Ex Haulier:
Hey, i’m back. Enjoying the sunshine.
Haha, me too, although it’s in Glasgow. Beautiful day, and not too hot - just like I like it 
So I’ve been out on the bicycle
Reading your drivel, i really am starting to wonder how we sad old brits managed before you and your countrymen all showed up.
Yeah, as I wrote before, I wonder too. Judging from the amoung of imigrants you always needed (Jamaican, India, now Eastern Europe) the answers is propably “not too well”
As for the article: I saw very similar article in a Polish weekly “Polityka” (it’s paid access on line) where they were writing exactly the same about the changing rules as there risk of having your house demolished, somehow the picture was slighlty different than the one you showing: it was saying that Spanish goverment do not want to put FOREIGN (not: British and British only, but Foreign in general, and that, believe or not, includes Poles as well) investors off, then there was information that British is the largest group of foreign investors.
I just re-readed your article and it says exactly the same, except that this is British paper, so they don’t give a ■■■■ about any non-British person. I will try to translate it to you:
“which has led to some British home owners being ordered to knock down their properties” = “Britons were among them who had their homes ordered to knock down”
"“The British are our highest priority and are those about whom we are most concerned,” Mrs Corredor told The Sunday Telegraph. (no wonder, Britons are about 30% of the foreign investors) “It is true that there has been… an image problem. Now we want to reassure the British, and all foreigners, that we are doing everything possible to put the details clearly on the table.”
I will then tell you how the Public Relation works.
If the British journalist asks the Spanish goverment official, he will hear things like ““The British are our highest priority and are those about whom we are most concerned”. The Polish journalist asking the same question will hear “Poland is one of our important partners, so we are concerned about Polish investors as we see your country growing to be sixth economy in Europe and hope for further investments”. The Burkina Faso journalist will hear “The ties between our countries are not to close, therefore Burkina Fasost (?) investing in Spain are in the group we are most concerned about”.
Therefore if you read in British Newspapers that Spanish goverment official told British journalist welcomes Britons, it does not mean that it welcomes Britons only
Just thought you might like this, it seems the spanish government don’t share your views on brits buying houses down here. (…)
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne … eturn.html
Well, you provided article from British press, no wonder, as for Spanish press Britons are marginal issue, such as Poles for British press. So I will provide some links from Polish press to you, just few random ones from google:
gazetapraca.pl/gazetapraca/1,67734,5073027.html
Some more interesting bits:
- British farmers are afraid that there will be noone to work for them, as Poles go home
- Unite’s secretary on farming: “Poles were keeping the British food industry alive because they were willing to work for low wages offered in that sector”. (note, I am not sure if I translated it correctly in English, it does not mean that they were ready to work for less, but that nobody else was willing for what the industry can pay)
- Poles are no longer interested as over last year wages in Poland have risen by 12.8%. (it’s old, from 2008, now it’s even better)
emito.net/wiadomosci/gospoda … 98815.html
British minister says “Polish had a very big positve impact into British economy” (…) “Their involvement is getting more mature, they already started 40 000 companies”.
bham.pl/aktualnosci/352-powroty- … gospodarke
“Mass returns of Poles can ruin British economy” - writes The Daily Telegraph.
“Poles generates almost 2 bilion of pounds every year for the British economy”
Minister for Immigration described fall in applications of the imigrants from the 8 states of the Eastern Europe (that Poland, Hungary, Lithuania etc) as “dramatic”.
Oh, and by the way you pay a separate water bill down here (12 months not 3), nothing to do with government or taxes. So that’s another one we can cross off the list.
Oh, so it’s exactly as it is in Scotland where you pay for water in your council tax, even if you are away for weeks. It’s also like in Poland, where you have to pay for being connected to the water network (and gas network, and power network, for that matter) even if you don’t use any water (or gas, or electricity).
welshboyinspain:
ex haulier, i’ve given up over the last couple of months trying to argue over so many things, just let them get on with it is much easier 
regardless of peoples views on immigrants there’s plenty on trucknet who haven’t been affected by their influx so can’t see the problem, there’s also plenty who are so blinkered they don’t realise there’s a world past dover and there are other places to live and work. chill out and enjoy your 3 months holidays every year while the rest of us have to work for 10 months a year 
And there are these, who don’t realise that part of this word beyond Dover is the people, who know that there are other places to live and work, and one of that places for them is Britain 
yet they wouldn’t buy a house in the UK without a survey 
