Here in Coventry, we have some of the highest concentrations’ of immigrants in the country.
Indeed, spoken English on Ball Hill, where our shop is, comes a distant third or fourth.
My son has recently changed jobs, temp agency work; he’s been with this company for around five weeks.
Last Thursday, a polish temp worker walked up to him and hit him on the hand with an Iron bar then spat at his feet , calling him an English B*****d.
The same guy has been harassing many an English worker in my son’s place of work, too.
He is always accompanied with another Polish worker, at least one,who just hovers in the background.
They seem to be attempting to threaten the English workers into quitting their jobs, so that they can attempt to bring in more of their Polish friends.
On Monday, he walked up to my son and pointed to his own jaw, his English is practically no-existent,
My son is around 6’3” and attained his first dan at the tender age of nine…knocking out many a doorman, in the dojo at the age of fourteen.
He knows what they are attempting to do: get him to react so they can put in a complaint and have him and the others they’re harassing sacked. Hence the other Polish worker hovering in the background as a potential lying witness at to what really happened, if and when, anything does go down with any of the English workers.
This isn’t a one-off, as we are hearing of this happing in other places of work.
So, every time an ambulance powers past our shop on the way to Walsgrave hospital, my wife and I wonder if the offending Polish gentleman’s in the back.
My son knows the score, so touchwood, won’t react.
The English guys, just do not want any hassle with the management over this, as the Polish always make sure there’s no other English witnesses , and with there being more than one Polish worker around when they’re harassing the English, it’s two or three Polish workers word against one English workers word.
Sad, sad, sad.