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I don't care about immigration because if you work hard enough, a job is yours. It's an easy way out for lazy thick people who don't have a skill set.


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Thing is, the people who have been banging the drum about how great mass immigration is tend to be millionaires who live in Primrose Hill. They dont have to worry about job competition or wage deflation from low skilled immigrants, they dont have to worry about the effects on their children's' schools because they go to private schools. In fact the only contact they have with immigrants are the nannies and gardeners they employ, at very reasonable rates and the 2% of immigrants who come as doctors, bankers etc and they get along famously with. They then spend their time eating in lovely exotic restaurants and feel a surge of smug pride at how 'tolerant' they are. These are the people who basically run the country and the major newspapers. They're not bad people, but they cant see how self interested and distant they are.

Meanwhile the builder who's found that his wages have been cut to shreds, that his kids' education is suffering, and that his local area has been culturally transformed overnight into something he's not familiar with is branded a Nazi for asking perfectly reasonable questions on why this is going on.

This whole UKIP thing has arisen simply because group A basically spent decades telling group B that they were wrong and basically to shut the **** up. That's the dichotomy at the heart of all of this really. Absolutely nothing wrong with immigration, but not like it has been over the last 20 years.

I don't care about immigration because if you work hard enough, a job is yours. It's an easy way out for lazy thick people who don't have a skill set.

completely unrelated but

LSE?

you started looking for a job yet brah?

and also how you gunna explain the gap on your CV?

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I don't need to add anything, because I agree entirely. When you are not pretending to be Del Boy down the Nag's 'ed you are a smart cookie Zurich. A man I could work with in government.
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what's there to say? took a bit of time out after graduating uni 2 years early. Ive got a great CV tbph and I think it's clear that I just havent been looking in the last year. Not like Ive been working at Tescos in the meantime.

Ive had a look at a few things and am in the process of sorting things out formally. Takes me a little bit of time to get going with these kinds of things. Should sit down one of these weeks and just start cracking things out

You can be both. Dont see why having a brain necessarily means you have to pretend to be into opera and white wine spritzers!

pretending to know their Richard Wagner from their Giuseppe Verdi's, but it's all just bollucks.

I agree that it's unfair with people from outside of the UK to get jobs here ahead of people like you. My post was more directed at the lazy 37 year old man with 8 kids from 6 women happy to claim JSA and then blame it on the immigrants who stole his job, because fact of the matter is immigrants or not, he's not going to add anything to our country.

you going into IB?

The LSE tag must really be able to open doors for you, no?

Thanks man. Yes. I think the problem with welfare in the UK is that it becomes a lifestyle choice, and for many young people, they've just never known any different. They see their young parents on welfare and it just seems to be a way of life. It's like a drip, they are so reliant on it. And I think as painful as it is for some, that is the link we have to break.

Of course, Mr Blair and his friends didn't help. The minimum wage was a great policy but, government welfare became too generous and it didn't pay to work. The lady in the audience on Question Time the other week said that her Job Centre had done the maths for her and it was actually more beneficial for her to avoid work and to keep on claiming. And that's the reality. So I'd look to increase the minimum wage and reduce benefits, which the current UK Government are doing.

can you teach me about opera

I'm not the right guy for this. Look, if I met a posh girl in the choir of King's College, Cambridge, I could probably sustain about 2-5 minutes talking about it pretending I knew my ****, but after that I'd be out of ideas and moving the conversation swiftly along. Perhaps Zurich is more of an expert than I?

Of course. I mean people like Mickey Pearce and Trigger could never be both, but I'm sold on the fact that you can and indeed are.

Btw, have you been to an opera? Many of the people there aren't smart at all. A lot of them it is just about yuppie culture. They are there for the image. They'll sit in the front row with their Hugo Boss suits and fancy frocks and handbags pretending to know their Richard Wagner from their Giuseppe Verdi's, but it's all just bollucks.

Know people who got 2 year contracts and then got ****canned afterwards, their immediate career prospects arent exactly brilliant now because no matter how good you are, few places want a reject who obviously is looking for the next best option.

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I know people that have done 2-4 years in IB and then walked into big 4 and consultancy. Depends what you want in life but I don't think that's a bad strategy.

what. did not know that. I thought once you got on a IB grad scheme, bar a phenomenal **** up, you were pretty much set. put in 10 years of hard work and 7 figures easy. put in 10 years of just turning up and still 6 figures.

No dont get me wrong that's true but what I mean is that alot of people think if you walk in the door of an IB that it's inevitable that down the line you'll be an MD making £5m a year. Most will end up making a good living somewhere else. Big4 is definitely a more stable and long term career though.

It's like being in the youth team at a PL football club. For every Fabregas or Wilshere, there are 20 others who end up at Bristol City.