Return of the one-leg Romanian roofers and Polish plumbers?

1) We didn't kick EU migrants out.
2) A relaxation on visa rules is universal, not just for white EU passport holders Dan.
3) Those jobs are skilled jobs and due to short sighted myopic focus on academia, vocational skills training in the British education system has been lacking for some time.

I think you'll find that Euroskepticism is building in Poland Dan.
Many of them are not fans of the EU either.

The ruling Law and Justice Party have accused the EU of “not fulfilling its obligations with regard to Poland” and trying to create “total chaos in the Polish state”.

As the EU Commission have withheld €36 billion in recovery funds, the PIS have moved to a more progressive position regarding sovereignty.

And you know full well, our issue regarding immigration wasn't that foreigners coming here was a problem (it isn't), but skills and numbers and in some cases criminals are issues that matter.

The visa system gives us controls over economic migration that we did not have as members.

Just because we have controls, doesn't mean we have a competent government willing to use them effectively.

And Poland is bigger than Warsaw. I know quite a few Poles myself and have dated a few as well.
The ruling party, the Law and Justice Party is getting pissed off with the Commission withholding funds and behaving anti democratically.

And Euroskepticism is growing in that country.


Btw, I've my own houses and my own business.
Don't be a cheeky tw@. OK ?

I recall sitting around the dinner table with my brother, his wife and his extended Polish family, at around the time of accession. Playing Devil's Advocate I asked a provocative question "So what will Poland bring to the EU?". My brother's father in law, a retired colonel in the Polish Army smiled slightly, and waved around the table, saying 'Us'.

At the time unemployment was over 20% and Poles were eager not just to work but also to experience life in the West. What made the UK particularly attractive was the fact that it was one of only three EU countries that did not impose transitional controls on A8 workers as well as a perception that Britain was a friendly country, very accommodating to other Europeans especially Poles. That all changed in 2016.

Have you ever perused the Skilled Visa Occupations list Vinny? It lists the job titles that qualify as 'highly skilled' for visas under the shiny new post-Brexit 'Australian-style' system.

Last time I looked it included such highly skilled occupations as disk-jockey, pub manager, travel agency owner (very popular with Kurds and other entrepreneurial travel 'facilitators'), scrap metal dealer, help desk operator etc etc and so on. There are literally thousands of occupations on the list.

You don't think it might be prudent to apply numerical caps now that the work visa regime is so open, accessible and easily manipulable by sponsors? There is nothing at present, for example, to stop some thrusting entrepreneur from sponsoring disk jockeys from West Africa, the Caribbean or anywhere else they are in great over-supply and decimating the domestic disk jockey industry.

It might even land a little closer to home; occupational code 3412 (authors, writers and translators) is also on the list as is 3416 (producers and directors). Both occupational areas that Indians with ChatGPT skills might find appealing in due course.