I’ve been trying work out why there’s Polish shops and the odd Polish sign here and there and why any European workers you hear about tend to be from Poland – as opposed to Lithuanian or Estonian or one of these other Eastern European countries.
Is it because Poland has a high population (36 million) and the country’s a bit skint? If so, why aren’t there tons of Ukrainians over here? They’ve got 46 million, and I’m assuming they’re a bit skint anaw.
Tell me why.
And while you’re at it, why do all the Polish guys have crew cuts and coach jackets?
Ukraine isnt in the EU but I think they realised they fucked up the Poland thing and so countries that are added now cant just do a mass export of their people, thats maybe what you are seeing. Anyway, half of Latvia has immigrated, you just dont see them unless you frequent strip joints like me.
No, no, not coach Jackets, those weird leather jackets with red racing stripes and sponsorship patches.
there aw on the top floor of the glasgow met college,,,,,its like there base
Ukraine isn’t an EU country therefore their citizens aren’t free to work in the EU. Poland joined the EU in 2004 and that’s when the barrier was lifted and they were free to work elsewhere in the EU without needing to apply for special permission. Bulgaria and Romania are the most recent EU countries so prepare for that new influx.
“The government predicted there would be 15,000 people a year from the new EU member countries moving to the UK for work.
But between May 2004 and June 2006 the government approved just over 427,095 work applications.
More than half of those – 264,560 – are from Poland. The other migrants on the worker registration scheme are from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
When the last tranche of countries joined the EU in 2004, the UK was one of only three countries to give full work rights to their citizens.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5273356.stm
Because Poland is in the EU. If you take all the Eastern European countries that joined a few years ago, then Poland counts for more than half of the new EU citizens. Normally when a country joins the EU, there is a 5 year period that has to pass before the citizens of that country have the right to work and reside in any other EU country. Most European coutries observed that, but as most need migrant labour, they made expections and put in place a work permit scheme. So Germany might give a work permit for a dentist or a teacher. The UK put in place a work permit scheme, but largely as paper formailty as we are more desperate for workers.
So out of all the EU countries Ireland and the UK are the easiest ones to legally move to. Also, the second language amongst most young Eastern Europeans is English. Another factor is the government are trying encourage people to settle in other areas rather than all going to London.
A Ukranian moving to Scotland would have to have a visa, and jump through all the immigration stuff that you or I would have to do to work and live in the USA for example. Ukrain is also part of the Russian sphere of influence, when they eventually enter the EU, this will change. But they have too much gas for Russia to let them go.
I have an idea about the crew cuts and jackets. I was in Moldova and I went to a student union bar. Moldova has the same situation as Poland, in fact its the poorest country in Europe. Now Molodvan/Polish students are really poor. Every guy in the bar (and I mean every guy) had a shaved head and a coach jacket, a black jersey, jeans and Doc Martin style boots. Everyone. It must just be cause its cheap. And when people graduate, they still like to look like students. I walked in and they looked at me like I was some kind of movie star. That guys got hair. He even puts wax in it. The Polish female students, on the other hand, were like something out of a porn film. Amazing.
Aye well Limmy it’s only a matter of time before every cunt is here. I wouldn’t mind as long as we could ship the neds tae fuck over there. One in one out! That’s the way it should be and before anybody starts…… no I’m no a nazi!
You should come to visit Govanhell Limmy, be a minority in your own country, it’s braw!
I’ve witnessed some of our east european brothers shopping in scummerfield and packing their shopping into a trolley-dolly case at the check oot.
Also red jogging bottoms and black school shoes is a popular look amongs the roma gypsies from slovakia.
A czech dude called Norbert tiled by bathroom for “shiksty qweed” and done a fine job.
Mon the foreign cunts!
the real question isnt whether they are poor or not, or even why they all have the same haircut – its how youve got so much money you can afford to just sit about your house all day watching columbo, eating lemon cake, and writing the odd blog about the polish having the same hair cut.
“Every guy in the bar (and I mean every guy) had a shaved head and a coach jacket, a black jersey, jeans and Doc Martin style boots… The Polish female students, on the other hand, were like something out of a porn film”
I was talking about something like this last night: in Scotland or Ireland the attractiveness of men and women are pretty much equal, right? So for example you’ve got say 30% of men and women are good-looking, about 40% are varying degrees of awright, then 30% look like something oot a sci-fi. But wi East Europeans, it’s a completely different kettle of fish: about 95% of women are stunning and 95% of men are like the above, with faces like boiled ham. It’s no right, and someone should do something about it.
My next door neighbour is from Moldova and fits the stereotype to a tee. Crew cut, awful dress sense and will plaster your ceiling for a hunner quid.
I saw a sign attatched to a lampost in Paisley yesterday that said “Polish Plasterer 0777…….”
What difference would the fellas nationality be if he plastered your house?
pretty soon this country will be fucked
Don’t know much about Poles but trolley dolly shopping ‘bags’ are the way forward.
mmmm I am a 1/4 polish, but that doesn t make sense… might be i can have a week work when i come over in the easter…..(;), nah wait i just will surf aroon doin nothing.. just chill my arze and have some pints of water or some alcohole (maybe):) Have a real craic..
Happy weekend to yer all
If I was from a country that had a struggling economy and bleak prospects for the future I would leave for another.
In that case, see ye later i’manalligaotr! Hahaha!
Limmy, I bet someone else cracked that joke aboot see ya later alligator and you just moderated it out, claiming it as yer own!!
And Scandanavian Lassie, have you kicked off on the booze early doors? What you’ve typed seems as if you’re oot the game already!
Aww man, and I’ve pure got Scandinavian spelt wrong… what a beamer. Maybe no-one will notice…
Gee:yer reet ; ahm oan da red naw..cheers.
I have never seen a Pole withoot a leather Jaiket!
its like a demob suit when ye leave the army after the war.
They must hand them oot for free at the airport when they arrive.
Do the Poles doon in central wear amazingly over powering aftershave too?
Nothing wrong with Poles though, good grafters!
Polish plasterer? Makes perfect sense.
Hmm, what about the time Magggie fae the Broons was seeing the half-French half-Polish guy? So when Maggie invites him tae the hoose for tea, Hen’s oot buying French wine, Horace is into the Polish dictionary etc.
Much hilarity ensues when Maggie turns up with her latest paramour and he’s giein it big licks Glesga patter.
That’s right: he’s not a “French Polisher” but a french polisher? How we laughed. Plaster of Paris etc.
you mind the time they went to the butt and ben? That was classic. I can’t remember exactly what happened, but paw was drookit, grandpaw made an arse of himsel and maw was black affrontit. And daphne got aw moist over Rock Hudson.
Here wiz it no’ “Hawk Rudson” Robin?
There was also the time when the bairn came home to announce that granpaw was having a fight. They aw piled round en masse, burst in his door to discover granpaw actually was just having a shite.
They were aw black affrontit.
The broons also enjoyed a slap-up meal for special occasions tae.
Daphne was a SLAG.
True, it was clearly bitin’ the leg aff big daphne. I’d have rode maggie, even though she wiz only a monochrome pen n’ ink drawing.
There ye are!
I had my flat rented out to a Polish guy and his girlfriend for about 18 months. They left it so perfect, so IMMACULATE, when they moved out that I thought I was imagining things. They had literally replaced the jar of coffee I left for them with a fresh one. Fair play to them, if they want to come here and do all the jobs here that people think they’re too good for and do them well I think it’s a good thing. People in this country as lazy as fuck – all the ones that go on the sick all the time need a hiding, it’s a total joke. There’s an old dear at my dad’s bools that is “on the sick” with a sore back or some shite and still goes bowling all the time. I’m dying to grass her up…the manky auld cunt.
No, no, not coach Jackets, those weird leather jackets with red racing stripes and sponsorship patches.