Most of the immigrants working for the NHS wouldn't be allowed in under Priti vacants new points system.
Most of the immigrants working for the NHS wouldn't be allowed in under Priti vacants new points system.
You should be in government, I’m amazed that no one has thought of doing this before.
Germany flying in 80000 Romanians and Poles to pick strawberries and asparagus atm. Austria desperately trying to find East European Labour as well.
Spain will continue using illegal immigrant labour.
UK been bringing in European labour for over 30 years. Used to be mainly students on short term visas.
Problem with a lot of commercial-scale operations is pickers living on the farms in dormitory accommodation - not conducive to social distancing etc.
Every MP has several homes. There’s far more millionaires in the Tory party mate. By an order of magnitude. Your argument seems to be “Labour are a little shit so I may as well vote for total shit”.
Like I say, I think it’s mostly down to immigration and everything else is an excuse because you don’t want to admit it. There’s literally nothing else the Tories offer so I can’t see what else it could be. Even Brexit is about that if you’re honest with yourself.
Just seems a bit weird to be so upset brown people exist you’ll destroy your own chances of a decent paying job and good public services.
I'm more worried about the 4 billion lost to tax evasion than the 200 million.lost to benefit fraud to be honest
I'll worry about the latter when they've sorted out the former
One of my daughters had to spend a couple of days in Walsgrave last year (nothing serious) and the first thing that dawned on me while sitting in a corridor for 3 hours waiting for her to come out of theatre was who is going to clean the hospitals after Brexit?
What's wrong with clamping down on both?
So those taking the piss on benefits get a free pass?
Nothing. But one gets a lot more attention than the other even though it costs the country far less.
It's like having a fractured leg and a cut on your finger and focusing on the cut.
Do we actually have enough slack in the British workforce to make it up though? We have had record lows in unemployment for a good while now and agri jobs have a lot of competition. People have choices and the right to choose whatever job they A) want to apply for and B) what they want to accept.
People don't like piecework. Most of the seasonal harvesting work is that. Also comes down to geography in many cases in having to get large groups of people from urban to rural areas on a daily basis.
See the NHS is running out of gowns now
So the government of the world's 6th biggest economy have failed to procure enough fit for purpose testing kits, face masks, gloves and gowns during this pandemic.
What a fucking shower.
So the government of the world's 6th biggest economy have failed to procure enough fit for purpose testing kits, face masks, gloves and gowns during this pandemic.
What a fucking shower.
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Most people on benefits need it. Clamping down on cheats is often used as an excuse to cut back on those who need it, without people complaining, rather than an active desire to root out the few.
There was a time when European countries used to import British workers too. Anyone remember the sitcom Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Had a couple of uncles who went to work in Germany myself when I was a kid.
They still do to some extent. My brother occasionally goes to Germany to work on the wind turbines over there
Yep, and most of the “long term unemployed scroungers” are 50-64 year old who can’t get hired due to ageism: https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/news/articles/over-50s-more-likely-to-face-long-term-unemployment
Yet again people making decisions based on fairy tales sold to them by the tabloids and not the real world.
Simple fact is that successive governments have been trying to do this for decades and your over simplified view of the world is actually very immature.
Yeah it’s this childlike goodie vs baddie world a lot of the right seem to live in. Totally devoid of facts, just fairy tales about foreigners and scroungers coming for their English way of life like they’re Hobbits fighting the Orcs.
TBF we have our share on the far left too. Some people just prefer conspiracies and kids stories to the messy complexity of the real world. And that’s fine as a coping mechanism, I just wish they wouldn’t vote based on it.
The amount of money gained by the Treasury if they stop one tax-evading millionaire would account for countless ‘benefit cheats’
Board and lodgings is usually taken out of what you earn from piecework too. Simple fact is that most British people won’t move temporarily to another part of the country to take home less than minimum wage (legally) when they have the option to stay at home and take home at least the minimum wage. It’s a no brainier for British people and that’s a compliment not a criticism.
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Isn’t that pretty much the Government’s strategy right now... especially for those people in care homes. Disgraceful.
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What isn't there?
Do you mean those who brought in 150 workers because there isn't anyone in the UK that would do it? Look back in his post.
It is amazing what is missed by those normally agreed with on here.
This long winded argument/discussion you've being having with other posters, Astute, just demonstrates to me perfectly why people will be waiting a long time if they want a Labour government ever again. I've seen people tearing strips out of floating voters, out of less left wing Labour voters... people they need onside to win an election. For a lot of people it seems to be project Corbyn or nothing.
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Yeah, was thinking about the motives around ending immigration
Many of the doctors and nurses could stay home
Bit like the PPE shortage,If we'd maintained and expanded track and trace we wouldn't be needing half of it.
Don't speak too soon. Unemployment is going to shoot up in the next 6 months. Most of Europe is going to be hit hard. And those reliant on exporting to other EU countries will then be hit hard as there will be less money around to purchase what they normally do.
I am worried about the Spanish. They rely on people having holidays there. They will lose this summer and it won't recover quickly.
Oh yes. The boomers that have had the best of everything.
Rich when needed but poor when needed. This link is closer to the truth though.
Exactly.
It is one way or no way. Just look at the latest.
Boomers are rich. They had all the money. Boo.
The most people that are on benefits are those of the age called boomers. But because they are poor they are suddenly not called boomers. And most lap it up.
Have tried to explain the difference between having left Labour but not getting a Labour government and taking the best parts of everything when we can and getting elected. But the excuses come out. It is a constant one sided rant. I fear we won't have a Labour government for a long time.