It's so bad here that even the Eastern Europeans are leaving

[unrepentant]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8059122.stm

So even the Polish plumbers have had enough of Brown's Britain and are hightailing it out.

However, the population is still growing from migration as there was a 27% rise in asylum applications last year.

In the year to September 2008 an eye watering 720,000 National Insurance numbers were issued to foreign nationals. So whilst unemployment in Britain grows at an alarming rate we are issuing 720,000 new work permits to foreign nationals. Does that make any sense?

[Dave_ST220]

No. Does anything they do make sense?!

[Bing o]

British workers are just as able to work in Europe - if they are too lazy to go, then more fool them.

[Tony*T3]

Forign workers ahve been leaving for well over a year, this is old news.

The issue is the £ falling through the floor against the Euro. 2 years ago £1000 would have got you E1500 to send home. Now your lucky to get parity.


Same in Europe. UK people dont want to work in the EU, earn euros, as now they get bugger all £'s back when sending money home.

[unrepentant]

Tony*T3 said:

Same in Europe. UK people dont want to work in the EU, earn euros, as now they get bugger all £'s back when sending money home.

Surely the opposite is true? You get more £ for your Euro so working in the Eurozone and sending the euros home and converting it to £ makes perfect sense?

[Six Fiend]

unrepentant said:

Tony*T3 said:

Same in Europe. UK people dont want to work in the EU, earn euros, as now they get bugger all £'s back when sending money home.

Surely the opposite is true? You get more £ for your Euro so working in the Eurozone and sending the euros home and converting it to £ makes perfect sense?

Exactly

[Plotloss]

They're actually coming back again as they've realised that there is a credit crunch in Poland too.