Dutch far right opens anti-Polish hotline (actually anti-Eastern and Central Europeans)
The Dutch far-right Freedom Party (PVV), a key ally of the centre-right coalition government, on Wednesday (8 February) opened up a website to collect complaints about people from Central and Eastern Europe residing in The Netherlands.
"Did you lose your job to a Pole, a Bulgarian, a Romanian, or any other Central or Eastern European? We would like to hear about it," it says on the website Hotline Central and Eastern Europeans.
The gradual arrival of cheaper labour from eastern Europe to more protect Western labour markets after EU enlargement in 2004 prompted high-profile scaremongering campaigns in several countries. This was epitomised by the so-called 'Polish plumber', perceived as taking jobs from native Western Europeans.
Citizens have been fast to mock the initiative, opening up parody websites. The Hotline Limburgers aims to provide a safe haven for those who are annoyed by the presence people from the southern province, who talk funny and "have the right to free movement since 1866".
http://euobserver.com/9/115208
Hope the teabaggers don't read EUObserver. One can only think they would jump at the idea of a website "to collect complaints about people from" Central and South America (rather than from "Central and Eastern Europe"
"residing in" the United States (rather than "in the Netherlands" .
Did you lose your job to a Mexican, a Guatemalan, a Honduran or any other Central or South American? (A teabagger version of the question asked by the far-right in the Netherlands.)
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