JuanaH - "Silent Roar, your comment is quite frankly horrific and you should be ashamed of yourself. If you're having difficulty finding a job, perhaps it's your attitude. I've heard there are a few jobs on Pluto - I'll buy you a 1 way ticket."
A silly reply in the present economic circumstances of this country, JuanaH. What do you want me to do, roll out a welcome mat for all and sundry?
The headline rate of unemployment in this country is about two million people and is estimated to grow to three million locals by the end of 2009. The actual rate, unmeasured, is probably nearer the six or seven million mark.
My comment, "Try Germany. Then the Brits can get the British jobs, luvvie." isn't horrific in the context, and there's no reason for me to be in the least bit ashamed of it. It's a perfectly reasonable response to a foreigner who rather tactlessly starts a thread looking for UK employment in the middle of a recession bordering on a depression on a running site which isn't a jobfinder site, and which is likely to get people's hackles up.
We don't need more and more people from other countries piling into this country just now, taking the jobs that the locals could be doing, and thereby bumping up our own unemployment rate. Unfortunately because English is taught in schools around the world, this country is too readily a target for migrants. They already speak English, so they aren't going to go to Spain or France or Russia, to look for work, are they?, they're going to come here. The Government did little to stop the influx of hundreds of thousands of Poles, Rumanians, Bulgarians, etc, and the foreigners continue to come, and they consider it's perfectly fine to carry on doing so irrespective of whatever the effect of that is on the countries they are migrating into or the fact they are depriving locals of employment. The locals aren't protected.
Maybe it isn't obvious to you, but we don't need the likes of Florian Neuschwander coming here just now, and I'm happy to say so when provoked. Her friend comes here, she comes here, next week it will be another friend, sleeping on their floor, and so on and so on, because, you know, it's zo ver hart to find work in Munich and London is such lofley place. Typically the sort of people who come here are twentysomethings rather than older - attractive to employers on account of their youth - so the older, unemployed people in this country are pushed to one side. They don't have a chance at getting a job, faced with the young, pretty, English speaking immigrant competition that typically arrives, planeload after planeload and takes the jobs.
How many immigrants are going to come here? There is no limit, and there is no protection of jobs for the people who live here. Anyone can pile in here from the 26 countries of the EU, no questions asked, as of right, whether we need them or not. Anyone else, from some other country outside the EU, can pretend to be an asylum seeker, root themselves, and stay. And the British government does next to nothing to protect the locals from that process.
