Future Britons

The UK fearfully awaits January 1, 2014, when restrictions on the movement of labor within the European Union will be lifted. More than half a million Romanians and tens of thousands of Bulgarians are going to move to the country. Representatives of these nationalities have already become leaders in criminal chronicles in Foggy Albion - they arbitrarily seize houses, rob, breed monstrous unsanitary conditions, behave noisily and aggressively.

Many Romanians dream of moving to the UK to live on welfare. For example, the mayor of two gypsy villages said that as soon as January comes, almost half of their residents will move to the UK. Kohler Gabriel-Adrian said that 50% of the 1,100 people in the poor villages of Berini and Uliuk will be able to travel to Britain in search of higher benefits and a brighter future. Many of the residents have already left for France, Italy and Spain, but the mayor says that when restrictions on the movement of workers in the Eurozone ease, the UK will be the most profitable option.

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1. Among the future immigrants from the Romanian villages of Berini and Uliuk there will be 170 gypsies who live in incredible poverty on the outskirts of these villages, without water in their houses, 20 people in three rooms.

2. One of them, Remus Neda, a 37-year-old father of seven, is looking forward to moving to the UK. Especially since he can receive health benefits and possibly even housing. "In January, all that's left of us here is our goat," he says.

3. The mayor of the region, which includes these two villages, said: “I think next year half of the gypsy population of Berini and Uliuk will be able to go to the UK. Young people will especially go, because nothing keeps them here. They will work in agriculture and construction, but in Britain they will get much more.”

4. “My advice to the British is don't give them everything. You have to be careful, because if all of a sudden everyone floods into the UK, what will you do? Can you afford it? Here people don't have big salaries, so they are, of course, interested in salaries and benefits in England. The mayor also noted that it is "not too bad that they [Gypsies] though live elsewhere in Europe".

5. “They will go to the UK, earn some money and maybe come home with money because everything is so much cheaper here.”

Gypsies in Berini live in adobe houses and eat only cabbage, potatoes and corn, which they grow themselves. From January 1, all 29 million people in Romania and Bulgaria will receive the same rights as other EU citizens, which means they will be able to live and work in the UK. Restrictions on receiving benefits and medical services that were imposed on countries when they joined the European Union in 2007 will be lifted.

6. Every year more than 10,000 Roma from Romania and Bulgaria return to their homeland from France. Remus Neda is one of the richest gypsies in Berini because he "makes good money" begging on the streets of Paris.

7. His family, including seven grandchildren, lives in a dilapidated brick house, but they are still poor and hope to move to London soon. “We heard on TV that the rules are changing. It will be a great opportunity for us."

8. “If we can find housing for all 12 family members, it will be a blessing. My brother-in-law is already working in London at a construction site. We'll wait for him to call us and tell us that it's really true. Then we'll move in the next day. I will work at a construction site as an illegal immigrant or, if I'm lucky, they will register me.

9. But in Britain, Remus Neda will have not only the opportunity to receive housing, but also medical benefits. His 15-year-old son Simon recently had heart surgery and his father has to pay for his medicines. “In the UK, everything is much easier because there is free medicine.”

10. Another resident of the same village - 45-year-old Daniela Neda (just namesakes) also plans to move to the UK. Until last summer, she lived illegally in Paris and earned 15 euros a day in alms, but the French authorities paid for her ticket home. “We have heard that it will be easier for us to move to the UK soon.”

11. “Here in Romania we get only 40 lei per child per month,” she says. "That's not enough to raise a child." However, the president of the European Roma Forum, Rudko Kawczynski, said: “No one can just come to countries like France and Germany and say, ‘Here I am. Give me your allowances. This is silly. Nonsense".