The post you are reporting:
Keith and Marek,
unemployment is a plague. Sometimes the reality is harder than one imagines.
it affects many in Britain and many in Europe.
Even hard-working people with a track record can end up running out of money through lack of work, both here and in Europe.
To be fair, I've never suggested on the Forum that Poles or other eastern Europeans tend to sign on in Britain. I've always stated that they are hard-working.
When unemployment hits them in Britain, they tend to return home, because it isn't their intention to live on benefits.
And if they had to sign on, they'd do it in their own country.
But they are not happy being unemployed, as much as people here are not. May-be I don't see things through rosy glasses, and rather depict the realities as I know them, which doesn't equate to generalising, though.
Keith, it's pretty pointless arguing about everything. Why not go and talk with people from the East working here, and with unemployed British people?!
Take your rosy glasses off, mate.
People hit by unemployment become frustrated whether they are Brit JSA seekers or Poles and Lithuanians. The frustration is more present than many (not unemployed people) think.
Unemployed people are frustrated in Britain and In Europe, both West and East.
You wouldn't find me stating that the unemployed in eastern Europe, who receive their own version of JSA, sit all day in a pub in Vilnius or Warsaw. I don't try to deride them.