities, thus taking away business from Brits AND making money exclusively from their own.
Regarding property, many town centre's have older properties which are split into bedsits and small flats, often inhabited by people on benefits and low incomes.
Since many of the new arrivals share rooms etc and WORK and pay their rents, this has displaced again the original british communities and created ghettos within cities and towns. Many shop assistants and low paid positions ARE taken by Poles IN town. This makes people feel the whole place has Turned Polish.
This pattern is exactly what happened when large numbers of commonwealth citizens began immigrating from the 50's onwards.
When the Jamaican's began arriving from the 50's inhabiting areas in London there was tension and resentment by Brits in those areas, again when Indians and Pakistanis began arriving and establishing communities again more resentment.
The resentment and fear of the Alien, the Unknown is comprehensible and actually a rational response.
In the USA a country built on mass immigration the speed at which the Hispanic community is growing unsettles many Americans, Black, White, Yellow, Pink and Blue.
Change is unsettling.
