Are you Poles proud of your country? Then why do you keep coming to Britain?

Statistics are freely available if you are interested.

You live only to gather coloured paper? It shows their materialism. Are you a proud materialist, grubas? Why abandon your family for a dismal life that only brings you some money?

Family life, being with those that speak your own language, building from within and enjoying your own culture. Enough?

You can very easily find the stats. If you find the one with the graphs. You will notice the big increase to half million coinciding with 1st May when benefits were given regardless of ever working here.. So really they are helping Poland by unburdening them. Only 1 in 13 is considered High Skilled they are the ones Poland needs to keep hold.

Good post, SS :)

Poles keep coming to Britain because they heard that British food is one of the worst in Europe and they want to check it out. Poles are just great experimentators.

I like your joke postings, pawian :) You can be serious sometimes and light-hearted/jokey at others. This one was a good joke post that made me laugh. Both parts were funny! Thanks!

Abandon your family, ok that's one way of looking at it. Face the heartbreak of leaving your family in order to provide for them and make sure they have a better start in life than you did is another. I say potato you say <insert something mildly xenophobic but in all fairness really rather quite amusing> let's call the whole thing off

What is it that you think they do in GB that would get them so much more than here in Poland? GB is an expensive country and what if they had a kid? Are you going to uproot them when the welfare of the child is paramount?

The money on offer for a low-mid skilled job in GB is higher than that in Polska (for the moment although I believe that will change given time).

Have a kid where here or in Polska? Please clarify.

Edit: Are you actually based in Polska?

They do get more but that is likely offset by the cost of living, flights back home from time to time and the natural desire to be more lavish away from home and with more disposable income.

I mean any uprooting of a child when you put them into a school system without a settled intention to stay there.

Seanus, I believe I may have been a bit harsh on you a couple of posts back and for that I apologise.

The people that I know that are over from Polska do not tend to be "more lavish" due to being away from home. The students tend to act in the same way as I acted as a student and the ones over to work tend to be very very careful with their cash and try to save and send money back home - you try getting a pint out of a Polish plumber! :)

It's not for the women anyway.

A bit harsh, why? I didn't interpret it what way :)

Some save well but many blow their cash quite freely.

So are brits proud of their own country? Is that why they go to other countries to get drunk and behave like pr1cks, thus disgracing their country's name?

To be fair, Brits tend to go for stag parties and the like. They are twats though.

There are dicks of every nationality. Kowno?

Let's keep Kaunas out of this. Hudd, are you proud to be Polish? Where do you work here?

Seanus, when I was a young lad, I used to consider myself half Polish (due to the fact that my parents were Polish and it was the language/cuture that I grew up with) and half English (as I was born here). Due to the amount of crap I got off my peers I thought ***** you all, you're gonna slag me for something? I'm gonna be it 100%".

So, in answer to your original question, I am very proud to be Polish!

I work as a software engineer in a company that I shall not name ;)

Aha, ok. Don't you feel 1,200,000 to be ridiculous?

What a load of bollox.You were brought up in Yorkshire with a Polish name and you try to say that made you stand out,lols,pull the other one fella, I knew plenty of kids part,full,a teeny bit Polish growing up,none got hassle for being Polish,one or two did simply for being pr!cks though :)

Where did you get this number from? I would say 600 000 at most.

you would be well wrong ,again,ironside.

OK, so I'm a prick then. It's fantastic that everyones experience of growing up is identical isn't it? I bow to your superior knowledge of my childhood. Well done.

Edit: If you're going to resort to petty name calling, why don't you call me a "dirty ******* immigrant" as I was called at school? So much better than "prick" eh?

again? I may be wrong, on the other hand I may be right.

statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=2369

mener sa vie a la perfection

Sorry, I struggle to accept that you took crap for being Polish in Huddersfield. Perhaps the new wave of Poles can lay claim to that but not the old and bold and I object to you trying to infer that an area like Huddersfield has had some sort of long standing anti Polish sentiment because that couldn't be further from the truth.

Without being rude, perhaps there was something else which made you a target, kids can be cruel but being Polish descent wouldn't have been one of them in the Huddersfield I grew up in. Indeed, all through my youth I heard nothing but good things about the Polish especially from my Grandfather who fought alongside them. My best friend was called Robert Szostak whose grandfather fought at Arnhem.

Huddersfield had a large Polish and Ukranian community long before the new wave arrived. The Polish and Ukranian communities were highly regarded and formed an essential part of the Huddersfield community. Both the Ukranian club and the Polish club long established venues for the respective communities.

All Saints High in Bradley was the school of choice for the Irish and Polish communities (Catholic School) which I attended and there were NEVER any problems for the Polish kids. Why would there be? All Saints had one of the best reputations of all the schools in Huddersfield.

Following the war the Polish became part of the fabric of Huddersfield. Crowthers Mill were a big employer of the Polish when they arrived in Huddersfield.

I don't dispute that there may be some issues now with the new wave but not those that arrived after the war........Sorry, I'm not buying it.

telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/3243069/Financial-crisis-A-third-of-Poles-driven-home-by-recession.html here. 1,200,000 came but perhaps a third went home.

Agree with the bulk of what you say but I have to ask your age group. I started at All Saints in 87

Please see above link I posted. I would rather believe statistics than a newspaper.
What says you ?

I started All Saints in 81 and left in 86.

I grew up in Marsden and the Marsden/Slaithwaite area had a large Polish community (because of Crowthers)

My uncle married a Polish girl (Polish Mother, English Father) from Slaithwaite and they moved to Canada.

I'm not saying that you didn't take crap for having a Polish surname but if you did I can say with some certainty it was not the norm.


Advice, there are currently 6 million Brits living abroad.

Why aren't they in GB?

i would bet none of them are cleaning their host's crap splatter off toilet bowls, though.

You would lose your bet a$$hole.