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The Polish dream turns sour - Home News, UK - The Independent
When Thomas and Zibi came to Britain, jobs were easy to come by. Now they are sleeping in a tent, victims of a recession that has destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of migrant workers

Thomas and his brother Zibi were trying to keep themselves warm at their riverbank home yesterday by huddling round a small, smoky fire built from green sticks. A pot of water bubbled away and all around the trees and undergrowth, which only partially concealed their makeshift shelters from curious passers-by, were festooned with clothes and plastic bags.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Mar 4th, 2009 at 02:13:07 PM EST
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A statistically insignificant anecdote, this, but we recently had a child leave my class at school.  His space was open for several weeks before it was filled.

The school is in the centre of the most densely-populated-by-Polish-immigrants area of allegedly the most densely-populated-by-Polish-immigrants city in the UK.

It's a been a long time since we had a child leave, whose space wasn't snapped up by the following Monday.

by Sassafras on Wed Mar 4th, 2009 at 04:09:14 PM EST
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Yep. Low skilled workers are invariably the ones who take the brunt of the pain during a recession. being mgrants makes it worse, but these issues affect a lot of brits here as well.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Mar 4th, 2009 at 04:15:56 PM EST
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