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Originally Posted by Big Brian
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.
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Yes i do watch the news ,chiefly in the morning before i go to work and have been following Stefs travels. The example you give doesn't show that our jobs are being taken by foreign workers at all ,it shows that the wage level has been depressed by the availability of menial workers .The job would still be available to indigenous workers and it would still have to pay the living wage ,anything else would be illegal .
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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?
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Farmers use seasonal workers who are able to move around and don't mind the temporary nature of the job ,British born workers tend to want permanent jobs with a career path to follow .All that happens in the farming sector (and most likely anywhere else) is that the labour shortage is filled by available workers ,usually foreign born workers because they meet the criteria needed by the employer.The same job is still there for indigenous workers ,they just don't want it .
In my opinion it is false to claim that our jobs have been stolen by foreign workers ,what has happened is that the labour market has become more competitive and British workers have failed to compete .Having said that ,mass immigration has had a detrimental effect because of the increased competition so to balance out the effect we need to stop the immigration by leaving the EU and make claiming benefits hard and unrewarding so that we encourage people to take up the seasonal and low paid work