Ending in-work benefits won't stop Poles coming to Britain, says ambassador "I wouldn't say it would have an enormous effect," said Mr Sobkow. People do not come here for benefits. They come here to work. He said it is a "wrong assumption" that migrants from Poland are low-skilled with many moving to the West because they are "very wealthy" scientists who want to work in better-equipped laboratories. "There's a lot of wrong assumptions and one of them is that people just sit at home in Poland and start calculating "how much I can lose or how much I can gain," which is not true. His country is determined to encourage migrants to return to Poland, he said. We want them back. We have lost 2,300 doctors in Britain. They were educated for free in Poland, so we want them back," he said.