Im Polish and I lived in UK for around 5 years. The job I "stole" was 12h shifts standing job in a factory. I hope Brits are happy to have it back for themselves 🎉 🌸💖✨🎉
These tensions are always the predictable result of nationalist thinking. It's Europe's most ridiculous self-inflicted problem. But I don't think it will go away either. The solution might not be completely open borders. It seems like that just makes it too easy for our enemies (Russia lately) to provoke our idiots (nationalists.) I was disgusted by the national mood in Britain over the past decade. I also left - although I'm not Slavic from Central/Eastern Europe.
Pay has gone up in many industries since Brexit so British workers and the Eastern Europeans who decided to stay living in the UK will be happy to take up those jobs again - but they'll want a decent rate of pay!
What i found hilarious as a double standard was that brits were calling newcomers "immigrants" and when brits immigrate somewhere they want to be called "Expats" because they find the former degrading but they have no problems slamming it right in the face of others.
I am Hungarian, living in the UK since 2007. I worked at an Indian family owned company for 7 years as a DC Operator, then as a Returns Administrator. Most of the warehouse workers were Hungarians, Polish and Romanian people working for minimum wage. Most with not perfect English, but TBH, it is not needed much for manual labour. All these workers were very hardworking and productive. Once we had a young white English girl who came to work there, in the SIM card scanning team. It was mostly a sitting job, scanning and packing thousands of SIM cards to be sent to the distribution shops. She left after a few weeks, because it was too hard for her and she could not keep up with the Eastern European ladies...We are not taking any jobs, we are doing jobs that British people are not willing/ able to do for MINIMUM WAGE. We are paying taxes and rent. Not getting anything for free. Just saying...
Hungarian here too. Used to live in the UK for 8 years. Started in a warehouse with zero english knowledge(I used to learn german, but didn’t want to go to german speaking countries) and after 2 weeks of difficult communication due to the language barrier, I felt so ashamed that I started to learn english every single day. 6 months later I’ve became a supervisor then another year and half later worked in the office as an analyst. We had 8 hours shifts in the warehouse, but overtime was always available due to high demand so our British Shift Managers were always approaching us(Eastern Europeans) if we’d like to do another 2-4 hours. And we mostly said yes, because it wasn’t hard and we’ve got paid. British colleagues always said no. I’ve seen Eastern Europeans(the highly educated ones like myself) climbing the ladder up so fast. We were willing to do the extra miles, the Brits were not willing to. Simple.
The English took over some cities in Spain but they don't speak Spanish and even refuse to speak learn it or they down on you when they you speak Spanish with them.. all this in Spain!
When I came to the UK 26 years ago and started working I felt privileged. There was a big economic difference between Poland and the UK. Today however I don't feel it at all. The rapid economic growth of Poland and the visible decline of the UK make me feel disappointed with my decision to live in the UK and I increasingly wonder if it was a good decision to invest the best years of my life in the UK. I have devoted my life to work, I have missed my son growing up. I have failed to form close social bonds. If I remain here in my old age I will be completely lonely living among strangers with whom I have nothing in common.
That's what happened The Irish in Britain in the 40s, 50s and 60s. Now we welcome our friends from Eastern Eutope. Oh there are the usual racist remarks but they are just uneducated people who are easily led by someone who looks important and speaks with a plummy accent. You find that in every country.
True, Poland's economy is doing great right now. Still the country has a lot to catch up, but it goes in the right direction. Bulgaria and Romania not so much.
During the Brexit referendum, I have heard one of the pro-Brexit politicians,saying something in the lines of: "We prefer Pakistanis over Eastern Europeans as they at least have the knowledge of Common Law". I cannot find the quote anymore, but I guess it aged like a fine milk.
As a German I want to take this opportunity to thank the Polish farmhands, Romanian truck drivers, and all the others who work so hard to provide affordable food for us. We can eat every day to the same standard as medieval king's holiday feast, and too many people take that for granted.
We have tons of Romanians, Georgians who claimed to be Ukrainians, bought themselves some pretty passports over there when the war started and are now happily leeching benefits. Just wanted to give some perspective, and thanks to anyone working an honest job to feed themselves.
Believe me... @lynnm6413 Those are not Romanians. Might have romanian citizenship but have nothing to do with our DNA The leeches you are talking about, are what we call "our stain". We often get confused with them.. Although Romanians never go for social welfare such as "stay at home, make 8 kids and let state pay me .." kinda storyline. No. We have degrees.. we have "eaten" books in frozen cold school classes.. our parents worked the fields from the first ray of sun till the first stars appeared.. just to make sure they keep us in school and away from any bad.. The reason most eastern move abroad is because our political systems are fecked! Really hard. And it's impossible to find a job that you busted your whole young life to get it..because the cousins of X Y Z politicians or someone who k ows someone who know someone else.. kinda shit. So we try to see if we are really good at what we learned or not.. and that means we reach other countries who appear to be more logical and open minded.. Until we realize that it's actually all a bs and west is still bound to racial slurs and do's... So.. A citizenship doesn't necessarily makes you a citizen of a country. If you only know how many Moldova citizens came to Romania, got their romanian citizenship and went England... 😅
Pole here. I have a master’s degree from the best (and most expensive) university in Poland, but struggled to find a job. So I moved to the UK, where I lived in England and worked my way up from sweeping floors to becoming an aerospace CNC programmer. Occasionally, I’d get asked, “You’re Polish? Nice! When do you plan to leave?” It was funny at first, but after a few years, I got tired of those questions. Eventually, I packed my bags, returned to Poland, and never looked back. That was in 2011. Now, I’m an international sales manager. We have an Englishman on the team who’s so good that he quickly became a manager as well. I never asked him when he planned to go back. Instead, I said, “Do you know any more people like you? If so, bring them over-we could definitely use 10 more people like Dave here.”
I worked with somebody in NYC with your background. Masters degree in tech communications. He started as the office maintenance person, handyman, plumber - this guy could do everything! Everybody loved him because he had a beautiful personality (but an intimidating appearance - dude was about 6”2 and ripped with a blonde buzzcut). He now speaks “American English” and supervises 30 people in one of the tech divisions, along with his Assistant Manager. His team loves him. He is fair and patient but very structured, easy to work for.
I'm a British migrant in Germany. The day after Brexit in our village people kept coming up to me saying "Will you be okay, how can we help?" I gained citizenship about 6 months later...
I love both Poles and Brits, but it's not 100% fair to compare.. Before brexit UK had many problems that populist politicians blamed on immigrants and people believed.. some people are not the smartest
The English did not want Poles, Czechs, Lithuanians, Hungarians in England who would already be English in the second and third generation, now they will have Pakistanis, Arabs and Africans, who in two generations will replace the English in England.
Do you Britain has had nearly 500 years relationships with those countries it’s called the commonwealth. Who cares about Hungarians or poles or Romanians you literally just came out of communism in the 90s must of your citizens are uneducated looking for jobs all over Europe!!!
Hey guess what, most immigrants coming here are from Commonwealth countries that are more culturally closer to the UK than other Europeans. As you can see by the politicians & the many of the country's top celebrities within 1 generation most of these immigrants are well integrated. The only people who tries to push us out or try to not include us are the right wing racist assholes. I'm a US born Jamaican living here & there are tons of us who fit in right away & have been doing quite well here.
Oh the sweet irony of Brexiteer bigots voting for Brexit to stop European migration. Now they've replaced it with many times more non-European, non-Christian immigrants who won't go back when they reach retirement age.
I am Slovak... If I told you how I was treated by not only the English but all the rest 'firstworlders' aligned with them, you'd cry. I was brutally abused and have no children as a result of the abuse. I was kind and all I got back was hatred... Many kept laughing at my country.
@@frederika3013 I'm Latvian who was living in UK. Met some Slovaks in Birmingham, good people. Also was visiting Bratislava few times, amazing place. I think for Slovak people who want to work abroad Austria is the best choice. Or probably America. UK used to be great place but now it is dead.
I am a Bulgarian who lived in the UK for almost 4 years. Biggest mistake of my life. My life is so much better here in Bulgaria. Brits, you are always welcome to come and work here :)
"John" in 2015: "we can't find jobs, the Romanians, Polish anf Bulgarians took them all!" The same "John" in 2024: "i'm too lazy to pick the strawberries, and the payment is too low, call back the migrants to harvest them!" Well "John", now you should fill the jobs with Muslims, Africans, Indians etc...
@@martinh8784 the Brexiteers should be proud of them for being manipulated and they should thank to Nigel Farrage and the other traitors paid by Vladolf Putler to ruin their own country...
I mean, if "John's" job was stolen by someone who did not know the language well, did not have any contacts in the new country, did not have any family to support him, "John" must have been pretty bad at what he was doing..
I find it strange how they only complained about Eastern European migrants, but not about all the Asians and Africans. I guess you would be considered racist for complaining about them, but hating on Eastern Europe is somehow fine.
Well, hating on eastern europeans is ok, because we are white and haters wouldnt be considered racist. Hating africans and asians would be racist and any westener fears being labeled as racist like a plague.
@@mayjunealone5168 it's still somewhat racist or at least discriminative. It shouldn't be okay to hate on Eastern Europeans
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I'm from Georgia and have lived in Poland and Romania. Love both countries. Never felt any discrimination whatsoever. People are really nice and friendly. I feel sad for those who were treated so badly in the UK, hopefully, they were unlucky meeting the wrong persons while there were many kind ones out there.
This may be silly and unrelated to the topic of the video, but I and every Polish person I know loves Georgian cuisine, it's one of the best in Europe, up there with Italy and France!
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@2727daqwid related or not, very pleasant to read))))
Poles in UK were treated as 2nd class citizens even in the professional environment like offices, labs etc. Simply outrageous. I worked with a small team in development of new production processes… Close to our room there was a nice space with chairs where we could sit down on lunch breaks - the thing is, office workers sometimes were walking through this space, therefore they tried to kick out our team from spending lunch break on the comfy chairs because we dared to speak polish when random people passed by. It doesn’t matter where I worked in UK, I always really quickly went up the ladder. Just before brexit me and my Hungarian partner found great jobs in our professions in Switzerland. We’ve never lived better, we speak 3 languages fluently and we won’t ever go back to UK.
@@LilibethPasagadI'll ask my Polish manager later on if he's a second class citizen (although some people would argue Ireland is Northern Europe). He'll get a good laugh out of it.
I'm a British/Polish dual citizen. Born and raised in the UK. I left in 2016 and live in Poland. I don't need the UK, I'm far more prosperous here and have significantly more disposable income. Go figure. The UK education system is broken and always has been. There are no 'skilled workers' in the UK because most cannot afford university and we are taught that being mediocre is acceptable and that education ends at 16. 'I ain't got no qualifications!' says Janine on BBC cost of living documentaries. The roots of British apathy and the superiority complex go back way further than Brexit. They arent going to change.
Polish seasonal worker, can come to Germany, just next border and get - better salary, easy access without visa and can return home for a weeekend by car. What is a reason to come to the UK?
the working class in England is actually a non-working class. Karl Marx would have called them "Lumpenproletariat". And you know what, you have a housing crisis, living costs are ridiculously high on the island. But to build more houses, you need construction workers, brick layers, roofers, plumbers, electritians, etc. Do you have those? No? But why? And heating costs are high because none of your houses have isolation. You build like you would be situated somewhere in the Mediterranian like Southern Spain ... but you are not. Get yourself reasonable windows, an isolated roof and walls of 50 cm hollow bricks. But who is gonna build these houses, when the working class is not working and you just kicked out the industrious foreign workers from Eastern Europe and replaced them with Pakistani and Arabs, who are as prone to physical work as your own working class?
@@ekesandras1481British houses have bad isolation because the country has an incredibly humid climate. Black mold is a problem as is, and isolation may trap even more moisture.
Polish here. Western Europeans never understood the whole thing. Poland was completely destroyed in ww2 by two genocidal nations the like of which the world had never seen before. But Poles are an extremely proud nation ….with an imperial past. Just not the sea power. That feeling is deeply rooted in Polish culture, poetry and history. We just fucked up politically around 200 years ago and couldn’t got out of the situation ever since. Finally the tables have turned. Poland regained independence in 1989 and Poles immediately started to rebuild the country knowing they got a chance to reverse the history. Not dissimilar to China for example with their „century of humiliation”. The problem was the lack of capital and infrastructure. New Poland and her lack of capital couldn’t accommodate for the population. So about 2mln ppl (especially the poor ones) left to work in the west. And the West knew exactly what they were doing. Poland joined EU at the price of murdering its post-war industry competing with the Western capital on the free market. There is still a debate whether this drastic policy was smart. Ever since 1989 Poland has been growing as crazy bc it has a very well educated youth (say what you want about Polish Peoples Republic but the technical schools were very good), foreign capital flowed into the country etc. Now in 2024, Poland is still growing and it is DEMANDING yes DEMANDING it’s rightful place in Europe suiting a 40mln big nation. We are simply fed up with the Western historical amnesia of the role Poland had historically played and being seen through the lense of ww2 and having the „poor agricultural”bulshit sticker put on us. It isnt strange that Poland is growing. Quite the opposite. What is UNNATURAL and a historical aberration was the lack of Poland and its aspirations in Europe. We lost 20th century but we are back. We are ethically homogeneous, hard working, very well educated and are only picking up real speed right now. We love other Europeans as well. We just demand the suiting historical and political place for a nation of our size and 1000 year long history.
you wrote it well. The West is ignorant, not to say scoundrels. Not only the Germans have something on their conscience (WWI and WWII) but also the English and French. Good job UKASZ!
As Poland grows wealthier so it will attact many millions of non-European "newcomers" who will "culturally enrich" it with their wonderful diversity. Within two or three generations, Poland will be gone, just like the rest of Europe.
Similar as Lithuania, they have quite a number of important companies (Revolut, NordVPN, Vinted, Nordcurrent). You also pioneered democracy in Europe (not the French), but that was only allowed to last several months, so it was forgotten.
As far as I know, the majority of Czechs working abroad goes to Germany or Austria and they live near the borders. And they often go back every day or at least on weekends.
@@julianne_warren yep, all people I know who didn't permanently move abroad work in Germany/Austria while living in CZ still, or only having temporary residence in Germany/Austria since our cost of living (and wages) are half of those two give or take.
@@julianne_warren Honetly experienced craftsman in Czechia can make 4000EUR/month(my father could make 50000EUR/month 10 years ago), with much lower prices for everything. No reason to go work abroad. Only if you are unexperienced worker with no qualification. With university i make about 3500EUR per month have new 250m2 house, go to to restaurant 3/week. And so on. I live much better live here in Czech. And now speak about safety. England comparing to Czech is just shithole. I felt safer in Iran.
People from Balkans and Eastern Europe are the most wanted immigrants in weswestern Europe because they are hard working people and they are able to integrate very quickly in society!
I left Romania in 2015 for London in which I lived 4 years. Moved to Liverpool in 2019 and in July 2024 I went back in Romania. Unlike UK, Romania keeps you grounded, there is no safety net (Universal Credit) you can fall on. You have to move and do something for yourself. I worked at Anfield Stadium when they done the extension and we’re getting lunch break in Stanley Park together with a Polish colleague. One old fella is approaching us and between others he is asking me when I’m going back. I was like…WTF I’m paying into your pension and I’m raising fatherless kids in this country. You better ask Mohammad and Jamal but no, I never witnessed any adversity from a Brit to any Middle-Eastern person. I remember those days where media made the worst out of Romanians while 4 nations fill the construction sites: English, Romanians, Polish and Bulgarians. No problem fellas, we’re leaving and you will happily live together with your Asian and African brothers. Here nobody is asking me where I am from and how long I will stay. Income is not like in the the UK but it’s not about how much you get but how wise you spend.
Unfortunately there are still many Romanians who worship the UK and the west in general. Last time I visited London it was Christmas time. I was near King's Cross when I saw a dead black guy on the pavement, blood everywhere, and police putting yellow tape. Never have I witnessed something like this here in Romania. Western countries are becoming less safe with each day that passes. I'd never move there unless it would be a remote village in the mountains.
You're so right, at least all E Europeans came to work , now we have millions of migrants from the middle east ,Africa mostly young men just holed up in hotels paid for by the tax payers and pensioners doing nothing
@@ellismeah8110 ...."now we have millions of migrants" - Wrong, you've got immigrants, cose they came illegal. E. Europeans are migrants as they arrive legally. There's a big difference.
I'm a romanian national. Went to London in 2001 after living in Italy for 2 years. It was a shock moving from a beautiful Mediterranean country to a wet, cold and musty ol' London. But it was "special" adaptation because of the strong british pound back in those days. Long story short, I'm back in my sweet Romania and life is no longer a rat race. I feel at HOME. Nobody asks me when I intend to go back to my country. 😅 Chillax my fellow polish friends. Going back to Poland will be the right choice. The polish guys I worked with on the big London sites were the best! Sebastien (polish guy) if you read this, remember when you taught me to buy "Chicken n' chips" because it was the only lunch we could afford?😅 it was 2 quid back in 2001! Bless you man!😊 Oh, the memories...
I am not an EU citizen, but I’ve studied in Greece and UK, lived in Italy as a kid and worked in Serbia too. Four years now I am back in Albania for good. First of all I am making a better living here, I am home, and no one is treating me like sh*t bcs of their stupid prejudices.
I lived in UK for 10 years. Worked during all of the period, paid taxes and never used a single benefit. Still a bad immigrant....thankfully I don't live there anymore
The UK might *need* European workers but it won't *get* them. Working visa, housing and cost of living in the UK is too expensive for most of those workers. They can work more easily (FOM) and earn just as good in other EU countries. So the Britons will have to do the work themselves, work most of them frown upon. But hey, sovereignty!
Yes years of a free for all immigration system means it broke everything and fixed nothing it did not even fix the labour shortage , well done Tony Blair .
For 15 years I've been listening to scaremongering about the dangers of millions of Bulgarians moving to the UK. Turns out in 15 years of EU membership, 79,000 Bulgarians moved to the UK whereas last year in one single year we had over 1 million migrants (of which 90% were non-EU). Interesting...and sad.
We're like 6.5 milion, 2 milion of which are pensioners... sooo where would those millions come from? 😂😂😂😂 From Africa and Asia perhaps. Funny enough our populists here are blamig the migrants also, which migrants do not actually exist (our state funded programs are terrible), so yea... Xenophobia is always the same.
When I finished Architecture back in 2007 in Spain, there was already a rumour about how fast was Poland growing. Later on I met many pols in London and I thought that they were good hard working people (and doing high skilled works), and strangely close to our culture despite the distance. I am happy that they are doing so well.
I am Slovak, I used to have a Spanish boyfriend. We couldn't believe it but I saw like zero difference between how Spaniards and Easterners think. We even had the same sense of humor, same jokes. He couldn't believe it either. He even told me he would leave Madrid and move to Slovakia and settled here without any problem. He came to visit and loved it here. Several of my Slovak girlfriends married in Spain too. I don't know what it is, but we are incredibly compatible mentality. I cannot explain it. Now we have more and more Spanish students over here in Slovakia.
I'm Canadian and I visited Poland for the 1st time this year, I couldn't believe how nice and advanced it is. I literally felt like I was in Canada. Beautiful, safe, clean and modern country
I honestly believe that the British voted for Brexit thinking that it would not change anything. They thought, 'We are British, we are better than any other country!' Well, you live and learn, don't you?
They were promised they would keep all the advantages of the UE, and get rid of the dutys......and choosed to belive it. After all: "they need us more than we need them", right?
They failed to listen to Guy Verhofstadt, who once said that Europe is composed of small countries and of countries that haven't yet found out that they are small. No European country, not even Germany, on its own, has any standing in the modern world. All European countries together grouped in a union are a formidable force in international politics.
I don’t understand. Why do Brits need Eastern Europe workers when they have so many Africans and Asian ones that are coming massively to GB now and are so welcomed there?
Indian and African immigrants are more likely to work in highly skilled jobs while Eastern EU immigrants (EU-8 and EU-2 refers to the new EU countries after 2004 including Poland and Czechia and more recently Romania and Bulgaria) are more likely to work in lower skilled jobs.
If you are calling taking benefits and reproduction every year a job then I will agree with you . Btw do you know how easy is to get a diploma in those countries? It’s just matter of $$$. Did ever go to a doctor with diploma from those countries? I was here in Uk and he was googling my symptoms. Not a clue what he was doing . If I would mention it somewhere I would be called a racist .
This was the greatest act of self harm. Many Brixiteers now regret voting on a topic they barely understood the full consequences of and now wish they had voted to remain. I find it incredible that even those that lived in Spain and France voted to leave.
@@vipeton.8927 that too, they shat in the bed then left. i met a brit that voted brexit then moved to australia. I asked him why he hated his own ppl at such a young age. he said he wanted europeans out of his country because something something empire, take back control??
I find it funny. When Slovakia joined EU in 2004, Austria and Germany enacted special restrictions that still required working permits and limited free movement from Czech and Slovak republics. They were afraid czech and slovak workers will oversaturate their job market. Nowadays, both countries are lobbying heavily to force us taking unvetted migrants as "fair share". Fair share of what? Their hypocrisy that we had to wait 7 years to 2011 until we had the same opportunities and suddenly after 2015 we "had to" take people with dubious origin that can pose serious threat to national and social security? And after V4 members declared GFY, they had an audacity to attempt to implement "two tier EU"? We were never - and never will be - equal members if the "old guard" will hold such hypocritical stances towards younger members.
Same, we had to go to the embassy in the capitol hoping to be approved for a visa and now they let millions without papers. Hilarious. And I didn't have a working permit either, they were horrified I might steal some german's job.
honestly, Brexit had one good side effect for the countries still in the EU. The policy of an ever more integrated Europe halted because of Brexit. No new treaties, no new "integration policies". Now we have a good equilibrium of common policies and national souveranity.
Cant agree more, have experienced on my own skin. To add up, economic system is based on exploitation of less developed markets also labour markets. Until it benefits to 1 level countries they will take all they need afterwards byrocratic epidemy starts. Eastern Europe was and still is in eyes of west secondary citizens, due to heavy educational indoctrination of past as "red soviet devil". Westerners keep this stigmatisation silent in subconsciousness, ok now celebrate migrants from Africa and Arab world, they will enrich on all aspects of society.
I'm from Philippines and the economy of uk is still big is 2nd in eu 1st is Germany then France even if Poland bulgaria romania combined their economy UK is still massive
Pole here i wouldnt say we have the greatest government the 2 biggest parties are breaking the law all the time (i mean the civic platform is breaking the law to clean up the mess of the previous government) but still. But at least we're not so dumb to exit the eu
@@Lotolito Don't believe the hype With the result being 52/48 It was no landslide for sure being on a par with Norway's 1990's rejection of Europe Personally I voted to remain due to fears of economic collapse sadly those fears were justified
Bulgarian here, worked a little in the UK a decade ago. Working with many brittish people (tourists), 99% of you guys are normal, cool people. Fix your country, it is still not lost! Vote, unite, do what's needed! If I say more, I might get censored lol cheers mate 🍻 PS: If nothing works you can come to Eastern Europe, it's not that bad. 🤷🏻♂️
A lot of migrants spend their early years doing minimum wage jobs, but then they study and upgrade their jobs or start businesses. In London, Indians now own more properties than the English.
Pole here, im manager in flower selling company ( expensive gift bags with rare flowers ) our company is preparing to move factory from UK to Poland because we sell abroad and we dont want to suffer losses when our containers wait for border control. Before Brexit everything was fast and easy but now we wasting money. Lots of companies leave UK because the same reason as ours ... Time=money
I remember the hate against East Europeans and the superiority of British Brexiteers against other Europeans... the hate and the lies... when Romania and Bulgaria join late the European Union, even was not the fault of RO and BG that was in Eastern Block (more than that UK sell RO & BG to Soviet Union, trade against Greece, so the guilt one is really UK) the UK decided to put on hold the European rights of Romanians and Bulgarians. When even these years past and Romanians have right to work in UK, a lot of British televisions waited the HUGE WAVE of LEGAL immigrants... aaaaaaaaaand was ONLY ONE PERSON IN THAT DAY ! ONE ! HATE and British uber alles of Brexiteers against other Europeans remind me of Hitler. A shame and a disgrace.
Your bitter reaction is understandable. And indeed the "British uber alles .. Brexiteers" are a disgrace. But please, understand that 70+% of Brits absolutely reject this disgrace, and even amongst "Brexiteers" are a large group of useful idiots who meant no harm.
Fun fact: Napoleon Bonaparte tried to strangle the comerce of GB with the continent, and a several wars (like the invasion of Russia and Portugal, and the subsequent war with Spain) were fought to impose this continental blockade. Napoleon must be smiling in his grave, knowing that 200 years later the UK has done to itself, the very thing they fought so hard to avoid back then........ If I had to guess, I would say that most of the Brits didn`t really know what they were voting for....
I`ve lived in the UK for 12 years. I went back to Poland 8 years ago now. Honestly, the best choice I`ve made. I do appreciate all those years in England- I have learnt a lot. I think those who stayed is due to the fact of having kids in the educational system, mortgage etc...There are great bizz opportunities here, safe & clean. Everyone pretty much mind their own business. All the best mates!
@@underground9560your bitterness will kill you one day! Take a chill pill! She made a nice comment, but here you are being nasty because that’s all you can be!
I'm a Romanian and I work in a factory where before brexit the majority of foreign workers where europeans Polish, Romanians , Portuguese, Bulgarians , now after brexit they have been replaced by Asian and African workers, I have nothing with them they work very hardbut brexit only changed the people nothing else.
@@paullarne You're just USA light economy only based on services and not on production. The services haven’t brexited yet and will happen next year with all the red tape VAT and EU regulations. So, good luck!
I'm Polish and I don't blame British people. Different people went to the UK-some hardworking and decent, others who caused more trouble than good. Plus, there are cultural differences and language barriers-Poles don't smile much and are very direct, which can come off as rude. Such a wave of immigrants could have made them feel like strangers in their own country.
Cultural differences are negligible... even more when compared to people that come from Africa and Asia to the UK. Also people from big cities are pretty much alike across Europe…so I can not agree on this with you…Dutch are also very direct btw.
Good luck, I'm leaving this sinking ship in 2 weeks after 10 years. Both governments prefer engineers and doctors arriving every day on orange boats rather than working people.
@@UnimportantAcc honestly if they leave completely and denounce their citizenship, the bank they took a mortgage in will just end up seizing their home - you can leave, you might have a wee bit of troubles if you decide to come back but you can leave it all behind...
Because Arabs fund all this....The UK government is very very corrupt....Why do you think you see Muslims everywhere now? Arabs bought this country, they just do not tell you this
@@paullarnethe anglosphere is a nonsense word that Brits use to hark back to the the days of Empire. Where are all those magical trade deals you were supposed to get from the so called anglosphere? Grow up 😂
I m from an Eastern European country. Never worked in the UK. Will never forget the hysteria in this country about migrants from my part of the world invading it. Never will I forget the rhetoric in public space, so insulting, ignorant, demeaning, spewing vitriol left and right, the condescending attitute and malice...Never ever forget, people!!! I just don t want to imagine the discrimination, the hate my countrymen and women got in the UK. NEVER. EVER. FORGET!!!
I watch this video just a few days after a new colleague of mine had packed his stuff and left the UK for Bulgaria with his family. He even said that he was the last of his Bulgarian friend group to do so.
100% yes. I'm Scottish and we, in Scotland were dragged out by our so called partners in a union. They refuse to give us our independence and chance to rejoin the EU. Utter hypocrites. I live for that day. As for immigrants, we need and appreciate them. We always have.
Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary are CENTRAL Europe. If you count East Germany and Finland as part of the West, then it's time to count England as part of the Middle East.... BTW - it is high time that all immigrants from EU countries left the UK. The behaviour of the British towards continental Europeans is simply a shame.
As a Pole, for the British I can be an Eastern European...anything, just so they don't call me a Western European. It's not a privilege, but rather an insult...
On my opinion the huge brit hypocrisy was for good. I left UK 20 days before Brexit vote. And I am very happy with this decision. For me as a Bulgarian and like our Romanian brothers this was the best reason for leaving and returning back and work in our countries. And the results are visible now. Both of our countries are well developing, especially Romania(well done neighbors) and increasing welth no matter Covid, the war or the mindless EU restrictions and regulations. As for the brits I feel very sorry for them. They denied well edicated white christians for coworkers and neighbours. Fine. Now they may welcome all highly qualified engineers from Africa, Middle East, Arab Peninsula or wherever else they prefer. We Eastern Europeans are done with you.
To give EU some credit, most of people in Central/East Europe wanted and are glad that EU forced they governments to solve problem of corruption. It could be argued that it is exactly the source of growth they have now. Meanwhile I leave question how Russians bought Brexit aside.
To give western europe some credit, quality of live started to decrease after 2000. If eastern europe joining the eu in 2004 contributed to that I don't know. You just can't measure everything in €.
@@worldstar907 It didn't. Quality of life issue is worldwide problem, related to change in expectations between generations. Cheap labor definitely did not make things worst.
@@worldstar907I have a theory about the quality of life decreasing. The investors more than anything else need industries in places that have any potential to growth so they can expect the most return. Many Western European economies have a hard time developing further without major technological breakthroughs. So, membership in EU guarantees that the investment climate is at least acceptable, so they come to Eastern Europe and invest while there is room to grow. Of course everyone should keep in mind that the investors have no loyalty to one state.
@@Miraihi the partial deindustrialization of Western Europe happened because of China, not because of Eastern Europe. There is no more textile industry left in Italy for example, which used to be a textile giant. Those factories are now in Asia and Italians are only doing the design and marketing.
If you come to Romania you will notice that blue collar jobs have started to be taken over by foreign workers from South East Asia and North Africa. Westerners may think Eastern Europe is poor, but that's outdated. Eastern Europe is one of the best regions in the world and many foreigners dream of working here to send money at home.
This is not true. Only a few hired by low paying companies. Most money are on private jobs and Romanians will not bring into their homes these migrants because they bring bedbugs.
i live in bucharest and thats just crap. eat europe is getting better and better and there are no signs of stopping, but no el dorado for sure. like i mentioned before, i could work in bucharest in a 5 star hotel, but they give me 800 euro a month. in austria i earn 3 times more, and i got rent and food paid by the hotel. (rght now im just in bucharest for traveling, i spend most of my time in austria)
Imagine being a brexiteer that voted for less east europeans in your country and ending up having them replaced with almost double that number in african migrants! Oh, the irony! 😂😂😂😂
Indian and African immigrants are more likely to work in highly skilled jobs while Eastern EU immigrants (EU-8 and EU-2 refers to the new EU countries after 2004 including Poland and Czechia and more recently Romania and Bulgaria) are more likely to work in lower skilled jobs.
A Pole here. Nobody in their right mind in my country would nowaydays consider moving to the UK. Poland is now comparable with the UK in terms of wealth but much safer and with better perspectives for the predictable future. And I believe my fellas from Czechia, Romania, Lithuania etc. are going to say the exact same thing.
@nicolaswirtzhow can you make an argument with such bitterness and anger because Romania actually is doing incresingly well? There are 52 TIMES MORE Muslims in UK than Romania, pal.
Indian and African immigrants are more likely to work in highly skilled jobs while Eastern EU immigrants (EU-8 and EU-2 refers to the new EU countries after 2004 including Poland and Czechia and more recently Romania and Bulgaria) are more likely to work in lower skilled jobs.
Poland is in Central Europe, not Eastern Europe: geographically and mentally. The Iron Curtain fell more than 30 years ago, and it really is high time to understand that that division of Europe no longer exists. The geographical Centre of Europe is in Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine or in the east of Poland (depending on what method of measuring is used). Eastern Europe = ruSSia. We certainly do not want to be associated in any way with this barbaric country. Why is this so difficult for you to understand? What is wrong with you?
I wouldn't be so sarcastic, whole EU is facing challenges and is over regulating business. Our competition are China, Iran, Russia.. not EU states against each other
A friend om mine was badly beaten in England because their prime minister was telling the english that 30 million bulgarians and romanians will rush to England and undermine the jobs of ordinary people. Combined, both countries don't have 30 million people. My friend was not even there to work. He was a student at the time.
You should seehow they humiliate Albanians right now. British journalists are going to Albania, interviewing gypsies and potray them back to UK as the average Albanian family.
I'm from Bulgaria, and I work in a UK food production factory. The people at the top don't care about workers' rights and don't provide good working conditions. The only difference is that the UK has paid holidays, weekly payments, and a slightly higher income.
Brits have now thousands of immigrants coming over on boats from Africa and Middle East. I'm sure they can successfully replace those who went back to Poland and other central and eastern European states.
Quit this central europe bullshit - let them call us eastern europe, while we should wear it like a badge. Let's work hard until "eastern" is going to be associated with prosperity.
People will keem mixin' it up, using this "Central European" term will miss it's mark. Let it go. As pole I don't care if I'm called eastern or not, I'm getting wealthy and I'm going to make a name for myself. I know that one day, our region will be associated with prosperity worldwide.
Poland is in Central Europe, not Eastern Europe: geographically and mentally. The Iron Curtain fell more than 30 years ago, and it really is high time to understand that that division of Europe no longer exists. The geographical Centre of Europe is in Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine or in the east of Poland (depending on what method of measuring is used). Eastern Europe = ruSSia. We certainly do not want to be associated in any way with this barbaric country. Why is this so difficult for you to understand? What is wrong with you?
this is due to the fact that 1 the uks economy and gdp is falling down while the polish gdp is growing drastically due to eu membership. 2 people are leaving due to them being fed up of living in a country and being hated against and expierincing xenophobia
As a Hungarian who lived in the Uk from 2007 to 2019 . I will be forever appreciate for the opportunity to be able to live there for twelve years ! Even if it was a bit of a rollercoaster, the best years of my life. I know Britons will overcome their struggles and bad choices due to corrupt power hungry government badly misguided them . Brits have some rare human values in their core which makes them overcome the worst and be able to rise to the top. Unite before it's too late and take matters in your own hands !
I'm polish living in UK almost since we join the EU. I'm just disappointed with results. This country is doomed. Only thing which keeps it afloat was EU. Now... It is just a money laundering scam. If you a banker, perfect place for you. For anybody else.. Run. I think I'll be back Poland or somewhere else really soon.
Eastern European countries are on the rise, and Western European countries are going down (economically). Over here in Belgium, we still have Polish people. Most Polish men work in construction and building their lives here. (Family...). However, salaries in Poland have increased, living standards up. So it has become less appealing to come over and work, building their lives in Belgium. My Polish neighbor wanted to return to Poland, but unfortunately, his 2 children (born in Belgium) and his Polish wife did not. So he told me, yeah, I can not be selfish and have to think about my children and wife. Besides my children are born in Belgium and have their friends here, but if I had been single, no doubt I would return to Poland.
Same in Romania, in construction, unskilled, you start from 7500 Romanian lei thats about the equivalent of 1600 GBP, if you are skilled like an welder, bricklayer etc. you can go up to the equivalent of 2500-3000 GBP. Good luck finding Romanian construction workers who would return to the UK.
@latinumquark2774 I tell you straight up for many years Eastern European people (Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian...) have contributed massively to economies in the Western European countries. If tomorrow they all would leave Belgium, our economy would totally collapse. Barely any construction anymore, and construction is the backbone of our economy. The Brits were unbelievable stupid. The future is definitely Eastern Europe, my friend.
@@latinumquark2774 I’m Portuguese and if it’s true I’m embarrassed,knowing you guys get paid more, good for you tho😂 The uk is not attractive limit before unless you are high skilled and want to enter the sectors where the uk aka London is really good at
Yes, that was a big disappointment from the UK. As a Czech, I've always been a fan of the UK and was glad we were in the EU together (I've never worked in the UK, I've only been there for a few days as a tourist, as I have been to many other European countries.) But no one is keeping anyone in the EU, so if they wanted to leave, that was their right. I think it ultimately harmed us all- UK and EU.
I am a British worker in the UK. My general experience of central and eastern European colleagues is very positive, I respect their integrity and hard-working, courteous attitude. When free movement was in place my employer constantly pleaded poverty when it came to pay negotiations. When free movement ended, and the labour market changed, my employer suddenly became able to afford pay increases. In fact my pay has pretty much been restored to where it should have been after the years of wage suppression. I still work alongside Poles and Romanians who are also benefitting from improved pay and conditions. Make of this what you will.
Only someone with no education will bring religion and race into a political discussion. There r lawyers, doctors, nurses etc who r Muslim, what's ur problem ?
@@yiman7370 What's yours? You can't even comprehend what education means! Skipped every class? Go back to some indoctrination free school and start learning! Developing common sense, analytical thinking and actual functioning brain pattern!
@@yiman7370 And then for every lawyer doctor or nurse there are 10.000 muslims that hang out in corner streets plotting how to extort more money from the government.
Adhesion for eastern European countries was indeed a slow and painful process. If UK wants to rejoin, it will be even a more slower and more painful process. And eastern European countries now active and respected EU members can strike a veto on UK adhesion. You reap what you sow...
Poland is in Central Europe, not Eastern Europe: geographically and mentally. The Iron Curtain fell more than 30 years ago, and it really is high time to understand that that division of Europe no longer exists. The geographical Centre of Europe is in Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine or in the east of Poland (depending on what method of measuring is used). Eastern Europe = ruSSia. We certainly do not want to be associated in any way with this barbaric country. Why is this so difficult for you to understand? What is wrong with you?
I'm Polish. I used to live in UK for 8 years. Nobody ever spoke to me badly. I was happy, I had lots of opportunities and I used them all the learn and advance in my professional life. I left in 2010 because I wanted to start family. I still have friends back in London and I visit them every other year or so. The energy is off, you could see lots of closed firms, a lot of retired aged people working minimum wage jobs. Meanwhile Poland is flourishing. I hope it will get better for UK too, as it makes me sad to see it like this. I know lots of people were saying bad things about Poles but personally I have only good memories and let's face it, you can find lazy, uneducated people everywhere.
Britain has only ever prospered as a trading nation - - the fewer the restrictions on international trade, the better off Britain and its population have been. This was true through centuries of empire, during the long post-Napoleonic age of European free trade, and during more than 50 years of membership in the EEC/EU. Brexit was a moronic step backward, a senseless repudiation of centuries of British openness to international trade.
Calling Britain a trading nation is rather a stretch. Robbing colonies from their raw materials and labour, then forcing them to only buy "British" can't be called free trade.
Lived in Scotland for one year as a Romanian. I honestly enjoyed my stay, pretty much everyone I interacted with was friendly and easy going. I never felt discriminated against. I think that having a good accent (even if it more American than British) helps a lot, and it may also be that Scottish people tend to be friendlier than folks in England. That said, given the current economy, I don't plan to move back, but I am looking forward to visiting.
Yeah, Irish, Scots and Welsh aren't quite Anglo-Saxon, they're Celts of different kind, nicer people! My Scottish friends were humiliated to subscribe to English courses to improve their accent before being allowed to working as teachers or oth. jobs within education.
@@dalia_mar That's a bit ridiculous, but to play the devil's advocate, I did struggle a lot when I visited Glasgow. Aberdeen/Edinburgh accent, on the other hand, was easily intelligible.
@@dalia_mar If you actually knew the history, you’d know that the lowland Scots developed from an area of south-east Scotland that was once part of the Anglic kingdom of Northumbria that included the north of England too. Not everything north of Hadrian’s wall is Celtic.
@@Emperorli90 For Bulgarian engineer, who lived in UK since 11 years, I am pretty well introduced to the Dal Riata wars of 5th century and the formations, wars and origins of the ethnicities, which lately formed what is now UK. I hope you know what race are the Bulgarians , on which continent is located their country and what language they speak. I fed up of being asked by the English if "Bulgaria and Romania are one the same country, speaking the same language".
@@dalia_mar As an historical linguist, I’m well aware that Bulgarian stemmed from old Church Slavonic (though bulgar was oghuz Turkic) whereas Romanian is Latin, though is doesn’t take my interest too much. And ignorance such as this seems can be found everywhere, certainly on the European continent. I should know as I’ve lived in continental Europe.
I’m a Slovakian, grew up in the UK, started working in Germany, Prague and Switzerland on contract basis for the past couple of years, definitely time to leave the crumbling economy and poor decisions of this country, as much as if pains me to say after growing up here
An Eastern European here - never worked abroad, just observing. It seems to me that the problem of the UK's failure to attract EE workers is due to the competion with other Western European countries, mostly the Netherlands or the Nordic countries. You can get an equally well paid job there and there is little language barrier when everybody speaks English anyway. So why bother with the red tape when there are other, easier options? Also, with the advent of working remotely, you can work from Eastern Europe for any company all over the world. Plus, many of the Eastern European countries face labour shortages of their own and wages are - slowly - rising to close the gap between the East and the West. So, sorry UK, the migrant workers from EE will never come back in big numbers ever again. However, as a consolation, I think the role of Brexit in all of it was rather moderate or even minor. It would have happened even if the UK stayed in the EU, just slowlier.
As an "ex communist European" i could NEVER move to western Europe. I could only visit as a tourist, but even then the priority would be to visit southern Europe, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid, Milano, Lisbon, Athens, Porto, Florence, Venice, Seville...Places like UK, Netherlands, northern France, Sweden, etc. there's absolutely NOTHING for me there.
@@Just_another_Euro_dude Latvian here and must agree. Was working in UK, was mostly ok. Was working in Netherlands - F*CK this place, hate it! Germany is done, never had any interest in Scandinavian countries. Was living in Spain and Portugal. Lovely places.
I feel exactly the same, and exactly felt the same disconnection with northern Europe. I don't know what it is. I think it has spiritual reasons. Or its Catholic influence or it is something else. I heard several prophecies that when Europe will go through great crisis of the (anti//christ/). Slavic nations will unite and save Europe and also southern Europe. Thats how we are going to save our civilization. There are several stigmatists and other prophets who said that Anglosaxon culture will self destroy and Slavic people will be the next powerful civilization. Its like there are 3 kinds of Europeans. First GreekRoman civilization gave birth to western civilization through philosophy and religion, southern Europe than gave impulse to Anglosaxon nations who gave the world a universal language and science and then after Anglosaxon they are gonna be replaced by Slavic nations who will develop a new more fair economic system and we will teach the world about brotherhood and peace in spite of the crappy situation now, this is going to be healed and slavic nations will reunite including with Russian brothers. Also there is a prophecy that the UK, Russia, Southern and Eastern Europe will be united thanks to some new Pope that will be so charismatic that he will reunite all Europeans. There will no longer be any wars.
I'm sorry to tell you, but as a Spaniard I can tell you Southern Europe is way more decadent than Central or Western Europe these days. Well, since 2008 at least.
@@ivanmacgar6447 I think it depends. Italy and Greece got conservative governments. I heard many years ago that Spain and Portugal are the most liberal places in southern Europe and one of the most liberal in Europe. Still what i don't see anywhere in southern Europe is that insular look that is so typical for the western and northern Europe towards the ex communist Europe. So, i think AS A TOURIST i would prefer southern Europe. Several Polish workers were literally KILLED by the mobs of brexiters, in a fights 4 vs 1 or 10 vs 1. People from ex communist Europe that moved to Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, they all live their lives perfectly normally. With no such horrible stories. Also in Berlin jihadi attack a Polish truck driver lost his life while trying to help, in London jihadi attack a Romanian girl that was on honeymoon was killed when she feel from the bridge during the attack. So EVEN as TOURIST you are risquing a lot when visiting, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Sweden...I might as well visit the USA then. If i want to risque my health, cause at least in everyday life in the USA i won't get bullied for being the "eastern European" like i would in the north-western Europe.
Well...Poland is mentioned as Eastern European because the country was part of the Eastern Bloc not because of your geographical position in Europe. The Warsaw Pact puts your country there. So yes, you are Eastern Europeans for Westerners. I know You, the Czechs and some other former communist countries want to be seen as more western than they are. The truth is, you are not that different from the countries you prefer not to be associated with - the way of thinking, way of living, relationships with family and friends, cuisine, and even language. I would say …don't become the new Brits on the continent. Stay cool and awesome, as you are.
@@windygreychannelyes, it's a purely political term but still, this term through history was used as derogatory and is outdated I think it would be good if people started using correct terminology I recommend movie "Eastern Europe is not real" btw. just remember communism was forced onto Poland, in times it was spreading in Europe it was far far more popular in UK as Poland always was much more nationalistic
@@windygreychannelWe don't want to be seen more western. We want to be seen for what we are. Not eastern, not western. Not southern, not northern. We are simply in the middle. And we are proud of it. It is tiring as f...
Well, smart Poles do not want to be westerners with all that filth and degeneracy eating the western souls. Let's stay in beautiful and healthy East of Europe!
Poland is not easter europe. Europe ends on ural mountains. Look on map where it is. Poland and other countries you mention are in fact in center of Europe.
Problem is many people are still stuck in there ways (and even still being taught to be) using pre '89 lingo. Back then anything on the other side of the iron curtain was "east"
If you are talking about Eastern Europe, talk about Eastern Europe, and not a mix of Central European countries. The terms you are using became obsolete with the end of the cold war.
This channel has been producing materials about Poland and Poles in Great Britain in a mass production lately. None of them are made conscientiously, rather they have some kind of agenda. Don't expect too much from them. And for me as a Pole... they can call Poland Asia too... I hope they don't call it Western Europe because currently it's rather a shame
@@omi685 its not, just pointing out problems with the video. If he mislabeled Africa as Asia I'd also point it out. The video is using inacurrate outdated names.
@@MiSt3300 No it's not. It's describing the things that are talked about in a manner that people of the UK talk about them. Poland, Romania, Bulgaria? For all an average Brit cares, those are some backward post soviet republics somewhere between the Caucasus and Vladivostok. The only thing they care, is that the immigrants should go back to where they belong, and that Brittain can be a great place again. So while a lot of what's in this vid points the author is against such statements, the sentiment to the good old Brittain is pretty clear. So all is as it should be: the West ends at the Rhine, maybe at the Elbe. But everything past that is East Europe.
I used to dream about going to the UK but that was long ago. Now I am an electrical engineer here in Slovakia. Have a decent salary to the point where my mortgage is about 20% of my disposable income. This allows me to live a very comfortable life. No way I would be able to do that in the UK. In addition, UK isn't nearly as safe as it once was. There'd be no upside for someone like me to go there.
As a Polish ain't no way we ever comin back. Tho we are very welcoming if you want to work in our country in near future, got many job opportunities for ya :)
@@SD-tq1plthere is no need for gratitude as those money are not given for free. In future we will pay more in the EU than we will take. It's credit not charity money 😅 and we wasn't part of Marshall plan like UK and other. And nobody cares that we fought arm to arm with you. Yes I'm aware that without EU we wouldn't be in the same place but it's not without price... I'm leaving UK this December after 8 years. It always will be place when I got job and opportunities but as my county improved I decide to go back and make it better place. You always very welcome to visit Poland and I hope UK will get better in future.
@@SD-tq1pl Did we not contribute enough while working in the UK? I guess we paid off everything and everywhere ( healthcare, engineering, hospitality, drivers, cleaners, operators, etc.). We proved to be hard working people and at the same time we helped UK to maintain its European heritage...
What happened with Brexit was nothing new. My parents came to England after WW2 as they were both part of the Anders army that became a force under British command in the middle east - i.e. helping to fight for England. They both took jobs which no one else wanted - dad worked on a farm and mum worked as a cleaner in a hospital. I was too young to understand the attitude of 'you're not one of us' at the time - nevertheless I received a good education and my parents were content in that in their homeland people had to constantly look over their shoulders as the political situation was horrendous for Poland after the carve up of their country and the Soviet control. My dad always, always wanted to return to Poland but it was not possible at that time in history (the average Brit would be totally unaware of what was happening in eastern Europe.) I myself visited Poland about ten years ago and was met by such friendliness and pure welcome that it was a joy to go and I go regularly now. Brits generally never wanted us here - that was obvious - but it was not so overtly expressed as it is today. This is something that happens all over the world. No one wants outsiders - particularly if they perceive that they are somehow 'going without' because of them. And by the way - Brits are also not universally welcome everywhere - although it is generally the individual personality and willingness to integrate that is judged rather than the nationality. My son - fortunately British and Polish nationality - lives and works in France. He loves it and gets on well with all his colleagues of many varied nationalities. Long live the brotherhood of man - wherever you are originally from.
Thank you for this material. Eastern European immigrants like me ,migrated to western countries in search of a better life as our own countries were exploited economically by the same western countries. They devasted our industrial plants, sold it for pennies on the dollar which created a problem of high unemployment, which as a result created a problem of mass migration. When I arrived in Germany, Holland or Uk I really felt like second class citizen, didn't get the same wages as my computer colleagues from those countries, I was given harder less desired positions even though I was more skilled and qualified to do those jobs of my western colleagues. Now since by our own sweat and tears we carried western economys we figured that if we can do it outside, might as well work for own own economies, and put in work to actually regrow them. This is why we are growing while western countries are closing doors. This is why we need Trump to win! And this is why we have to get foreign agents out of Polish government positions, people like Donald Tusk! Make Amaerica Great Again! Make Europe Great Again! Lets make Poland great Again. And least not formost lets make the world great again!
Why aren't these vacancies being filled by Brits? We have about 10 million people of working age who are economically inactive. Why can't they do any of this work? Maybe it's because they'd demand proper pay and conditions.
Because the British expect cheap goods and services. Cheap means cheaply produced with cheap labor. Start paying more for all services instead of complaining, and then the working conditions will improve for those low-paid positions as well. Start looking for expensive services and goods instead of relying on cheap ones, pay generously for everything and the problem will be solved.
The uk simply underestimated how small, weak, and unimportant it has become in the world. Going it alone is for first rate powers. This is true for all the little petty states of Europe. These walking graveyards need each other.
@@SD-tq1pl 'ending up' like Norway or Switzerland would be the equivalent of winning the global lotto. They're two of the wealthiest countries on the planet offering an extraordinarily high standard of living.
@@Londonsteve56 One sits on massive wealth accumulated during certain two sports events the countries of Europe started in the XX century, while the other lecutres the world on clean energy and equality paying for it all with massive deposits of oil and gas. Kinda telling UK is where it is, didn't acquire enough gold past WWII, and doesn't have as much oil and gas reserves to spend lavishly on its people. That and the fact that for over 5 decades UK politicians were working for themselves and their own wealth, and (edit:) NOT for the benefit of their people 🤣
@@MrQwertyman111 So, the person you're answering is right. They won the global lotto. But so did Britain in a way - except instead of winning lotto, they won many battles (and then stole stuff). Anyway, as you said and unlike Britain, Norway and Switzerland use their wealth to benefit people. Meanwhile London City works on medieval law where corporations vote, allowing russian and other dirty money a free flow, foreign oligarchs get to park their cash in London's real estate and shop on Oxrford St., aristocrats live in fucking palaces. What do the people get in turn? Shite
@@cogitorium1089 True, but the British Empire has been dead for decades now. All the wealth from that era has either devalued with time, or others caught up. And the capital acumulated and still present has stopped working for the country many years ago, and some would argue it never did due to the legislation in the CIty. As for the Swiss and Norwegians, it's no secret that both Switzerland and Norway are outliers and very special cases when it comes to economic success - one forged its brand on neutrality and a good place to make technically spohisticated products (with a bit of help of gold certain bad people left during WWII and never came back for), while the latter sits on huge reserves of hydrocarbons that finances the comfortable lives of the citizen thanks to governments that worked towards natural resources benefiting the people, not just the rich. Look, the UK has been building its economy on services for years, but what many like to forget is that a lot of said services were directed towards the continental Europe, and they still are. At the same time, UK benefited from cheap labour in sectors natives do not want to work in most developed nations across the globe (like agriculture, hospitality, maintenance etc.), and said cheap labour came from... the EU. So by crippling its ties with the EU, UK made its peoples lives more difficult, at least in the short term. And unfortunately, UK does not have a golden parachute to use like Norway or Switzerland do. And yeah, add corrupt politicians into the mix and UK is where it is for a reason. And hey, I don't have a crystal ball and can't say what the future will bring. Maybe a great turnaround will happen and UK will benefit from Brexit, or maybe UK will marginalize itself on the continent and suffer a decline. Too early to say. But for me it was clear the system was busted, and that was back when I was in the UK for a semester as an exchange student. Over two decades ago. Unless Brits get up from their comfy couches and start acting in a way their politicians have to start acting as they are expected? Don't think things will improve enough for the regular people to feel the difference.
@@dv8ugcold war blocks were called the 1st world for NATO and the 2nd world for Warsaw Pact. The rest of the countries were called the 3rd world which BTW is heavily misinterpreted nowadays.
Coming to the UK was a mistake for me. I could have gotten promoted back in Romania 7 years ago. All I did was pay taxes and work on minimum wage here. Did 12 hour shifs only to pay rent and food. I made some money at first, until I moved into a house. Bills are expensive, rent is too (not too different from Romania reported to wage), council tax is a lot, internet and phone bills are ridiculous and they work like they should have worked 25 years ago. At least in Romania I would only work 40hours a week. My tax bill for last year came wrong and now I have to pay £7,000 just to be able to leave the UK. It's stupid. Can't wait to go back. I am never coming back. Maybe just to do shopping every once in a while. Maybe! It's an ugly country, apart from London where there are some things to see all brits do is drink at 1pm in a pub or eat mediocre food. Food quality is good, I will give you that. Buying a car is cheap, but taxing, insuring and maintaining is a whole other level. Rules and regulations are what keeps most people "safe" and by safe I mean lazy to do anything because they're not trained.
I have lived in Malta for 7 years where I moved for lifestyle not economic reasons. I am back to Poland and it is amazing how it has changed even in this short period of time. I have a lot of friends in the UK from the music industry. They are not happy about the changes. It's sad because I loved to visit UK especially London. From what I've been told it's no longer the place where artists can thrive currently overwhelmed with the economic struggles. Sad.
Since 2008 UK have stagnant economy. All central europe coutries have economic grow. Soon all of them will overtake uk. Already uk does not much to offer for them. Only 3world immigrants will come to uk.
Britain's economy is now lower than it was 2008.. If you disregard the London financial sector, Poland already has a stronger economy than the UK. If you look at the average citizen, Polish citizens have more buying power in Poland then British citizens in Britain.
Brits are always welcome to work in agriculture in Eastern Europe.
Svage 😂
Touche! 🤣🤣🤣
Brits... working, are you drunk?
*industry
skilled workers only, please, with references...
Im Polish and I lived in UK for around 5 years. The job I "stole" was 12h shifts standing job in a factory. I hope Brits are happy to have it back for themselves 🎉 🌸💖✨🎉
Poland is now much better than the UK
Fun fact, that poles in Poland think in the same direction about ukrainians 😀
@@Andrew98-qf2tv Life...
These tensions are always the predictable result of nationalist thinking. It's Europe's most ridiculous self-inflicted problem.
But I don't think it will go away either. The solution might not be completely open borders. It seems like that just makes it too easy for our enemies (Russia lately) to provoke our idiots (nationalists.)
I was disgusted by the national mood in Britain over the past decade. I also left - although I'm not Slavic from Central/Eastern Europe.
Pay has gone up in many industries since Brexit so British workers and the Eastern Europeans who decided to stay living in the UK will be happy to take up those jobs again - but they'll want a decent rate of pay!
What i found hilarious as a double standard was that brits were calling newcomers "immigrants" and when brits immigrate somewhere they want to be called "Expats" because they find the former degrading but they have no problems slamming it right in the face of others.
very well said!
Centuries-long British tradition. They would lose their national identity if they stopped doing that.
So true
Expats can go to hell. If you watch UK media, you'd think we really care about them. We don't
Yes, same with American, they also create “enclaves”😂
My country gets British retirees and the drunk British tourists have a reputation here
I am Hungarian, living in the UK since 2007. I worked at an Indian family owned company for 7 years as a DC Operator, then as a Returns Administrator. Most of the warehouse workers were Hungarians, Polish and Romanian people working for minimum wage. Most with not perfect English, but TBH, it is not needed much for manual labour. All these workers were very hardworking and productive. Once we had a young white English girl who came to work there, in the SIM card scanning team. It was mostly a sitting job, scanning and packing thousands of SIM cards to be sent to the distribution shops. She left after a few weeks, because it was too hard for her and she could not keep up with the Eastern European ladies...We are not taking any jobs, we are doing jobs that British people are not willing/ able to do for MINIMUM WAGE. We are paying taxes and rent. Not getting anything for free. Just saying...
Hungarian here too.
Used to live in the UK for 8 years.
Started in a warehouse with zero english knowledge(I used to learn german, but didn’t want to go to german speaking countries) and after 2 weeks of difficult communication due to the language barrier, I felt so ashamed that I started to learn english every single day.
6 months later I’ve became a supervisor then another year and half later worked in the office as an analyst.
We had 8 hours shifts in the warehouse, but overtime was always available due to high demand so our British Shift Managers were always approaching us(Eastern Europeans) if we’d like to do another 2-4 hours.
And we mostly said yes, because it wasn’t hard and we’ve got paid.
British colleagues always said no.
I’ve seen Eastern Europeans(the highly educated ones like myself) climbing the ladder up so fast.
We were willing to do the extra miles, the Brits were not willing to.
Simple.
Romanian here.. i feel sorry for you for leaving your beautiful country for those ungrateful snobs ... take care and be healthy.
The English took over some cities in Spain but they don't speak Spanish and even refuse to speak learn it or they down on you when they you speak Spanish with them.. all this in Spain!
Actually same thing is occuring in Hungary. Gov't is about to try importing a bunch of Malaysians to Hungary cause theres noone to do the sh*t jobs.
British continue to think England is a great empire with servants : it is time for them to wake up.
When I came to the UK 26 years ago and started working I felt privileged. There was a big economic difference between Poland and the UK. Today however I don't feel it at all. The rapid economic growth of Poland and the visible decline of the UK make me feel disappointed with my decision to live in the UK and I increasingly wonder if it was a good decision to invest the best years of my life in the UK. I have devoted my life to work, I have missed my son growing up. I have failed to form close social bonds. If I remain here in my old age I will be completely lonely living among strangers with whom I have nothing in common.
Time to come back I guess.
That's what happened The Irish in Britain in the 40s, 50s and 60s. Now we welcome our friends from Eastern Eutope. Oh there are the usual racist remarks but they are just uneducated people who are easily led by someone who looks important and speaks with a plummy accent. You find that in every country.
get out man dont waste time its a zombieland
With so many Diverse immigrants coming now, who needs those Europeans? 😅
Get out of brexitania while you still can. The uk is an undemocratic dying union.
The thing is Eastern Europeans don't need UK anymore.
So why are you all here 😂😂
True, Poland's economy is doing great right now. Still the country has a lot to catch up, but it goes in the right direction. Bulgaria and Romania not so much.
Glad to hear you've found a cubicle to live in.
@@hyperbole6529we arent (*insert annoying fake laughter emoji*)
@@3komma141592653 Have you seen Romania lately ? It is the fastest growing economy in the EU.
During the Brexit referendum, I have heard one of the pro-Brexit politicians,saying something in the lines of: "We prefer Pakistanis over Eastern Europeans as they at least have the knowledge of Common Law". I cannot find the quote anymore, but I guess it aged like a fine milk.
@@CZpersi Yeah they now clearly get to enjoy Pakistanis, Africans, etc. Good for them 👍
The Roman Law has always been better.
It's true, was David Cameron.
@@GholaTleilaxu Well the Anglos always had to be "different".
It was Farage who said that. Cannot fathom why people stil voting for him. He is obvious fraud
As a German I want to take this opportunity to thank the Polish farmhands, Romanian truck drivers, and all the others who work so hard to provide affordable food for us. We can eat every day to the same standard as medieval king's holiday feast, and too many people take that for granted.
As a Romania living in Germany, i want to thank you for your words🙏
Yeah it's great having slaves isn't it
We have tons of Romanians, Georgians who claimed to be Ukrainians, bought themselves some pretty passports over there when the war started and are now happily leeching benefits.
Just wanted to give some perspective, and thanks to anyone working an honest job to feed themselves.
Believe me... @lynnm6413
Those are not Romanians. Might have romanian citizenship but have nothing to do with our DNA
The leeches you are talking about, are what we call "our stain". We often get confused with them.. Although Romanians never go for social welfare such as "stay at home, make 8 kids and let state pay me .." kinda storyline. No. We have degrees.. we have "eaten" books in frozen cold school classes.. our parents worked the fields from the first ray of sun till the first stars appeared.. just to make sure they keep us in school and away from any bad.. The reason most eastern move abroad is because our political systems are fecked! Really hard. And it's impossible to find a job that you busted your whole young life to get it..because the cousins of X Y Z politicians or someone who k ows someone who know someone else.. kinda shit. So we try to see if we are really good at what we learned or not.. and that means we reach other countries who appear to be more logical and open minded.. Until we realize that it's actually all a bs and west is still bound to racial slurs and do's... So.. A citizenship doesn't necessarily makes you a citizen of a country. If you only know how many Moldova citizens came to Romania, got their romanian citizenship and went England... 😅
Pole here. I have a master’s degree from the best (and most expensive) university in Poland, but struggled to find a job. So I moved to the UK, where I lived in England and worked my way up from sweeping floors to becoming an aerospace CNC programmer. Occasionally, I’d get asked, “You’re Polish? Nice! When do you plan to leave?” It was funny at first, but after a few years, I got tired of those questions. Eventually, I packed my bags, returned to Poland, and never looked back. That was in 2011.
Now, I’m an international sales manager. We have an Englishman on the team who’s so good that he quickly became a manager as well. I never asked him when he planned to go back. Instead, I said, “Do you know any more people like you? If so, bring them over-we could definitely use 10 more people like Dave here.”
I worked with somebody in NYC with your background. Masters degree in tech communications. He started as the office maintenance person, handyman, plumber - this guy could do everything! Everybody loved him because he had a beautiful personality (but an intimidating appearance - dude was about 6”2 and ripped with a blonde buzzcut).
He now speaks “American English” and supervises 30 people in one of the tech divisions, along with his Assistant Manager.
His team loves him. He is fair and patient but very structured, easy to work for.
@@risingphoenix8072 I'm 6"4 btw :)
I'm a British migrant in Germany. The day after Brexit in our village people kept coming up to me saying "Will you be okay, how can we help?" I gained citizenship about 6 months later...
I love both Poles and Brits, but it's not 100% fair to compare.. Before brexit UK had many problems that populist politicians blamed on immigrants and people believed.. some people are not the smartest
I am not sure about your last statement about Poland being welcoming to immigrants. Especially the darker ones
The English did not want Poles, Czechs, Lithuanians, Hungarians in England who would already be English in the second and third generation, now they will have Pakistanis, Arabs and Africans, who in two generations will replace the English in England.
Do you Britain has had nearly 500 years relationships with those countries it’s called the commonwealth. Who cares about Hungarians or poles or Romanians you literally just came out of communism in the 90s must of your citizens are uneducated looking for jobs all over Europe!!!
Hey guess what, most immigrants coming here are from Commonwealth countries that are more culturally closer to the UK than other Europeans. As you can see by the politicians & the many of the country's top celebrities within 1 generation most of these immigrants are well integrated. The only people who tries to push us out or try to not include us are the right wing racist assholes. I'm a US born Jamaican living here & there are tons of us who fit in right away & have been doing quite well here.
Oh the sweet irony of Brexiteer bigots voting for Brexit to stop European migration. Now they've replaced it with many times more non-European, non-Christian immigrants who won't go back when they reach retirement age.
I am Slovak... If I told you how I was treated by not only the English but all the rest 'firstworlders' aligned with them, you'd cry. I was brutally abused and have no children as a result of the abuse. I was kind and all I got back was hatred... Many kept laughing at my country.
@@frederika3013 I'm Latvian who was living in UK. Met some Slovaks in Birmingham, good people. Also was visiting Bratislava few times, amazing place. I think for Slovak people who want to work abroad Austria is the best choice. Or probably America. UK used to be great place but now it is dead.
Hey, Brits, now nobody "steals" your jobs, you can have it, enjoy...
Are you blind or dumb?
As a Scot you were always welcome here and still are its not the "Brits" it's the little Englanders that are the problem.
Actually, now muslims steal their jobs :D
too stupid and too lazy for enjoy any job.
@obvious-troll Cool, when are the English leaving then?
I am a Bulgarian who lived in the UK for almost 4 years. Biggest mistake of my life. My life is so much better here in Bulgaria. Brits, you are always welcome to come and work here :)
"John" in 2015: "we can't find jobs, the Romanians, Polish anf Bulgarians took them all!"
The same "John" in 2024: "i'm too lazy to pick the strawberries, and the payment is too low, call back the migrants to harvest them!"
Well "John", now you should fill the jobs with Muslims, Africans, Indians etc...
Spot on! Jobs are everywhere in South England, and no Brexiteer from the North can be bothered by them.
@@martinh8784 the Brexiteers should be proud of them for being manipulated and they should thank to Nigel Farrage and the other traitors paid by Vladolf Putler to ruin their own country...
We don't need them. greedy companies do to make even greater profits instead of giving every working man a decent living wage.
I mean, if "John's" job was stolen by someone who did not know the language well, did not have any contacts in the new country, did not have any family to support him, "John" must have been pretty bad at what he was doing..
@@StefanoLucaVon 😂
I find it strange how they only complained about Eastern European migrants, but not about all the Asians and Africans. I guess you would be considered racist for complaining about them, but hating on Eastern Europe is somehow fine.
It has always been that way - africans ans asians were easy to invade while thé EE has kept its freedom with every chance they got.
Well, hating on eastern europeans is ok, because we are white and haters wouldnt be considered racist. Hating africans and asians would be racist and any westener fears being labeled as racist like a plague.
Because most of us are white and we don't give a damn about a lot of things.
I honestly don't remember anyone complaining about eastern Europeans. Maybe some Romanians, you know the sort, but honestly don't remember.
@@mayjunealone5168 it's still somewhat racist or at least discriminative. It shouldn't be okay to hate on Eastern Europeans
I'm from Georgia and have lived in Poland and Romania. Love both countries. Never felt any discrimination whatsoever. People are really nice and friendly. I feel sad for those who were treated so badly in the UK, hopefully, they were unlucky meeting the wrong persons while there were many kind ones out there.
This may be silly and unrelated to the topic of the video, but I and every Polish person I know loves Georgian cuisine, it's one of the best in Europe, up there with Italy and France!
@2727daqwid related or not, very pleasant to read))))
Poles in UK were treated as 2nd class citizens even in the professional environment like offices, labs etc.
Simply outrageous. I worked with a small team in development of new production processes… Close to our room there was a nice space with chairs where we could sit down on lunch breaks - the thing is, office workers sometimes were walking through this space, therefore they tried to kick out our team from spending lunch break on the comfy chairs because we dared to speak polish when random people passed by. It doesn’t matter where I worked in UK, I always really quickly went up the ladder.
Just before brexit me and my Hungarian partner found great jobs in our professions in Switzerland. We’ve never lived better, we speak 3 languages fluently and we won’t ever go back to UK.
So basically u were treated same way as Ukrainians are treated in Poland now
Arent poles in all west european countries treated the same like in UK..as 2nd class as well?
@@ВолодимирХарченко-ю4б very funny. If you think Ukrainians are treated the same way you must be dumb
@@LilibethPasagadI'll ask my Polish manager later on if he's a second class citizen (although some people would argue Ireland is Northern Europe). He'll get a good laugh out of it.
I'm a British/Polish dual citizen. Born and raised in the UK. I left in 2016 and live in Poland. I don't need the UK, I'm far more prosperous here and have significantly more disposable income. Go figure.
The UK education system is broken and always has been. There are no 'skilled workers' in the UK because most cannot afford university and we are taught that being mediocre is acceptable and that education ends at 16. 'I ain't got no qualifications!' says Janine on BBC cost of living documentaries. The roots of British apathy and the superiority complex go back way further than Brexit. They arent going to change.
Close the door behind you
Fuck so i'm not the only one that felt apathy in that country fuck me and the superiority complex too ahahah
What job do you do
Poland is now much better than the UK
Polish seasonal worker, can come to Germany, just next border and get - better salary, easy access without visa and can return home for a weeekend by car. What is a reason to come to the UK?
Romanians seem to be doing the same these past years, choosing Italy or Germany instead
the working class in England is actually a non-working class. Karl Marx would have called them "Lumpenproletariat". And you know what, you have a housing crisis, living costs are ridiculously high on the island. But to build more houses, you need construction workers, brick layers, roofers, plumbers, electritians, etc. Do you have those? No? But why?
And heating costs are high because none of your houses have isolation. You build like you would be situated somewhere in the Mediterranian like Southern Spain ... but you are not. Get yourself reasonable windows, an isolated roof and walls of 50 cm hollow bricks. But who is gonna build these houses, when the working class is not working and you just kicked out the industrious foreign workers from Eastern Europe and replaced them with Pakistani and Arabs, who are as prone to physical work as your own working class?
@@ekesandras1481British houses have bad isolation because the country has an incredibly humid climate. Black mold is a problem as is, and isolation may trap even more moisture.
@@MiraihiFair point but..ways can be found around it. It can be done.
True
Polish here. Western Europeans never understood the whole thing. Poland was completely destroyed in ww2 by two genocidal nations the like of which the world had never seen before. But Poles are an extremely proud nation ….with an imperial past. Just not the sea power. That feeling is deeply rooted in Polish culture, poetry and history. We just fucked up politically around 200 years ago and couldn’t got out of the situation ever since. Finally the tables have turned. Poland regained independence in 1989 and Poles immediately started to rebuild the country knowing they got a chance to reverse the history. Not dissimilar to China for example with their „century of humiliation”. The problem was the lack of capital and infrastructure. New Poland and her lack of capital couldn’t accommodate for the population. So about 2mln ppl (especially the poor ones) left to work in the west. And the West knew exactly what they were doing. Poland joined EU at the price of murdering its post-war industry competing with the Western capital on the free market. There is still a debate whether this drastic policy was smart. Ever since 1989 Poland has been growing as crazy bc it has a very well educated youth (say what you want about Polish Peoples Republic but the technical schools were very good), foreign capital flowed into the country etc. Now in 2024, Poland is still growing and it is DEMANDING yes DEMANDING it’s rightful place in Europe suiting a 40mln big nation. We are simply fed up with the Western historical amnesia of the role Poland had historically played and being seen through the lense of ww2 and having the „poor agricultural”bulshit sticker put on us. It isnt strange that Poland is growing. Quite the opposite. What is UNNATURAL and a historical aberration was the lack of Poland and its aspirations in Europe. We lost 20th century but we are back. We are ethically homogeneous, hard working, very well educated and are only picking up real speed right now. We love other Europeans as well. We just demand the suiting historical and political place for a nation of our size and 1000 year long history.
We love ye in Ireland. Best immigrants we ever had. The Brazilians are good fun though so they're gaining on ye. 😋
poland really is the mvp and i will take no criticism on that!
you wrote it well. The West is ignorant, not to say scoundrels. Not only the Germans have something on their conscience (WWI and WWII) but also the English and French. Good job UKASZ!
As Poland grows wealthier so it will attact many millions of non-European "newcomers" who will "culturally enrich" it with their wonderful diversity. Within two or three generations, Poland will be gone, just like the rest of Europe.
Similar as Lithuania, they have quite a number of important companies (Revolut, NordVPN, Vinted, Nordcurrent). You also pioneered democracy in Europe (not the French), but that was only allowed to last several months, so it was forgotten.
Genius, the Czech Republic is much better than the UK, and none of the Czechs go to the UK to work
As far as I know, the majority of Czechs working abroad goes to Germany or Austria and they live near the borders. And they often go back every day or at least on weekends.
@@julianne_warren yep, all people I know who didn't permanently move abroad work in Germany/Austria while living in CZ still, or only having temporary residence in Germany/Austria since our cost of living (and wages) are half of those two give or take.
@@julianne_warren Honetly experienced craftsman in Czechia can make 4000EUR/month(my father could make 50000EUR/month 10 years ago), with much lower prices for everything. No reason to go work abroad. Only if you are unexperienced worker with no qualification.
With university i make about 3500EUR per month have new 250m2 house, go to to restaurant 3/week. And so on. I live much better live here in Czech.
And now speak about safety. England comparing to Czech is just shithole. I felt safer in Iran.
People from Balkans and Eastern Europe are the most wanted immigrants in weswestern Europe because they are hard working people and they are able to integrate very quickly in society!
There's is more to "work hard" for when you maintain an established connection to places with much lower costs of living.
I left Romania in 2015 for London in which I lived 4 years. Moved to Liverpool in 2019 and in July 2024 I went back in Romania.
Unlike UK, Romania keeps you grounded, there is no safety net (Universal Credit) you can fall on. You have to move and do something for yourself.
I worked at Anfield Stadium when they done the extension and we’re getting lunch break in Stanley Park together with a Polish colleague. One old fella is approaching us and between others he is asking me when I’m going back. I was like…WTF I’m paying into your pension and I’m raising fatherless kids in this country. You better ask Mohammad and Jamal but no, I never witnessed any adversity from a Brit to any Middle-Eastern person.
I remember those days where media made the worst out of Romanians while 4 nations fill the construction sites: English, Romanians, Polish and Bulgarians.
No problem fellas, we’re leaving and you will happily live together with your Asian and African brothers.
Here nobody is asking me where I am from and how long I will stay. Income is not like in the the UK but it’s not about how much you get but how wise you spend.
Unfortunately there are still many Romanians who worship the UK and the west in general. Last time I visited London it was Christmas time. I was near King's Cross when I saw a dead black guy on the pavement, blood everywhere, and police putting yellow tape. Never have I witnessed something like this here in Romania. Western countries are becoming less safe with each day that passes. I'd never move there unless it would be a remote village in the mountains.
@@Chamberz333 yed....toooo many
yeah whatever, we didnt ask you to come. you just feed into our socialist goverments pyramid scheme anyway
You're so right, at least all E Europeans came to work , now we have millions of migrants from the middle east ,Africa mostly young men just holed up in hotels paid for by the tax payers and pensioners doing nothing
@@ellismeah8110 ...."now we have millions of migrants" - Wrong, you've got immigrants, cose they came illegal. E. Europeans are migrants as they arrive legally. There's a big difference.
I'm a romanian national. Went to London in 2001 after living in Italy for 2 years. It was a shock moving from a beautiful Mediterranean country to a wet, cold and musty ol' London. But it was "special" adaptation because of the strong british pound back in those days. Long story short, I'm back in my sweet Romania and life is no longer a rat race. I feel at HOME. Nobody asks me when I intend to go back to my country. 😅 Chillax my fellow polish friends. Going back to Poland will be the right choice. The polish guys I worked with on the big London sites were the best! Sebastien (polish guy) if you read this, remember when you taught me to buy "Chicken n' chips" because it was the only lunch we could afford?😅 it was 2 quid back in 2001! Bless you man!😊 Oh, the memories...
Congratulations brother! I'm a Romanian myself, living in rainy Liverpool and looking forward to move back home!
I' back to Poland 6 years ago from UK. I feel now we need to travel between Poland and Romania :)
I am also a Romanian who returned from the UK, and I can wholeheartedly say that life is much better in Romania now 🙂
I am not an EU citizen, but I’ve studied in Greece and UK, lived in Italy as a kid and worked in Serbia too. Four years now I am back in Albania for good. First of all I am making a better living here, I am home, and no one is treating me like sh*t bcs of their stupid prejudices.
I am a Romanian as well and I reading this from far Canada.
I lived in UK for 10 years. Worked during all of the period, paid taxes and never used a single benefit. Still a bad immigrant....thankfully I don't live there anymore
The UK might *need* European workers but it won't *get* them. Working visa, housing and cost of living in the UK is too expensive for most of those workers. They can work more easily (FOM) and earn just as good in other EU countries. So the Britons will have to do the work themselves, work most of them frown upon. But hey, sovereignty!
Yes years of a free for all immigration system means it broke everything and fixed nothing it did not even fix the labour shortage , well done Tony Blair .
UK could easily offer travel free access when it wanted, most of the other countries in the EU have high housing costs, the Netherlands is worse
@@georgiewalker5826hahaha simpleton
@@georgiewalker5826 But they can afford it.
UK will & is getting skilled workers from elsewhere
For 15 years I've been listening to scaremongering about the dangers of millions of Bulgarians moving to the UK. Turns out in 15 years of EU membership, 79,000 Bulgarians moved to the UK whereas last year in one single year we had over 1 million migrants (of which 90% were non-EU). Interesting...and sad.
im bulgarian in the uk, im telling people we dont exist.
We're like 6.5 milion, 2 milion of which are pensioners... sooo where would those millions come from? 😂😂😂😂 From Africa and Asia perhaps. Funny enough our populists here are blamig the migrants also, which migrants do not actually exist (our state funded programs are terrible), so yea... Xenophobia is always the same.
When I finished Architecture back in 2007 in Spain, there was already a rumour about how fast was Poland growing. Later on I met many pols in London and I thought that they were good hard working people (and doing high skilled works), and strangely close to our culture despite the distance. I am happy that they are doing so well.
I am Slovak, I used to have a Spanish boyfriend. We couldn't believe it but I saw like zero difference between how Spaniards and Easterners think. We even had the same sense of humor, same jokes. He couldn't believe it either. He even told me he would leave Madrid and move to Slovakia and settled here without any problem. He came to visit and loved it here. Several of my Slovak girlfriends married in Spain too. I don't know what it is, but we are incredibly compatible mentality. I cannot explain it. Now we have more and more Spanish students over here in Slovakia.
European culture is similar in general, the fact most europeans speak 2-3 languages also helps.
I'm Canadian and I visited Poland for the 1st time this year, I couldn't believe how nice and advanced it is. I literally felt like I was in Canada. Beautiful, safe, clean and modern country
I always wanted to share house with polish or Italians as we normally have the same standards on food and like to live in a “ clean space”.
@frederika3013 Catholicism is the main factor. And family values. I think. I notice that to that Iberians are close mindset to central slavs
Londoner here. I emigrated to the Czech Republic in 2015. No intentions to ever go back to the U.K.
Well hello. I emigrated there in 1993 - still going strong.
@@kevinroche3334 Czech citizen from Prague here, hope you both are doing well! Cheers.
I honestly believe that the British voted for Brexit thinking that it would not change anything. They thought, 'We are British, we are better than any other country!' Well, you live and learn, don't you?
They were promised they would keep all the advantages of the UE, and get rid of the dutys......and choosed to belive it.
After all: "they need us more than we need them", right?
@@jorgebarriosmursimpletons
Well that is was what they were told. When who wants believes in experts, when you can trust politicians.
They failed to listen to Guy Verhofstadt, who once said that Europe is composed of small countries and of countries that haven't yet found out that they are small. No European country, not even Germany, on its own, has any standing in the modern world. All European countries together grouped in a union are a formidable force in international politics.
@@a0flj0not really. The only countries that are significant are USA China and India
I don’t understand. Why do Brits need Eastern Europe workers when they have so many Africans and Asian ones that are coming massively to GB now and are so welcomed there?
Indian and African immigrants are more likely to work in highly skilled jobs while Eastern EU immigrants (EU-8 and EU-2 refers to the new EU countries after 2004 including Poland and Czechia and more recently Romania and Bulgaria) are more likely to work in lower skilled jobs.
@@jasonhaven7170 if you feel better
If you are calling taking benefits and reproduction every year a job then I will agree with you .
Btw do you know how easy is to get a diploma in those countries? It’s just matter of $$$.
Did ever go to a doctor with diploma from those countries?
I was here in Uk and he was googling my symptoms. Not a clue what he was doing . If I would mention it somewhere I would be called a racist .
@@PppZzz-zj8bp All doctors google.
@@PppZzz-zj8bp Anyway, don't like it, leave.
This was the greatest act of self harm. Many Brixiteers now regret voting on a topic they barely understood the full consequences of and now wish they had voted to remain. I find it incredible that even those that lived in Spain and France voted to leave.
Do they? Because I find the fact that Reform even having sits to be a counter-indicator.
@@CaptainSlackBladder well, also many are dead. It was almost decade ago.
no, fuck the eu commies. Doubt it will last when le pen gets in
@@vipeton.8927 that too, they shat in the bed then left.
i met a brit that voted brexit then moved to australia. I asked him why he hated his own ppl at such a young age. he said he wanted europeans out of his country because something something empire, take back control??
@@biocapsule7311 what choice was there?
I find it funny. When Slovakia joined EU in 2004, Austria and Germany enacted special restrictions that still required working permits and limited free movement from Czech and Slovak republics. They were afraid czech and slovak workers will oversaturate their job market.
Nowadays, both countries are lobbying heavily to force us taking unvetted migrants as "fair share".
Fair share of what? Their hypocrisy that we had to wait 7 years to 2011 until we had the same opportunities and suddenly after 2015 we "had to" take people with dubious origin that can pose serious threat to national and social security? And after V4 members declared GFY, they had an audacity to attempt to implement "two tier EU"?
We were never - and never will be - equal members if the "old guard" will hold such hypocritical stances towards younger members.
Same, we had to go to the embassy in the capitol hoping to be approved for a visa and now they let millions without papers. Hilarious. And I didn't have a working permit either, they were horrified I might steal some german's job.
honestly, Brexit had one good side effect for the countries still in the EU. The policy of an ever more integrated Europe halted because of Brexit. No new treaties, no new "integration policies". Now we have a good equilibrium of common policies and national souveranity.
Cant agree more, have experienced on my own skin. To add up, economic system is based on exploitation of less developed markets also labour markets. Until it benefits to 1 level countries they will take all they need afterwards byrocratic epidemy starts. Eastern Europe was and still is in eyes of west secondary citizens, due to heavy educational indoctrination of past as "red soviet devil". Westerners keep this stigmatisation silent in subconsciousness, ok now celebrate migrants from Africa and Arab world, they will enrich on all aspects of society.
In a few decades, the British will be emigrating to Poland and Bugaria! Good luck!
Nah, that would mean they'd have to learn a foreign language and that is a big no no.
they already do
I'm from Philippines and the economy of uk is still big is 2nd in eu 1st is Germany then France even if Poland bulgaria romania combined their economy UK is still massive
@@johncarlolibadia4052 massive but the quality of life sucks.
Let's make that happen *claps hands*
As a Brit I'm jealous of Poles because unlike me they've got a home to go back to with a government to call their own
Pole here i wouldnt say we have the greatest government the 2 biggest parties are breaking the law all the time (i mean the civic platform is breaking the law to clean up the mess of the previous government) but still. But at least we're not so dumb to exit the eu
@@Lotolito
Don't believe the hype
With the result being 52/48
It was no landslide for sure
being on a par with Norway's
1990's rejection of Europe
Personally I voted to remain
due to fears of economic collapse
sadly those fears were justified
@@Lotolito "breaking the law to clean up the mess " oh just how naive you can be? xD
Bulgarian here, worked a little in the UK a decade ago. Working with many brittish people (tourists), 99% of you guys are normal, cool people. Fix your country, it is still not lost! Vote, unite, do what's needed! If I say more, I might get censored lol cheers mate 🍻
PS: If nothing works you can come to Eastern Europe, it's not that bad. 🤷🏻♂️
Bro nobody likes the government 😅, it's like a universal thing
Why rubber boat migrants dont fill agricultural jobs?
😂😂😂
Because even some migrants have ambitions/expectations
@@Lostouille why do you look down on Agricultural workers?
@@Lostouille Do these ambitions include eating? If yes, agricultural jobs should be an option.
A lot of migrants spend their early years doing minimum wage jobs, but then they study and upgrade their jobs or start businesses. In London, Indians now own more properties than the English.
Pole here, im manager in flower selling company ( expensive gift bags with rare flowers ) our company is preparing to move factory from UK to Poland because we sell abroad and we dont want to suffer losses when our containers wait for border control. Before Brexit everything was fast and easy but now we wasting money. Lots of companies leave UK because the same reason as ours ... Time=money
I remember the hate against East Europeans and the superiority of British Brexiteers against other Europeans...
the hate and the lies...
when Romania and Bulgaria join late the European Union, even was not the fault of RO and BG that was in Eastern Block (more than that UK sell RO & BG to Soviet Union, trade against Greece, so the guilt one is really UK)
the UK decided to put on hold the European rights of Romanians and Bulgarians.
When even these years past and Romanians have right to work in UK, a lot of British televisions waited the HUGE WAVE of LEGAL immigrants...
aaaaaaaaaand was ONLY ONE PERSON IN THAT DAY ! ONE !
HATE and British uber alles of Brexiteers against other Europeans remind me of Hitler.
A shame and a disgrace.
Your bitter reaction is understandable. And indeed the "British uber alles .. Brexiteers" are a disgrace. But please, understand that 70+% of Brits absolutely reject this disgrace, and even amongst "Brexiteers" are a large group of useful idiots who meant no harm.
Ha ha, I remember that case too. 50 journalists are waiting for a lonely Romanian tourist :)
@@jonb5493 germans "meant no harm" in 1944 too, we still judged them for 80 years.
And so we shall you too !
@@cr4yv3nThen we Romanians should also judged you too brits for what you did in Africa and India. (Your argument is correct but is ridiculous)
Now they got Muslims and Africans
People that hate them 😂
And yet these Brexiteers that hate Poland now going there to live 😂 how karma works....
I'm a Brit who has lived and worked in Italy for over 35 years now. Brexit was the stupidest thing that the UK has ever done.
don't be so fucking stupid.
AGREE 💯
Fun fact: Napoleon Bonaparte tried to strangle the comerce of GB with the continent, and a several wars (like the invasion of Russia and Portugal, and the subsequent war with Spain) were fought to impose this continental blockade.
Napoleon must be smiling in his grave, knowing that 200 years later the UK has done to itself, the very thing they fought so hard to avoid back then........
If I had to guess, I would say that most of the Brits didn`t really know what they were voting for....
When you love muslims more than European Christian orthodox you get what you F deserve just like the Joker said.
Pretty sure giving Sudetenland to Hitler was the stupidest thing UK has ever done.
Uk moved itself farer from Europe, closer to Sahara
Why not? There is nothing special about Europe. lol
Not for the UK...thx@@MrAmhara
@@MrAmhara but there is extremely special about middle east
Truth I live in London and it’s hell
@@staedlerok Then why stay?
I say we let them have their jobs and focus on improving our countries 🇷🇴❤️🇵🇱❤️🇧🇬
I`ve lived in the UK for 12 years. I went back to Poland 8 years ago now. Honestly, the best choice I`ve made. I do appreciate all those years in England- I have learnt a lot. I think those who stayed is due to the fact of having kids in the educational system, mortgage etc...There are great bizz opportunities here, safe & clean. Everyone pretty much mind their own business. All the best mates!
Close the door behind you
@@underground9560your bitterness will kill you one day! Take a chill pill! She made a nice comment, but here you are being nasty because that’s all you can be!
@@underground9560he doesn’t have to close the door cause there’ll be hundreds and thousands of african & arab immigrnats bangin on it 😂
@@underground9560 you cannot close revolving door 🤭🤷♂️
I'm a Romanian and I work in a factory where before brexit the majority of foreign workers where europeans Polish, Romanians , Portuguese, Bulgarians , now after brexit they have been replaced by Asian and African workers, I have nothing with them they work very hardbut brexit only changed the people nothing else.
BRINO not Brexit
@@PurwapadaNo that's Brexit you dolt Africa and Asia aren't in Europe.
@@drunkengamer1977 non sequitur
@Purwapada BRINO brexit in name only. Well it happened you got your precious Brexit I hope you choke on it
@Purwapada Brino, Brexit in name only. It's happened and it was the disaster we all said it would be. As a Scot I hope you all rot in hell with Farage
Uk is a mess after brexit
@@paullarne🤦♂️🤣😂🤣 you Muppet
@@paullarneGood luck being exceptional then. 😂
@@paullarne You're just USA light economy only based on services and not on production. The services haven’t brexited yet and will happen next year with all the red tape VAT and EU regulations. So, good luck!
@@paullarne And when will you START to " sort yourselves out " ??? I mean you only had eight years to do so. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
with or without its the arrogance
I'm Polish and I don't blame British people. Different people went to the UK-some hardworking and decent, others who caused more trouble than good. Plus, there are cultural differences and language barriers-Poles don't smile much and are very direct, which can come off as rude. Such a wave of immigrants could have made them feel like strangers in their own country.
Cultural differences are negligible... even more when compared to people that come from Africa and Asia to the UK. Also people from big cities are pretty much alike across Europe…so I can not agree on this with you…Dutch are also very direct btw.
I moved from The Netherlands to Romania. And no, not for women. For peace, nature and culture.
Welcome 🤗
cool
ive moved from italy to romania and its amazing , epecially if you carry the salary there
@@4xRomania Yes I still make money in The Netherlands. I have a normal salary there but can live comfortably here.
@@Barthijzz its better a dutch salary to live in Romania , cheers enjoy buddy
Good luck, I'm leaving this sinking ship in 2 weeks after 10 years. Both governments prefer engineers and doctors arriving every day on orange boats rather than working people.
Anyone with any sense would leave. The problem is many cannot, trapped by mortgages and forced to keep working. A clever form of enslavement
@@UnimportantAcc they can find buyers, who would continue mortgage
@@UnimportantAcc honestly if they leave completely and denounce their citizenship, the bank they took a mortgage in will just end up seizing their home - you can leave, you might have a wee bit of troubles if you decide to come back but you can leave it all behind...
Because Arabs fund all this....The UK government is very very corrupt....Why do you think you see Muslims everywhere now? Arabs bought this country, they just do not tell you this
Good luck. I've worked 12 years in the UK and last year moved back to my country and never looked back!
Now the UK will have to make due with Africans, Pakistanis, and Syrians; they are hard workers.😂
More brown faces for the brown face haters 😂😂😂 they knew what they were voting for 😂😂😂😂
Powodzenia.
@@paullarneFriends? The English certainly have a great SOH. By the way, not nearly all of them are from The Dearest Commonwealth Family.
Hard ly
@@paullarnethe anglosphere is a nonsense word that Brits use to hark back to the the days of Empire.
Where are all those magical trade deals you were supposed to get from the so called anglosphere?
Grow up 😂
I m from an Eastern European country. Never worked in the UK. Will never forget the hysteria in this country about migrants from my part of the world invading it. Never will I forget the rhetoric in public space, so insulting, ignorant, demeaning, spewing vitriol left and right, the condescending attitute and malice...Never ever forget, people!!! I just don t want to imagine the discrimination, the hate my countrymen and women got in the UK. NEVER. EVER. FORGET!!!
Have Nigel Farage pick up the berries.
That's a good one! :))))
Send him to Glasgow for a proper smile.
is this supposed to be a jab to both or am I looking too into it ?
We don't need the EU for foreign workers. All the UK's government needs to do- is allow them in to work. It's that simple.
@@lochnessmunster1189 I don't think that's gonna work anymore bro.
You have hundreds of thousands of migrants from India, Pakistan and Middle East. Are they not suitable to fill in vacancies ?
Same problems that happened with Eastern Europe
They ask them to leave 😂
@@oussamaalaoui9121 but these won´t go
I watch this video just a few days after a new colleague of mine had packed his stuff and left the UK for Bulgaria with his family. He even said that he was the last of his Bulgarian friend group to do so.
100% yes. I'm Scottish and we, in Scotland were dragged out by our so called partners in a union. They refuse to give us our independence and chance to rejoin the EU. Utter hypocrites. I live for that day. As for immigrants, we need and appreciate them. We always have.
Eastern Europe doesn't need the UK now. The UK now can feel what it is like to be in a begging position.
The only time we needed the UK was in 1945, but they just sold us off to the russians.
Don't worry, UK has lots of muslim and african immigrants. They are surely ready to help UK economy.
And culturally enrich the country ☺️
@@nikolaybonapartov7379 you mean the Khalifat of Britanistan
@@nikolaybonapartov7379 and treat the English women with respect..
Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary are CENTRAL Europe. If you count East Germany and Finland as part of the West, then it's time to count England as part of the Middle East....
BTW - it is high time that all immigrants from EU countries left the UK. The behaviour of the British towards continental Europeans is simply a shame.
Man just stop being silly Eastern Europe is political and NOT geographical concept
@@patrykp8460 what do you mean "political"?
As a Pole, for the British I can be an Eastern European...anything, just so they don't call me a Western European. It's not a privilege, but rather an insult...
In the west we call eastern Europe those countries that were on the other side of the iron curtain, regardless of geography.
No one really cares, lol!
On my opinion the huge brit hypocrisy was for good. I left UK 20 days before Brexit vote. And I am very happy with this decision. For me as a Bulgarian and like our Romanian brothers this was the best reason for leaving and returning back and work in our countries. And the results are visible now. Both of our countries are well developing, especially Romania(well done neighbors) and increasing welth no matter Covid, the war or the mindless EU restrictions and regulations. As for the brits I feel very sorry for them. They denied well edicated white christians for coworkers and neighbours. Fine. Now they may welcome all highly qualified engineers from Africa, Middle East, Arab Peninsula or wherever else they prefer. We Eastern Europeans are done with you.
To give EU some credit, most of people in Central/East Europe wanted and are glad that EU forced they governments to solve problem of corruption. It could be argued that it is exactly the source of growth they have now. Meanwhile I leave question how Russians bought Brexit aside.
To give western europe some credit, quality of live started to decrease after 2000. If eastern europe joining the eu in 2004 contributed to that I don't know. You just can't measure everything in €.
@@worldstar907 It didn't. Quality of life issue is worldwide problem, related to change in expectations between generations. Cheap labor definitely did not make things worst.
EU should fix their Brussels corruption first... member the Qatar visas for example? And there are plenty of examples...
@@worldstar907I have a theory about the quality of life decreasing.
The investors more than anything else need industries in places that have any potential to growth so they can expect the most return. Many Western European economies have a hard time developing further without major technological breakthroughs.
So, membership in EU guarantees that the investment climate is at least acceptable, so they come to Eastern Europe and invest while there is room to grow. Of course everyone should keep in mind that the investors have no loyalty to one state.
@@Miraihi the partial deindustrialization of Western Europe happened because of China, not because of Eastern Europe. There is no more textile industry left in Italy for example, which used to be a textile giant. Those factories are now in Asia and Italians are only doing the design and marketing.
If you come to Romania you will notice that blue collar jobs have started to be taken over by foreign workers from South East Asia and North Africa. Westerners may think Eastern Europe is poor, but that's outdated. Eastern Europe is one of the best regions in the world and many foreigners dream of working here to send money at home.
This is not true. Only a few hired by low paying companies. Most money are on private jobs and Romanians will not bring into their homes these migrants because they bring bedbugs.
i live in bucharest and thats just crap. eat europe is getting better and better and there are no signs of stopping, but no el dorado for sure.
like i mentioned before, i could work in bucharest in a 5 star hotel, but they give me 800 euro a month. in austria i earn 3 times more, and i got rent and food paid by the hotel. (rght now im just in bucharest for traveling, i spend most of my time in austria)
@@bazingapuzza 800 euro a month it’s a good pay considering it’s a hotel job. I’m builder I get 1400 euro a month.
@@Mirel_RO he is right, Mirele, Romania is full of foreigners, even in small cities.
YOU TOO???
you guys have also asian and north african workers??????
What's going on here (europe)?????
Imagine being a brexiteer that voted for less east europeans in your country and ending up having them replaced with almost double that number in african migrants! Oh, the irony! 😂😂😂😂
Yes
immigration is 4x that before BX
@@bigbarry8343 well.... Shit! 😢
Indian and African immigrants are more likely to work in highly skilled jobs while Eastern EU immigrants (EU-8 and EU-2 refers to the new EU countries after 2004 including Poland and Czechia and more recently Romania and Bulgaria) are more likely to work in lower skilled jobs.
@@jasonhaven7170 what's your source for this? you won't respond, because bots don't respond, but for everyone reading, this is wrong :)
A Pole here. Nobody in their right mind in my country would nowaydays consider moving to the UK. Poland is now comparable with the UK in terms of wealth but much safer and with better perspectives for the predictable future. And I believe my fellas from Czechia, Romania, Lithuania etc. are going to say the exact same thing.
United Kingdom? Not Unitedstan?😅 no, thanks, EU all good!! Romania is doing very well!!,🇹🇩
@nicolaswirtzhow can you make an argument with such bitterness and anger because Romania actually is doing incresingly well? There are 52 TIMES MORE Muslims in UK than Romania, pal.
@nicolaswirtz
6,215 muslims in Romania
4,000,000 muslims in the UK
Stop doing drugs
Indian and African immigrants are more likely to work in highly skilled jobs while Eastern EU immigrants (EU-8 and EU-2 refers to the new EU countries after 2004 including Poland and Czechia and more recently Romania and Bulgaria) are more likely to work in lower skilled jobs.
@@jasonhaven7170 lol stop smoking weed
@@ursdaniel It is true. From the Migration Observatory at University of Oxford.
As a Welshman who's nation is sadly a part of the UK. Yeah I said this would happen lol, All the love to my Eastern European Brothers and Sisters ❤
Me too butty, me too
UK is falling down when eastern Europe is on the rise. How the turn tables 😂
With birth rates plummeting and no major businesses on par with the old EU, this success will be short-lived.
Poland is in Central Europe, not Eastern Europe: geographically and mentally.
The Iron Curtain fell more than 30 years ago, and it really is high time to understand that that division of Europe no longer exists. The geographical Centre of Europe is in Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine or in the east of Poland (depending on what method of measuring is used).
Eastern Europe = ruSSia. We certainly do not want to be associated in any way with this barbaric country.
Why is this so difficult for you to understand? What is wrong with you?
Eastern Europe, you are writing about Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, you are not specific enough or you are an idiot in geography
I wouldn't be so sarcastic, whole EU is facing challenges and is over regulating business. Our competition are China, Iran, Russia.. not EU states against each other
Easter Europe is not in rise - Russia and Ukraine are declining. But Central Europe is.
A friend om mine was badly beaten in England because their prime minister was telling the english that 30 million bulgarians and romanians will rush to England and undermine the jobs of ordinary people.
Combined, both countries don't have 30 million people.
My friend was not even there to work. He was a student at the time.
You should seehow they humiliate Albanians right now.
British journalists are going to Albania, interviewing gypsies and potray them back to UK as the average Albanian family.
I'm from Bulgaria, and I work in a UK food production factory. The people at the top don't care about workers' rights and don't provide good working conditions. The only difference is that the UK has paid holidays, weekly payments, and a slightly higher income.
Brits have now thousands of immigrants coming over on boats from Africa and Middle East. I'm sure they can successfully replace those who went back to Poland and other central and eastern European states.
Quit this central europe bullshit - let them call us eastern europe, while we should wear it like a badge. Let's work hard until "eastern" is going to be associated with prosperity.
@@u33c214yb29 Well im referring to the geographical location rather than political concept
People will keem mixin' it up, using this "Central European" term will miss it's mark. Let it go. As pole I don't care if I'm called eastern or not, I'm getting wealthy and I'm going to make a name for myself. I know that one day, our region will be associated with prosperity worldwide.
@@u33c214yb29 no
Now in Eastern Europe wages are very similar to wages in Britain , this island it's good and attractive when you are from Pakistan India or Africa
Poland is in Central Europe, not Eastern Europe: geographically and mentally.
The Iron Curtain fell more than 30 years ago, and it really is high time to understand that that division of Europe no longer exists. The geographical Centre of Europe is in Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine or in the east of Poland (depending on what method of measuring is used).
Eastern Europe = ruSSia. We certainly do not want to be associated in any way with this barbaric country.
Why is this so difficult for you to understand? What is wrong with you?
this is due to the fact that 1 the uks economy and gdp is falling down while the polish gdp is growing drastically due to eu membership. 2 people are leaving due to them being fed up of living in a country and being hated against and expierincing xenophobia
Wages are no where similar to Britain
@@DummyUseless-er3dn you are right actually IT jobs pay better in PL than UK😂
UK may have still better wages in absolute terms, but when you count cost of living, Poland is getting ahead
As a Hungarian who lived in the Uk from 2007 to 2019 . I will be forever appreciate for the opportunity to be able to live there for twelve years ! Even if it was a bit of a rollercoaster, the best years of my life. I know Britons will overcome their struggles and bad choices due to corrupt power hungry government badly misguided them . Brits have some rare human values in their core which makes them overcome the worst and be able to rise to the top. Unite before it's too late and take matters in your own hands !
I'm polish living in UK almost since we join the EU. I'm just disappointed with results. This country is doomed. Only thing which keeps it afloat was EU. Now... It is just a money laundering scam. If you a banker, perfect place for you. For anybody else.. Run. I think I'll be back Poland or somewhere else really soon.
Eastern European countries are on the rise, and Western European countries are going down (economically). Over here in Belgium, we still have Polish people. Most Polish men work in construction and building their lives here. (Family...). However, salaries in Poland have increased, living standards up. So it has become less appealing to come over and work, building their lives in Belgium. My Polish neighbor wanted to return to Poland, but unfortunately, his 2 children (born in Belgium) and his Polish wife did not. So he told me, yeah, I can not be selfish and have to think about my children and wife. Besides my children are born in Belgium and have their friends here, but if I had been single, no doubt I would return to Poland.
Same in Romania, in construction, unskilled, you start from 7500 Romanian lei thats about the equivalent of 1600 GBP, if you are skilled like an welder, bricklayer etc. you can go up to the equivalent of 2500-3000 GBP. Good luck finding Romanian construction workers who would return to the UK.
@latinumquark2774 I tell you straight up for many years Eastern European people (Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian...) have contributed massively to economies in the Western European countries. If tomorrow they all would leave Belgium, our economy would totally collapse. Barely any construction anymore, and construction is the backbone of our economy. The Brits were unbelievable stupid. The future is definitely Eastern Europe, my friend.
@@latinumquark2774 I’m Portuguese and if it’s true I’m embarrassed,knowing you guys get paid more, good for you tho😂
The uk is not attractive limit before unless you are high skilled and want to enter the sectors where the uk aka London is really good at
@@latinumquark2774 7500 ron is about 1250 GBP, not 1600
Brexit is how they expressed that UK is closer to Africa and India than to Europe.
@@prolarka dead head lol
@@hyperbole6529 I am not a pirate
Yes, that was a big disappointment from the UK.
As a Czech, I've always been a fan of the UK and was glad we were in the EU together (I've never worked in the UK, I've only been there for a few days as a tourist, as I have been to many other European countries.) But no one is keeping anyone in the EU, so if they wanted to leave, that was their right. I think it ultimately harmed us all- UK and EU.
I am a British worker in the UK. My general experience of central and eastern European colleagues is very positive, I respect their integrity and hard-working, courteous attitude. When free movement was in place my employer constantly pleaded poverty when it came to pay negotiations. When free movement ended, and the labour market changed, my employer suddenly became able to afford pay increases. In fact my pay has pretty much been restored to where it should have been after the years of wage suppression. I still work alongside Poles and Romanians who are also benefitting from improved pay and conditions. Make of this what you will.
I have friends that live in London,but they started calling it Londonistan a while ago.😂
Only someone with no education will bring religion and race into a political discussion. There r lawyers, doctors, nurses etc who r Muslim, what's ur problem ?
@@yiman7370the problem is racism. A very big Problem in Europe since hundreds of years
@@yiman7370 What's yours? You can't even comprehend what education means!
Skipped every class?
Go back to some indoctrination free school and start learning! Developing common sense, analytical thinking and actual functioning brain pattern!
@@yiman7370 And then for every lawyer doctor or nurse there are 10.000 muslims that hang out in corner streets plotting how to extort more money from the government.
@@yiman7370Problem is you dont see a problem.
Adhesion for eastern European countries was indeed a slow and painful process. If UK wants to rejoin, it will be even a more slower and more painful process. And eastern European countries now active and respected EU members can strike a veto on UK adhesion. You reap what you sow...
Poland is in Central Europe, not Eastern Europe: geographically and mentally.
The Iron Curtain fell more than 30 years ago, and it really is high time to understand that that division of Europe no longer exists. The geographical Centre of Europe is in Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine or in the east of Poland (depending on what method of measuring is used).
Eastern Europe = ruSSia. We certainly do not want to be associated in any way with this barbaric country.
Why is this so difficult for you to understand? What is wrong with you?
You can bet we will veto the hell out of them for at least 2 generations
Came in the UK 10 years ago...what a mistake.
yes go home
@@Purwapada How much do they pay you for trolling?
same
why? did they use your goop to put some spice into their food?!
I'm Polish. I used to live in UK for 8 years. Nobody ever spoke to me badly. I was happy, I had lots of opportunities and I used them all the learn and advance in my professional life. I left in 2010 because I wanted to start family. I still have friends back in London and I visit them every other year or so. The energy is off, you could see lots of closed firms, a lot of retired aged people working minimum wage jobs. Meanwhile Poland is flourishing. I hope it will get better for UK too, as it makes me sad to see it like this. I know lots of people were saying bad things about Poles but personally I have only good memories and let's face it, you can find lazy, uneducated people everywhere.
Britain has only ever prospered as a trading nation - - the fewer the restrictions on international trade, the better off Britain and its population have been. This was true through centuries of empire, during the long post-Napoleonic age of European free trade, and during more than 50 years of membership in the EEC/EU.
Brexit was a moronic step backward, a senseless repudiation of centuries of British openness to international trade.
Calling Britain a trading nation is rather a stretch.
Robbing colonies from their raw materials and labour, then forcing them to only buy "British" can't be called free trade.
THe EU won't exist much longer anyway. because it's a failed project run by socialist belgians
Brexit proves one thing: "Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups".
@@FAngus-ly8lk Britain prospered when other worked for them. The time of the empire is gone.
@@ab-ym3bf That’s how many countries around the world acted 200+ years ago. And England has ALWAYS been a trading nation, ignoramus.
Lived in Scotland for one year as a Romanian. I honestly enjoyed my stay, pretty much everyone I interacted with was friendly and easy going. I never felt discriminated against. I think that having a good accent (even if it more American than British) helps a lot, and it may also be that Scottish people tend to be friendlier than folks in England. That said, given the current economy, I don't plan to move back, but I am looking forward to visiting.
Yeah, Irish, Scots and Welsh aren't quite Anglo-Saxon, they're Celts of different kind, nicer people! My Scottish friends were humiliated to subscribe to English courses to improve their accent before being allowed to working as teachers or oth. jobs within education.
@@dalia_mar That's a bit ridiculous, but to play the devil's advocate, I did struggle a lot when I visited Glasgow. Aberdeen/Edinburgh accent, on the other hand, was easily intelligible.
@@dalia_mar If you actually knew the history, you’d know that the lowland Scots developed from an area of south-east Scotland that was once part of the Anglic kingdom of Northumbria that included the north of England too. Not everything north of Hadrian’s wall is Celtic.
@@Emperorli90 For Bulgarian engineer, who lived in UK since 11 years, I am pretty well introduced to the Dal Riata wars of 5th century and the formations, wars and origins of the ethnicities, which lately formed what is now UK. I hope you know what race are the Bulgarians , on which continent is located their country and what language they speak. I fed up of being asked by the English if "Bulgaria and Romania are one the same country, speaking the same language".
@@dalia_mar As an historical linguist, I’m well aware that Bulgarian stemmed from old Church Slavonic (though bulgar was oghuz Turkic) whereas Romanian is Latin, though is doesn’t take my interest too much. And ignorance such as this seems can be found everywhere, certainly on the European continent. I should know as I’ve lived in continental Europe.
You have got a lot of engineers from Africa and Middle East in the UK 😢
I’m a Slovakian, grew up in the UK, started working in Germany, Prague and Switzerland on contract basis for the past couple of years, definitely time to leave the crumbling economy and poor decisions of this country, as much as if pains me to say after growing up here
An Eastern European here - never worked abroad, just observing. It seems to me that the problem of the UK's failure to attract EE workers is due to the competion with other Western European countries, mostly the Netherlands or the Nordic countries. You can get an equally well paid job there and there is little language barrier when everybody speaks English anyway. So why bother with the red tape when there are other, easier options? Also, with the advent of working remotely, you can work from Eastern Europe for any company all over the world. Plus, many of the Eastern European countries face labour shortages of their own and wages are - slowly - rising to close the gap between the East and the West. So, sorry UK, the migrant workers from EE will never come back in big numbers ever again. However, as a consolation, I think the role of Brexit in all of it was rather moderate or even minor. It would have happened even if the UK stayed in the EU, just slowlier.
As an "ex communist European" i could NEVER move to western Europe. I could only visit as a tourist, but even then the priority would be to visit southern Europe, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid, Milano, Lisbon, Athens, Porto, Florence, Venice, Seville...Places like UK, Netherlands, northern France, Sweden, etc. there's absolutely NOTHING for me there.
@@Just_another_Euro_dude Latvian here and must agree. Was working in UK, was mostly ok. Was working in Netherlands - F*CK this place, hate it! Germany is done, never had any interest in Scandinavian countries. Was living in Spain and Portugal. Lovely places.
I feel exactly the same, and exactly felt the same disconnection with northern Europe. I don't know what it is. I think it has spiritual reasons. Or its Catholic influence or it is something else. I heard several prophecies that when Europe will go through great crisis of the (anti//christ/). Slavic nations will unite and save Europe and also southern Europe. Thats how we are going to save our civilization. There are several stigmatists and other prophets who said that Anglosaxon culture will self destroy and Slavic people will be the next powerful civilization. Its like there are 3 kinds of Europeans. First GreekRoman civilization gave birth to western civilization through philosophy and religion, southern Europe than gave impulse to Anglosaxon nations who gave the world a universal language and science and then after Anglosaxon they are gonna be replaced by Slavic nations who will develop a new more fair economic system and we will teach the world about brotherhood and peace in spite of the crappy situation now, this is going to be healed and slavic nations will reunite including with Russian brothers. Also there is a prophecy that the UK, Russia, Southern and Eastern Europe will be united thanks to some new Pope that will be so charismatic that he will reunite all Europeans. There will no longer be any wars.
The Sacandinavian countries are beautiful too, every country has its places to see.
I'm sorry to tell you, but as a Spaniard I can tell you Southern Europe is way more decadent than Central or Western Europe these days. Well, since 2008 at least.
@@ivanmacgar6447 I think it depends. Italy and Greece got conservative governments. I heard many years ago that Spain and Portugal are the most liberal places in southern Europe and one of the most liberal in Europe. Still what i don't see anywhere in southern Europe is that insular look that is so typical for the western and northern Europe towards the ex communist Europe. So, i think AS A TOURIST i would prefer southern Europe. Several Polish workers were literally KILLED by the mobs of brexiters, in a fights 4 vs 1 or 10 vs 1. People from ex communist Europe that moved to Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, they all live their lives perfectly normally. With no such horrible stories. Also in Berlin jihadi attack a Polish truck driver lost his life while trying to help, in London jihadi attack a Romanian girl that was on honeymoon was killed when she feel from the bridge during the attack. So EVEN as TOURIST you are risquing a lot when visiting, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Sweden...I might as well visit the USA then. If i want to risque my health, cause at least in everyday life in the USA i won't get bullied for being the "eastern European" like i would in the north-western Europe.
when you are here, they asked you to leave. when you have left, they are asking you to come back in. 😂😂
no we're not, the undemocratically elected socialist government is.
strange🤔
like girls at their period
yeah like an abusive gf
Lies
Poland is not Eastern Europe but Central. Poland lies exactly in the middle of Europe.
Well...Poland is mentioned as Eastern European because the country was part of the Eastern Bloc not because of your geographical position in Europe. The Warsaw Pact puts your country there. So yes, you are Eastern Europeans for Westerners.
I know You, the Czechs and some other former communist countries want to be seen as more western than they are. The truth is, you are not that different from the countries you prefer not to be associated with - the way of thinking, way of living, relationships with family and friends, cuisine, and even language. I would say …don't become the new Brits on the continent. Stay cool and awesome, as you are.
@@windygreychannelyes, it's a purely political term
but still, this term through history was used as derogatory and is outdated
I think it would be good if people started using correct terminology
I recommend movie "Eastern Europe is not real"
btw. just remember communism was forced onto Poland, in times it was spreading in Europe it was far far more popular in UK as Poland always was much more nationalistic
@kryokori We can and shall reclaim the "Eastern European" moniker for ourselves, and will wear it with pride :)
@@windygreychannelWe don't want to be seen more western. We want to be seen for what we are. Not eastern, not western. Not southern, not northern. We are simply in the middle. And we are proud of it. It is tiring as f...
Well, smart Poles do not want to be westerners with all that filth and degeneracy eating the western souls. Let's stay in beautiful and healthy East of Europe!
Poland is not easter europe. Europe ends on ural mountains. Look on map where it is. Poland and other countries you mention are in fact in center of Europe.
Moscow and St Petersburg, along with all Western Russia, are also Central Europe, accordingly to your logic.
Those countries are a Central Europe countries... Eastern Europe is a Belarus, Ukraine, Rusia...
Problem is many people are still stuck in there ways (and even still being taught to be) using pre '89 lingo. Back then anything on the other side of the iron curtain was "east"
Half of Ukraine and Belarus is geographically located in Central Europe.
This is historical division, not geographical.
If you are talking about Eastern Europe, talk about Eastern Europe, and not a mix of Central European countries.
The terms you are using became obsolete with the end of the cold war.
This channel has been producing materials about Poland and Poles in Great Britain in a mass production lately. None of them are made conscientiously, rather they have some kind of agenda. Don't expect too much from them. And for me as a Pole... they can call Poland Asia too... I hope they don't call it Western Europe because currently it's rather a shame
@@rayan69pl I am in complete agreement with you. Also the quality seems to be poor, like the voice for example, sounds as though it's AI made...
Stop being so but1hurt 😂
@@omi685 its not, just pointing out problems with the video. If he mislabeled Africa as Asia I'd also point it out. The video is using inacurrate outdated names.
@@MiSt3300 No it's not. It's describing the things that are talked about in a manner that people of the UK talk about them. Poland, Romania, Bulgaria? For all an average Brit cares, those are some backward post soviet republics somewhere between the Caucasus and Vladivostok. The only thing they care, is that the immigrants should go back to where they belong, and that Brittain can be a great place again. So while a lot of what's in this vid points the author is against such statements, the sentiment to the good old Brittain is pretty clear. So all is as it should be: the West ends at the Rhine, maybe at the Elbe. But everything past that is East Europe.
I used to dream about going to the UK but that was long ago. Now I am an electrical engineer here in Slovakia. Have a decent salary to the point where my mortgage is about 20% of my disposable income. This allows me to live a very comfortable life. No way I would be able to do that in the UK. In addition, UK isn't nearly as safe as it once was. There'd be no upside for someone like me to go there.
As a Polish ain't no way we ever comin back. Tho we are very welcoming if you want to work in our country in near future, got many job opportunities for ya :)
Good to see Polish gratitude for all the EU money and jobs in the UK
@@SD-tq1pl Then what about all the racism and xenophobia we had to experience on the way? Should we be grateful for that too?
@@michuXYZa kto ci kazał jechać pedale
@@SD-tq1plthere is no need for gratitude as those money are not given for free. In future we will pay more in the EU than we will take. It's credit not charity money 😅 and we wasn't part of Marshall plan like UK and other. And nobody cares that we fought arm to arm with you. Yes I'm aware that without EU we wouldn't be in the same place but it's not without price... I'm leaving UK this December after 8 years. It always will be place when I got job and opportunities but as my county improved I decide to go back and make it better place. You always very welcome to visit Poland and I hope UK will get better in future.
@@SD-tq1pl Did we not contribute enough while working in the UK? I guess we paid off everything and everywhere ( healthcare, engineering, hospitality, drivers, cleaners, operators, etc.). We proved to be hard working people and at the same time we helped UK to maintain its European heritage...
They were ‘taking’ jobs that British workers didn’t want to do and still don’t want to do.
What happened with Brexit was nothing new. My parents came to England after WW2 as they were both part of the Anders army that became a force under British command in the middle east - i.e. helping to fight for England. They both took jobs which no one else wanted - dad worked on a farm and mum worked as a cleaner in a hospital.
I was too young to understand the attitude of 'you're not one of us' at the time - nevertheless I received a good education and my parents were content in that in their homeland people had to constantly look over their shoulders as the political situation was horrendous for Poland after the carve up of their country and the Soviet control. My dad always, always wanted to return to Poland but it was not possible at that time in history (the average Brit would be totally unaware of what was happening in eastern Europe.) I myself visited Poland about ten years ago and was met by such friendliness and pure welcome that it was a joy to go and I go regularly now.
Brits generally never wanted us here - that was obvious - but it was not so overtly expressed as it is today. This is something that happens all over the world. No one wants outsiders - particularly if they perceive that they are somehow 'going without' because of them. And by the way - Brits are also not universally welcome everywhere - although it is generally the individual personality and willingness to integrate that is judged rather than the nationality.
My son - fortunately British and Polish nationality - lives and works in France. He loves it and gets on well with all his colleagues of many varied nationalities. Long live the brotherhood of man - wherever you are originally from.
As a Belgian doing business with English people (before the Brexit), I never experienced being unwelcome. However, they are proud people.
Thank you for this material. Eastern European immigrants like me ,migrated to western countries in search of a better life as our own countries were exploited economically by the same western countries. They devasted our industrial plants, sold it for pennies on the dollar which created a problem of high unemployment, which as a result created a problem of mass migration.
When I arrived in Germany, Holland or Uk I really felt like second class citizen, didn't get the same wages as my computer colleagues from those countries, I was given harder less desired positions even though I was more skilled and qualified to do those jobs of my western colleagues.
Now since by our own sweat and tears we carried western economys we figured that if we can do it outside, might as well work for own own economies, and put in work to actually regrow them. This is why we are growing while western countries are closing doors.
This is why we need Trump to win! And this is why we have to get foreign agents out of Polish government positions, people like Donald Tusk!
Make Amaerica Great Again!
Make Europe Great Again!
Lets make Poland great Again.
And least not formost lets make the world great again!
Why aren't these vacancies being filled by Brits? We have about 10 million people of working age who are economically inactive. Why can't they do any of this work? Maybe it's because they'd demand proper pay and conditions.
Because the British expect cheap goods and services. Cheap means cheaply produced with cheap labor. Start paying more for all services instead of complaining, and then the working conditions will improve for those low-paid positions as well. Start looking for expensive services and goods instead of relying on cheap ones, pay generously for everything and the problem will be solved.
The UK is not becoming a third world country…after Tory governments and austerity it is already one…😢
Polska ma dobre szkoły państwowe.
@@robertklimczak5630 Witam naszych polskich braci i sióstr. Niech żyje nasza wspólna Europa!
bcos you pay shit and are as expensive as switzerland
The uk simply underestimated how small, weak, and unimportant it has become in the world. Going it alone is for first rate powers. This is true for all the little petty states of Europe. These walking graveyards need each other.
Agree, we don't want to end up like Norway or Switzerland but alas I think it's too late.
@@SD-tq1pl 'ending up' like Norway or Switzerland would be the equivalent of winning the global lotto. They're two of the wealthiest countries on the planet offering an extraordinarily high standard of living.
@@Londonsteve56 One sits on massive wealth accumulated during certain two sports events the countries of Europe started in the XX century, while the other lecutres the world on clean energy and equality paying for it all with massive deposits of oil and gas. Kinda telling UK is where it is, didn't acquire enough gold past WWII, and doesn't have as much oil and gas reserves to spend lavishly on its people.
That and the fact that for over 5 decades UK politicians were working for themselves and their own wealth, and (edit:) NOT for the benefit of their people 🤣
@@MrQwertyman111 So, the person you're answering is right. They won the global lotto. But so did Britain in a way - except instead of winning lotto, they won many battles (and then stole stuff). Anyway, as you said and unlike Britain, Norway and Switzerland use their wealth to benefit people. Meanwhile London City works on medieval law where corporations vote, allowing russian and other dirty money a free flow, foreign oligarchs get to park their cash in London's real estate and shop on Oxrford St., aristocrats live in fucking palaces. What do the people get in turn? Shite
@@cogitorium1089 True, but the British Empire has been dead for decades now. All the wealth from that era has either devalued with time, or others caught up. And the capital acumulated and still present has stopped working for the country many years ago, and some would argue it never did due to the legislation in the CIty. As for the Swiss and Norwegians, it's no secret that both Switzerland and Norway are outliers and very special cases when it comes to economic success - one forged its brand on neutrality and a good place to make technically spohisticated products (with a bit of help of gold certain bad people left during WWII and never came back for), while the latter sits on huge reserves of hydrocarbons that finances the comfortable lives of the citizen thanks to governments that worked towards natural resources benefiting the people, not just the rich.
Look, the UK has been building its economy on services for years, but what many like to forget is that a lot of said services were directed towards the continental Europe, and they still are. At the same time, UK benefited from cheap labour in sectors natives do not want to work in most developed nations across the globe (like agriculture, hospitality, maintenance etc.), and said cheap labour came from... the EU. So by crippling its ties with the EU, UK made its peoples lives more difficult, at least in the short term. And unfortunately, UK does not have a golden parachute to use like Norway or Switzerland do. And yeah, add corrupt politicians into the mix and UK is where it is for a reason.
And hey, I don't have a crystal ball and can't say what the future will bring. Maybe a great turnaround will happen and UK will benefit from Brexit, or maybe UK will marginalize itself on the continent and suffer a decline. Too early to say. But for me it was clear the system was busted, and that was back when I was in the UK for a semester as an exchange student. Over two decades ago. Unless Brits get up from their comfy couches and start acting in a way their politicians have to start acting as they are expected? Don't think things will improve enough for the regular people to feel the difference.
Romanian here, worked in the UK for almost 6 years. Some of the best years i had. All the best to you.
Poland, Czechia, Slovakie, etc. are not eastern Europe.
Yes, they are. It is not about geography. It is about cold war blocks.
@@dv8ugcold war blocks were called the 1st world for NATO and the 2nd world for Warsaw Pact. The rest of the countries were called the 3rd world which BTW is heavily misinterpreted nowadays.
Coming to the UK was a mistake for me. I could have gotten promoted back in Romania 7 years ago. All I did was pay taxes and work on minimum wage here. Did 12 hour shifs only to pay rent and food. I made some money at first, until I moved into a house. Bills are expensive, rent is too (not too different from Romania reported to wage), council tax is a lot, internet and phone bills are ridiculous and they work like they should have worked 25 years ago. At least in Romania I would only work 40hours a week. My tax bill for last year came wrong and now I have to pay £7,000 just to be able to leave the UK. It's stupid. Can't wait to go back. I am never coming back. Maybe just to do shopping every once in a while. Maybe! It's an ugly country, apart from London where there are some things to see all brits do is drink at 1pm in a pub or eat mediocre food. Food quality is good, I will give you that. Buying a car is cheap, but taxing, insuring and maintaining is a whole other level. Rules and regulations are what keeps most people "safe" and by safe I mean lazy to do anything because they're not trained.
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I have lived in Malta for 7 years where I moved for lifestyle not economic reasons. I am back to Poland and it is amazing how it has changed even in this short period of time. I have a lot of friends in the UK from the music industry. They are not happy about the changes. It's sad because I loved to visit UK especially London. From what I've been told it's no longer the place where artists can thrive currently overwhelmed with the economic struggles. Sad.
Since 2008 UK have stagnant economy. All central europe coutries have economic grow. Soon all of them will overtake uk. Already uk does not much to offer for them. Only 3world immigrants will come to uk.
Poland is predicted to overtake UK by the end of the decade
Not with demographic collapse, they won't
Britain's economy is now lower than it was 2008..
If you disregard the London financial sector, Poland already has a stronger economy than the UK.
If you look at the average citizen, Polish citizens have more buying power in Poland then British citizens in Britain.
@@Jay-mc2dz If you disregard a quarter of the country's GDP. Lol
@@Jay-mc2dz Yeah if you disregard Paris...
If you disregard Tokyo...
UK is India 2.0 , Eastern Europe is still Europe.