Immigrants aren't the problem

I've seen a lot of posts about how immigrants are taking our jobs and how the British end up unemployed. This is wrong on so many levels mostly because people refuse to look on both sides of the argument.

It's clear that these jobs are always on low pay jobs that don't require a qualification. I haven't seen an immigrant with a medical degree ever come from another country and become a doctor in a British hospital. I have friends who moved here and who's parents have qualifications, however find it very difficult to get a job in their field and end up taking low paid jobs.

The jobs that these immigrants are taking are low paid jobs, so the problem isn't the immigrants, it's the lack of education in this country.

Additionally, immigrants tend to make jobs. One of my friends immigrated here and set up a business which ended up employing hundreds of people. Immigrants can be job creators.

Firstly, nice facts.

Secondly, what I have highlighted in bold just shows us how uneducated you are on the issue.

Firstly, nice facts.

Secondly, what I have highlighted in bold just shows us how uneducated you are on the issue.

I've seen a lot of posts about how immigrants are taking our jobs and how the British end up unemployed. This is wrong on so many levels mostly because people refuse to look on both sides of the argument.

It's clear that these jobs are always on low pay jobs that don't require a qualification. I haven't seen an immigrant with a medical degree ever come from another country and become a doctor in a British hospital. I have friends who moved here and who's parents have qualifications, however find it very difficult to get a job in their field and end up taking low paid jobs.

The jobs that these immigrants are taking are low paid jobs, so the problem isn't the immigrants, it's the lack of education in this country.

Additionally, immigrants tend to make jobs. One of my friends immigrated here and set up a business which ended up employing hundreds of people. Immigrants can be job creators.

I did think it was funny too, he doesn't even understand that none skilled job wages are being kept low precisely because they are filled with imported labour. The poster also doesn't understand those jobs are precisely the sort of jobs our uneducated people used to do when they had no other option.


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The idea that huge corporations would suddbemt start paying their staff far more without immigration is laughable. They will always pay as little as they can and there will always be Brits poor enough that they are willing to take what they can get.

Otherwise surely in areas of low immigration like Norfolk wages would be really high but they're not...

When roles aren't filled through lack of interest remuneration goes up.




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I'll never understand how someone can "steal" a job.

How can someone steal something someone didn't have in the first place.

It's like me saying "hey, that guy took my latest video game, I never went to buy it but he took it anyway.".

So how come in Norfolk, which has virtually no immigration, are wages not significantly higher than average or even higher?

People will always need a job and many people will always be desparate, corporations will continue to pay them as little as possible and given we are cutting benefits, poor people will take such jobs. The idea that wages will rise is a total fallacy and you know that.

I did think it was funny too, he doesn't even understand that none skilled job wages are being kept low precisely because they are filled with imported labour.

The poster also doesn't understand those jobs are precisely the sort of jobs our uneducated people use to do when they had no other option.

II haven't seen an immigrant with a medical degree ever come from another country and become a doctor in a British hospital.

Is that the immigrants fault or the employers? Surely companies have an ethical responsibility to their employers? This can be for practical as well as ethical reasons: e.g happier,more productive, loyal staff etc.

Your analysis is also flawed as it doesn't factor in stuff like automation; the reason they’re using cheap labour is because it’s cheaper than getting automation- if they had to pay higher wages they would automate- Bill Gates has written extensively on this.

Good luck abolishing the welfare state.

Exactly. Where I grew up an Indian family set up a convenient shop on a previosuly unused plot of land. They were then accused of taking other people's jobs.

Well there's a man going seriously off topic


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