Saturday - September 02, 2006

Mad Dogs And Englishmen

As if Britain didn’t have enough problems with Muslim immigrants, now the Bulgarians are upset. No, really. Our Brit friends have a solution to all this silliness though - stay drunk and act strange. This seems to have worked in the case of the Bulgarians. They’re running back to Bulgaria. I wonder why the Muslims haven’t left yet? Maybe living among drunk psychos seems perfectly normal to the Muzzies. Ya think ... ?

Move to Britain? They’re All Drunks And Psychos
_{(GUARDIAN-UK) - Saturday September 2, 2006}

Standing outside the British embassy in Sofia yesterday, Rozalina Boeva admits she wants a better life. After three years she has had enough - of Britain. She is coming home to Bulgaria. “I’m fed up. I don’t like it in Britain much,” Ms Boeva, a 37-year-old care assistant, said. “I find it very discriminating against foreigners. The government seems to tell ordinary people that foreigners living in the UK are dangerous to British people. I don’t know why.”

Ms Boeva has spent the past three years living and working in Swansea. But she dislikes Britain’s culture of binge drinking and the fact that her teenage daughter has been bullied at school. “Some British people are nice. But on Friday and Saturday night everybody gets drunk. Many girls get pregnant at 16 or 17. The general level of education is low. I’m going back for a couple of months to collect our things. Then we’ll start a new life in Bulgaria.”

Ms Boeva was one of around 50 Bulgarians trying to get or renew visas at the embassy yesterday. Earlier this week the Sun ran a front-page photograph showing what it said was a vast queue of Bulgarians who had “laid siege” to the building. The Bulgarians intended to work in the UK when Bulgaria - together with Romania - joined the EU on January 1, the paper suggested.

In fact, most of those queuing up yesterday were visiting Britain for a holiday. Others already lived in the UK and were renewing visas. But the vigorous tabloid campaign against Bulgarians and Romanians appears to have worked.

On Wednesday ministers indicated that the government intends to introduce a work permit system requiring them to prove that they can fill specific skill shortages. Having earlier promised to open the UK labour market to workers from both countries, the British government, the biggest supporter of the EU’s enlargement to include the countries of former eastern Europe, now appears to have performed an embarrassing volte face.

The move has left ministers in Bulgaria’s socialist-led coalition government fuming. “It’s absolute nonsense,” Evgeniya Koldanova, Bulgaria’s deputy foreign minister, said yesterday. “I’m disappointed.”

Ms Koldanova takes issue with Home Office predictions that, given the chance, 60,000 to 140,000 Bulgarians and Romanians are likely to move to Britain next year. The Bulgarian government says the total number of migrants going abroad will be more like 10,000 to 15,000.

A Gallup poll in February suggested the number of Bulgarians wanting to leave the country has gone down to 7%. Of those, most wanted to go to the US, Spain, Greece, Italy and Germany. Only 0.2% to 0.4% mentioned Britain.

- More from Britain at the Gwardian ...

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