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Polish Culture Centre defaced in London

There are now some really horrible stories with video and film coming out of different parts of the UK with some real low lives shouting abuse and threats at those not obviously white British.
Hope the police can clamp down on this before it spreads too far but it does depend on people having video, photographs etc.
 
Poles have entered the UK in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the entry of Poland into the EU. The EU brought about "free movement of labour" principles which meant hard working Poles could enter and work very often for much less than their British counterparts so wages have been depressed and communities have been affected by large numbers of Poles.

What has happened is those Poles work and pay taxes and those taxes have not been used to develop greater resources for the areas the Poles have settled in so there has been a lot of anger and resentment.

Hence "Brexit." Some people have proposed the EU result was about left vs right or about UK sovereignty or the return of "Rule Britannia" but the base reason was the anger of poor white communities where Poles have settled in large numbers and have been doing work for low wages. Some will say that they have undercut the British workers and others will say they do the work the UK workers won't do.

An excellent explanation IC. I moved from a pretty run down area, just over 2yrs ago. Whilst I was a home owner there was still a large number of social housing. As is the case in most parts of the UK, the demand is higher than the supply. Then one Polish family got one of the so called 'three bed prime houses '. A lovely family, who engaged the community and got involved in our resident activities. All this involvement did not deter people from groaning they got the house in the first place.
 
~ As is the case in most parts of the UK, the demand is higher than the supply ~

The shame is it didn't have to be this way. If the taxes from those workers and the rules on unemployed migrants coming and getting benefits before a job had been sorted years ago, there would have been much less resentment.
It's not just the white working class who were let down but the migrant workers who took the blame.
 
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