Here again, my compatriots became famous of their behaviour. Polish troublemakers are the majority of the records of the London Metropolitan Police. Many times I have devoted my attention to the Polish troublemakers that are coming to Ireland and UK together with decent Poles, who are coming to those countries to work. This is a real serious problem, the amount of Polish troublemakers in UK and Ireland, and actually it is very difficult to prevent them of coming abroad, since they are coming for work as well. It is their culture, or maybe lack of the culture and manners. It concerns almost every Polish community in Irish or British town or city. I have met Irish people who were willing to help and to co-operate with Polish community, but after some really nasty experiences they changed their attitude completely.
What do we need it is a Polish Garda officer in every Irish town, and Polish Police officer in every UK town, and much harder policy on deportation of the foreigners to their own countries.
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About 1 year ago, one of the Polish internet portals devoted its attention to the Irish - Polish relations and relationships. Still the main problem of Polish community is the fact of closing itself in kind of national ghetto, and the lack of knowledge of English practically makes it impossible for many Poles to communicate with Irish. Also the attitude of many of my compatriots to Ireland and Irish, who are not interested in Ireland at all, who are actually and mentally still live in Poland, and who are only working in Ireland, regarding Ireland only as a place of work (since at home they are in Poland), doesn’t help neither. From the other side, there is still some barrier built by Irish, I mean, despite my attempts to socialise with them, I have not so many Irish friends. The article published on Polish internet portal mentioned also that Irish girls don’t want to go out with Polish boys. For Irish girls it was kind of shame or come down with a boy from a country in far East (even maybe in Asia 
). In fact, I know one Irish girl who has Polish boyfriend, and she couple of times complained that other Irish girls sometimes laughed at her emigrant boyfriend.
Meanwhile, according to the latest Sunday Independent, Irish girls will have to get used to Polish lads, at least due to the fact, that recently Irish boys have been choosing foreigner girls to go out. There is no doubt, that Polish community is so big, and Polish girls are usually regarded as beautiful, that Irish boys quite often choose Polish girls and quite often I have been listening to Irish, and other foreigner people, complaining that every Polish girl friend has a boyfriend already 
I found Irish girls pretty, and maybe one day they realise that Poles are not wild troglodytes without manners (except exact amount, that can be found in every nation).
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There is a story about chain of 2 food shops in the town somewhere in Ireland. The boss employs only Polish people who are living together above one of the shops in the apartment rent by the boss. Everybody say that the boss is a nice man, but they don’t talk with him often. Polish people work in those shops 6 days per week, usually 10 - 11 hours per day and they are supervised by Polish girl, who is - as they say - horrible person and reminds them kind of a work camp guard. Sometimes one or two of the Poles are waken up during the night and they are to go to the shop (shop itself is closed, but there is plenty of work in the store house). Sometimes it is 2 hours in the middle of the night and on 8 am the same people have to start work in the shop downstairs. During the day they have to work hard under the watch eye of the Polish girl - the supervisor. There is no overtimes pay, and for 10 - 11 h/day 6 day/week they get 320 - 340 Euro. Moreover, on their payslips they see numbers like 400 Euro or more. They have to agree to that or to go away and loose their jobs. They can’t say anything to the boss or to the Polish supervisor, because the answer is always the same: “if you don’t like that job then go away”. Of course, Polish employees don’t speak proper English, and they are afraid the situation being out of work and starting from the beginning again, but usually after couple of months they decide to quit and then the boss can easily find another unemployed Poles. Irish boss is nice, and he pretends that everything is OK, that he likes his Polish employees and appreciates their work. In the same way he pretend that all food being sold in his shops is made in Ireland. In the pub his Polish employees (both former and present) tell the stories how they are wiping out from the food stamps of Brazil or other countries.
The number of Poles in Ireland is very high, and the percentage of non English speakers among them is also very high. Some of the Irish employers use it. They know, Polish person who don’t speak English won’t be able to fight for his or her rights and since he or she is struggling to get any job, won’t complain. Thus some of the Irish employers pay wages much lower that the minimal wage determined by the Irish law, forcing them to work overtime and 6 days a week. Those employers will never employ any Irish person, because Irish employee will stand up and fight for his or her right or at least quit the job very fast saying to the boss “feck off ya bastard” or something like that.
Problem of exploitation can rise and can cause anti Polish behaviour among some Irish, since the bosses prefer to employ cheap Poles who can be exploited very easily, and thus they are “stealing Irish jobs”.
The story I described above is very well known in one town, and I have heard it from at least 5 people who used to work or who are still working in one of those shops.
Today’s edition of Gazeta Wyborcza and its Internet portal - Gazeta.pl refers to the latest results of the poll-survey among the Polish emigrants in British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland). The survey was conducted by institute “ARC Rynek i Opinia” among 1389 Poles at the airports throughout the Isles.
In Ireland and Britain, most of us perform manual labour and earns about 7,500 zloty per month, compared to 700 - 1500 zloty per month in Poland, and the salaries are the most important reason why many of us decided to stay, or at least decided not to come back to Poland in next 5 - 10 years. Also important reason is the fact that many of us settled down very well.
In my opinion there is another very important factor that prevent us from thinking about coming back. It is a economical chaos and tough rule of the far right side, populist government in Poland. They are wasting time for hunting commies, gays and lesbians, Satans (as our prime minister called opposition parties) or struggling with Polish doctors trying to force them to work for 200 - 300 Euro per month. As for the doctors - they are massively leaving their jobs in hospitals due to the very poor salaries, accusations of corruption from the ministry of justice and the very bad attitude and intentions expressed by the parties in rule during the negotiations.
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A week ago I was questioned by a journalist of Polish Newsweek on the issue of a number of boorishness, rude and aggressive behaviour among Polish community in Ireland. I still meet some rude and aggressive Poles, but I must admit, it is now much less frequent than 1 year ago, and it doesn’t mean that I am more blind than the time when I arrived in Ireland (I have described it on my blog one year ago).
Nowadays, being involved in integration of Polish society I can see growing awareness of proper behaviour among Poles. More people are aware of what they should do and what they should not.
The article, with quotation of my opinions, was published in today’s Polish Newsweek edition.
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