Time to go home?
We've been looking at the issue of migrants from Europe who work here in the UK and we've found that hundreds of them are leaving to go home because of the credit crunch. In Poland, the economy's doing quite and we've talked to a lot of them who say now is the time to go home and find work.
There's lots more on subject the Breakfast blog where you can hear interviews and read testimonies in the post Homeward Bound?.
Migrant workers are employed in many industries up across the country - who'll do the jobs when they go? Is it good that the opportunities will be there for British workers, or will employers struggle to fill those jobs?
We'd be interested in what you think. We'll be talking about it on the programme after 10am today (Wednesday 29 October) and we'll hear from the Immigration Minister Phil Woollas.
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the problem has never been imigration legal or illegal this has been a smoke screen goverments have used and opposition partys have followed like lemings the problem is of massive asylam abuse by people trafickers almost all requests for asylam are false the goverment should abstain from offering asylam and in turn use funds for safe havens near trouble hotspots worldwide
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I didn't know Vicky Pollard was a 'qualified nail technician'.
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I think its a good think for most of the recent mass immigration to be reversed but as rambo pointed out, it still doesn't address the real issue. Most of our street crime and fraud that comes with immigrants seems to come with this section, particularly knife and gun crime. Also how many millions can a small island absorb and still maintain a quality of life for its citizens let alone even think of self sufficiency? Lastly I wonder how many of us are happy at the complete transformation that our culture is undergoing and will undergo in the next half century?
If we tried investing in our own people instead of just importing skills and labour, incidentally just like the premiership, we would have a much happier ship.
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