The Rogarians Are Here: Busman’s Holiday For Eastern Bloc Tourists
“MORE than 8,000 East Europeans are coming every day,” says the Mail.
Says the Express: “650 arrive each day from EU states.” (Pic: Beau Do D’Or)
Happily, around 800,000 British households now own a second home abroad and the nation’s rain-soaked seaside boarding houses will be happy to take the new arrivals in.
But not all are here to stay. As the Mail reports, although around 600,000 East Europeans have moved to Blighty permanently since the EU expanded in May 2004, many of the arrivals are tourists and relatives en vacance.
“But no accurate record exists of how many of the visitors actually go home,” says the Mail. The fear is that the Poles are like the fabled Scots who went to Argentina in 1978 in search of glory and an experience and never returned.
The Mail looks at the Government’s £1.2billion electronic borders project (a Ken Bates-inspired electric fence). But it won’t be ready until 2014.
By then it may be too late and the number of Poles working here may exceed the number of Britishers lying in the sun over in Spain and Portugal.
And then there are the Rogarians, the Romanians and Bulgarians. The number of work permits handed out to Rogarians is limited to 20,000. But in the 12 months to June, around 210,000 people from Rogaria rolled into the UK.
Do they all stay? “One possibility is they are already investigating the jobs market ahead of any decision by the Government” to relax the quota, notes the Mail.
Looking for work? The swine!
One other possibility is that they are buying timeshare apartments in Tewkesbury - Where the Sea Comes to You!
Come to the UK – It’s bracing!
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August 15th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
I think if they took a referendum on whether or not the borders should be closed the overwhelming majority would say yes and would be sure fire vote winner. Why don’t they do it? Because of the vocal PC brigade that are given far too much air time on TV and the economy is propped up COMPLETLEY by the house market.
It’s neither an irrational fear nor racism etc, but the fact that we live in a very small country that makes me believe that the country is at a saturation point. I don’t want the trees outside my house chopped down to make way for new houses just like anybody else. And I can’t even go and have a pint without having to queue at the bar for 10 mins nowadays (although the bartender may just think that I’m a twat!). But I’m not sure the immigrants are having that much of an effect on house prices. For instance the population in Scotland is decreasing dramatically - 5 million to 3.5 in 20 year’s time according to reports. Yet the price of houses there has still risen by 40%. Its the bloody greedy landowners, moronic estate agents, and the desperate gullible pubilc fuelling soaring house prices.
August 14th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Poles to build homes on Poles will be the headline in the Mail; Not some dreadful story about the dead of Auschwitz-Birkenau being built upon to meet the needs of the new breed of yuppies that have thrived in “bargain Britain” but the latest scheme to allow this crazy mad cap labour government to meet it’s housing targets by building on flood planes using the hoards of Polish builders, chippies and sparkies.
Disgusted of Tewksbury will no doubt write in to complain about his view being spoilt. What what?
August 14th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Can the Poles be paid more to build our houses faster?
August 14th, 2007 at 10:54 am
But of course house prices are soaring!
Oops, I mean in East Europe where us British can get a mansion for a song (who cares about the displacement of the local populace who can’t afford to live there anymore so need to earn better money elsewhere to support their families).
August 14th, 2007 at 9:56 am
I hear you Daily Mail, but why no news of what this will do to house prices?