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[Last eastender]

Who would people believe on this someone originally from London, whos family all grew up here, and who has many contacts here,
or some little foreigner who just tries to wind things up every day due to his lack of a sex life(apart from his right hand that is)??

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[Bluey]

CONTREPRENEURS FLOODING BRITAIN

"workers from Bulgaria and Romania pretend to be SELF EMPLOYED when they are really unskilled cheap labour.

There are strict rules stopping unskilled workers from the two countries coming to Britain. But we have no powers to stop people coming to set up a business.

So shady job agencies in the two former Communist countries are helping people to pose as entrepreneurs, then come to the UK to work as hotel staff or odd job men on the minimum wage.

Former Home Secretary John Reid announced strict limits on Bulgarian and Romanian workers last year.

But he admitted: "The terms of the Accession Treaty do not allow us to place restrictions on EU nationals' rights to come here to set up a business.

"So the self-employed will continue to be able to work here, if they can prove when challenged they are genuine."

And The People's investigation shows it's a loophole already being abused on a wide scale.

Ministers promised that unskilled migrants from the two countries - who joined the EU in January - would face tough restrictions on coming here.
It followed a public outcry over the influx of 600,000 jobseekers from eight other Eastern European countries, including Poland and Slovakia.
Ministers had predicted only 5,000 to 13,000 a year when those countries joined the EU in 2004 - despite allowing them unrestricted access to Britain's jobs market. Since then, there have been complaints that employment, schools and public services have come under strain. Slough council, for example, asked for £15million in emergency funding to cope.

When Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU seven months ago, a leaked Government report even highlighted fears that 45,000 "undesirables with links to crime" would head to Britain. Worryingly, the self-employed loophole could provide gangsters with a legally safe way of entering Britain.


Most recent Home Office figures show in the first three months of this year, around 115 Romanians and Bulgarians a day were given the right to work in the UK as self-employed or on a skills permit.
It means more than 40,000 may come for work in 2007. But critics point out that will be much higher as more migrants catch on to the loophole scam."

http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=contrepreneurs-flooding-britain%26method=full%26objectid=19457354%26siteid=93463-name_page.html

[Bluey]

CONTREPRENEURS FLOODING BRITAIN

"workers from Bulgaria and Romania pretend to be SELF EMPLOYED when they are really unskilled cheap labour.

There are strict rules stopping unskilled workers from the two countries coming to Britain. But we have no powers to stop people coming to set up a business.

So shady job agencies in the two former Communist countries are helping people to pose as entrepreneurs, then come to the UK to work as hotel staff or odd job men on the minimum wage.

Former Home Secretary John Reid announced strict limits on Bulgarian and Romanian workers last year.

But he admitted: "The terms of the Accession Treaty do not allow us to place restrictions on EU nationals' rights to come here to set up a business.

"So the self-employed will continue to be able to work here, if they can prove when challenged they are genuine."

And The People's investigation shows it's a loophole already being abused on a wide scale.

Ministers promised that unskilled migrants from the two countries - who joined the EU in January - would face tough restrictions on coming here.
It followed a public outcry over the influx of 600,000 jobseekers from eight other Eastern European countries, including Poland and Slovakia.
Ministers had predicted only 5,000 to 13,000 a year when those countries joined the EU in 2004 - despite allowing them unrestricted access to Britain's jobs market. Since then, there have been complaints that employment, schools and public services have come under strain. Slough council, for example, asked for £15million in emergency funding to cope.

When Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU seven months ago, a leaked Government report even highlighted fears that 45,000 "undesirables with links to crime" would head to Britain. Worryingly, the self-employed loophole could provide gangsters with a legally safe way of entering Britain.


Most recent Home Office figures show in the first three months of this year, around 115 Romanians and Bulgarians a day were given the right to work in the UK as self-employed or on a skills permit.
It means more than 40,000 may come for work in 2007. But critics point out that will be much higher as more migrants catch on to the loophole scam."

http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_headline=contrepreneurs-flooding-britain%26method=full%26objectid=19457354%26siteid=93463-name_page.html

[Last eastender]

[Last eastender]

Bluey
Its obvious people are abusing Britains immigration and borders.
Problem is the labour govt. have been turning a blind eye since they won power and look at the damge it has done this country?
How much more will Britain have to put up with?
Labour have never said it officially but its their policy to have complete open-door migration despite the obvious dangers&pitfalls.
Its a marriage of convenience thats allowing this to take place.
The left-wing multi-cultural lovers are happy as they get what they have always wanted=Britain broken down into a patchwork of different peoples.
The business community who get lots of cheap workers to exploit.
The Britsh public must wake up and get Labour out of power to stop this.

[Bluey]

UK plc gets richer but salaries fall behind

"Profits at British companies are growing at their fastest pace in nearly 13 years while wages of ordinary workers are rising at their slowest pace since 2002...
...the Office for National Statistics said profits increased by 16.2% in the second quarter of the year compared with a year earlier. That was the best figure since the final quarter of 1994... Wages rose by a meagre 3.6%, the worst pace of growth since the first quarter of 2002...

John Philpott, chief economist at the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, said high levels of immigration were a significant reason for subdued wage growth. "Clearly immigration has been good for UK plc but it is clear from these numbers that businesses rather than workers are benefiting."

http://business.guardian.co.uk/economy/story/0,,2155866,00.html

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[Bluey]

Mmm.

A less kind interpretation is that the working-class hasn't caught up with the changes and are left howling at the moon about the unfairness of it.

Over the last few decades there is considerably less social housing and more people applying for it.

There are fewer apprenticeship programmes and most want qualifications whereas in the past you could just hop into one straight from school without taking exams. It used to be very simple to hop from employer to employer but that's more difficult now.

There is less unskilled employment with the end of manufacturing and a move to service based jobs where soft skills are needed and many more applicants for them.

Life has got tougher through scarcer resources and more competition but the working-classes still regard education as a waste of time - 90,000 boys will have just left school without a single GCSE, for example.

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[Orwellian_Logic]

[alanco]

Mate, over 50% of Oz is made up of migrants. So housing and education is taken up in much the same ratio.

The difference is we mainly choose who we want and welcome them. then if they work they're one of us. Here, they're never allowed to be one of you.

[Orwellian_Logic]

[alanco]

It's a two way street. Oz offers people something they want to buy in to. Here there's just resentment if you're different.

Cherie Blair didn't make the law, the UK ratified it. Problem is, unbalanced PC is coming to Oz too if we're not careful. So far we've had very little friction compared to here and I'd say that was down to attitude.

I hope it stays that way...

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[Bluey]

Jobless Britain: One in five homes relies entirely on benefits

"The number of households in which nobody works for a living rose to more than three million this summer, official figures revealed yesterday.

The ranks of children in homes where no one works has risen thanks to the increase in workless lone parents. There were 15,000 more single parents without work this summer than last.

Growth in the tally of workless single parents comes despite huge government spending on trying to persuade lone mothers to take jobs.

Gordon Brown's flagship benefits, tax credits, cost £16billion a year and are tailored towards helping single parents.

Further billions have been pumped into subsidised childcare to try to help single parents looking for work.

Only one in five of the homes listed as workless is thought to include anyone who is actively looking for a job.

The greatest concentration of homes where nobody of working age has a job was in London.

Nearly a quarter of homes in the capital, 23.9 per cent, had nobody who admitted to having employment or an earned income. "

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23410254-details/Jobless+Britain%3A+One+in+five+homes+relies+entirely+on+benefits/article.do

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[Bluey]

okay, the article is from the Sun, which, lets face it, has reservations about the EU and immigration but stats have already identified that one in twenty of social housing stock is given to migrants.

"THE biggest Polish newspaper in Britain has run a special edition bragging how easy it is to claim benefits. And it describes the simple ways immigrants can grab a cheap home with free furniture and child benefits.

The front-page article, headlined Benefit Hunters, reads: “The longer we are in Great Britain, the more rights to social security we are given and the better we are at taking advantage of them.”

[A] photo shows a man entering a Jobcentre with the caption: “Poles are visiting the Jobcentre more and more often — not to find a job, but in order to get benefit.” It says: “You can apply for benefits as soon you take up a job in Great Britain. The formalities concerning an application for social security are extremely simple. Do not delay in submitting an application.”

The paper features a case study of “Pete”, a Pole who came to Britain two years ago and settled in a Welsh seaside town. Unlike the 1.6million Brits waiting for homes on council housing lists, he was given a two-bedroom house with a garden straightaway.

Pete is quoted as saying: “The house in which I rented a room was falling apart.” When he went to a housing association he was told to register with the Home Office as a person working in the UK to get a National Insurance number.

He says: “Never in my life did I expect the whole process to last such a short time.They just gave me the keys and told me to move in. They did not even want any deposit.”

He adds: “They asked me if I had furniture. I didn’t, so they sent a lorry with a brand new bed, table, chairs and a cooker. They even brought it all in!”

The paper explains he pays £60 rent a week for a two-bedroom house with a garden. The paper adds that Peter then helped his sister and a work colleague to get homes in Britain in a similar way.

It is estimated around 112,000 migrants who came to the UK to work are currently claiming state benefits — up from 46,620 last year.

Applications for National Insurance numbers — which migrants need to get a job, benefits or tax credits — reached a new high of 713,000 last year. Of those, 220,000 were Polish.

Of 562,000 immigrants listed as coming to Britain in 2005-2006, 16,000 were claiming out-of-work benefits within six months of registering for an NI number.

There are officially 750,000 Poles now living in the UK, but the true figure is said to be more than a million. There were 5,000 babies born to Polish parents in the UK in 2006.

Shadow home secretary Mr Davis said: “Statistics like these show why the Government’s claims that numbers coming here would be low — and restrictions would be placed on benefits — were just more spin. The public will want to know what action Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is taking.”

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migration Watch, attacked the newspaper article last night.

He said: “It’s appalling that Polish immigrants should be encouraged to live off our taxes even if they have to work for a year before the whole system is wide open to them. The Government claimed to close off the welfare system to ‘benefit shoppers’. But it looks as though some people are finding their way through these checks at our expense.

But Polish Express editor Adam Skorupinski was unrepentant.

He said: “It was not our intention to encourage Polish people to seek benefits. We definitely think there’s a problem with benefit hunters from Poland and Eastern Europe — but it’s not such a big problem that it’s hurting the British public.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007421050,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=TheSun:News

[Snow_White]

[Uncle Osama]

if brits want to do low paid 'low' jobs such as road sweepers refuse collectors toilet cleaners then they can but most choose not to so what if foreigners come in and perform left over jobs uncle osama has spoken

[Bluey]

Tories hit at EU migrants who get benefits for children abroad

The following article indicates that 14,000 recent EU migrants from eight new member states are claiming child benefit for children who do not live in Britain. This costs the UK £250,000 per week (£13 million per year).

68,000 migrants from eastern European states which joined the EU in 2005 have successfully claimed British child benefit.

Philip Hammond, the shadow work and pensions secretary, asked: "Two hundred thousand more British children are living in poverty than a year ago. Child benefit is a vital weapon in the fight against child poverty. So why is Gordon Brown sending thousands of pounds of benefits every week to children who don't live here and who may never even have visited the UK?"

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/story/0%2C%2C2170843%2C00.html

[Bluey]

Sainsbury's says immigrants have 'better ethic' than Britons

Supermarket giant Sainsbury's is hailing the “superior” work ethic of its immigrant workers. The company, which has a workforce of 150,000, praised newcomers to Britain for their flexibility and for their uncomplaining attitude to work. It hopes their approach will spread to domestic workers and is planning to increase its use of immigrant labour.

“We have found migrant workers to have a very satisfactory work ethic, in many cases superior to domestic workers,” J Sainsbury said in evidence to a parliamentary inquiry on the economic impact of immigration.

“We believe that this results from their differing motivations, they want to learn English, or send money home to their families.They tend to be more willing to work flexibly, and be satisfied with their duties, terms and conditions and productivity requirements. In the long term, this could have a positive effect on their domestic colleagues.”

Sainsbury's said its use of immigrant labour in retail and distribution had “grown significantly” in the past two years. Its comments are likely to reignite the debate about the work ethic of British employees.

“We anticipate that the use of migrant workers will increase within Sainsbury's, as the UK population declines, and it will also help us, in part, to address the problem of an ageing population,” it told the Lords economic affairs select committee.

“We have been able to utilise immigrant labour to improve our business performance by filling pressing gaps in both skilled and unskilled areas.”

The food giant stressed that it had seen a “positive shift in culture where migrant workers have been introduced, which has led to a more diverse workforce fostering a more engaged group of workers” in some areas.

Sainsbury's also said that more could be done to help migrant workers get advice on housing, banking, language and understanding the UK culture.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=486419&in_page_id=1770

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