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Originally Posted by martyh
Your using one of Arthurs posts as proof 
As it happens i have never held with the theory that we are losing our jobs to foreign workers .I do accept though that mass immigration makes it harder and that it is easier to operate on the black labour market .What we have in this country is a situation where the benefits of being unemployed are much greater than taking low paid or seasonal jobs ,mainly because of our generous benefit system. Mass immigration tends to depress wage levels as well but i do not accept that immigrants are stealing our jobs . |
I don't know if you watch the News BBC in the mornings but Stef McGovern has been going round business' trying to get a feel for how they feel about the EU. In one case they admitted employing EU workers as they are cheaper. If that's not taking our jobs I don't know what is. If you were an employer, and I don't know you might be, would you not take someone on who will work cheaper if they had the skills you required?
I agree on that point. Mass immigration does depress wages.
You talk of low paid jobs and our generous benefits system and that's true. When I was working I did 16 hours a week and could take home more than the full time workers. But my question is: Why then are the fruit pickers, tattie houkers, etc. all foreign. Why do the farmers not employ our people to do that instead of importing seasonal workers? My answer is that they don't qualify for these generous benefits as we would. That is just one example. So do you still think they are not taking jobs?