Age: 30.
Appearance: Bemused.
I’m bemused, too. Who is he? He was the first migrant to arrive here after EU visa restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians were lifted last year.
Oh, yes! The first of the waves that Nigel Farage and others promised, of benefit-claiming East Europeans who would engulf this green and pleasant land. Après him, the deluge! It was feared/politically useful to pretend they would be seeking to suckle at the bounteous teat of Britain’s social security system. Though it turned out that their immigration numbers actually fell after the rule change.
Whatevs. There was an advert in the Daily Telegraph about them all being criminals. Placed by Nigel Farage.
Yes, so I knew it was true. He has a face you can’t help but trust. The ad said that 7% of all crime in the EU was carried out by Romanian gangs. 7%! No wonder he said people were right to be concerned if a group of Romanians moved in next door – imagine having only an 93% chance of not being killed by them in the night! Would it help if I told you that it was all crap?
No. Tell me, how much has Spirescu managed to drain from us over the past year? He left his first job, carwashing in Biggleswade, after a day ...
Aha! To float luxuriously on a sea of universal credit and housing benefit, I presume? No, because media attention made it impossible for him to stay. He went to London to work on building sites instead and now makes about £80 a day.
Oh. Well, I bet he’s planning to milk the system at some stage. He’s planning to go home, actually.
Why? What’s wrong with here? Is his wallet too small for his 50s? Are all our diamond shoes too tight? “I miss my village, my life in Romania. It’s all right but I come here to make some money and then I’ll go back. I don’t want to live for ever here.”
Unbelievable! He comes over here, takes a job that someone else could have had ... but for some reason wasn’t taking ...
And then doesn’t even have the courtesy to stay! He’d rather go home! To a country full of chickens and vampires! Yes. There’s just no pleasing some people, is there?
Do say: “Home is where the heart is.”
Don’t say: “Your home appears to be where the semi-electable bigots are.”
