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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Down and Out in Poland and London

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Will anything open Blair's eyes?:


(Filed: 25/04/2006)

When Sebastian Cresswell-Turner fell on hard times, he ended up in a Polish workers' doss-house. What he discovered about Britain's fastest-growing ethnic minority shocked him...

Was this the bottom, I wondered; or was there perhaps further to fall? Here I was, on cleaning duty in south London, scrubbing a communal lavatory as foul as any public convenience while migrant workers lolled around listening to east European house music and recovering from a drinking binge that had continued noisily until the early hours."

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