Ray of Sunshine wrote:Guest wrote:
No they started arriving in Dover in 1995 when Slovakia was not an EU country. They were dispersed around the country.
Stop talking crap, they weren't allowed to live here until the EU enlargement in 2004.They started arriving after Britain opened its borders to EU migrants in 2004, something which Jack Straw, another former NEW Labour home secretary, admitted this week had been a “spectacular mistake”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10452130/Roma-in-Sheffield-When-it-goes-off-it-will-be-like-an-atom-bomb-here.html
You are confusing the right to live with ARRIVING here. They arrived here en masse in 1997 but the first arrived here in 1995,
http://www.stophateuk.org/wp-content/up ... idance.pdf
Read down the timeline to 1997. John Major signed us up for the accession countries to join the EU in 1996, which included Slovakia. Why do you moan at Red Tories but never moan at Blue/Purple Tories?
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/le ... 93422.html
Letter dated 1997 about Roma in Dover.