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Monday, October 13, 2008

100,000 Polish Workers Say Goodbye To Britain As Jobs Become Harder To Find

Around 100,000 Polish workers have quit Britain over the past year, ministers said yesterday.
The retreat has come as jobs become harder to find and the pound has weakened against European currencies.
Officials now believe that as many as half of those who flooded in from Eastern Europe after the EU relaxed its rules in 2004 may now have gone home.
That would mean as many as 350,000 have returned over the past two years. Any exodus has yet to show up in surveys published by the Government's Office for National Statistics, which has been stepping up efforts to record accurate levels of immigration. ONS estimates have continued to show the population is increasing because of immigration

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This is probably the best indicator of the state of the economy when the Polish economic migrants start leaving in vast numbers!

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