{"id":636,"date":"2006-05-07T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T08:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/07\/anti-immigrant_leader_hires_polish_builders"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:21:22","slug":"anti-immigrant_leader_hires_polish_builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/05\/07\/anti-immigrant_leader_hires_polish_builders","title":{"rendered":"Anti-immigrant leader hires Polish builders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Anti-migrant party leader hires Poles - Sunday Times - Times Online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2087-2168653,00.html\">Anti-migrant party leader hires Poles &#8211; Sunday Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativehome.blogs.com\/frontpage\/2006\/05\/sunday_7th_may_.html\">Conservative Home<\/a>, how Roger Knapman of the UK Independence Party, which campaigned against increased immigration in 2005, referring to the &quot;Labour government\u2019s untenable excuse &#8230; that we need large numbers of immigrant workers&quot;, has hired Polish builders to work on his house in Coryton in Devon, paying them \u00a350 per day, half the pay you would give a British builder.  Knapman sourced the men through his son, who runs a company in Poland to bring Polish builders to the UK!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, they work much harder than anyone in the UK &#8211; &quot;like an army of ants&quot; &#8211; and Knapman told the undercover reporter that he could help arrange for teams of east Europeans to do building work through his son&#39;s company.<\/p>\n<p>What a hypocrite.  I wonder how many people will take his party seriously now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-migrant party leader hires Poles &#8211; Sunday Times Via Conservative Home, how Roger Knapman of the UK Independence Party, which campaigned against increased immigration in 2005, referring to the &quot;Labour government\u2019s untenable excuse &#8230;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-ag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42478,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/42478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}