Amongst all the ‘junk mail’ coming through my letter box there are always a few flyers from local tradesmen, take-aways, taxis etc., but up until now I have never been able to tell if any of these services are provided by someone from an ethnic minority.
OK, I know that the local ‘Chinese’ is probably run by someone from Szechuan, but the bloke who delivers my ‘sweet and sour’ on a Saturday night is more of a Cockney than me.
Now it would seem that one group of people see their ‘roots’ as a positive advantage when it comes to drumming up business …
I’m not sure that this guy is going to do much trade in this area, which amongst all the old farts who live here, has plenty of ‘retired’ builders, plumbers, carpenters etc. and bloody ‘hundreds’ of landscape odd job gardeners, dodgy driveway ‘contractors’ and assorted bodgers.
From what I can make out from newspaper reports, the Poles who have come to this country since the expansion of the EU are mostly a hard working bunch of people, so I wish our new local builder well, although I feel he may do better if he puts his card through the letter box at ‘Buck House’, which it appears is falling down around our ‘cash-strapped’ monarch. The poor old dear is down to her last £350 million.
Who knows ? … He might even finish up with one of those … ‘By Appointment to ‘er Maj’ … thingies … but only …
… if his quote is low enough. 🙂
bigjohn 
