As I sat in a cafe near work the other day I mused on the fact that both waitresses were eastern European, the chef was eastern European and the manager was eastern European. From their English language skills I would hazard the guess that none were born here and the chef may not have lived here for that long. Of the custonmers, the fout builders at the next table were Polish, as were the three builders at the table after that. At the weekend I went shoe shopping, at the nice shoe shop all the staff were eastern European, apart from the security man who had a ditsinct Ghanaian accent.
Is it any surprise that over a million British youth are unemployed when there are well over a million young Eastern European workers working in the UK in the service sector? Labour used immigration to 'rub the right's noses in diversity' and to drive down non-unionised wages for their big business friends whilst not upsetting their Trade Union masters. The result is that more and more British youth are unemployed their posible jobs having gone to largely East European youth.
Is it any surprise that over a million British youth are unemployed when there are well over a million young Eastern European workers working in the UK in the service sector? Labour used immigration to 'rub the right's noses in diversity' and to drive down non-unionised wages for their big business friends whilst not upsetting their Trade Union masters. The result is that more and more British youth are unemployed their posible jobs having gone to largely East European youth.
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I was just reading a post over at the Adam Smith Institute ( http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/economics/immigration-and-the-division-of-labour/#disqus_thread )
which argues that immigrant labour is good for our economy and that "immigration encourages natives to specialize in jobs where they are especially productive - and sub-contract their other jobs to the new arrivals."
I can't get my head around that at all. It seems unmitigated nonsense, as it's clear that one of the problems we have is a shortage of low-skilled jobs such as used to exist in manufacturing industries, and the jobs that in particular the Eastern Europeans are filling would be the closest match to those lost jobs.
If our young unemployed couldn't do those jobs even if they were available to them, that's a different problem. And anyone who thinks those unemployed people will be able to train and upskill, well......
The Spanish, Italian, Greek, etc people flooding here because opportunities in our ravaged economy are better than at home don't help, either!
Its not only service sector jobs. I work in an IT department where over 50 members of staff are recent immigrants on tier 1 visas.
How can you argue with management for employing university graduates who will need a couple of years training to get productive when as country we are allowing in people from 3rd world countries (mostly India) who for the same salary have a 1st class degrees and 5 to 10 years experience.
Suicide as a nation.
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