Immigrant Workers. Just Taking Care Of Business Baby.

A couple of years ago, the European Union expanded to include some east European countries. This resulted in a wave of immigrant workers flooding into Britain. The Government had forecast about 13,000 people would come. They got it a bit wrong as up to now, we’ve had nearly half a million people come here to find work.

Their coming, however, was timely. Throughout Britain, industry was complaining that there was a shortage of skilled workers. Factories just couldn’t get the people to do the mundane manual stuff. In short, British industry was heading for a major crisis. This was exacerbated by the fact that even new employees fresh from university were unable to read and write properly. Or so the CBI claimed. In fact, it’s a claim that is still prevalent today.

So you can imagine the sighs of relief when people from eastern Europe came. Not only did they prove to be willing workers, but they were also found to be highly educated, qualified and skilled. Since the borders first opened, there have been loads of stories of how they have proven to be good at their jobs. They are happy with wages that are lower than a Brit would expect, because even at the national minimum rate, their wage is far superior to what they would get in their own countries.

I’ll tell you now. I speak from experience.

I was trying to run nightshift production lines in a food factory when the Poles and Slovaks came. I was struggling with the English crews I had at the time and I initially dreaded the East Europeans arrival. No one was able to speak their language and apparently they did not have good English. Things didn’t look good.

How wrong I was. Within a week of the new people starting I had three lines running as opposed to one. I had workers who not only proved to be able to do any chore I gave them, but they were motivated, adaptable and reliable. It didn’t matter how boring and repetitive the job was, it got done right all the time, every time. In short they were awesome. They worked like Trojans. Some just never took a day off. They just kept on going.

Engines! These people are here to work; to take care of business. And how!

In fact, the east Europeans put the English to shame, showing them up for what they were, and still are: incompetent, lazy, untrustworthy, insubordinate and just plain unreliable. With one exception, I ended up refusing to have any English on my lines at all.

I’ve said this before, and I’ll keep on saying it. If I had the chance to start a company, I would employ Poles, Czechs and Slovaks. With a crew of these workers I could take on the world, and beat it. I wouldn’t bother with the English.

And it appears I am not the only one. Many others are singing their praises too, especially in the building and building maintenance trades. In fact, wherever you care to look, the Eastern Europeans are making themselves very welcome indeed.

So, the opening of our borders and the influx of East Europeans saved the bacon of British industry. But things got better still. They also integrated well with the communities amongst whom they found themselves.

So all in all, everything was hunky dory. However, it seems that things have changed and there is something a bit nasty in the breeze. Oh yes! Something evil this way comes.

Bulgaria and Romania are to join the EU next year and all of a sudden there is a problem with folk immigrating to find work. Councils are complaining that there are too many people and they have not the money to look after them all. There are complaints that the infrastructure cannot cope with so many people coming in to the country, not enough schools, hospitals and the like. There are claims that the benefit system will buckle under the increased load of the increased claims from more immigrants. There will not be enough housing. There have even been claims that because the East Europeans work for less money, they are taking out jobs.

I’m going to straight with you here and say I think that this is all pure treachery of the highest order. What makes it worse for me is that I see and hear about Muslims getting everything they want and yet East Europeans are getting no chance at all. In fact, they are being shit on from a very great height. And it is the Poles and others who are contributing more to this country’s prosperity.

Lets have a bit of a closer look at the arguments being made for restricting entrance to the British Isles.

The claims of local government that they cannot cope with many more immigrants is surely just rubbish. When economic immigrants come here they come to work and so are contributing to the national wealth by their taxes etc. Very few, if any, are expecting us to subsidise them. So where do the councils suffer? Surely the more people who are working and living in their area, the more they’ll benefit? So why are they whinging about not having enough money to look after every one. I fail to see their argument.

It also beggars the question; what exactly are our local government doing with our money? Where the hell has it gone?

I can see the point about the local infrastructure creaking under the strain. But, why can no improvements be made. Where I live in Cornwall, the population in summer increases at least five fold. So why can’t we cope with a thousand (at most) or so immigrant workers who contribute a lot more to the local economy than a weeks worth of holiday makers? I mean, the local A&E, clinics and hospitals manage. We don’t have sewerage flowing down the streets do we, nor are our roads in grid lock. As for our schools being over subscribed. I don’t think so. Statistics have shown that out of the 450,000 people who have come here to work they brought less than 7000 dependants (including wives and parents; not just school-age children). I hardly think 7000 people spread across the UK and Ireland is likely to put enormous strain on our education system, do you? No, I didn’t think so. Again, I think people are just scaremongering.

On to the supposedly buckling benefits system. No, I just don’t think so. Did you know that for a foreigner to be able to claim any kind of benefit in this country, they must have been in full time employment for a minimum of sixteen months. That’s nearly one and a half years.

Just as a point of interest. Out of the half million people who have come here from Eastern Europe, barely several hundred are claiming any kind of benefit. That’s a real burden that is, isn‘t it. Yep, we’re really suffering aren’t we.

Housing. Yeah well, I’m afraid they are just like the rest of us. If you cannot afford to buy, you rent and pay the going rate. So it’s not as if they get special rates is it. And despite what folk say, there is plenty of rented accommodation going asking. So I think the chat about lack of housing is another load of bollocks.

And lets be honest here. If we have trouble affording the rents in this country, I’m pretty sure they will too. Get my drift?

And finally. Apparently, all these immigrants are taking our jobs. Are they? Since when? It wasn’t that long ago they were doing the jobs us Brits didn’t want. I must point out here, that they are doing the work, DOING the work. Not taking it. C’mon, get it fuckin’ right here. It seems where the average Brit bricky or plumber likes a spot of tea break, his Polish or Slovak counterpart on the other hand, prefers to work into the small hours. They just don’t stop.

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, just in case y‘all forget. If I had the chance to start a company, I would employ Poles, Czechs and Slovaks. With a crew of these workers I could take on the world, and beat it. Bollocks to the English.

It wasn’t that long ago that the Poles etc… were digging us Brits out of the shit because we either didn’t have the people with the relevant skills to fill job vacancies or we just didn’t want the jobs at all. And how do we repay them? By complaining about them being here.

Do you know what I think. I think we Brits are a bunch of ungrateful shits. And it’s not the first time we have disgraced ourselves. We complained about the Americans being here in WW2. Y‘know, over paid, over sexed and over here. Saved our arses though didn’t they? We invited people to Britain immediately after to help with the post war rebuild. Then we posted “No Irish, No blacks, No Dogs” notices in our B&B windows. How’s that for gratitude to the Commonwealth soldier whose faught his way up through Italy and into Germany. Fuck yeah.

This time though, it’s the Poles who are catching the flak. Strange though, because this time the abuse appears to be coming from above, and not from your average farty on the street.

There seems to be a tide of nationalism that is quietly rising from deep within the bowls of the Great British establishment. It’s not got to the stage of out right racism yet but the increasingly simmering resentment will eventually develop into something very sinister indeed. And it seems to be coming from people who are supposed to be looking after our interests and not the ordinary man-on-the-street. Scarey.

I wrote a piece recently decrying multiculturalism and I stated that it just doesn’t exist. And here we have the proof. Even when people arrive in this country to work and help us, we still are unwilling to embrace them. And in the case of the Poles this is particularly strange.

Let me tell you a bit of a yarn. Well, a bit of a history lesson actually. When WW2 kicked off, many Polish servicemen managed to escape to England. The pilots amongst them promptly offered their services to the R.A.F. It’s just as well too. Because during the Battle Of Britain, the Polish fliers where regarded as the most ferocious of any combatant in the air. They gave no quarter at all. The Germans were absolutely terrified of them. What the Poles did was turn the Hurricane into a weapon of mass destruction. They had to be put under direct orders not to ram German aircraft when out of ammo. Now, I’m not detracting from our own boys here (God forbid), but even the British pilots acknowledged the Poles as absolutely fearless. It was literally a case of show them a black cross or swastika, and let them off the leash.

Let’s make things plain shall we. We, the British, owe the Poles and the Czechs big time. Of that there is no doubt in my mind. So I think it’s time we showed a bit of gratitude and humility, especially from the good and the great of this land.

So I think it’s time for the good and the great to shut up. If people want to have a go at foreigners, kick off at the Muslim arsehole making his bombs in a flat in Manchester or Birmingham. Not the Pole or Slovak whose trying to take care of business so he or she can send money back to their family.

Again…

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, just in case y‘all ’ve forgotten already. If I had the chance to start a company, I would employ Poles, Czechs and Slovaks. With a crew of these workers I could take on the world, and beat it. The English? Bollocks!

I’m in a different job now. I’m out of the factory. And I’ll tell y‘all the truth. I sure as hell miss Duris, Petra, Peter, Lydia and the crew. Good people, maaannnnn! Real good people.

And in these graceless times, that’s rare. Really rare.

Immigrant workers. If they’re from Eastern Europe? Absolutely definitely. Recommended!