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Ken,
Many of these young people from Eastern Europe came during the last two years, because when some return home, others from there come over here to find work.
Many do not stay for more than a few years, this being the reason.
Because their home countries are in the EU, they are entitled to find work in Britain whether there is a Labour government or a Conservative government, a UKIP government or a LibDem government.
The Coalition recently voted in Parliament against discussing an EU referendum, it was a top feature on Dover Forum, and Charlie Elphicke MP also joined in here.
He quite rightly pointed out, though, that a three question referendum idea is rubbish. Indeed it is, there should only be two questions: in, or out.
So to be quite honest, I don't think it's fair to place the perceived problems on the sole shoulders of Labour.
If the Coalition wanted, they could hold an EU in/out referendum.
Having said all this, while strongly advocating that local people should have access to local work and be sufficiently trained also for factory and farm work and not only for computer-related work, as is currently the case (or almost), I have more sympathy for hard-working Eastern Europeans than people whose children are born here but only speak their own language as mother-tongue and evidently have no intention of integrating, and seemingly always have big new cars, while Poles, Latvians and Lithuanians cannot afford such luxuries here, even though they WORK hard for the minimum and precarious wage.
I see hundreds of children every day who only speak Slovak, they are presumably born here - unless even more keep coming over - but why do they not integrate, if they like it so much here?
They have many children, always see them with prams, only speak their own language, but why do they not integrate??
I have never once seen anyone of them in the jobcentre when I used to sign on there for a short period, nor at a skills training back-to-work course, nor at an "how to learn English" course (I often pass such places on my comings and goings), I don't see them catching the minibus to a factory. But Lithuanians, Poles and other nationalities who DO work hard for their meagre minimum wage cannot afford the luxuries of new big cars.....
Recently there was a thread about mothers who have children and live off benefits. Ahem.
