do we really need more fruit-pickers, home-helps, toilet cleaners, leaflet distributors, windscreen washers (though I suppose if they're legal and there's a glut the price will go down)? . . .
2006-09-26 05:10:40 · 20 answers · asked by Astra 6 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
sorry, forgot the "cockle-pickers" . . .
2006-10-02 03:24:53 · update #1
Answer: "suicide bombers" - please don't put ideas into their heads with 20% or more of their population being Muslims! . . .
2006-10-02 03:35:16 · update #2
You're very rude about these people. I wonder what people think of you?
2006-10-03 23:30:51 · answer #1 · answered by bobbi 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The richer a society becomes, the more jobs there will be servicing that society. The UK has a highly urbanised, time-poor culture where people in work work long hours and no longer have the time, or the cultural encouragement, to do traditional labour-intensive jobs. There are whole industries that never used to exist - from washing & peeling our vegetables for us to caring for our elderly relatives - because we would rather pay someone else than do it ourselves.
So it is unsurprising that people from other communities, where they are used to hard work are happy to come and work for us.
The last thing we should be doing is criticising them!
2006-10-02 20:39:20 · answer #2 · answered by Bridget F 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Although they will join the EU next year it doesn't give them many rights immediately. They will be entitled to come to the UK as EU citizens as visitors for a maximum of three months but they will not be able to work. It could be as long as 7 years before they have automatic right of entry and the right to work here.
2006-09-26 06:51:39 · answer #3 · answered by bob kerr 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The trouble with having all these people from abroad who will work for next to nothing is that the low paid worker who have worked here for a pittance for years has no bargaining power to improve his/her lot, when it comes to a wage increase the employer can find an excuse to fire them and employ the newcomers.
2006-09-26 05:21:32 · answer #4 · answered by LondonNick 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
ASTRA, YOU MUST BE QUITE THICK TO ASK SUCH A QUESTION...
WHY DON'T YOU MOVE YOUR LAZY A** AND DO THESE JOBS YOURSELF THEN???!!! HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF BULGARIAN OR ROMANIAN SUICIDE BOMBERS..??? NO! BUT WHAT SEEMS THAT BOTHERS YOU MORE IS THAT THERE WILL BE MORE ''FRUIT - PICKERS, HOME - HELPS'' ETC COMING TO ENGLAND!!!!!! HAHA
2006-10-02 03:10:33 · answer #5 · answered by ib2003rhyme 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Better prey to not meet me after 1 january 2007
2006-09-26 21:39:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Racism rears its ugly head again. Put yourself in their position and would you say 'sorry we will not bother you.' Also ask yourself this question 'Why is our country in the EU?' You can be certain that there are still lots of advantages. In other words look at the Bigger picture.
2006-09-26 10:24:35 · answer #7 · answered by Drummer 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
the holidays are nice and cheap to Bulgaria the price will go up on every thing next year then.
2006-09-26 05:13:51 · answer #8 · answered by scooby.doo 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think it is enevitable now that we will have more people moving to this country looking for work, often the jobs people in this country can't be bothered doing or think it is beneath them to do those jobs.
Maybe what people in this country should be doing, instead of complaining, is applying and doing those jobs themselves.
Main concern would be the influx of criminals from those countries, with no real border controls, they would be fee to come and go as they please.
2006-09-26 05:24:01 · answer #9 · answered by GORDON P 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
This is the end of civilisation as we know it.
The next thing will be...letting Turkey join.
That will be the final nail in the European coffin.
2006-09-26 05:32:12 · answer #10 · answered by lordofthetarot 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋