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 🎉 🌸💖✨🎉
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.
Polish woman here. I used to live and work in UK for few years, and I was the one who was actually assimilating into British culture, not escaping from it. Everything changed when I almost died aged 25 due to UK's doctor's negligence. I couldn't get any proper medical help even while begging for it in hospital. I went back to Poland, got diagnosed in 2 months and I'm alive, and healthy enough to function. I'm never coming back, even if I'm gonna be paid for it. Good luck Brits
Same experience. I am not Polish (but Dutch) and also returned because the NHS is absolutely horrible. I could not imagine myself getting old with such poor medical care.
Honestly, what do you expect? Millions of immigrants to the UK in 25 years. No wonder the NHS can't cope, along with everything else. Think that we have seen our country decline in front of our very eyes. And all these immigrants can now do is complain how shit the UK is. Take a look in the fucking mirror, you're part of the problem!
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
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.
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.
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... 😅
@@lynnm6413 could you define "tons"? can you give a source with actual numbers? or is it just your far right funded newspaper you read while sipping coffee distributed by those few "honest" people?
@@vanbaza I personally know of 5 Georgians, and all of them are on welfare under claims of being ‚Ukrainians‘. I live in a building with 9 apartments, with 2 Ukrainian women and one Moldavian woman and we have become friends. They have told me of this Georgian ‚method‘, the Romanian one has been through the news…BR, if I remember correctly. As a former Green voter I‘ll laugh at your cheap dig…noticing problems doesn‘t make me right wing.
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.
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!
You forgot to mention the unpunished aggression against Eastern Europeans that for me culminated in the murder of a Czech man Zdeněk Makar who was beaten to death by Raymond Sculley (he went to tell off a group of bikers for being too loud and was hit over and over and over with a biker chain by their leader). Despite it being recorded by camera and the police doing their job, in 2017 the british justice failed in the eyes and hearts of Eastern Europeans when it accepted the defence that could basically be summarized " big bad Eastern European threaten me, I was so afraid of this Eastern European boogey man that I just had to finish him off even when he was defenceless on the ground". Zdeněk had no back up, nor a weapon, yet his ethnicity was enough of a threat to let the man who bludgened him to death to walk scot free....
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.
"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..
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.
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.
I’m a rare type of Czech guy living in Poland, working in tech industry. Before that, I spent a few years in the UK and let me tell you, it was shit. Manual labour, people looking down on me just because of my accent, making me feel like I am something less. Of course now I get job offers from UK all the time, but I would never ever go back. I live like a king in Poland, standards are very high and I am sure it is only going to get better from here. :)
I'm mixed English and my maternal side from Czechoslovakia. I think everyone should remain in their country, be proud and create the best nation they were put in this Earth by God to be. Shifting people's isn't solving much and it's endless. It's not the solution. Not anymore. I think we're realizing that. I think Poland with it's mighty strength & potential, had success coming to it due to how full of character & ambition the people have. Many Polish people have decent principles and values, caring people. I've read a lot on here about English people abusing everyone, this one, that one, snobs, maybe everyone should fix their own homes including them. In the old days of people didn't step up and do the work, people didn't eat and stuff wasn't done. Perhaps relying on imported labor is terrible all around. They use population decline to push the migrant agenda when I see no shortage of native human beings and maybe if life were more affordable and wages weren't depreciated, people would be happily having more children and we'd have a better society for it. Poland has been through hell and it took the brunt from the two worst dictating totalitarian regimes in world history and now it thrives with envy. It takes time but Poland has an admirable backbone and I enjoy watching the leaders blast those EU jerks to kingdom come!!!! Hungary also has an interesting man in charge currently, Italy is marvelous. I don't think the EU is sustainable. It's every country for itself and tying everyone up together is unhealthy and bound to be problematic. That's my opinion.
@@Freerids Following your logic Poland is 100x stronger than Hungary because 1 PLN = 100 HUF. The only metrics that shows the truth (more or less) is GDP (PPP) per capita. And yes, Poland is pretty close to UK with a good perspective of overtaking UK. So an average Pole will be able to buy more for their salary than their UK peer. Another thing is safety, Poland beats UK hands down here. So yes, I stand by my point that nobody in their right mind would nowadays go from Poland o UK to work.
@@melissahouse3488 Not everybody can live in their own country. Some are minorities in their own country and are discriminated there. That's my case. I want to leave but don't know where.
Did you work at a fire station as a pole? Or perhaps a clothing challenged facility?
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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))))
Hej! I am from Poland and I see more and more people from Georgia. One question, why so many of them are stealing and robbing in my town? In official, police stats around 30% of crimes are made by people of Georgia when they are like 0.5% of total polulation in my city? Could they go at least to UK? 😅
Im Romanian and would like to visit your country, soon. From the videos posted by few people I watch on UA-cam, it looks like a really nice place with nice people.
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.
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
@@ZlatnoPeroTV nah. russia lost something to the tune of half a million men in ukraine. russia is not pushing further west unless it wants to break apart. and china is watching like a hawk while milking the ruskies dry.
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.
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.
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 .
Bulgarian here, that lived in UK for around 4 years and left immediately after the BREXIT vote. UK was the biggest mistake of my life. The island is a collapsing dumpster.
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 .
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'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.
Give Czechia a 100 years and we will be leaps and bounds above the UK. Especially thanks to the fact that the west isn't allowed to bully and sabotage us like in WW2 and onwards
@@AllKnowingOne88 "Immigrants", not expats. Expat is a made up word by the British in order to not be called "immigrants" as they use immigrant as a derogatory word lol
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 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 :)
I am Finn working in IT and when I was studying I works in construction and lived some time in London. I love London and I love British people, but I have seen seen the quality of British work... Brits are always welcome to Finland, but I do not know if I want them to work.
The west is in a decline which is largely the reason why EE doesn't look so bad anymore, not necessarily because EE is improving as a whole. Some places are, others not so much if at all. Bulgaria is one of those where things rly aren't improving. I am bulgarian so I'm not just talking nonsense. The majority of people left in Bulgaria are either those few who've managed to get things going for themselves rather well, or those that are working 25/8 just to keep the lights on, Then u have pensioners and gypsies. Wages are still more attractive in the UK. The way it's looking, that may not be the case in the future and more and more people might return, but not because Bulgaria has suddenly gotten its shit straight, so call it as it is... With all of that said, this... almost a sense of pride being expressed in regards to EE is just ridiculously unfounded.
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
The funniest thing is that they stopped accepting other Europeans, who were much closer culturally, to accept immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, with very different cultures.
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!
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
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.
Polish here, lived in Manchester for a bit. The job I stole was night shifts in an unheated hall fixing electronics - especially fun during winter times. I hope the brits enjoy that position back and their new beautiful migrants of the other type, who they can feed, supply with gadgets of all types and pay their rent, while the migrants just hang around and get angry that they don't get enough free shit of certain quality. We'll watch from afar - the isles are now like a human amusement park or a zoo, they would make millions live streaming!
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 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.
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.
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.
Your fellow Scots unanimously voted to stay in the union, rejecting independence. However the hypocrites in the SNP wouldn't accept this democratic decision and are still harping on. The vote to leave Europe was fair. All areas of the UK were involved with a Brexit win in a democratic vote. Some areas voted to leave some voted to stay. Even in Scotland not everyone voted to stay.
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'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 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
I lived through same experience as you. People looked down at me in UK all the time, making me feel like I am some uneducated moron just based on my accent. Few years ago I made a big decision and accepted job offer from Poland, I have never been happier. By now I actually earn more money than in UK. My quality of life is perfect, people respect me, it is safe and clean here. It was the best decision of my life and I am forever grateful to Poland.
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
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 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. 🤷🏻♂️
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.
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 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.
@@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 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.
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.
I am eastern european and the job I stole was breaking my back for a minimum wage in the warehouse. We had 'lovely' managers that coordinated the workforce to achieve maximum profit with least resources. This included setting unrealistic targets. Each of us was tracked by GPS. We were not allowed to talk, sit down if tired, or have a glass of water outside designated break-time. We had to walk in heavy and uncomfortable safety shoes for 8 hours straight. There were days, if not weeks or months, we had not seen a daylight. I am not even going to mention the mental impact of living away from your friends and family.
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...
Every day, Brits ask me the same questions: Why are you stealing jobs? When are you returning to Poland? I wish I could arrive in England on a boat, get free 4-star accommodation and food, and be treated with much more respect. Sadly, I am just a hard-working Pole 🤷♂️
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)
@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.
I`m Romanian and lived in the UK for 11 years, last week I`ve returned home. Good luck with all the Africans and Middle Easterners living on benefits. I bet you guys are chuffed. See ya!
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.
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.
@@u33c214yb29 You are right but you are repeating Stalin's propaganda. This dead rag coined the term Eastern Europe as the location of Poland. It was quite a successful (as you can see) action so that Western countries would not feel connected to countries behind the Iron Curtain. For example, Poland would be a very distant land for them, not worth mentioning and certainly not worth any help. That is why it is worth correcting the West that we are the center and this is our place.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
The quality of life in the UK was terrible even before Brexit, especially in London. Wages were higher than elsewhere but absolutely not enough for the cost of living. Overpriced rents for the worst quality and smallest houses I've seen in my life, the most expensive public transport ever seen and a service that's very flawed. Terrible weather, terrible workaholic culture, people with poor social skills whose only form of social life is afterwork drinks. I felt so depressed in my 3 years there. Now I'm happy in Barcelona, I have a lower wage than I could have in London but a lower cost of living and a way higher quality of life.
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.
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.
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?
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.
The truth is that as a bulgarian, now a days im earning 10-15 000lv per mounth (which is roughly 5-7500 euro), and despite the lev is half the amont of euro, im considerebly better then avg brit atm with my purchase power, and more over in Bulgaria we dont have so much muslims to destroy our country, i can afford big house, 2nd real esate in our sea short also i can have 2 luxory SUV's or cars (depending on my needs) and still be able to have good life - now if i go in Britain, the best they can do is 2-3k euro and for that i can get 2 room apartmanet and live like a dog. Thank you, but no thank you .....
It was an amazing experience for me to watch people running a private business without knowing anything about it. People whose market is the EU and who are completely dependent on foreign labor were proudly voted for Brexit.
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
@@oussamaalaoui9121historically that’s how it always is with mass immigration they’ll all say this terrible shit about them and eventually if they actually leave or through the decades integrate the same people will say how they were amazing and hard working people but only so they can hate on the new immigrants it makes your reality stop caring about it
The funniest part is that in 5-10 years, Poland will have a stronger economy than the UK, and in 10 years, it will be the British coming to Poland for work.
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.
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.
Bulgaria here and one thing i noticed when Brexit happened is that the first people who moved back to Bulgaria weren't the uneducated ones with no skills. It was actually the intelligent, educated and skilled people who decided to risk it and build their own businesses. These were the first guys who started taking huge loans from the banks, putting the money towards better machinery, processes and taking part in EU subsidized farming projects. Within just 2 short years i've seen people just shooting up from manual labor workers in the UK to millionaires in Bulgaria with farming and all of them shared with me, that if it wasn't for Brexit forcing them to come back, they might've never taken the risk and would've been proably still collecting cabbage in the fields. What people in the UK failed to realize at that point in time was that 90% of the people from Easter Europe who were comming to their country LEGALLY were actually active, honest working people with skills. The illegals were the lazy ones, waiting on social welfare, not looking for jobs. And guess what - these same parasites as you can call them are still there, still draining the system. When i was thinking of moving to the UK in 2011, i was a 24yo, super active and energetic worker, who didn't mind manual labor and long shifts, spoke Bulgarian, English, Russian and German, had degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, with experience in bulding and maintaining server racks, but i was willing to do manual labor in construction, because that was paying 5 times more than my then job as a technician in a computer repair shop here in Bulgaria. At the current state that we are all in now, there is absolutely no way for me to move to the UK. I have friends who still live there and say that they work 10-12 sometimes even 14 hour shift, with no overtime pay. To my brain this is absolutely incomprehensible.
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.
UK, German citizens are buying up houses for 20-50k in Bulgaria and this will only increase. Life is tranquile and cheaper... Uk house / rent market is a non sense. Was paying 500 pounds per month for a CAVE, while working there. What goes around, comes around..
Just one remark - Poland is CENTRAL Europe and not Eastern Europe. Other than that - It was obvious to everyone except British people that Brexit will hurt UK much more than it would hurt EU. And people from countries like Poland, Bulgaria, Romania but also some other Central Europe countries are very mobile and flexible. So, when UK said they don't want us, we immediately found jobs in Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and other Western Europe countries. Now no-one really will be interested to come back to UK even if at some point it was a really dreamed direction to not to steal benefits but settle, raise children, contribute to the economy, assimilate. UK did not want this kind of people for some reason so they left. Question is: has the immigration problem been resolved over the few years since UK has been a standalone "power"? I guess it has not, but the kind of immigrants arriving to the country are of a completely different profile compared to what it was in early 2000s. Suffice to say - they do not integrate as easy as people from Central Europe countries. Another question: when British people will swallow their pride and will apply to re-join EU? Yes, I would like this to happen because I (but also many other rational-thinking people) believe that EU with UK will be stronger than without UK because today's world is no longer a safe place and it is easier to face the challenges in unity rather than in separation. Life will show what is going to happen...
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.
I'm English (Paternal) and Czech/Slovak (maternal) and I don't personally like Czech Republic and I don't care for Czechs. They're not warm or the friendliest of people. I guess Slavic people in general aren't, but I'm being totally honest and I'm Czech!! I don't find them to be the nicest bunch from my life long experiences.
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.
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.
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...
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!
@asdfgh-th1bb not your fault it's always stupid governments who should be held to account on anything good or bad
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
Polish woman here. I used to live and work in UK for few years, and I was the one who was actually assimilating into British culture, not escaping from it. Everything changed when I almost died aged 25 due to UK's doctor's negligence. I couldn't get any proper medical help even while begging for it in hospital. I went back to Poland, got diagnosed in 2 months and I'm alive, and healthy enough to function. I'm never coming back, even if I'm gonna be paid for it. Good luck Brits
Same experience. I am not Polish (but Dutch) and also returned because the NHS is absolutely horrible. I could not imagine myself getting old with such poor medical care.
Honestly, what do you expect? Millions of immigrants to the UK in 25 years. No wonder the NHS can't cope, along with everything else.
Think that we have seen our country decline in front of our very eyes. And all these immigrants can now do is complain how shit the UK is. Take a look in the fucking mirror, you're part of the problem!
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
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.
@@hyperbole6529we arent (*insert annoying fake laughter emoji*)
@@3komma141592653 Have you seen Romania lately ? It is the fastest growing economy in the EU.
Yeah, with the exception of London, most of Eastern Europe is on the same level as UK these days.
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
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... 😅
@@lynnm6413 could you define "tons"? can you give a source with actual numbers? or is it just your far right funded newspaper you read while sipping coffee distributed by those few "honest" people?
@@vanbaza I personally know of 5 Georgians, and all of them are on welfare under claims of being ‚Ukrainians‘.
I live in a building with 9 apartments, with 2 Ukrainian women and one Moldavian woman and we have become friends.
They have told me of this Georgian ‚method‘, the Romanian one has been through the news…BR, if I remember correctly.
As a former Green voter I‘ll laugh at your cheap dig…noticing problems doesn‘t make me right wing.
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
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.
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?
You forgot to mention the unpunished aggression against Eastern Europeans that for me culminated in the murder of a Czech man Zdeněk Makar who was beaten to death by Raymond Sculley (he went to tell off a group of bikers for being too loud and was hit over and over and over with a biker chain by their leader). Despite it being recorded by camera and the police doing their job, in 2017 the british justice failed in the eyes and hearts of Eastern Europeans when it accepted the defence that could basically be summarized " big bad Eastern European threaten me, I was so afraid of this Eastern European boogey man that I just had to finish him off even when he was defenceless on the ground". Zdeněk had no back up, nor a weapon, yet his ethnicity was enough of a threat to let the man who bludgened him to death to walk scot free....
same happened to a croatian man that got beaten and killed for talking to his friend in croatian somewhere in the UK
I love the tolerant and accepting western countries for those kinds of stories.
British justice stinks, ask any irish man.
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.
"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 😂
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
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.
I’m a rare type of Czech guy living in Poland, working in tech industry. Before that, I spent a few years in the UK and let me tell you, it was shit. Manual labour, people looking down on me just because of my accent, making me feel like I am something less. Of course now I get job offers from UK all the time, but I would never ever go back. I live like a king in Poland, standards are very high and I am sure it is only going to get better from here. :)
I'm mixed English and my maternal side from Czechoslovakia. I think everyone should remain in their country, be proud and create the best nation they were put in this Earth by God to be. Shifting people's isn't solving much and it's endless. It's not the solution. Not anymore. I think we're realizing that. I think Poland with it's mighty strength & potential, had success coming to it due to how full of character & ambition the people have. Many Polish people have decent principles and values, caring people. I've read a lot on here about English people abusing everyone, this one, that one, snobs, maybe everyone should fix their own homes including them. In the old days of people didn't step up and do the work, people didn't eat and stuff wasn't done. Perhaps relying on imported labor is terrible all around. They use population decline to push the migrant agenda when I see no shortage of native human beings and maybe if life were more affordable and wages weren't depreciated, people would be happily having more children and we'd have a better society for it. Poland has been through hell and it took the brunt from the two worst dictating totalitarian regimes in world history and now it thrives with envy. It takes time but Poland has an admirable backbone and I enjoy watching the leaders blast those EU jerks to kingdom come!!!! Hungary also has an interesting man in charge currently, Italy is marvelous. I don't think the EU is sustainable. It's every country for itself and tying everyone up together is unhealthy and bound to be problematic. That's my opinion.
@@Freerids Following your logic Poland is 100x stronger than Hungary because 1 PLN = 100 HUF. The only metrics that shows the truth (more or less) is GDP (PPP) per capita. And yes, Poland is pretty close to UK with a good perspective of overtaking UK. So an average Pole will be able to buy more for their salary than their UK peer. Another thing is safety, Poland beats UK hands down here. So yes, I stand by my point that nobody in their right mind would nowadays go from Poland o UK to work.
@@melissahouse3488 Not everybody can live in their own country. Some are minorities in their own country and are discriminated there. That's my case. I want to leave but don't know where.
Did you work at a fire station as a pole? Or perhaps a clothing challenged facility?
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))))
Hej! I am from Poland and I see more and more people from Georgia. One question, why so many of them are stealing and robbing in my town? In official, police stats around 30% of crimes are made by people of Georgia when they are like 0.5% of total polulation in my city? Could they go at least to UK? 😅
Poland and Romania are far right countries, very inhospitable to foreigners.
Im Romanian and would like to visit your country, soon. From the videos posted by few people I watch on UA-cam, it looks like a really nice place with nice people.
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
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
I say we let them have their jobs and focus on improving our countries 🇷🇴❤️🇵🇱❤️🇧🇬
Y'all will be Russia+ soon 😅
@@ZlatnoPeroTV nah. russia lost something to the tune of half a million men in ukraine. russia is not pushing further west unless it wants to break apart. and china is watching like a hawk while milking the ruskies dry.
@@Voroniel in your universe sure but in reality no
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.
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.
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.
Bulgarian here, that lived in UK for around 4 years and left immediately after the BREXIT vote. UK was the biggest mistake of my life. The island is a collapsing dumpster.
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
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'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.
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.
Give Czechia a 100 years and we will be leaps and bounds above the UK. Especially thanks to the fact that the west isn't allowed to bully and sabotage us like in WW2 and onwards
hope you have some czech friends here, englishmen ive met here were expats only groups with no intention to learn language.
@@AllKnowingOne88 "Immigrants", not expats. Expat is a made up word by the British in order to not be called "immigrants" as they use immigrant as a derogatory word lol
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 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 :)
I am Finn working in IT and when I was studying I works in construction and lived some time in London. I love London and I love British people, but I have seen seen the quality of British work...
Brits are always welcome to Finland, but I do not know if I want them to work.
The west is in a decline which is largely the reason why EE doesn't look so bad anymore, not necessarily because EE is improving as a whole. Some places are, others not so much if at all. Bulgaria is one of those where things rly aren't improving. I am bulgarian so I'm not just talking nonsense. The majority of people left in Bulgaria are either those few who've managed to get things going for themselves rather well, or those that are working 25/8 just to keep the lights on, Then u have pensioners and gypsies.
Wages are still more attractive in the UK. The way it's looking, that may not be the case in the future and more and more people might return, but not because Bulgaria has suddenly gotten its shit straight, so call it as it is... With all of that said, this... almost a sense of pride being expressed in regards to EE is just ridiculously unfounded.
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*
The funniest thing is that they stopped accepting other Europeans, who were much closer culturally, to accept immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, with very different cultures.
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.
No, i don't want them
We don't want to go to Western Europe. We don't want to go anywhere. Western world is falling apart.
@@blumenbeet92 Don't worry, you can enjoy your asylum seeking doctors and engineers.
@LLPforlife Eastern Europe is poor Even some African countries are richer than it
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!
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....
Polish here, lived in Manchester for a bit. The job I stole was night shifts in an unheated hall fixing electronics - especially fun during winter times. I hope the brits enjoy that position back and their new beautiful migrants of the other type, who they can feed, supply with gadgets of all types and pay their rent, while the migrants just hang around and get angry that they don't get enough free shit of certain quality. We'll watch from afar - the isles are now like a human amusement park or a zoo, they would make millions live streaming!
Jezu, okrutnyś
Britanistan
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
It’s funny as I am polish too and I moved to Uk in 2016 as lack of perspectives there
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.
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.
@@ВолодимирХарченко-ю4бUkraine has a history of genocide in Poland. Did Polish people ever genocide England?
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.
scotland will rebel one day
scotland will be free one day
idealism aside,if you want a revolution,now seems to be the time
love scotland,from romania
Your fellow Scots unanimously voted to stay in the union, rejecting independence. However the hypocrites in the SNP wouldn't accept this democratic decision and are still harping on. The vote to leave Europe was fair. All areas of the UK were involved with a Brexit win in a democratic vote. Some areas voted to leave some voted to stay. Even in Scotland not everyone voted to stay.
@@billyboyd8245 "Unanimously"? The 2014 referendum had a 55% majority for staying in the union... You reckon that "unanimous"?
@@bioLarzenyou still lost
@@ZlatnoPeroTV "You"? I'm European but not British, I've never ever been within 1000 miles of the UK ;)
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.
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 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
I lived through same experience as you. People looked down at me in UK all the time, making me feel like I am some uneducated moron just based on my accent. Few years ago I made a big decision and accepted job offer from Poland, I have never been happier. By now I actually earn more money than in UK. My quality of life is perfect, people respect me, it is safe and clean here. It was the best decision of my life and I am forever grateful to Poland.
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 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
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.
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
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.
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 🤭🤷♂️
@@underground9560 What door? Your house is wide open.
As a Hungarian, it warms my hearth to see Poland thriving. Surely they became the leaders of east/central europe.
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.
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.
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 😂
The lesson is - don't go where they hate you. Do not fly over to the UK and leave in droves.
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.
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 :)
UK is India 2.0 , Eastern Europe is still Europe.
I am eastern european and the job I stole was breaking my back for a minimum wage in the warehouse. We had 'lovely' managers that coordinated the workforce to achieve maximum profit with least resources. This included setting unrealistic targets. Each of us was tracked by GPS. We were not allowed to talk, sit down if tired, or have a glass of water outside designated break-time. We had to walk in heavy and uncomfortable safety shoes for 8 hours straight. There were days, if not weeks or months, we had not seen a daylight. I am not even going to mention the mental impact of living away from your friends and family.
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..
@@Calucifer13they'll obviously split the country into multiple khalifates.you can't expect all the princes to share
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!
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
Every day, Brits ask me the same questions: Why are you stealing jobs? When are you returning to Poland? I wish I could arrive in England on a boat, get free 4-star accommodation and food, and be treated with much more respect. Sadly, I am just a hard-working Pole 🤷♂️
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.
In your dreams
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.
@@davidmluca 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)?????
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.
I`m Romanian and lived in the UK for 11 years, last week I`ve returned home. Good luck with all the Africans and Middle Easterners living on benefits. I bet you guys are chuffed. See ya!
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.
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
@@u33c214yb29 You are right but you are repeating Stalin's propaganda. This dead rag coined the term Eastern Europe as the location of Poland. It was quite a successful (as you can see) action so that Western countries would not feel connected to countries behind the Iron Curtain. For example, Poland would be a very distant land for them, not worth mentioning and certainly not worth any help. That is why it is worth correcting the West that we are the center and this is our place.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Very well said!
The quality of life in the UK was terrible even before Brexit, especially in London. Wages were higher than elsewhere but absolutely not enough for the cost of living. Overpriced rents for the worst quality and smallest houses I've seen in my life, the most expensive public transport ever seen and a service that's very flawed. Terrible weather, terrible workaholic culture, people with poor social skills whose only form of social life is afterwork drinks. I felt so depressed in my 3 years there. Now I'm happy in Barcelona, I have a lower wage than I could have in London but a lower cost of living and a way higher quality of life.
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
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.
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.
The amount of Poles coming back from the UK is crazy now my uncle is even thinking of coming back from America
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
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.
The truth is that as a bulgarian, now a days im earning 10-15 000lv per mounth (which is roughly 5-7500 euro), and despite the lev is half the amont of euro, im considerebly better then avg brit atm with my purchase power, and more over in Bulgaria we dont have so much muslims to destroy our country, i can afford big house, 2nd real esate in our sea short also i can have 2 luxory SUV's or cars (depending on my needs) and still be able to have good life - now if i go in Britain, the best they can do is 2-3k euro and for that i can get 2 room apartmanet and live like a dog. Thank you, but no thank you .....
What do you do for work?
It was an amazing experience for me to watch people running a private business without knowing anything about it. People whose market is the EU and who are completely dependent on foreign labor were proudly voted for Brexit.
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
As long as the western countries and their people dumb enough to play the game, yes.
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
@@oussamaalaoui9121historically that’s how it always is with mass immigration they’ll all say this terrible shit about them and eventually if they actually leave or through the decades integrate the same people will say how they were amazing and hard working people but only so they can hate on the new immigrants it makes your reality stop caring about it
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?!
"How easy was it for France and Germany to join the EU..." what a rubbish; they were the founding members, they did not join it, they found it
exactly
The funniest part is that in 5-10 years, Poland will have a stronger economy than the UK, and in 10 years, it will be the British coming to Poland for work.
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.
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.
Bulgaria here and one thing i noticed when Brexit happened is that the first people who moved back to Bulgaria weren't the uneducated ones with no skills. It was actually the intelligent, educated and skilled people who decided to risk it and build their own businesses. These were the first guys who started taking huge loans from the banks, putting the money towards better machinery, processes and taking part in EU subsidized farming projects. Within just 2 short years i've seen people just shooting up from manual labor workers in the UK to millionaires in Bulgaria with farming and all of them shared with me, that if it wasn't for Brexit forcing them to come back, they might've never taken the risk and would've been proably still collecting cabbage in the fields.
What people in the UK failed to realize at that point in time was that 90% of the people from Easter Europe who were comming to their country LEGALLY were actually active, honest working people with skills. The illegals were the lazy ones, waiting on social welfare, not looking for jobs. And guess what - these same parasites as you can call them are still there, still draining the system.
When i was thinking of moving to the UK in 2011, i was a 24yo, super active and energetic worker, who didn't mind manual labor and long shifts, spoke Bulgarian, English, Russian and German, had degrees in electrical engineering and computer science, with experience in bulding and maintaining server racks, but i was willing to do manual labor in construction, because that was paying 5 times more than my then job as a technician in a computer repair shop here in Bulgaria. At the current state that we are all in now, there is absolutely no way for me to move to the UK. I have friends who still live there and say that they work 10-12 sometimes even 14 hour shift, with no overtime pay. To my brain this is absolutely incomprehensible.
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.
UK, German citizens are buying up houses for 20-50k in Bulgaria and this will only increase. Life is tranquile and cheaper... Uk house / rent market is a non sense. Was paying 500 pounds per month for a CAVE, while working there. What goes around, comes around..
Just one remark - Poland is CENTRAL Europe and not Eastern Europe. Other than that - It was obvious to everyone except British people that Brexit will hurt UK much more than it would hurt EU. And people from countries like Poland, Bulgaria, Romania but also some other Central Europe countries are very mobile and flexible. So, when UK said they don't want us, we immediately found jobs in Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and other Western Europe countries. Now no-one really will be interested to come back to UK even if at some point it was a really dreamed direction to not to steal benefits but settle, raise children, contribute to the economy, assimilate. UK did not want this kind of people for some reason so they left. Question is: has the immigration problem been resolved over the few years since UK has been a standalone "power"? I guess it has not, but the kind of immigrants arriving to the country are of a completely different profile compared to what it was in early 2000s. Suffice to say - they do not integrate as easy as people from Central Europe countries. Another question: when British people will swallow their pride and will apply to re-join EU? Yes, I would like this to happen because I (but also many other rational-thinking people) believe that EU with UK will be stronger than without UK because today's world is no longer a safe place and it is easier to face the challenges in unity rather than in separation. Life will show what is going to happen...
I will Never ever in my life put one foodstep in this Country.
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.
I'm English (Paternal) and Czech/Slovak (maternal) and I don't personally like Czech Republic and I don't care for Czechs. They're not warm or the friendliest of people. I guess Slavic people in general aren't, but I'm being totally honest and I'm Czech!! I don't find them to be the nicest bunch from my life long experiences.
The Czech are still in the 80s no comparison
You have got a lot of engineers from Africa and Middle East in the UK 😢
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.
Poland is not in eastern europe; it's smacked right in the middle of Europe, so calling it central europe would be way more accurate
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.