The Irony of Brexit: Why Britain Now Needs Eastern European Workers More Than Ever
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ต.ค. 2024
- Brexit was driven by fears that Eastern European migrants were "taking jobs" and "overburdening public services." Yet, just a few short years after the UK's departure from the European Union, the narrative has drastically changed. Now, business owners are calling for Eastern European workers to return to fill critical labor shortages. So, what went wrong? In this video, we explore the impact of Eastern European migration on the UK economy, the consequences of Brexit, and why the country may have underestimated just how much it needed its migrant workforce. From the failed ‘Pick for Britain’ campaign to labor shortages in agriculture and hospitality, discover how Brexit backfired in ways few expected.
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When I came to the UK 26 years ago and started working I felt privileged. There was a big economic difference between Poland and the UK. Today however I don't feel it at all. The rapid economic growth of Poland and the visible decline of the UK make me feel disappointed with my decision to live in the UK and I increasingly wonder if it was a good decision to invest the best years of my life in the UK. I have devoted my life to work, I have missed my son growing up. I have failed to form close social bonds. If I remain here in my old age I will be completely lonely living among strangers with whom I have nothing in common.
Time to come back I guess.
That's what happened The Irish in Britain in the 40s, 50s and 60s. Now we welcome our friends from Eastern Eutope. Oh there are the usual racist remarks but they are just uneducated people who are easily led by someone who looks important and speaks with a plummy accent. You find that in every country.
get out man dont waste time its a zombieland
With so many Diverse immigrants coming now, who needs those Europeans? 😅
Get out of brexitania while you still can. The uk is an undemocratic dying union.
I left Romania in 2015 for London in which I lived 4 years. Moved to Liverpool in 2019 and in July 2024 I went back in Romania.
Unlike UK, Romania keeps you grounded, there is no safety net (Universal Credit) you can fall on. You have to move and do something for yourself.
I worked at Anfield Stadium when they done the extension and we’re getting lunch break in Stanley Park together with a Polish colleague. One old fella is approaching us and between others he is asking me when I’m going back. I was like…WTF I’m paying into your pension and I’m raising fatherless kids in this country. You better ask Mohammad and Jamal but no, I never witnessed any adversity from a Brit to any Middle-Eastern person.
I remember those days where media made the worst out of Romanians while 4 nations fill the construction sites: English, Romanians, Polish and Bulgarians.
No problem fellas, we’re leaving and you will happily live together with your Asian and African brothers.
Here nobody is asking me where I am from and how long I will stay. Income is not like in the the UK but it’s not about how much you get but how wise you spend.
Unfortunately there are still many Romanians who worship the UK and the west in general. Last time I visited London it was Christmas time. I was near King's Cross when I saw a dead black guy on the pavement, blood everywhere, and police putting yellow tape. Never have I witnessed something like this here in Romania. Western countries are becoming less safe with each day that passes. I'd never move there unless it would be a remote village in the mountains.
@@Chamberz333 yed....toooo many
yeah whatever, we didnt ask you to come. you just feed into our socialist goverments pyramid scheme anyway
You're so right, at least all E Europeans came to work , now we have millions of migrants from the middle east ,Africa mostly young men just holed up in hotels paid for by the tax payers and pensioners doing nothing
I'm a romanian national. Went to London in 2001 after living in Italy for 2 years. It was a shock moving from a beautiful Mediterranean country to a wet, cold and musty ol' London. But it was "special" adaptation because of the strong british pound back in those days. Long story short, I'm back in my sweet Romania and life is no longer a rat race. I feel at HOME. Nobody asks me when I intend to go back to my country. 😅 Chillax my fellow polish friends. Going back to Poland will be the right choice. The polish guys I worked with on the big London sites were the best! Sebastien (polish guy) if you read this, remember when you taught me to buy "Chicken n' chips" because it was the only lunch we could afford?😅 it was 2 quid back in 2001! Bless you man!😊 Oh, the memories...
Congratulations brother! I'm a Romanian myself, living in rainy Liverpool and looking forward to move back home!
I' back to Poland 6 years ago from UK. I feel now we need to travel between Poland and Romania :)
I am also a Romanian who returned from the UK, and I can wholeheartedly say that life is much better in Romania now 🙂
I am not an EU citizen, but I’ve studied in Greece and UK, lived in Italy as a kid and worked in Serbia too. Four years now I am back in Albania for good. First of all I am making a better living here, I am home, and no one is treating me like sh*t bcs of their stupid prejudices.
I am a Romanian as well and I reading this from far Canada.
The UK might *need* European workers but it won't *get* them. Working visa, housing and cost of living in the UK is too expensive for most of those workers. They can work more easily (FOM) and earn just as good in other EU countries. So the Britons will have to do the work themselves, work most of them frown upon. But hey, sovereignty!
Yes years of a free for all immigration system means it broke everything and fixed nothing it did not even fix the labour shortage , well done Tony Blair .
UK could easily offer travel free access when it wanted, most of the other countries in the EU have high housing costs, the Netherlands is worse
@@georgiewalker5826hahaha simpleton
@@georgiewalker5826 But they can afford it.
UK will & is getting skilled workers from elsewhere
Pole here, masters degree from best (and most expenive university in Poland), couldn't find a job. came to Uk, used to live in England, worked my way up from sweeping floors to aerospace cnc programmer. By any occasion was asked "You polish? Nice! When do you plan to leave?" Was funny a few times but with years I got tired of such questions. Packed my bags and left for Poland and never looked back, It was 2011. Now I'm a sales manager internationally. We have a englishman on board. He's so good that he pretty quickly became a manager aswell. I never asked him when he will go back, rather said: you know some more people of your kind? If so, bring them over, we sure could use 10 more Dave's here. So yes, we "eastereuropeans" are being hated while being immigrants, but don't mind having immigrants in Poland as long as they are good people.
I worked with somebody in NYC with your background. Masters degree in tech communications. He started as the office maintenance person, handyman, plumber - this guy could do everything! Everybody loved him because he had a beautiful personality (but an intimidating appearance - dude was about 6”2 and ripped with a blonde buzzcut).
He now speaks “American English” and supervises 30 people in one of the tech divisions, along with his Assistant Manager.
His team loves him. He is fair and patient but very structured, easy to work for.
@@risingphoenix8072 I'm 6"4 btw :)
I'm a British migrant in Germany. The day after Brexit in our village people kept coming up to me saying "Will you be okay, how can we help?" I gained citizenship about 6 months later...
I love both Poles and Brits, but it's not 100% fair to compare.. Before brexit UK had many problems that populist politicians blamed on immigrants and people believed.. some people are not the smartest
I am not sure about your last statement about Poland being welcoming to immigrants. Especially the darker ones
The English did not want Poles, Czechs, Lithuanians, Hungarians in England who would already be English in the second and third generation, now they will have Pakistanis, Arabs and Africans, who in two generations will replace the English in England.
Do you Britain has had nearly 500 years relationships with those countries it’s called the commonwealth. Who cares about Hungarians or poles or Romanians you literally just came out of communism in the 90s must of your citizens are uneducated looking for jobs all over Europe!!!
Hey guess what, most immigrants coming here are from Commonwealth countries that are more culturally closer to the UK than other Europeans. As you can see by the politicians & the many of the country's top celebrities within 1 generation most of these immigrants are well integrated. The only people who tries to push us out or try to not include us are the right wing racist assholes. I'm a US born Jamaican living here & there are tons of us who fit in right away & have been doing quite well here.
Oh the sweet irony of Brexiteer bigots voting for Brexit to stop European migration. Now they've replaced it with many times more non-European, non-Christian immigrants who won't go back when they reach retirement age.
I am Slovak... If I told you how I was treated by not only the English but all the rest 'firstworlders' aligned with them, you'd cry. I was brutally abused and have no children as a result of the abuse. I was kind and all I got back was hatred... Many kept laughing at my country.
@@frederika3013 I'm Latvian who was living in UK. Met some Slovaks in Birmingham, good people. Also was visiting Bratislava few times, amazing place. I think for Slovak people who want to work abroad Austria is the best choice. Or probably America. UK used to be great place but now it is dead.
I'm a Brit who has lived and worked in Italy for over 35 years now. Brexit was the stupidest thing that the UK has ever done.
don't be so fucking stupid.
AGREE 💯
Fun fact: Napoleon Bonaparte tried to strangle the comerce of GB with the continent, and a several wars (like the invasion of Russia and Portugal, and the subsequent war with Spain) were fought to impose this continental blockade.
Napoleon must be smiling in his grave, knowing that 200 years later the UK has done to itself, the very thing they fought so hard to avoid back then........
If I had to guess, I would say that most of the Brits didn`t really know what they were voting for....
When you love muslims more than European Christian orthodox you get what you F deserve just like the Joker said.
Pretty sure giving Sudetenland to Hitler was the stupidest thing UK has ever done.
This was the greatest act of self harm. Many Brixiteers now regret voting on a topic they barely understood the full consequences of and now wish they had voted to remain. I find it incredible that even those that lived in Spain and France voted to leave.
Do they? Because I find the fact that Reform even having sits to be a counter-indicator.
@@CaptainSlackBladder well, also many are dead. It was almost decade ago.
no, fuck the eu commies. Doubt it will last when le pen gets in
"John" in 2015: "we can't find jobs, the Romanians, Polish anf Bulgarians took them all!"
The same "John" in 2024: "i'm too lazy to pick the strawberries, and the payment is too low, call back the migrants to harvest them!"
Well "John", now you should fill the jobs with Muslims, Africans, Indians etc...
Brits are always welcome to work in agriculture in Eastern Europe.
Uk is a mess after brexit
It was before Brexit, hence Brexit. However outside the EU we have the opportunity to sort ourselves out. Outsourcing the running of our country to our competitors was a seriously bad move.
@@paullarne🤦♂️🤣😂🤣 you Muppet
@@paullarneGood luck being exceptional then. 😂
@@larsbjrnson3101 We're not particularly exceptional but we're a pretty strong Western style economy, perhaps somewhat mid-Atlantic in our outlook, not as market force driven as the US but much less bureaucratic than the EU. A happy medium I'd suggest.
@@paullarne You're just USA light economy only based on services and not on production. The services haven’t brexited yet and will happen next year with all the red tape VAT and EU regulations. So, good luck!
If you come to Romania you will notice that blue collar jobs have started to be taken over by foreign workers from South East Asia and North Africa. Westerners may think Eastern Europe is poor, but that's outdated. Eastern Europe is one of the best regions in the world and many foreigners dream of working here to send money at home.
This is not true. Only a few hired by low paying companies. Most money are on private jobs and Romanians will not bring into their homes these migrants because they bring bedbugs.
Britain has only ever prospered as a trading nation - - the fewer the restrictions on international trade, the better off Britain and its population have been. This was true through centuries of empire, during the long post-Napoleonic age of European free trade, and during more than 50 years of membership in the EEC/EU.
Brexit was a moronic step backward, a senseless repudiation of centuries of British openness to international trade.
Calling Britain a trading nation is rather a stretch.
Robbing colonies from their raw materials and labour, then forcing them to only buy "British" can't be called free trade.
THe EU won't exist much longer anyway. because it's a failed project run by socialist belgians
I honestly believe that the British voted for Brexit thinking that it would not change anything. They thought, 'We are British, we are better than any other country!' Well, you live and learn, don't you?
They were promised they would keep all the advantages of the UE, and get rid of the dutys......and choosed to belive it.
After all: "they need us more than we need them", right?
@@jorgebarriosmursimpletons
Well that is was what they were told. When who wants believes in experts, when you can trust politicians.
They failed to listen to Guy Verhofstadt, who once said that Europe is composed of small countries and of countries that haven't yet found out that they are small. No European country, not even Germany, on its own, has any standing in the modern world. All European countries together grouped in a union are a formidable force in international politics.
when you are here, they asked you to leave. when you have left, they are asking you to come back in. 😂😂
no we're not, the undemocratically elected socialist government is.
United Kingdom? Not Unitedstan?😅 no, thanks, EU all good!! Romania is doing very well!!,🇹🇩
Uk moved itself farer from Europe, closer to Sahara
Why not? There is nothing special about Europe. lol
I am from Slovakia and I was treated so disgustingly in England, it was hard core arrogance and abuse for no reason at all... there are several nationalities and races who brutally abused me, like I was just walking on the street and they have attacked me because I looked eastern European, and btw I have British and northern European ancestry, and I was very good looking when I was younger. These so called 'advanced' 'firstworlders' were the nastiest people I ever had to deal with. What shocked me was how Egyptian Brits, Irish, Italians, Spaniards, Poles were the nicest people of all.
Now the UK will have to make due with Africans, Pakistanis, and Syrians; they are hard workers.😂
Anglosphere. Our friends.
More brown faces for the brown face haters 😂😂😂 they knew what they were voting for 😂😂😂😂
Powodzenia.
@@paullarneFriends? The English certainly have a great SOH. By the way, not nearly all of them are from The Dearest Commonwealth Family.
Hard ly
Now in Eastern Europe wages are very similar to wages in Britain , this island it's good and attractive when you are from Pakistan India or Africa
Poland is in Central Europe, not Eastern Europe: geographically and mentally.
The Iron Curtain fell more than 30 years ago, and it really is high time to understand that that division of Europe no longer exists. The geographical Centre of Europe is in Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine or in the east of Poland (depending on what method of measuring is used).
Eastern Europe = ruSSia. We certainly do not want to be associated in any way with this barbaric country.
Why is this so difficult for you to understand? What is wrong with you?
this is due to the fact that 1 the uks economy and gdp is falling down while the polish gdp is growing drastically due to eu membership. 2 people are leaving due to them being fed up of living in a country and being hated against and expierincing xenophobia
Wages are no where similar to Britain
@@DummyUseless-er3dn you are right actually IT jobs pay better in PL than UK😂
UK may have still better wages in absolute terms, but when you count cost of living, Poland is getting ahead
I'm a Romanian and I work in a factory where before brexit the majority of foreign workers where europeans Polish, Romanians , Portuguese, Bulgarians , now after brexit they have been replaced by Asian and African workers, I have nothing with them they work very hardbut brexit only changed the people nothing else.
BRINO not Brexit
Why rubber boat migrants dont fill agricultural jobs?
😂😂😂
Because even some migrants have ambitions/expectations
@@Lostouille why do you look down on Agricultural workers?
@@Lostouille Do these ambitions include eating? If yes, agricultural jobs should be an option.
A lot of migrants spend their early years doing minimum wage jobs, but then they study and upgrade their jobs or start businesses. In London, Indians now own more properties than the English.
UK is falling down when eastern Europe is on the rise. How the turn tables 😂
With birth rates plummeting and no major businesses on par with the old EU, this success will be short-lived.
Poland is in Central Europe, not Eastern Europe: geographically and mentally.
The Iron Curtain fell more than 30 years ago, and it really is high time to understand that that division of Europe no longer exists. The geographical Centre of Europe is in Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine or in the east of Poland (depending on what method of measuring is used).
Eastern Europe = ruSSia. We certainly do not want to be associated in any way with this barbaric country.
Why is this so difficult for you to understand? What is wrong with you?
Eastern Europe, you are writing about Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, you are not specific enough or you are an idiot in geography
I wouldn't be so sarcastic, whole EU is facing challenges and is over regulating business. Our competition are China, Iran, Russia.. not EU states against each other
Easter Europe is not in rise - Russia and Ukraine are declining. But Central Europe is.
I have friends that live in London,but they started calling it Londonistan a while ago.😂
As a Polish ain't no way we ever comin back. Tho we are very welcoming if you want to work in our country in near future, got many job opportunities for ya :)
Good to see Polish gratitude for all the EU money and jobs in the UK
@@SD-tq1pl Then what about all the racism and xenophobia we had to experience on the way? Should we be grateful for that too?
@@michuXYZa kto ci kazał jechać pedale
@@SD-tq1plthere is no need for gratitude as those money are not given for free. In future we will pay more in the EU than we will take. It's credit not charity money 😅 and we wasn't part of Marshall plan like UK and other. And nobody cares that we fought arm to arm with you. Yes I'm aware that without EU we wouldn't be in the same place but it's not without price... I'm leaving UK this December after 8 years. It always will be place when I got job and opportunities but as my county improved I decide to go back and make it better place. You always very welcome to visit Poland and I hope UK will get better in future.
@@SD-tq1pl Did we not contribute enough while working in the UK? I guess we paid off everything and everywhere ( healthcare, engineering, hospitality, drivers, cleaners, operators, etc.). We proved to be hard working people and at the same time we helped UK to maintain its European heritage...
It all down to religion no catholic only Muslims wanted in the uk
“It is worse than Sweden, go look what’s happening in mooslin Sweden right now, it’s burning”
😜 🤣🤣
Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary are CENTRAL Europe. If you count East Germany and Finland as part of the West, then it's time to count England as part of the Middle East....
BTW - it is high time that all immigrants from EU countries left the UK. The behaviour of the British towards continental Europeans is simply a shame.
Man just stop being silly Eastern Europe is political and NOT geographical concept
@@patrykp8460 what do you mean "political"?
As a Pole, for the British I can be an Eastern European...anything, just so they don't call me a Western European. It's not a privilege, but rather an insult...
In the west we call eastern Europe those countries that were on the other side of the iron curtain, regardless of geography.
No one really cares, lol!
Hello from Romania , it took our ancestors 500+ years to get rid of them.Good luck!
Since 2008 UK have stagnant economy. All central europe coutries have economic grow. Soon all of them will overtake uk. Already uk does not much to offer for them. Only 3world immigrants will come to uk.
Poland is predicted to overtake UK by the end of the decade
As an "ex communist European" i could NEVER move to western Europe. I could only visit as a tourist, but even then the priority would be to visit southern Europe, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid, Milano, Lisbon, Athens, Porto, Florence, Venice, Seville...Places like UK, Netherlands, northern France, Sweden, etc. there's absolutely NOTHING for me there.
@@Just_another_Euro_dude Latvian here and must agree. Was working in UK, was mostly ok. Was working in Netherlands - F*CK this place, hate it! Germany is done, never had any interest in Scandinavian countries. Was living in Spain and Portugal. Lovely places.
Came in the UK 10 years ago...what a mistake.
yes go home
Adhesion for eastern European countries was indeed a slow and painful process. If UK wants to rejoin, it will be even a more slower and more painful process. And eastern European countries now active and respected EU members can strike a veto on UK adhesion. You reap what you sow...
Poland is in Central Europe, not Eastern Europe: geographically and mentally.
The Iron Curtain fell more than 30 years ago, and it really is high time to understand that that division of Europe no longer exists. The geographical Centre of Europe is in Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine or in the east of Poland (depending on what method of measuring is used).
Eastern Europe = ruSSia. We certainly do not want to be associated in any way with this barbaric country.
Why is this so difficult for you to understand? What is wrong with you?
I`ve lived in the UK for 12 years. I went back to Poland 8 years ago now. Honestly, the best choice I`ve made. I do appreciate all those years in England- I have learnt a lot. I think those who stayed is due to the fact of having kids in the educational system, mortgage etc...There are great bizz opportunities here, safe & clean. Everyone pretty much mind their own business. All the best mates!
When I finished Architecture back in 2007 in Spain, there was already a rumour about how fast was Poland growing. Later on I met many pols in London and I thought that they were good hard working people (and doing high skilled works), and strangely close to our culture despite the distance. I am happy that they are doing so well.
I remember the hate against East Europeans and the superiority of British Brexiteers against other Europeans...
the hate and the lies...
when Romania and Bulgaria join late the European Union, even was not the fault of RO and BG that was in Eastern Block (more than that UK sell RO & BG to Soviet Union, trade against Greece, so the guilt one is really UK)
the UK decided to put on hold the European rights of Romanians and Bulgarians.
When even these years past and Romanians have right to work in UK, a lot of British televisions waited the HUGE WAVE of LEGAL immigrants...
aaaaaaaaaand was ONLY ONE PERSON IN THAT DAY ! ONE !
HATE and British uber alles of Brexiteers against other Europeans remind me of Hitler.
A shame and a disgrace.
Eastern Europeans ADORED Britain UNTIL 2016.
Also applies to a lot of Western Europeans. Us too were told to fuck off, that we were the reason for all their woes.
What a bunch of idiots, good thing we left. Our skills and money should go where it’s appreciated. Good riddance
Ironic, innit? Now it's Poland that calls the shots and britain that bends the knee...
Pamietam polska delegacje swego czasu do królowej Angielskiej. Szlachcic zagroził wojna jak nie przestaną,anglicy atakować statków z polskim zbożem Zaprzestano atakow ,ale niegrzeczne zachowanie było aroganckie z jego strony.
and you thing this video is true?
@@Curryking32000 You think it isn't? Hahahaha...
@@Oil2024 of course it isn't. Remainers do what remainers have always done and thats simply lie. Have you seen the state of Germany right now?
@@Oil2024 th-cam.com/video/n1W1YMMjhGY/w-d-xo.html
Poland is in central Europe not Eastern both geographically and culturally. Russia or Ukraine are in Eastern Europe.
You forgot to add "Germans, not Nazis". You never get bored with that, do you?
@@Astrid-io6vv never, are you German?
@@ukaszs5057 nope, Polish. I get the point of pointing out to certain things, but if you do it obsessively, you have got some issue there. Do you correct others 'Russians not Soviets' etc? Same with Central Europe.
@@Astrid-io6vv by the way, how can one be so ignorant to not know where Poland is? We have nothing in common with Eastern Europe.
Are you ignoranta never be bored by saying bulls*it's?
Nonsense. Poland is Eastern Europe geographically. Culturally the Polish language has many words similar to Russian for every day usage and is also Eastern Europe linguistically.
The UK has nothing to do with the EU, end of story, brexit is over, and only the brits care about it, in the EU we ignore it, it is not news and there are far more important things to do. Has for eastern Europeans I have no issues with them, good and bad like all, and being myself part German, French and with some Baltic in me, I probably have some Eastern European blood in me. Europeans are not Americans, but the British believe they are.
True. I follow Brexit news for two reasons:
- I have family still living in GB.
- Out of morbid curiosity.
@@FrikInCasualMode I have friends there, British, some like my kin, but around me, no one really cares.
Why aren't these vacancies being filled by Brits? We have about 10 million people of working age who are economically inactive. Why can't they do any of this work? Maybe it's because they'd demand proper pay and conditions.
Because the British expect cheap goods and services. Cheap means cheaply produced with cheap labor. Start paying more for all services instead of complaining, and then the working conditions will improve for those low-paid positions as well. Start looking for expensive services and goods instead of relying on cheap ones, pay generously for everything and the problem will be solved.
The UK is not becoming a third world country…after Tory governments and austerity it is already one…😢
Polska ma dobre szkoły państwowe.
@@robertklimczak5630 Witam naszych polskich braci i sióstr. Niech żyje nasza wspólna Europa!
bcos you pay shit and are as expensive as switzerland
Uk has to clean up its mess by itself...
Eastern European countries are on the rise, and Western European countries are going down (economically). Over here in Belgium, we still have Polish people. Most Polish men work in construction and building their lives here. (Family...). However, salaries in Poland have increased, living standards up. So it has become less appealing to come over and work, building their lives in Belgium. My Polish neighbor wanted to return to Poland, but unfortunately, his 2 children (born in Belgium) and his Polish wife did not. So he told me, yeah, I can not be selfish and have to think about my children and wife. Besides my children are born in Belgium and have their friends here, but if I had been single, no doubt I would return to Poland.
Uk-nistan is depressing and not a good quality of life . If you have an accent you will never be treated the same there .
Unfortunatelly people still tell me to come back to my own country despite me doing highly paid job and paying a big tax.
It's been like that back in 2002 when I was in the UK as a student on an exchange program. Only got worse in the following years whenever I traveled for business purposes to the UK, but back since 2002 I knew most people in the UK would treat me like second class citizen, because in essence that is how they see immigrants. You can earn all the money in the world and pay massive taxes, but you will still be just an immigrant that needs to pack and go back to where they came from. Been like that and I doubt it will change any time soon.
you are a tiny minority. Most immigrants get subsidies from the taxpayer while undermining their wages. Can you blame them for hating you?
As a Bulgarian, I'm just observing UK's agony and waiting for the Brits to reapply to the EU 🙃 Brexit is a pain in the neck for us all (EU&UK).
Once and for all Poland, the Baltic are in central Europe, not in eastern Europe
Nigdy nie było czegoś takiego jak Europa Środkowa. Czy ci się to podoba czy nie, zawsze będziemy uważani za Europę Wschodnią.
The Baltic in Central Europe... :)) And, Norway is Iberian, UK is Mediteranean, Italy is Scandinavian, Spain is African (just because they have little piece of land in Africa).
Nonsense. Baltic states are CLEARLY Eastern Europe.
I cant believe what they did.. they kick out Europeans and now they bring alla the africa and asia
And why can't local people do these jobs? A simple solution is to make work worth people's time and effort in every country. This would prevent cheap labor flooding. But no, there are more migrants coming and corporations outsourcing than ever before. The rich just want to get richer by exploiting these people, making them work harder and live in terrible conditions.
Because you can't afford to pay people decent wages.... you already have a cost of living issue, how much higher can you afford to go???? And again as you are now a third country, you have opted to complete with other countries third countries on a cost basis and as these countries have a lower cost structure, you have no room to up the wage levels without further impacting your balance of trade. You have made a monumental error in voting for BREXIT!
Labour not labor. Thats american English.
@@dooley-ch to get higher wages the socialist government needs to stop taxing businesses so much. It's really very simple.
The eu is shit and a bureaucratic nightmare. the only reason brexit isn't working is because it was 'Brino' negotiated by remainers
In a few decades, the British will be emigrating to Poland and Bugaria! Good luck!
Nah, that would mean they'd have to learn a foreign language and that is a big no no.
they already do
I'm from Philippines and the economy of uk is still big is 2nd in eu 1st is Germany then France even if Poland bulgaria romania combined their economy UK is still massive
Central Europeans according to your map unless you meant Russians, Belarussians and Ukrainians
I'm from Georgia and have lived in Poland and Romania. Love both countries. Never felt any discrimination whatsoever. People are really nice and friendly. I feel sad for those who were treated so badly in the UK, hopefully, they were unlucky meeting the wrong persons while there were many kind ones out there.
two of the main reasons why it used to be easier to join the EU:
1: France and Germany were founding members of the predecessor of the EU, so it's obvious that they had an easier time to join than countries do now.
2: the more members the EU has the bigger the chances that (at least) one of the already member nations has some beef with the applicant.
so comparing the ease of becoming an EU member in different times is a bit unfair.
Indeed, and more than a bit unfair. Eastern and Central European countries are very welcome within the EU if they meet the criteria.
This is a bit of an anachronistic view. It actually was more difficult in the past to become a member - The Soviet Union and it's need for buffer states incentivized maintaining the status quo. It is why Finland, Sweden and Austria were only able to Join in 1995, after the collapse of the USSR. And for the others it was of course the issue of their governments not following the necessary neo-liberal preconditions, hence why Spain, Portugal, Greece, (and then the former Warsaw pact) etc could only join after their governments liberalized. Remember, Spain applied for association with the European community already in 1962, which was dead on arrival, for Ireland it was 1960, and they were only considered due to their reliance on trade with the UK and the UK's interest to join at the time. Otherwise the application processes always were near decade affaires.
The real difference is now most of Europe is part of the European Union, with the only major states not members, either intentionally refusing convergence for internal or their own imperial ambitions or are so economically insignificant, there is less political will to absorb them, as smaller countries have outsized voting power in the bloc by design.
1:10 This line of argument is actually silly and counterfactual. It was anything but easy for the UK. Its application was vetoed twice within the timespan of 6 years by France, because de Gaulle deeply distrusted the UK's motive and commitment, based on his experiences during and in the aftermath of WWII, for good reasons, as recent history shows. The third application went through in 1969, after de Gaulle retired and the UK joined EEC in 1973 along with Ireland and Denmark, who inded had a much less arduous accession.
And as for France and Germany, they founded the club together with the Benelux states and Italy. They didn't have to apply. They made the rules for others to join.
I'm from Bulgaria, and I work in a UK food production factory. The people at the top don't care about workers' rights and don't provide good working conditions. The only difference is that the UK has paid holidays, weekly payments, and a slightly higher income.
The uk simply underestimated how small, weak, and unimportant it has become in the world. Going it alone is for first rate powers. This is true for all the little petty states of Europe. These walking graveyards need each other.
Agree, we don't want to end up like Norway or Switzerland but alas I think it's too late.
@@SD-tq1pl 'ending up' like Norway or Switzerland would be the equivalent of winning the global lotto. They're two of the wealthiest countries on the planet offering an extraordinarily high standard of living.
@@Londonsteve56 One sits on massive wealth accumulated during certain two sports events the countries of Europe started in the XX century, while the other lecutres the world on clean energy and equality paying for it all with massive deposits of oil and gas. Kinda telling UK is where it is, didn't acquire enough gold past WWII, and doesn't have as much oil and gas reserves to spend lavishly on its people.
That and the fact that for over 5 decades UK politicians were working for themselves and their own wealth, and (edit:) NOT for the benefit of their people 🤣
@@MrQwertyman111 So, the person you're answering is right. They won the global lotto. But so did Britain in a way - except instead of winning lotto, they won many battles (and then stole stuff). Anyway, as you said and unlike Britain, Norway and Switzerland use their wealth to benefit people. Meanwhile London City works on medieval law where corporations vote, allowing russian and other dirty money a free flow, foreign oligarchs get to park their cash in London's real estate and shop on Oxrford St., aristocrats live in fucking palaces. What do the people get in turn? Shite
@@cogitorium1089 True, but the British Empire has been dead for decades now. All the wealth from that era has either devalued with time, or others caught up. And the capital acumulated and still present has stopped working for the country many years ago, and some would argue it never did due to the legislation in the CIty. As for the Swiss and Norwegians, it's no secret that both Switzerland and Norway are outliers and very special cases when it comes to economic success - one forged its brand on neutrality and a good place to make technically spohisticated products (with a bit of help of gold certain bad people left during WWII and never came back for), while the latter sits on huge reserves of hydrocarbons that finances the comfortable lives of the citizen thanks to governments that worked towards natural resources benefiting the people, not just the rich.
Look, the UK has been building its economy on services for years, but what many like to forget is that a lot of said services were directed towards the continental Europe, and they still are. At the same time, UK benefited from cheap labour in sectors natives do not want to work in most developed nations across the globe (like agriculture, hospitality, maintenance etc.), and said cheap labour came from... the EU. So by crippling its ties with the EU, UK made its peoples lives more difficult, at least in the short term. And unfortunately, UK does not have a golden parachute to use like Norway or Switzerland do. And yeah, add corrupt politicians into the mix and UK is where it is for a reason.
And hey, I don't have a crystal ball and can't say what the future will bring. Maybe a great turnaround will happen and UK will benefit from Brexit, or maybe UK will marginalize itself on the continent and suffer a decline. Too early to say. But for me it was clear the system was busted, and that was back when I was in the UK for a semester as an exchange student. Over two decades ago. Unless Brits get up from their comfy couches and start acting in a way their politicians have to start acting as they are expected? Don't think things will improve enough for the regular people to feel the difference.
To give EU some credit, most of people in Central/East Europe wanted and are glad that EU forced they governments to solve problem of corruption. It could be argued that it is exactly the source of growth they have now. Meanwhile I leave question how Russians bought Brexit aside.
If you are talking about Eastern Europe, talk about Eastern Europe, and not a mix of Central European countries.
The terms you are using became obsolete with the end of the cold war.
This channel has been producing materials about Poland and Poles in Great Britain in a mass production lately. None of them are made conscientiously, rather they have some kind of agenda. Don't expect too much from them. And for me as a Pole... they can call Poland Asia too... I hope they don't call it Western Europe because currently it's rather a shame
@@rayan69pl I am in complete agreement with you. Also the quality seems to be poor, like the voice for example, sounds as though it's AI made...
Stop being so but1hurt 😂
@@omi685 its not, just pointing out problems with the video. If he mislabeled Africa as Asia I'd also point it out. The video is using inacurrate outdated names.
@@MiSt3300 No it's not. It's describing the things that are talked about in a manner that people of the UK talk about them. Poland, Romania, Bulgaria? For all an average Brit cares, those are some backward post soviet republics somewhere between the Caucasus and Vladivostok. The only thing they care, is that the immigrants should go back to where they belong, and that Brittain can be a great place again. So while a lot of what's in this vid points the author is against such statements, the sentiment to the good old Brittain is pretty clear. So all is as it should be: the West ends at the Rhine, maybe at the Elbe. But everything past that is East Europe.
I never really felt welcome in the southeast of Britain I had a young nurse telling me that I was taking my job as a junior doctor away from an English one. That was absolute rubbish. The hospital I worked was staffed bij South Africans, Australians, Europeansand some English who tried to get a registrars a GP. I don’t regret going but I don’t regret going back to Germany. What a country? So racist fromthe beginning!
An Eastern European here - never worked abroad, just observing. It seems to me that the problem of the UK's failure to attract EE workers is due to the competion with other Western European countries, mostly the Netherlands or the Nordic countries. You can get an equally well paid job there and there is little language barrier when everybody speaks English anyway. So why bother with the red tape when there are other, easier options? Also, with the advent of working remotely, you can work from Eastern Europe for any company all over the world. Plus, many of the Eastern European countries face labour shortages of their own and wages are - slowly - rising to close the gap between the East and the West. So, sorry UK, the migrant workers from EE will never come back in big numbers ever again. However, as a consolation, I think the role of Brexit in all of it was rather moderate or even minor. It would have happened even if the UK stayed in the EU, just slowlier.
This country just isn’t serious. It’s like they’re competing their hardest to take the US’s place even though nobody asked them anything
I watch this video just a few days after a new colleague of mine had packed his stuff and left the UK for Bulgaria with his family. He even said that he was the last of his Bulgarian friend group to do so.
Everything worked before Tony Blair opened uk borders to mass immigration now we have a huge population increase . Yet we atill have a labour shortage so it has not even fixed the labour shortage . Invest in training and apprenticeships.
Rubbish! Everything would have continued to work had your conservative government done it's job and used the additional revenue generated in grown public services and investing in the economy etc.... but they didn't, they channeled over 20B out of the economy and into the hands of their donors any you never held them to account. Instead you continue to peddle the nonsense the fed you. Next step will be for the IMF to step in unless you wake up and stop being their willing fool.
Those who do not work legally and those who stay on social assistance for a very long time, you send them out of the country with restrictions on re-entering the country. So that you don't have problems with "crows".
Lies and ignorance drove brexit
The EU is not an alliance. It's a UNION. There are massive and essential differences between an alliance and a union.
So as a Brit I voted to remain in the EU. But I do think there where problems of us being in the EU but most of these have not been solved by leaving as our last government was perhaps the worst government in western Europe for the last 70 years. There are jobs which Brits don't particularity want to do but would if the salary was right, like fruit picking so immigration makes perfect sense. While there are jobs like in the NHS where the government does not want to pay/train a nurse for the going rate for a country of our economic development and instead imports them and pays a lower salary. This is despite the face plenty of people in the UK would love to be a nurse. There is also a fact we bring in these immigrants but dont build enough houses for them which then pushes house prices and rent prices
But what has happened since the government has now double down on immigrants from the rest of the world, who dont seem to be productive as eastern friends.
So ...why not blame your government then?
@@HellStr82 As I said I voted to remain, and I do blame the last government, I did say:-
"last government was perhaps the worst government in western Europe for the last 70 years"
EU citizens were replaced two-fold by Africans and Pakistanis. Long gone are the skills and education that EU citizens brought with them. I'm afraid the UK has found itself in a difficult spot as people from the Global South tend to be less productive and having large families drain resources.
Since when Poland is in eastern Europe ?
we are both eastern and central
@@quackquackbro12to gdzie tepy śmieciu są góry Ural jeśli Polska jest w europie wschodniejj pedale idz do szkoły uczyć się geografi pół upadliny jest w środkowej europie smieciu nauka poszla w las
Since Pangea split into Gondwana and Laurasia. (Early Triassic to be exact).
You have got a lot of engineers from Africa and Middle East in the UK 😢
Lived in Scotland for one year as a Romanian. I honestly enjoyed my stay, pretty much everyone I interacted with was friendly and easy going. I never felt discriminated against. I think that having a good accent (even if it more American than British) helps a lot, and it may also be that Scottish people tend to be friendlier than folks in England. That said, given the current economy, I don't plan to move back, but I am looking forward to visiting.
1:20 Western Europe goes from France to the Ukraine? And Spain and Portugal aren't Western Europe but Belarus is!?
Eastern Europe never had collonies and had serfdom 1-200 years longer then Western part. That was bound to create economic and social disparity even without communisim. And yes, Balkan was rulled by Ottomans for 500 years. Now, it does not mean you cannot find good workers there, but if you add legal difficulties to migrant workers best ones will go elsewhere, be it farm workers or IT consultants.
The Universal credit claimants voted for Brexit because they were very worried about the foreigners taking their country 😂
I did not vote for Brexit! I never had a problem regarding Eastern Europeans but many British just wanted them out! A few years later the government told the sheeple time to love Ukrainians, open your homes to them! There is something so crazy about that. I still miss the polish handymen, they were fantastic 😢
Went back a few years ago. Never looked back.
After working in England for 3 years, I quickly left after the Brexit vote. The sinking ship was easy to predict...
France and Germany were formative members of the “Common Market”.
Imagine being a brexiteer that voted for less east europeans in your country and ending up having them replaced with almost double that number in african migrants! Oh, the irony! 😂😂😂😂
Even those who were born in the UK are struggling. Now, house prices are so high that only the wealthy can afford them, and when you want to move, you can feel trapped.
Author showed lack of geographical knowledge calling Poland Eastern EU.
Eastern Europe is a political description referring to former socialist countries.
Most people in the UK are desperate for less immigration. And that’s not you going to change for a long time.
Of course business want immigrants from the EU however as they are hardworking and educated.
That’s never been disputed.
We wan't closed borders and lower taxes. We don't need a taxpayer funded pyramid scheme for a high spending socialist government.
That simply destroys undercuts wages and destroys business.
Great Analysis, especially some of map animations were fire🔥, keep up the good work👍
Not to worry, not to worry. No doubt Starmer will strike a great trade deal with India, allowing all those vacancies to be filled with Indian workers.
Central... Central europe. By geografy. F.ex. Polnand
Was to say the same thing. Poland and the Czech Republic are not "Eastern" - that's a misconception from the times when the Iron Curtain separated East from West in Europe.
@@thorstenguenther Y'all are eastern europeans, Idk why Czechs and Poles are so adamant about pretending they are western europeans or 'central' europeans.
There is absolutely no shame in being eastern european, it's just a place on a map.
@@ProbablyAEuropean you try being conquered and enslaved for a couple of millennia by empire after empire, then have those racist collonialists start telling you how they're better than you just because you were born in eastern Europe, and then see how they use that term in a very demeaning way, and after that please feel free to call yourself that all you want, but I doubt you would.
If the UK ever wants back to the EU, my vote wil ALWAYS be NO, until they significantly change their attitude and learn some f ing humility
@@ProbablyAEuropean to be fair,they do teach it in school,geographically speaking most of what we call eastern europe is actually central,and you are right that it doesn't matter,but that doesn't make it any less true either.
@@ProbablyAEuropean "There is absolutely no shame in being eastern european, it's just a place on a map." Indeed, But neither Poland and Czechia are part of it, just as we do not consider the UK part of Southern Europe. They are part of Central Europe, culturally, politically, economically, and socially, along with their other Central European neighbours. Central Europe has been a geopolitical concept since the time of the Frankish Empire. 40 years of Cold War ideology dividing Europe into 2 (or rather 3) camps that has not existed for nearly 40 years does not undo the reality of the continued existence of a Central European region, whether it was called the HRE, Mitteleuropa, Central Europe etc. And if indeed, as you say, it is "just a place on the map", then you will have no issue recognizing it, right?
its even worse that they destroyed their own fishing industry, putting families out of work...
I don't see any problem here. If Britain is ever short of food it can always import it from Bulgaria. If they can afford it that it.
If the workers weren't needed, they wouldn't have had jobs and British people would have already done the work. everything has to be explained. misery!
Why would anyone return? It is very difficult and expensive to get a visa, so the only people who relocate to England from Europe are those with a weird obsession.
Eastern Europe (or more precisely eastern part of the EU), provided not only workforce of the migrants, but much more importantly the playground and source of income for the western corporations who took over the eastern EU companies and their domestic markets. That's over 100 million customers with ever growing purchasing power right there.
I have lived in Malta for 7 years where I moved for lifestyle not economic reasons. I am back to Poland and it is amazing how it has changed even in this short period of time. I have a lot of friends in the UK from the music industry. They are not happy about the changes. It's sad because I loved to visit UK especially London. From what I've been told it's no longer the place where artists can thrive currently overwhelmed with the economic struggles. Sad.
France and Germany founded the whole thing ?! What are u talking about?
They kind of did, but together with 4 other nations: the EEC was created in 1957 by the Treaty of Rome, which was signed by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany, AKA the inner six.
Indeed, BeNeLux was already founded in 1944
Yeah I watched the video because I was curious but I suppose it was stupid to expect anything else but yaponomics from a TTS based channel
Yes. If nothing else, it prevents the French and the Germans from going for each others throats. Again.
Now, having foreignes from parts of the world who, unfortunatelly, caused decline of the UK for almost 2-3 decades...economy wise, language/education wise....the society standards dropped dramatically...I observe that for more than 2 decades....and I feel sad to see that....UK used to came across as an independent and patriotic/strong in it's approach and attitude...
Brexit is saving many of these countries from total population collapse. If all young people do is leave their country as soon as they are able to do so, no amount of remittances will make their home countries grow economically and certainly not demographically. As for there being actually any young people wanting to leave, emigrants from Eastern Europe were having their families in the West and for the most part, these children have no intention of settling in their parents' homeland when they grow up. Brexit stopped many countries in Eastern Europe from becoming depopulated wastelands.
spui UK si tragi apa
They don’t like the Muslim culture so much I suppose
Stupidity and greed
The UK makes a big fuss regarding the eastern europeans taking over jobs in the UK. What about the western europeans living and working in the UK. Italians, French, Spanish and Germans all go to the UK so what makes them any less scrutinized than those from the east?
What if Brexit motivated people's more racist fears? As an American, we witness this constantly and, uh, Trump. Sorry if I'm stating something obvious but the video doesn't mention it so I'm assuming they don't think race is a factor?
Absolutely, brits are more equal than other peoples, at least they think so (I know, not all brits).
So the British feared because Bulgarian and Romanian are different "races", but today they aren't afraid of Pakistani and Somali, that are like them, according to you?
@@theOrionsarmsthey don't appear to like non-brits in general.
Nothing to do with racism. Everything worked before Tony Blair opened uk borders now every service housing schools hospitals dentist prison service even the road system is broken . After years of mass immigration we still have a labour shortage it did not even fix that . On top of this employers stopped investing in training and apprenticeships. The uk has never been a racist country .
@@petervanderwoude6316not relevant in this context, whole Brexit anti east Europeans propaganda was a lie, spreaded by right wing media, mostly Murdoch media thrust, and today a typical British would easily choose a east Europeans immigrant as his neighbor before one from Africa or Arab world .
GB is not smart
Nowadays employers from the UK hire more-and-more younf people from Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan) for agricultural and construction works. I know that from the side of Kazakhstan, though I didn't see anyone while residing in the UK. On average they have good education level, tolerance both to a cold and a hot weather, enduring for hard work, not too religious. They usually come for season work and then they leave