support for the british worker

It would be a bit hypocritical to do so. Britain after all is one of the main proponents of the EU being a free trade zone which includes freedom of labour.
 
If someone can come from a foreign country and take "your" job, then you obviously weren't competent enough to keep it.
 
DrDee said:
If someone can come from a foreign country and take "your" job, then you obviously weren't competent enough to keep it.
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Would you be prepared to take a wage lower than the state minimum just so an immigrant didnt get it?
 
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Wiggins said:
Would you be prepared to take a wage lower than the state minimum just so an immigrant didnt get it?
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If British workers have the right skills and attitude and can do the work for a competitive price, they'll win the contracts. It's not a difficult concept but it seems to have utterly baffled all concerned.

It reminds me of the misguided patriotism of the 'buy British' mentality. Rather than demand high-quality goods at competitive prices, we instead allowed companies free rein to knock out all kinds of badly made and badly designed rubbish. As long as it was British rubbish, we'd buy it.

If the British workers don't have the skills or can't do the job for a reasonable price then they need to start taking a hard look at the reasons why. Or they could just bleat about British jobs and British workers instead. Do they genuinely expect to win work on the basis of their nationality?

The laughable fact is that this recession will last a damn sight longer if they get their way and protectionism is resurrected.
 
i suspect he owns a company that hires foreign workers at a lower rate than british people could afford to live on.

i know people who were working for large supermarket chains that got the boot and then foreign workers were employed to do the same job because its cheaper.

i guess in your mind they should have taken pay cuts but they werent even offered that choice
 
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The right company won the contract. They all had a fair chance.

However, it is membership of the EU that's the problem. Rising unemployment combined with shipping in foreign workers is only ever going to cause resentment. The average worker doesn't give a stuff about the EU. They just want to provide for themselves and their families.

Britain's membership of the EU causes more problems than benefits.
 
arknor said:
i suspect he owns a company that hires foreign workers at a lower rate than british people could afford to live on.

i know people who were working for large supermarket chains that got the boot and then foreign workers were employed to do the same job because its cheaper.

i guess in your mind they should have taken pay cuts but they werent even offered that choice
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He probably thinks they only got the sack because they were typical 'lazy Brits'. The demonisation of the white-working class on these forums and in certain corners of the liberal press is absolutely shocking.
 
DrDee needs to get a grip on reality, british workers dont get the boot for being lazy they get the boot so they can bring in cheaper labour from some other country.

thats fair huh
 
British workers can't compete on price with a lot of foreign labour due to the high cost of living in this country.
How can workers with families and mortgages here undercut workers brought in from outside who are given cheap accommodation in their own little ghetto for the time they're here (so little of their wages will find their way into the local economy), and then return home with bulging wallets to somewhere the cost of living is much lower than in the UK.
 
RDM said:
We did choose to join the EEC though and wasn't one of the consequences of that freedom of labour?
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Who is this "we" to whom you refer? I'm a 31yr old, born in 1977 after this choice was made.

Wasn't it 1974 the dastardly deed was done, and wouldn't one have needed to be 18 or over to participate in the referendum...and wouldn't that mean that nobody under the age of 53 today could possibly have had any involvement?

"We"!?! :rolleyes:


PS: Considering the ramifications of that referendum, and the ever-declining position in which it renders us, shouldn't there be a recurring referendum on say a 5 or 10 yearly basis to prevent people in the present suffering the consequences of decisions taken before their time? That is, afterall, why we have general elections (in principle at least! ;))
 
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just watch as all the other eu countries look after their own its always the same they flaunt the rules and pick the ones that suit them.

its always the same, so come on people its about time we spoke up against those liberal eu loving political correct morons who run this country. And i bet those in this thread who have spoke out against this probably have never had their jobs stolen, watched their pay rates tumble as those in the construction industry have.

Go visit a proper working class area and see whats happening get out of your sleeping cu-de-sac and open your eyes the world is changing ...

trouble in france, greece, iceland and now today russia the workers want change and when the massive unite you had better watch out.
 
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