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"They come over here, taking our jobs"
BastardBeaver
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Do any other countries have this same sort of "They come over here, taking our jobs" mentality as the British?
Would you hear that phrase said anywhere else in the world? Or is it a typically British phrase?
Would you hear that phrase said anywhere else in the world? Or is it a typically British phrase?
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The main difference is that in countries such as, say, Tunisia, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, Idonesia, the USA etc they actually send somebody from the government around to force non-resident workers to PROVE they're doing a job that no native person could do.
I was just trying to Google it but couldn't really find an answer, so asked here.
I do laugh, though when people complaining about immigrants taking jobs then add "...and our women". Sounds like something from medieval times ... pillaging and raping.
So whats the solution? Apart from forcing the unemployed British person to take on a job that they may not want to do?
You here it more here because the UK government has had such a laughable immigration policy over the past 12 years.
Well that knocked the wind out the OPs sails.
Hahaha
Ok, I thought it was another thread castigating the British working class. If it wasn't the intention, I take it back.
You really don't hear it more here. I spent a year living in Italy and it was a huge thing over there. i think possibly because you say saw a lot more immigrants out on the street flogging dodgy dvds/handbags/shoes or sending their kids to beg outside supermarkets.
I myself was told to piss off back home whilst I was in Greece, and I was not even working there (no being paid I mean)
my step father is from the west indies . so he knows... . when the jobs were fulfilled , the British white man started to complain, the the blacks had taken all our jobs,... which was bullshit.
the English men were to proud to do these dirty jobs.... and to this day the saying has stuck like mud.
THAT'S why you see people trying to get here in the backs of trucks and under trains, not because every swan eating Polish asylum seeker on crack is offered a gold plated 12 bedroom council house built on the site of an honest UK pensioner's bungalow, or our 'generous' benefits system.
I wish the desponds and nomarks who constantly bleat on about the UK being a soft touch would turn their ire on companies - sometimes quite respectable ones - employing illegals, usually via a dodgy agency. If we cracked down on illegal employment, there wouldn't be the magnet you sometimes see.
Exactly. My mother-in-law suffered in this way.
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The same immigration policy that allows beetroot faced British expats to post stuff on the Daily Heil website
"Moved here to avoid immigrant invasion" A.Hip.O'Crit, Marbella, Spain.
Well, inasmuch as one can influence private companies to do this. The problems in the past have been that there really was a shortage of labour. It still didn't stop British people whinging about immigrant invasions at the time, even though there was a crying need for it.
You have to, in part, blame private companies for being unwilling to invest in the UK's future and train British staff to work here? They figure "why should they, when they can get a cheaper, more flexible, fully trained alternative elsewhere?".
It's not, and it never has been this or the previous governments intention to 'bring people in from abroad' - it just happened.
Indeed, apparently it's alright for the no-neck face tattoo'd mouthbreathers to seduce Polish girls, but woe betide any Polish man trying to seduce a British girl.
I love the way you are the first to pounce on anyone who has 'stereotypical' views of immigrants or the EU and yet you are the first to run down the UK and its people. I have yet a see a post where you do not generalise or criticise the UK and the British, either at home or abroad.
If you really dislike it here so much, perhaps think about those open borders across the Channel....
ok this might be pretty dumb but what do you mean by non resident workers? what should anyone have to prove about a job if they were legally allowed in to work in that country? is it just all on the type of visa or whatever?