Thursday, 17 January 2013

Never Mind The Bulgars

Why on earth would they come here at the moment?

Why would the Romanians?

Why would anyone?
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous17 January 2013 at 23:16

    You've obviously never been to a Romanian dentist then?

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  2. David Lindsay18 January 2013 at 18:29

    I have never had that pleasure, no. Whether there will be any dentistry in much of Britain before long is a question well worth pondering. If a Romanian dentist wanted to set up here, then that would, at the very least, be better than no dentist at all.

    Romania is not all that backward a place, you know. Romanians become very annoyed at the suggestion, and not without cause. Borat is not real even where Kazakhstan is concerned. And neither Romania nor Bulgaria is Kazakhstan.

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  3. Anonymous18 January 2013 at 21:40

    Yes, precisely. Medical tourism has us going to Eastern Europe these days, so what would be more logical than for those same Romanian professionals to up-sticks and set up business here?

    It was always a myth to suggest it could only be the low-paid positions that got colonised by the Poles and continentals in the last wave of EU migration.

    I suspect that's why there's so much more of a consensus in general against this sort of thing now: people have cottoned on that it's their own professional and academic jobs that are stake.

    And that's why they will come, but this time to drive down wages in the white collar sector as well.....

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  4. David Lindsay19 January 2013 at 18:00

    It will be what the New Right always wanted: the complete withdrawal of public services as such, with an unrestricted global market filling the void. I can hardly wait...

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