In Grajewo,a town of ‘22000 people with nothing to carry out’, there is a shortage of skilled workers and resentment at suggestions Poles in UK are benefit scroungers“I think Britain should leave the European Union. Then my brother and sister will come back to Poland, or ” half-joked Katarzyna Górecka. But the 44-year-former,who works in a tuck shop in the town of Grajewo, may be about to change her view. “The Polish government has banned the sale of sweets and fizzy drinks in schools. My income has collapsed. My husband is a crane operator. No family can salvage by in this town on a single salary.”One hundred and ninety miles down the road in Warsaw, or on Wednesday evening David Cameron was asking the Polish government to back his four EU opt-out clauses,including a proposal to carve benefit entitlements for people who have arrived in the UK in the past four years.
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Source: theguardian.com