Political Penguin

OK OK, I lifted the headline direct from Unity over at Ministry of Truth. For one main reason. Apart from it being another excellent article from Unity, there is one area which he touches on, that of the countries Romania and Bulgaria that are due to join the EU at the start of next year but deserves a little more elaboration.
The figures used in his article and indeed by the Express in their pointless headline that Unity takes apart are derived from the workers registration scheme introduced by the government for those East European countries that joined the EU in 2004. At the time I was of the opinion that such a registration system was discriminatory, treated other EU member state’s populations as second-class citizens and I still hold those views today. However when it comes to having such controls and registration in place it is rather useful that such statistics can be derived to prove the myth that the country isn’t indeed flooded full of wasters after our paltry benefits but actually they’re here to work and are contributing financially to our society. Not to mention keeping the buses moving in the West Midlands where I believe 1 in 10 drivers are now Polish.
What is also notable to mention is that when the registration system came in, there were significant numbers who signed up who were already in the UK without proper visa accreditation, presumably working in the black economy without working rights and all the protection that is offered to those officially working.
Now before we start going down the line of naughty foreigners working in the black economy, lets get one thing straight. So far as unregistered work is concerned I’d hazard a good guess that unlike what the Daily Mail et al would like us to believe, it’s not foreigners that are responsible for the vast majority of activity on the black economy but our own indigenous population. From that friend of a friend who’s an electrician who’ll do some wiring work for