New arrivals

The Home Office released the figures for the new workers who came to the UK from the new EU countries in the last year, 345,000 from eastern Europe and that wouldn’t surprise anybody who drives in and out of London any day of the week with the number of Polish and Lithuaian plates, and anybody who needs a plumber, carpenter, brickie etc is probably glad they’ve come.

The government must be a little surprised though. They were the only one in the European Union to allow the people of the seven new member countries to immediately be able to freely come and work, the rest put a seven year delay on it.
Tony Blair’s official line was they were expecting a maximum of 13,500 applications and everybody thought he was either stupid or giving out a line of bullshit. It was bullshit.

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