” is there are British workers ready, willing and skilled enough to do these jobs, then its only correct that they should be offeref them first ”

I can’t speak for all of them but i have two nephews in Shrewsbury who haven’t worked in years because they claim that theres no point applying for jobs because they get given to foreigners.

I call them lazy, useless and a drain on the nations resources. I’d rather have two hard working Eastern Europeans than two lazy, whineing Anglo Saxon BNP voters.

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“If there are British workers ready, willing and skilled enough to do these jobs, then it’s only correct that they should be offered them first.”

Correct. But you’ll probably find that they WERE offered first to British people. And there were no takers, otherwise the jobs would not be available. There’s still nothing stopping British workers from applying – indeed, the jobs are online so they only need to get their computers fired up and apply.

The jobs are paying at least minimum wage and are obviously located in UK, so it’s not a case of greedy employers looking to cash in and pay poverty wages to foreigners. If they are prepared to pay equal ratres to British or foreign workers, there’s no particular financial advantage in bring foreign workers over to the UK.

One explanation may be that the social welfare systems in both mentioned countries are not as generous as that in the UK. Basically, after a short period of time, if you don’t work in Romania or Bulgariia, you don’t have money. No regular or long-term dole payments, no housing benefit, no child benefit, no maternity or paternity leave, no local tax benefit – it still has to be paid.

So the need to get off the sofa and look for work to survive is a much more day to day option for those people and as a consequence, they are more likely to jump at the opportunity to work (anywhere) than British unemployed.

Another reason may be the lack of skills and ability. Many longer-term unemployed in UK are in that situation due to a lack of basic skills and experience. And an attempt to get them into a routine and offer that experience with workfare is already hitting the buffers as they start to kick-off about having to do a bit of work experience in return for the generous benefits paid to them, oblivious to the fact that a few weeks experience may rekindle their motivation.

If British unemployed really wanted to do those jobs, and had the necessary skills and motivation, then the jobs would already have been filled. And, in reality, some of them probably already have been and the ones being advertised overseas are the remaining ones that had no takers.

And if foreign workers do come here with their familes, then as a working family paying tax and NI, they will put far less strain on NHS and other services than an unemployed British family who contribute nothing but still use these services.

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Sounds to me as if you are saying the British welfare system is too generous?

It might help people from the new EU states to raise their standards of living but, unfortunately as I have said before we cannot maintain our welfare system and remain in the EU because EU laws force us to allow in workers who will undercut local wages and also treat them equally, this will force down the standard of living for our own people and put strain on our welfare system. So we can see membership of the EU far from being a boon to Britain is actually working against the interests of the ordinary person who will be forced to accept lower wages, a lower level of services, and a lower standard of living! Not quite what we were promised.

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