Homes and Property | Home PageNo work means I'm going backNigel Rosser|Evening Standard13 April 2012Family man Czeslaw Romaniuk came to London from Warsaw on 1 May, the day the EU expanded.Jobless Czeslaw, 44, was one of the first arrivals whom the Standard followed - although he admitted he had already been here this year; deported after working illegally for ?3.50 an hour picking cabbages near Southampton.After three months with no work, he took the first coach to Victoria after his country joined the EU but with no prospects in London, he soon left on a vague promise of work through Polish contacts in Southampton.A month on, his hopes of making big money to send home to his wife and five children have foundered.Speaking through an interpreter, he said: "All I've had is occasional cleaning jobs in hotels and a few days picking salad and flowers."So far, I haven't sent even a pound home and the room I'm renting costs ?35 a week. Polish people don't pay good money - if at all."So while I'm looking for an English employer it isn't going well. If I don't find regular work in the next two weeks I'll have to go back."MORE ABOUTCabbageHampshirePolandSouthamptonUnemployment