I have just returned from a session at the gym. I usually go there during the evening so going in the morning was a new experience for me. Anyway two things:
Firstly I got onto a running machine that I had never used before, and it occured to me why. This machine has a perfect view of the swimming pool and I was able to stare at some rather lovely girlies in swimsuits. This has to be because the evenings are far busier than the mornings. Anyway I bought a debenture for the running machine whilst I was there.
As I tired of watching people in the pool I couldnt help noticing the news on telly that was concentrating on the EU summit in Brussels today. talk is of the UK giving back its budget rebate of between £2-£3 billion. Pushing this are of course the French and the Poles who have teamed up against Britain to apply pressure on to Blair.
Now the Poles have a bit of a cheek I reckon. First of all why are they teaming up with the French, when the French have banned their workers from working in France? Secondly I did some mental calculations as I was pumping away on the running machine.
If there are 500,000 Poles currently living and working in the UK that equates to a cost saving to the Polish government in reduing their unemployment.
I dont know what it costs to support an out of work Pole interms of welfare health housing etc, but the figure must be around £2000 per annum. So that is £1 billion straight off Polands bottom line. I also understand that the average Polish worker in the UK sends home £1300 per annum which equates to £.65 billion.
So all in the Poles enjoy direct subsidies from the UK of at least £1,65 billion whereas they get nothing whatsoever from the French.
The hypocrisy of these people astonishes me.
Firstly I got onto a running machine that I had never used before, and it occured to me why. This machine has a perfect view of the swimming pool and I was able to stare at some rather lovely girlies in swimsuits. This has to be because the evenings are far busier than the mornings. Anyway I bought a debenture for the running machine whilst I was there.
As I tired of watching people in the pool I couldnt help noticing the news on telly that was concentrating on the EU summit in Brussels today. talk is of the UK giving back its budget rebate of between £2-£3 billion. Pushing this are of course the French and the Poles who have teamed up against Britain to apply pressure on to Blair.
Now the Poles have a bit of a cheek I reckon. First of all why are they teaming up with the French, when the French have banned their workers from working in France? Secondly I did some mental calculations as I was pumping away on the running machine.
If there are 500,000 Poles currently living and working in the UK that equates to a cost saving to the Polish government in reduing their unemployment.
I dont know what it costs to support an out of work Pole interms of welfare health housing etc, but the figure must be around £2000 per annum. So that is £1 billion straight off Polands bottom line. I also understand that the average Polish worker in the UK sends home £1300 per annum which equates to £.65 billion.
So all in the Poles enjoy direct subsidies from the UK of at least £1,65 billion whereas they get nothing whatsoever from the French.
The hypocrisy of these people astonishes me.
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