Summary
After the doors to Eastern Europe were opened, unemployment in the UK started rising -- admittedly from a very low base -- up 121,000 in the last year. The hardest hit are the most vulnerable, with the number of those unemployed for more than six months having risen by 66,000, and the number of 18-24-yearolds out of a job by 53,000.
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Invasion of the New Europeans
Europe is one of the most divisive issues in British politics. But on one thing most Europhiles and Eurosceptics agree: that enlargement, letting those benighted former communist countries into the warm democracy-enhancing embrace of Brussels, was a good thing. Just about all respectable, right-thinking people feel that the UK should congratulate itself for opening its borders to Eastern European workers on 1 May 2004.
And enlargement certainly has been a Good Thing for the affluent property-owning professionals, as Rod Liddle observed on ...See the full content of this document
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