Polish workers merit better treatment from host country

Having a Polish lodger, I foolishly bought the rag.

Yes, Forza AW, a sausage processor, had used a "must speak Polish" recruitment ad. Well, their machines only had instructions in Polish so they decided to do so on health and safety grounds.

But of course this is against the Race Relations Act and they soon backed down.

What also interested me was that the Mail had contacted Terry Garner, whom Star readers may recall featured in a recent BBC documentary The Day The Immigrants Left, presented by Evan Davis.

Here, British workers were unable or unwilling to do the jobs filled by mostly east European workers.

Terry Garner had volunteered to work for a potato-peeling firm in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

However, he was late and workshy, not to mention loud-mouthed to "foreign" workers.

He was introduced to an east European, but immediately replied that he could not say his name. "I'll call him Bill," he said.

The supervisor suggested that this showed a lack of respect and was not appropriate.

In my experience Polish workers are very like the Irish. They are polite, friendly and industrious. They deserve better. Let's make them welcome.

Peter Shiels Kenilworth