[colonel mosby]

The Poles will certainly assimilate better than the Muslims or the refugees from Hong Kong.

I'll bet that there will not ever be a single incident in Great Britain of a Pole, Czech, Hungarian, Rumanian, or Bulgarian Christian refugee setting off bombs on buses or on railways.

However, we will see many, many such tragedies in the next few decades involving British "citizens" who are adherants of Islam.

[Stoat]

I'm wondering if this (or another) MSM paper would be as equally disposed to print a similar article detailing the immigration rates, reproduction rates, welfare rates and crime rates of Muslims to the UK, and to frame it in such a negative manner as this article on Eastern Europeans is?

Somehow I rather doubt it.

[wai-ming]

The Eastern Europeans, the Poles in particular, are not "a drain on the country's economic security". Quite the contrary, they're net contributors: mostly young, hard-working, with useful skills and not claiming benefits. Rather similar, in fact, to the situation with the Hong Kong immigrants which you describe.

That's good to know. Thanks for enlightening.

I'll bet that there will not ever be a single incident in Great Britain of a Pole, Czech, Hungarian, Rumanian, or Bulgarian Christian refugee setting off bombs on buses or on railways.

Nor a Hong Kong Chinese. Perhaps not all immigrants to the UK enter with the same intentions.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

How many Hong Kongese have you heard of setting off bombs on buses or railways in the UK? Although Hong Kong does have a very strong (probably dominant) Chinese part to its culture, it was under British rule and a fair amount of its population is nominally Christian (and Anglican or Protestant, too), something which is not the case for eastern Europe.

[Neophyte]

Poles, Czechs or Bulgarians wouldn't plant bombs to the buses, but there is just no way for them to adapt to British life easier than HongKong citizens. Language, first of all - the HK population is bilingual.

And secondly, though Eastern Orthodox (Bulgarians, Rumanians) or Catholics (Poles, Czechs etc.) wouldn't create same problems as Muslims, they're quite capable of crating their own peculiar ones. To mention just one, how about Polish drinking? :-))