You're really suggesting that someone asks not to be properly paid when they could earn a better wage?
I know for a fact that some people have their wages adjusted to maximise tax credits.
You're really suggesting that someone asks not to be properly paid when they could earn a better wage?
She is a magistrate and certainly didn't strike me as being xenophobic.
The influx of migrants is endlessly forcing up the cost of houses, so the Brit worker has to take a bigger mortgage. For this reason he cannot work on the minimum wage as can a young Pole that shares a house. So employers employ more Poles as they are cheaper.
The downside is the Brit spends his money in the UK on furniture and everyday stuff that the Pole doesn't buy - hence the local economy suffers.
The Brit keeps his money in the UK whilst the Pole sends it abroad. This damages our economy.
Sooner or later our economy will go into a recession - that's when it'll all go awry, when Brits are losing their jobs to Poles because they can't compete in their own country, and losing their houses and families. Immigration simply gives us more people - and more people means more trouble with housing and health and education etc etc. There is no gain to the country or the British people.
I 100% agree with you.Immigration is of no long term benefit whatsoever to the people of this country.
joe-90";p="707075 said:JohnD -
We have the same land mass as New Zealand. We have 60 million people and they have 4 million! Do we have fifteen times the standard of living?
The answer young man is no, we don't - but then why should we? Since when did the average number of persons per square kilometer determine the standard of living?
JohnD - we are a tiny island with a massive population - we simply don't need any more people.
We have the same land mass as New Zealand. We have 60 million people and they have 4 million! We have FIFTEEN TIMES the population. Do we have fifteen times the standard of living?
Immigration gives us more people to cram in - and no benefit.
Clearly it benefits the people who are migrating to this country.joe-90 said:Immigration gives us more people to cram in - and no benefit.
there was an item on newsnight about it a few weeks ago (i think it was newsnight) because they are eu members they are entitled to a certain benefit, think its the child allowance(not totally sure). They are paying taxes on what thye earn so they are entitled to it under the rules. the money is paid direct into the banks at home for them.
Tis true, the system works like so; you come here alone from the EEC, register for work so that you get a NI number. You then work here for 12 months & pay NI contributions - but probably not if you don’t you earn enough money, in which case you will get NI credits! After 12 months, you then become entitled to child & all the other dependency benefits, the same as if you were born & bred in the UK. Now’s the totally ridiculous bit; our government will then, quiet happily, pay this allowance directly into an EEC (but non-UK) bank account, even though the dependants don’t actually live in the UK! This has got to be an incentive for EEC migrant workers from less developed countries not to earn too much in the UK as the benefits they will eventually be entitled to are worth far more when shipped back home than the actual wages they earn in the UK; it’s very, very expensive to live here by comparison!