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« on: October 26, 2009, 06:44:50 AM » |
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Actually the number of workers from Poland & etc has been falling for a few years now. There's no evidence that it's led to much of an increase in support for the BNP (with a few exceptions - such as Wrexham), though the general media hysteria about immigration certainly has... but that started years before Poles started to turn up in processing plants and in fruit fields.
There is a degree of racism against Poles (and it sort of is only against Poles as all workers from the old East here are considered to be Poles by the sort of people who...), but it's nothing like that directed at the immigration from the West Indies in the '50's or from India, Kashmir and Bangladesh in the '60's and '70's. It's not even as bad as racism towards (for example) Asian families that've been here for over fourty years.
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