Polish Politicians Call For Tesco Boycott

A senior government official in Poland has called for a boycott of the British supermarket chain Tes…

A senior government official in Poland has called for a boycott of the British supermarket chain Tesco amid a war of words between David Cameron and the Polish prime minister Donald Tusk over immigration.

Reuters reported yesterday that Jan Bury, head of the the Polish Peasants Party (PSL), called Cameron's policies "unfriendly and scandalous towards Poland and Poles". PSL is the junior partner in prime minister Donald Tusk's coalition government.

Cameron, reacting to public fears that central Europeans from poorer EU states could arrive to leach off Britain's welfare system, last month had migrants' access to unemployment benefits tightened.

"As Poles, we can also say 'no' to prime minister Cameron and his policies," Bury said. "We call on Poles to boycott British retailer Tesco."

Tesco have since come out and attempted to remind Polish citizens of the amount of employment it has created in the country over the past number of years. A spokesman for the supermarket today told the Huffington Post: "We opened our first stores in Poland nearly 20 years ago, and we're very proud to serve our Polish customers living there and in the UK .

"We're also proud to have created tens of thousands of jobs in Poland and to be making a significant contribution to the Polish economy."

Tesco told Reuters the company deals in "retail, not politics".