(UK) Would like to send all Poles back home?Who would replace them as workforce.?

Answer 1

thats a very fine line u r walking on there me ode! where is your source to say UK wants to send all poles back, and why|? the polish peeps i work with, work a damn site harder than the rest of the posse!

Answer 2

In the south east where i live the poles have taken all the jobs for people looking to make money between school and university. Theres a polish clique thing going on where english people applying for such jobs are told 'we dont you'll fit in'. We dont have to send all the poles home but we dont need over 600,000 of them. And the polish government is now saying their economy is suffereing because all the engineering graduates are over here mopping up vomit in a hospital rather than engineering in poland - so is this what the EU is? Are all europeans going to adpat the 'if i go there i can earn more' attitude? As with everything in life there is a limit, when areas of the country become polish only - the line has been crossed.

Ladymoon: actually you said it even better than me, we dont need immigrant workers, we need to end benefits and get our own scumbags to mop up vomit in a hospital.

Drippery: do you really think getting rid of the poles and the USA sending back all the UK descendants is the same thing? Yes the uk expats left the uk but it wasn't so financially motivated and it such a short period in such massive numbers. Comparing the current immigration problem with Brit expats moving abroad is totally unrealistic.

Answer 3

No, I do not want to send them back to Poland. I echo some of your other respondents - Poles (and other immigrant workers) will do some of the horrible jobs that UK people think are beneath them. But those UK people would rather claim benefit than clean toilets, clean streets, look after demanding demented people in care homes, wash cars, and so forth. The Polish workers that I have met have always been taken 'under my wing' so I make sure that they learn English, for example. But then I also take them out for a drink and a meal and to clubs and to London, I try to stop them feeling isolated and lonely. But Polish people are the same as people everywhere, some will mix, some won't.
When I think about it, the issue is not Polishness or Englishness or anything like that, it comes down to being people, and to belonging to the human race.

Answer 4

There are far too many Poles here. We should have put a 250, 000 limit on Poles coming over here. They do work hard but they cost more than they bring in by overstretching the infrastructure.
The jobs they do are only there because the unscrupulous employers want to get away with paying low wages. Employers should be made to pay decent wages and provide training and help to employ local people and help local communities.
We have enough people here to fulfill this, the Poles are exploited..they feel resentful and a lot of people here are resentful toward them for being here using up our resources on an already overcrowded island.

Answer 5

Tricky one this. Yes, our infrastructure cannot cope with a sudden increase of people from eastern Europe, (not just pole's), but remember we also have many jobs which English people just will not do; either because it is a gutty job , or poorly paid. their wages are also put back into local community, so we do benefit. Anyway lots of us emigrate every year, and are welcomed in their new country. I think a full stop on immigrants after a certain date may be an idea to keep the balance, .then 4 to 5 years later open the gates again for a short period.

Answer 6

I would send a lot of them home. We have too many economic migrants right now.

As for who would replace them, well the skilled jobs could be filled by British workers who are either skilled but struggling to find work or who are unskilled but willing to train and need training to be able to take advantage of skilled opportunities (my partner is currently in this situation - unskilled but we cannot get funding or finance to pay his course fees for him to get a skill).

Perhaps the Government could start to GIVE a crap about its own people and offering funding for training courses so that British people who are currently doing crappy service industry work (callcentres etc for £6 per hour) or unskilled work could have a crack at a skilled trade and the opportunities for good pay which it brings.

The unskilled jobs could be filled by those who are currently claiming dole/incapacity benefit without good reason (stop all their benefits if they refuse). Also school leavers etc.

We don't need Poles as a "workforce". We need the Government to WAKE UP and see the potential within British workers - offer funding for those who want to train and force those who "don't want to work" into a job!!! Then the "Poles" would be totally superfluous to requirements.

Answer 7

I wonder how we would cope if all the other countries sent back to the UK all the Expats. There are 5 million UK descendents in the USA for example. Spain, France and Italy have huge numbers of UK citizens living and working on their soils. So if we send home the Poles, I would expect the same to happen in every other country. The mass migration would cause total chaos.

Answer 8

No they cant all be sent home but - i think that they should at least have the decency to learn and speak english rather than shout at me in polish when they want something and i dont know what it is. It seems that they have not yet mastered the art of queuing up to get something as they seem to think its their right to go straight to the front. Also in my town there is lots of graffitti lately - maybe its not all polish but its certainly eastern european. A town not too far from me is full of immigrants - so much so that there is a feud between them all! This has lead to fights and evn more anti social behaviour, and unforunately murder. A lesser example of this is that at a local nursing home there were lots of immigrant workers - first problem, elderly people many with bad hearing cant understand them - the second problem is that half of the staff were polish, the other half lithuanian and the refused point blank to talk to each other! How can that be good? Surely thats also dangerous in a nursing home environment and now think of the employer - he cant get rid of one half and not the other because he'd be a racist. But he can hardly go on like it is now. Whats more everyone in Britain whos had a bad experience with immigrants or anyone who doesnt wish to sing their praises - is called a racist! How can that be right? Call me racist if you like but thats the truth and thats just things that i myself have seen. I know of plenty of other stories but i wont go into them. Its probably unfair to say 'poles' in every case because they receive alot of abuse where its other groups that are at fault. As for the workforce im sure it would be filled somehow, employers having to raise wages and conditions to attract people into jobs cant be a bad thing can it?

Answer 9

The Bulgarians and Romanians!
Already the Government want to lift the restrictions on employment for them as they are not enougj workers in London are fro the olympic city. And this is because Poles don't work anymore ,just claim benefit
This way the Poles won't abuse the system anymore regarding benefits

Answer 10

The problem is not so much the Poles, they are European people and have shown a real ability to adapt to the UK. It is the 2 million Muslim community which shows little sign of adapting to western civilisation which is the problem in my opinion. When the Polish living standard rises due to EU and western organisation some Poles will return to Poland. Muslims on the other hand have no organised and advanced country to return to.

Edit. We have just made the best country on earth, that is why they come for heavens sake , it is laughable that they leave a country which has failed ( that is why they leave)---then when in the UK they tell US that we cannot do without them. Boy! I have really heard it all now.

Answer 11

Since when the Poles are the work force in UK? For my knowledge there are more than one million British without a job. I don't think UK economy will crash for that either way.