Sign o the times

With the new countries joining EU in May, there as been a lot of panic about all these people from the "poor countries" coming here to live of the state. The tabloids and the government seem to think that UK is the best country in the world ever, and that all that these people are waiting for is permission, and they will all come here in hordes and start living of our glorious benefits system.

Well, as a "migrant worker" myself, I've got some news for them. People don't generally abandon their life - their family and friends and familiar surroundings to go to the other side of Europe just to do nothing. For work, yes - if the situation is grave enough and they can find absolutely no work anywhere closer, or if they have career ambitions that take them to another country. But I find it absolutely incomprehensible why anyone would leave their home countries without a very good reason. (Granted, there are always exceptions, but being exceptions I don't think the numbers would be anything to worry about.)