Yes. So basically a long time ago I worked on a fruit farm in Kent during the holidays while I was a student, and loved it, then after a few years couldn't find work in the career I trained for, so I tried to get work back at the same farm. By that time the farmer was employing dozens of Europeans who hogged all the apple trees (if you've ever done fruit picking you'll know apples and pears are great fun to pick), and I was relegated to strawberries, poor me. I had such a backache. At the time I really needed this job because for various reasons I don't fit the mold of commuter-up-to-london, which everyone who is anyone does in my town. So basically I ended up without a decent source of work, couldn't afford a car even.
Eastern Europeans can be nice, but I find that the majority are not reliable as long-term friends. That's why I think there has to be some control over the numbers coming here. I'm actually pro EU but for this policy of uncontrolled freedom of movement.
How interesting
! You don't say why you don't fit the 'mold' of the commuter-up-to-London & I suppose that's your business but, honestly, you were probably no different to lots of other unemployed graduates. A solution would have been to get a job in London and live there in a house share which is what many young people do when they're starting out. It can be fun too.
It's not the fault of the Eastern Europeans that you couldn't go back to picking apples and pears and were relegated to strawberries. As Rhiannon said, did you expect your temporary job to be kept open for you or did you think one of the workers should be sacked to make room for you? The gap had to filled by someone.
As for "reliable long-term friends", how many of those do we make in a lifetime from a cast of millions of our own countrymen? People pass in and out of our lives, some are remembered with affection, others less so and a few stick around.
Ridiculous post Spud.
