The UK exodus: More than three times as many Poles are leaving the U.K. as are deciding to settle there, fresh data from the ONS show.
https://tvpworld.com/90340728/the-uk-exodus-more-poles-are-leaving-than-settling-in-britain
by kallisto19988
The UK exodus: More than three times as many Poles are leaving the U.K. as are deciding to settle there, fresh data from the ONS show.
https://tvpworld.com/90340728/the-uk-exodus-more-poles-are-leaving-than-settling-in-britain
by kallisto19988
31 comments
No need to be where you’re not only not wanted but blamed for your own issues
It’s entirely unsurprising given how well Poland is doing.
No surprise, life in Poland got a lot better plus people feel not wanted by autochthons
Thats what UK wanted innit?
Concerning. At this rate, Brits might soon run out of people to blame for their self-inflicted problems.
our plumber (born in Kent) is moving to Poland (his girlfriend is Polish)
I feel that alot of Poles are going back to Poland at this point, specially with Poland, well growing.
The quality of life in Poland is increasing whilst it’s decreasing here.
A lot of my brit friends started to ask me about living in Poland and consider moving here. It was never the case 5+ years ago.
Given the upsurge of RefUK support, why is anybody surprised that those who have free movement within the EU are making use of it and leaving the UK.
Well to be fair this is good for Poland because it seems that the biggest issue for Polish future seems that declining population, and the country adopted a policy which is against of mass immigration, and desires to bound threshold of individual immigration as possible as less therefore declining population was a huge problem, however, thats a golden chance for Poland’s future. It would be good if they succeed the re-migration of Polish population outside which is a lot. The other problem that country needs to solve is the exportation rates because %80 is exported to EU, however EU economically barely increasing compared to rest of the world, which will effect Poland when they reach the threshold maybe 1.5-2 billion GDP.
They went to UK, helped to build it up, making their life better as well, creating capital for themselves.
Then the UK, in its wisdom, said “gtfo we don’t want you here!”
So the question – what will the Poles do?
A) Stay in UK which left EU, basically wiped out decades of gains, and are treating them as lower class;
B) Take all the capital they accumulated back to Poland, which has a booming economy, and which has lower cost of living.
UK will be a textbook example how dumb population fell for populist stupidity and ruined their country. But don’t worry, US will be right there next to it.
For the few who think this is somehow good news: when even the Poles flee your 1st world country, it means you’re not worth economically pursuing to them anymore.
Ergo, you’re losing value.
I’m Portuguese. Worked in the UK for 5 years. From 2015 to 2020. Heard so many racist takes against poles. Crazy really. But I guess on my back something would be said against Portuguese too. Left because of Brexit, do miss Leeds tho. 😅
Great news and we should all be very happy that the Polish economy has improved to the point where Polish folk are able to return there.
*legal* migrants out, illegal immigrants in, great job UK 🙂
Same happening in Norway, it’s not UK-specific.
The state of the comments on here.
Apparently the whole UK economy has collapsed and the country has descended into anarchy and Brits are all super racist.
Reading most of these these comments, you’ve changed my mind. I used to think of the EU nations as still being our friends. Nothing but negative comments and gloating about the UK and the people here.
Brexit: The undefined being negotiated by the unprepared in order to get the unspecified for the uninformed.
It’s an eternal FAFO loop.
Ill be among them soon. Im Scottish but my wife is Polish and we are leaving next year. I’ll actually miss the UK but as things stand we will have a higher standard of living in Poland than we currently have here.
That seems… unsurprising? Of course without freedom of movement there’ll be way fewer Poles coming, since you now need to have a job offer for a skilled job where the employer is allowed and willing to “sponsor” you, not to mention go through the visa process. On the other hand, Poland has been doing better and better economically, and there are, obviously, no immigration barriers to going back if you have Polish citizenship.
Not surprised
Poland is improving, UK is declining
Brits will run out of people to blame their issues on
Reading the comments on this sub you’d think we were the ones sending drones to your airports and blowing up your railways
I’ve left the UK in late 2023 but I want to thank the Brits for hospitality and friendliness, I’ve never experienced any kind of discrimination or feeling worse than natives. I’ll always have a soft spot for you and will keep using BrE grammar in your honour ❤︎
Its a shame. I work regularly with 3 polish people here in London and they are great. However, i haven’t noticed an exodus and still come across a large number of eastern Europeans. Only anecdotal though.
In practical terms, Polands GDP per capita in PPP terms in about the same as the UKs.
Why live in a foreign country when you can have a comparable standard of living back home? Especially when your home country seems to be trending upwards and the foreign country is trending downwards.
Every single Pole I’ve worked with always did intend to return and except for the ones who ended up with unsuitable family circumstances, the growing polish economy only slowed down the decision. And besides, mixing populations aside, isn’t that always going to be the case for investing in other nations?
One factor could be that the parents of the Poles who emmigrated here when we were in the EU are now getting elderly. In the past foreigners maybe would have asked their parents to come over and join them in the UK, but now that is more difficult, so the Poles are returning home to be nearer their ageing relatives. These same Poles, due to the lowering of the birthrate in developed countries, are also more likely to be childless: a factor which may have persuaded them to remain in the UK.
Not surprising given that Brexit sent a clear message that Europeans aren’t as welcomed here, stagnant UK economy in recent years and fast developing central and Eastern European economies. Everyone wants a better life and when you have options (e.g. dual nationality), it’s easy to choose where you want to be.
Now if all the flag-shagging gammons would go as well that would be grand.
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