article_snippet: : We didn't expect all those Polish plumbers .
article_snippet: Sir Stephen Wall, EU adviser from 2000 to 2004, said Labour didn't see the attraction Britain would present to skilled Polish workers, such as plumbers .
article_snippet: Labour failed to realise the UK would prove a magnet for Polish plumbers, Blairmost senior EU adviser admitted yesterday.
article_snippet: In advance of Poland and seven other Eastern Bloc nations joining EU in 2004, ministers relied upon advice suggesting only 13,000 would settle each year.
article_snippet: EU simply didn’t take account properly of the pull factor of England for people with skills who could probably find a bigger market [in the UK] for people with skills who could probably find a bigger market [in the UK] for their skills skills
article_snippet: you know, the Polish plumber.
article_snippet: ‘It is astonishing that nobody properly considered the impact of the wage differential between Britain and ... Poland. '