Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Some interesting polling results:



Mark Easton's blog

Apart from the apocraphal stories in the red tops about immigrants getting huge mansions and £10ks of cash just by waltzing into the country and edging up on the shores of whichever council is their first port of call; cheap willing labour must be holding down wages at the bottom end of the ladder. Why should an employer pay more than the minimum wage when there's queues of immigrants who'll do the jobs.

I don't doubt that they come here and work hard, but that's not the point, those jobs should be being done by some of those who are currently languishing on state benefits (even if they have to be forced to do them).