I don't recognize either chick but I'm getting the message.
So what's that UK vs Romania/Bulgaria thing all about?
I don't either, but anyway...
The thing about UK vs. us and our northern neighbours is that some EU countries still have some labour restrictions on citizens from BG or Romania, which expire 2014. Unlike Germany, France and Holland (actually there was some hate campaign against us there last year, but it ended fast), the UK government (elections due this autumn) has started panic-mongering, that Bulgarians and Romanians will arrive in hordes and cause all sorts of problems, the way the Polish did a few years back - will rape, burn and pillage, take the jobs and homes of the Brits and/or live on the dole.
There were even plans for a British government-sponsored campaign, which would tell us what a bad place Britain is...
Now, I have friends who have lived and worked in the UK (legally) for some time and eventually ran away screaming - a couple went to Sweden, the other one came back here to be a rock star. All of them had good jobs, as a matter of fact. I also have friends who are currently there and don't plan on coming back.
Perhaps there are some people who are indeed planning to go there, once the restrictions are over and act the way the Brits are expecting, but I doubt that it will be on a major scale. Besides, pretty much anyone who wanted to go there, already did. I, for one, wouldn't, though I speak the language (better than some of the local residents, for that matter) and probably would find a job relatively easy. It's just not my kind of place.
So anyway... The hate campaign in Britain is in full swing and we're just laughing at them.
EDIT: Oh, there's another one