J.R. wrote:
There are a couple of Poles who drink in my local watering hole. Lovely guys, and they would be the first to tell you they came here in the first place to escape the repression of their new 'free' government. Maybe they are not quite so pure and white as the driven snow, after all !!
Any government "represses" those who disagree with its policies - just look at some of the posts here.
We have a "musical" around situation here:
a) France is flying Roma (Romanian gypsies) back to Romania on the grounds that they are close to being or are actual criminals BUT two weeks ago the free music at our favourite watering hole was really excellent - a Roma family with mainly eastern European music. Cost - whatever you put in the hat.
b) a few weeks ago some five singers plus a few students for chorus sang 11 opera arias in a local barn. After hearing the three tenors and twenty others I don't think I have ever heard Nessum Dorma sung better!!! It cost €10 or about £8 per person and the singers and students were all British "refugees"/principals from the Royal Opera House and equivalent institutions. That would have been £100+ per person in London though we would have had glass and not plastic glasses for our interval beverage!
c) You could class me as a refugee from the UK weather and the leaders of the four major parties -I went to CH so perhaps I'm not quite so pure and white as the driven snow, after all !!
Ergo, NOT ALL refugees are rubbish but .....................