let's say for arguments sake, there is a 50/50 ratio of working-poles and sponging poles
I think 50/50 is an unrealistic rato for any ethnic group in the UK, even groups with higher unemployment it's 75/25 working to non working,it appears higher because severe unemployment s often found in pockets!
only lazy people are behind the British Empire, fought 2 World Wars, and created this economy that you all enjoy flocking to :)
The Britsh owe a huge debt to earlier generations, this is true, also to the many commonwealth soldiers and Carribean/Asians who arrived to work in the 1950's
(They certainly helped build the NHS).
The UK is not what it was years back, there is much better integration with other races and much less prejudice which is really great, but IMHO everything else has gone down the pan!!
Err we seemed to be doing OK pre-2004
No obviously not as well as people say!