OK a bit closer to (my) home a medium sized manufacturing company in Southampton I have done work for the past 10 years or so has completely transformed the nature of the Shop Floor workers from 100% or so 'Ampshire to around 90% Eastern European in the time I have worked for them.
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I said 'in certain areas' - Lincolnshire is historically a low wage agricultural area which had neither a manufacturing base nor unions to be dismantled. When a labour force comes along that will work for even less it is no great surprise what is going to happen, but it doesn't...
Whatever you think about the Poster, there is no doubt that Eastern Europeans have stuffed the English Working Classes when it comes to taking jobs in certain areas. 20 years ago when I went to Boston in Lincolnshire to visit my wife's relatives there wasn't one Eastern European working the...