Apparently so. An article from the Guardian that dismisses claims from the tabloids (which scared my friend John Reid) that we are about to be invaded by Bulgarians and Romanians. Apparently they already tend to migrate elsewhere. Thinking about it I've met very few Romanians and Hungarians in London while since I've been here and that was well before Poland joined the EU, I've always met hundreds of Poles of first and second generation. Not to mention the Polish shops, businesses and restaurants that have been open for decades. It's obvious that when moving abroad people will tend to go where they know someone. If there is already a community people will follow, if there is not you will get the most adventurous types but maybe not the mass immigration that some would like us to believe.
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- 25/09/2006 @ 16:38:16
i think some kind of limitations would be usefull. like in canada...
if brittain needs busdrives, then let the romanian busdrivers in, if brittain needs dentists, let the bulgarian dentists in, etc.
not everybody should be allowed to come and stay here, just those who has the relevant skills.
immigration is a business, fills out the wholes in employment, brittain benefits from it.