My surname suggests that at some point in the distant past my family were Huguenots from France.
My wife is Hungarian, I have good friends who are Scots, Poles, Hungarians, French, Romanians and even one or two from England!
Most have PhDs, most have decided to settle in the UK and make it their home although we were sad to see two of our Scottish friends move to Germany to take up work there.
Immigration is a reality, free movement within the EU is a two way street. Get with the program and broaden your horizons a bit.
If you are worried about an unskilled immigrant taking you job then get some skills!
Hungarian girls are cute. I don't think I've ever met an ugly one [/sweeping generalisation content]
Irish guys are sexy.
#strangest
deadlydarcy are you hitting one me?
It's ok O'Flashearty, there's nothing strange about that one. Perfectly natural. 😀
Hungarian girls are cute. I don't think I've ever met an ugly one [/sweeping generalisation content]
Eastern Europe in general is teeming with attractive women IME. I have heard a theory that it's due to the fact that men were in short supply after all the losses in WWII so they could be picky and only the hotties ended up breeding.
This might be horrible bullshit though. 🙂
From what I see around here, beautiful Eastern European laydeez always seem to be hanging off the arm of burly, not exactly gorgeous, blokes. Which is why I suppose I've never had any luck with them. There can be drawbacks to being dreamy y'know. 😐
I liked an Icelandic tour guides explanation for why all their women were so hot: "We didn't bring the ugly slaves home."
Nah eastern women are hot.
Then they turn into their mothers.
Then they turn into their mothers.
#strangest
Then they turn into their mothers.
Don't we all Hora? Don't we all?
Sigh…..
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My Father was Spock.
We all know who your father was….
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nothing strange about that one. Perfectly natural
You wouldn't say that if you'd seen it.
@grum, as your long quote shows you can arrive straight off the plane / boat and claim the basic jobseekers allowance (£250 pcm), a benefit that was denied my daughter as despite graduating in May was told the official University year runs to September.
I made reference to the Polish in the Census as it shows the potential impact of new member states to the EU.
I welcome everyone to apply to come and live in the UK but it should be an application not a freedom of movement, that law is out of date now given the way the EU has expanded. I welcome ethnic and cultural diversity, as I've posted before I've lived and worked abroad and continue to aspire to do so and I see no reason I shouldn't have to justify a work or residency VISA anywhere I might like to go. Countries need a labour pool that varies from Agricultural and Manual workers up to PhD's and business executives. I just found it bizarre that my friend (American) who is CEO of major international company has to apply for a work VISA whereas an unemployed person from the EU does not.
Interesting fact on White Dee. OAPs who used to be in Birmingham councils care with cash funds- these used to be kept in a safe. She was caught nicking these when she worked.
[i]Interesting fact[/i]
source?
Friend who works at the council.
I'm not doubting your friends sincerity but do workplace rumours count?
Was she actually prosecuted?
I'm not doubting your friends sincerity but do workplace rumours count?
😆
First hit on google brings it up.
[i]First hit on google brings it up. [/i]
It's in the Daily Mail. I refer you to my previous remark about rumours 😉
I'm not visiting their site so I've only seen a sentence about it which suggests she did - was she prosecuted?
She was and she did community service
[url= http://www.****/home/article-2566372/Clarifications-corrections.html ]daily fail retraction[/url]
sorry for the link
so no one else has to follow the link;
[i]An article on December 31 reported information provided by local travel agents that there was limited availability on flights and buses to London from Romania and Bulgaria in January this year, despite one airline doubling the number of flights. We have since been made aware that some reasonably priced flights and seats on buses were available from Bucharest and Sofia at that time. We are also happy to clarify that some of the additional flights were put in place before January 1.[/i]
wwaswas - MemberFirst hit on google brings it up.
It's in the Daily Mail. I refer you to my previous remark about rumours
I'm not visiting their site so I've only seen a sentence about it which suggests she did - was she prosecuted?
[url= http://www.thefreelibrary.com/pounds+13k+council+theft+woman+avoids+jail%3B+COURT%3A+Office+worker...-a0171619029 ]Non-DM link from 2007[/url]
A CITY council worker who stole more than pounds 13,000 from her employer including cash belonging to "vulnerable" people has escaped an immediate prison sentence.Recorder Angus Edis told mother-of-two Deirdre Kelly: "This was a mean-spirited and calculated deception on an employer with whom you had served long enough to build up a relationship of trust and betrayed that trust."
Some of the people who lost their money were the "most vulnerable" and what she did struck at the very fabric of the relationship between the local authority and the public, he added.
But in giving her an eight-month jail sentence suspended for 18 months and ordering her to do 220 hours' unpaid work, he took into account her previous good character and the fact that her children may have to be taken into care if she was sent to prison.
