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Originally Posted by Damien
The report and news article says why.Besides, Post-War Britain was built with the help of Irish Immigrants
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Yes, they were encouraged here because of the shortage of male workers after WW2, they also encourage workers from other countries that were part of the British Empire. That is why so many Carribean families moved here to jobs like driving a bus for London transport etc, also in the early 60's many moved here after the independance of jamaica because they were offered a choice of jamaican or British passport. I know a family where some of them took British passports and moved here, but the rest of the family had Jamaican passports and stayed at home.
I think the difference these days with migrant workers, is not the need to fill jobs due to shortage of able bodies but in many cases its to fill the jobs as cheaply as possible. Low paid jobs are full of migrant workers, and this is the direct fault of the government because of their softly softly approach with able bodied people who are benefit scroungers.