Lets have a sweepstake

[doodab]

BBC News - Bulgarian and Romanian job figures to be revealed

We''ll get statistics on the number of Bulgarians and Romanians working here later. The baseline is about 144,000. What do people think the new figures will show?

[Scrag Meister]

Whatever figure they come up with will be lower than actual due to a lot of them working Cash in Hand.

[doodab]

Whatever figure they come up with will be lower than actual due to a lot of them working Cash in Hand.

I'm pretty sure they take that into account when doing the sampling. IIRC there was an EU directive regarding official statistics and the black market.

[Mich the Tester]

Couldn't resist posting this again;

[minestrone]

They will probably not have risen much, that is not to say there is not a problem with Romanian and Bulgarian migration to the UK.

[EternalOptimist]

We had a van load of them down our street last week, looking for 'any old iron'

the last time i saw that it was a cart being pulled by an orse.


very enterprising folks, i thought

[original PM]

indeed the ones who have settled in our area are running a hand car wash

and do a great job for a fiver

[Mich the Tester]

We had a van load of them down our street last week, looking for 'any old iron'

the last time i saw that it was a cart being pulled by an orse.


very enterprising folks, i thought

indeed the ones who have settled in our area are running a hand car wash

and do a great job for a fiver

Comin' over 'ere, doing enterprising stuff...

I suppose no locals had the initiative to try these activities?

[BigTime]

140,000 Romanians and Bulgarians were in work in the UK in the three months after lifting of controls, down 4,000 on Q4 but up 28,000 on a year before

From Unemployment Rate Down to 6.8% - Guy Fawkes' blog

[minestrone]

Comin' over 'ere, doing enterprising stuff...

I suppose no locals had the initiative to try these activities?

What, stealing metal of war memorials?

Na, we have not had much of that before.