Carrying on from DR_Reapers comments about the post room in reading I have something to add. but before I do, although I cant prove it, that sort of thing does go on. Here where I work there is an ongoing “racism” case that stemmed from 2 muslims not wanting to sit in the same pod of desks as a pair of practicing muslims.
Any way, my girlfriends sister works in a recruitment agency, and as most may know there is a huge amount of polish people coming into our country at the moment after work. The majority of the polish as far as I can see/have heard are really hard working, and I personally don’t have too much of a problem with them taking up the jobs that the lazy useless unemployed English people wont take. My problem is this – while having a chat/gossip about the amount of poles she has been taking on she told me about a young man, in his 20’s who has been working for her for a number of consecutive weeks and paying his national insurance (as he should), but once you have been paying this for a certain amount of time, you can start claiming benefits for family/children. It turns out that he has a wife and 3 young children in Poland that are living fairly well, because as soon as he claims his benefits (for the family in a completely different country) he makes western union payments into his bank account in Poland.
Fair enough he’s paying NI but its not comparable to the amount of other tax payers money that’s going into another countries system. He’s playing us like a fiddle – THAT’S what grinds my gears!!