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Romanian baker won't employ Brits because 'they don't work hard enough'

A Romanian baker has said he won’t employ British people because they don’t work as hard as his fellow countrymen do. Every single one of Ovidiu Sarpe’s 16 employees at Pastisserie Romana in Burnt Oak, north west London comes from Romania. Mr Sarpe, who fled Romania in 1979, said Brits make excuses about doing extra hours and don’t have the skills or drive of those from back home. Defending his decision to hire only Romanians Mr Sarpe said: ‘They are desperate to work. They jump immediately to take work.‘If there were two extra hours of work, they would do it. An English person might say “yes, but not this Sunday, next Sunday”. ‘They work to send money abroad. That is why they come here. They work hard to send money home. ‘It is also easier for them to communicate together. Mr Sarpe came to the UK as a political refugee after fleeing the rule of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceauescu – but says he voted for Brexit because British people are becoming a minority where he lives. Burnt Oak is known as ‘Little Romania’ because of the huge community from Eastern Europe and locals call it ‘Bontoc’ after the Romanian pronunciation of its name. Romanians recently overtook the Irish to become the second most common non-British nationality in the UK after the Polish. But Mr Sarpe says he cann’t afford to train British workers from scratch, despite paying staff more than minimum wage and giving them bonuses for their holidays and at Christmas. ‘If I take an English pastry chef, I need to do an intensive course, probably one or two months, day-by-day, six or eight hours a day. I have no time to train,’ he said.‘I carry rubbish out, do the washing up. I treat them like human beings – not like in Romania. They’re treated much better by me. You can see they are happy.’ Around 56% of school age children in Burnt Oak don’t speak English as their first language and around 35% hail from Romania. Father-of-six Mr Sarpe, 72, said: ‘If you say hello in Romanian on the street, five people will turn their heads. There are more Romanians than British here. It’s the fault of the British government for saying “hello come in”. The border is much too open. We need to ask why you are allowed here. ‘If you go to Asda in Burnt Oak you call it Romasda – 80 per cent of the people in there are Romanian. They’re always talking to each other in Romanian, watching Romanian TV.’ But he added: ‘I think it’s important to integrate.