Councils

[emmie]

a friend who's council estate is having some much needed repairs wondered why the council employed a group of contract workers who are all Polish, most of whom can't speak English, the head bloke does a speak a little apparently, is it simply getting the work done, no matter who does it.

[EDDIE51]

People tend to lump all East Europeans as 'Polish' but recently they are more likely to be Romanian or Lithuanian.

[emmie]

no idea, he thought they were Polish.

[mikey4444]

Must be similar then to the way racist people here in Britain refer to all those from the Indian Subcontinent as P@kis, even the Hindu ones !

[Daffy6543]

My neighbour is having their house renovated by a couple of Polish builders, they come every evening after their day jobs and work until 7ish, they also work weekends and are there now, most British builders I know would not want to work in their spare time.

[emmie]

mikey, you might do that i don't, nor do i know anyone who does.

[emmie]

wiki
Pakistani Hindus are Hindus of full or partial Pakistani descent. The Hindus constitute 1.7% of Pakistan's population.

[emmie]

really, seems unlikely