[Florence]

Originally Posted by Mark B

People who say it doesn't matter who does the job as long as it's done right probably, or that it's a good idea to put jobs in India because it helps their economy, almost certainly haven't had to go through the experience told they are unemployed because someone in India is going to do their job and they'll have to have their house repossesed and live in the gutter.

When it happens to you, you'll feel differently, I guarantee it.

If companies based in the UK and doing business mainly in the UK want to operate here, they should be prepared to employ UK staff. If they aren't, they should be taxed at a level equivalent to the difference in wages, and that money used to promote job creation here in the UK.

This is the UK. We should be interested in preserving jobs in the UK. Only when every single person in this country has a job should we be even remotely concerned about the job prospects and living standards of people in India or any other foreign country.

Those who think this is racist....I'll do you a deal. When it happens to you and you have no job, agree now that you won't claim UK unemployment benefit and will instead clear off to India and ask them to pay it for you.

well said