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We knew all along that the story was too good to be true – certainly in London, Bristol and Hull. In recent weeks we’ve been told that Polish and other economic migrants from EU countries and Eastern Europe are going back home because of our recession. You only have to walk around the high streets and shopping malls in London and other city centres to know it’s not true: just take in the people and conversations around you. Now we hear that the fine city of Hull has a ‘Polish only’ jobs market springing up (Guardian, 16 March). So much for ‘British jobs for British workers’. A ‘Centre for Cities’ study in Hull and in Bristol has evidently found that neither city has experienced this ‘exodus of migrant workers’ either. In fact, 18% of these workers brought with them their partners, children or both – which is 22% above the national average. The report goes on to say: "(migrants)…are channeled into these jobs through recruitment agencies, many of which were unofficially ‘Polish only’. If you are not eastern European you are unlikely to go on the books. There are now two separate job markets in the city – one with long-term residents, the other with migrants." And yet the Guardian piece argues, bizarrely, that we should ‘do more to integrate those that want to stay’ (i.e. ALL of them) in order to help our economic recovery. So how does that work? We let them in to have jobs, homes and benefits, and that’s apparently going to help our own workers and citizens ? In the meantime, we need to STOP the influx of foreigners, not encourage it. We also need to REMOVE those who are here illegally, and we need to do it NOW. Is anyone in government listening?
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