Work Sec: 'Give Brits Jobs, Not Migrants'

I got laid off almost 2 yrs ago, after 20 yrs of working - still haven't found a job, and am the point where I will have to sign on (been living on my redundancy pay and savings so far).

I'm certainly not a racist, but immigration NEEDS to be restricted, a governments first PRIORITY
is to its voters - its time this government sorted its self out and allowed British Workers a chance to gain employment.

I've worked all my life, even worked when at college...is it too much to ask for another job???

I always understood that asylum seekers have to apply in the first neutral country they escape to. Therefore that can't be the U.K. The majority arrive on mainland Europe, then get to Calais by fair means or foul. When discovered the French authorities merely turn them loose to try again as the U.K. is their goal. My arguement with this is - WE should not be classed as the first country they reached, they have geographicaly crossed several countries to get to Calais

To little to late, what a sorry statethis country is in and they have only just opened their eyes to it, sad

Governments of this once Great Britain are brilliant at doing two things, 1= NOT listening to the electorate, 2= Closing the stable door after the horses have bolted!!!

Don't get excited, nothing's going to happen....it's just a politicians mouth moving again because it sounds popular. Remember Brown? ''British jobs for British workers''
Useless the lot of them from jobs to immigration , not to mention housing.

I was refused a job at a recycling plant at Ford Nr Littlehampton because i dont speak Polish....They said that they were happy with everything else but i needed to speak Polish as most of the workforce were Polish. Surely they shouls speak English not the other way round. It would not happen in any other country. IT IS WRONG.

Asylum amnesty allows 160,000 to stay, where are the jobs. My daughter who is 30 and a single parent of a 10 year old, left school at 17 went straight to collage for 3 years for her HND and what little work she can get pays national minimal wage. As far as being better off she was ��4 down , but then that will now be about ��10 down, she dos,nt smoke, drink or take drugs.

For the past 9 months she has asked for training in the care sector and has to sign on every week so that they may find her a job WHERE, there are thousands unemployed here and there are 30 local jobs. This town is so bad that you have to delete all your qualifications from your CV as they tell you that you are over qualified. The only time you will be sure of a job here is not by you willingness to work or qualification but by who you know..jobs for the boys. Jobs which are available a young person would need at least 30 years experience.

Yes, yes, all very honourable it is of him too. But, why do I get the impression that this is some sort of backpedalling exercise? Immigration last year was at it's highest level ever - reported just yesterday I think - birth level s were also at their highest levels ever ; largley due to migrants - also just reported yesterday I think.

Then today we have this - funny huh?

I agree with this. When a job becomes available, offer it to a British worker on benefits that is fit and healthy and able to work.

And when they refuse to do it, you knock them off benefits and move onto the next name in the list.

The problem is not one of the jobs going elsewhere because the government is evil and stupid. The problem is that many of those jobs fall into one of two categories. On the upper end we have the doctors, the scientists, the professors and the other skilled jobs. Our kids just don't have the patience to bother with work like that these days. You ask a class of British kids what they want to be, and if you get less than half of them to answer 'footballer', 'celebrity' or just 'on telly' then you've found the last group of well-raised kids in the country. Hard working jobs where you have to be smart and keep at it are in decline, despite chucking everyone through uni. We need to give back the prestige and pride that come with wanting to make something of yourself by going through the tough criteria and becoming something other than a 'celeb'.

Then at the other end of the spectrum we have all the jobs that we think are 'beneath' us as white people. Fruit picking, street sweeping, bin collections, building, plumbing. When being on the dole, especially if you drop a bundle of sprogs, is easier and better paying than doing menial labour then nobody is going to do menial labour! I remember seeing a headline the other day saying that one in five menial jobs is being done by a migrant. And I can believe that. Our kids are coming through school too stupid, lazy and arrogant to work a till in Tesco. So the job goes to someone that is prepared to come half way round the planet to live in our slums and wipe our excrement off our floors for peanuts.

And why shouldn't they get the job at that point?

We should have British jobs for British workers. But that means some people will have to suck it up and do dirty work. That means if you want to keep your council house, you have to empty bins. The attitude of many people is that they want British jobs for British workers, so long as that worker is not me. I get to stay on the dole, right? I just want those dirty jobs done by a white guy. In a vague, hand-wavey sort of way that lets me keep sitting on my rear eating ready meals.

I suppose this does put one BNP fallacy to rest. If half the jobs that popped up last year went to migrants, it is very very clear that they are coming here to work, not immediately sign on. For some reason I get the feeling they will still claim they are taking all the benefits as well.

I have an eighteen year old nephew. He's an idle little git. He hasn't had a job since he left school because 1. he has been told by his drop out freinds what benefits he can claim and 2. thinks he should walk straight into a job paying big money. He live's in cloud cuckoo land. You can knock foreign labour all you want but at least they are prepared to do the jobs some of our useless younger generation can't be bothered with. Stop the benefits, bring back young apprenticeships and get some skill and pride back into this country.

If the Brits get the jobs at least their wages will be spent in Britain and not sent to other climes plus the other benefits for the up keep of members of a family like imigrants do. How is it we can put this on the media but we do nothing to stop it.I dread to think how many pounds go out the country each day.

I'm a legal economical migrant in britain and I have now established a private business here in the UK. I employ mainly (90%) british people in my business just because this country has given me a good life and a chance to thank them back in some form. This is what I urge all other businesses to consider. It may be slightly expensive in comparison with employing non british, but it does good to the community where we are living in and improve relations between cultures with out a doubt. Government needs to listen to british citizens with out fearing about diplomatic relations with other countries. This is national problem and needs national policy changes with out having to worry about international relationships before the situation gets any worse.

Why don't they lower the vat tax on fuel get more people spending ? hundreds of firms are closing adding thousands more people "on the dole" (Focus DIY the latest victim ),

When I see that Brits are slating their own relatives because the young 'can't get the work they need, I am horrified. If you go into the garages where foreign people work, the Bangladashi's etc., will tell you that they can spend their wages on buying 6 bedroom houses in their own country, that is why they are working in our country. The young have no incentive to work in the garages or in places where the immigrants work, because even if they do, they will NOT be able to afford a 1 bedroom flat in their own country. So Brits who are putting down their own people, WISE UP A BIT, so many of you do not support your own families and thats why foreign businesses are doing so much better than British as well. Because their families 'support' their own, whilst Brits often turn against their own families and do not even try to understand why the young have given up. The government need to immediately act to support it's own born and bred. How can we pay pack our Uni student loans when we can only get cleaning jobs? Jobs that will not buy us houses. We are slammed any where we turn in this country because we are BRITISH!!!!

IDS - "Listen David, I need to say something that will make the peasants think that we have got a handle on the situation and it's not all cuts cuts cuts and doom and gloom"

DC _ "OK Ian, we've got some pretty horrendous employment figures about to be released so why dont you make a statement which looks like we are defending British workers, if that doesn't work, I'll get that Clegg chappie to say something utterly stupid again"

There is another point, most of the youngsters don't really want to work now. They are the 'gimme now' generation and can't stay the course to make gains. Where I live a lot of the girls get themselves pregnant so they get a council flat or house and as you walk past the pubs the same faces are there during the daytime puting a full shift in drinking. The welfare state needs to make it more advantageous to work and also get the lazy gits who haven't for more than 20 yrs, the system only seems to chase the newly unemployed and not chase the long timers. There is one guy in my town about 50 who has never worked said in the pub 'I wouldn't get out of bed for that money', he doesn't get out of bed.

A nice sentiment but until we leave the EU this is nothing but empty words with nothing to back them up. The EU will bleed this country dry and until we get out our only future is ending up as broke as Greece.

These are empty, weasel words not deeds and we've heard it all before. Take us out of the EU and it's vindictive directives and the so-called 'tied hands' of an ELECTED government will be released to do the job it was elected to do - run THIS COUNTRY successfully for the indigenous people of THIS COUNTRY, by the indigenous people of THIS COUNTRY, not foreigners.
As the saying goes - "It's not rocket science"

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I always wonder why the immigrants that are hard working and more intelligent than Brits flee to this country to get away from the poverty of their own country - and so why if those immigrants are so much more intelligent is their country in such a bad way? surely with all those brilliant minds and skills they could build up their own country in no time and be successful.

Firstly there are many immigrants who are nice people and genuine, and i don't think those types of immigrants are the ones most people complain about.

Most immigrants that are in the area i live in work and claim benefits - isn't that what is a true scrounger? someone who works for cash in hand and claims benefits as well???

There are many immigrants who have fake ID's, work for cash in hand and the employers are fine with it because they get to save money.

I say the government really needs to tighten up on ID, give people unique ID's that cannot be stolen, we all have unique fingerprints and DNA.

I can say that most likely the immigrants who work the hardest and the cheapest have most likely got stolen ID, or are doing something dodgy on the side. There have been many cases that i've seen where an african man comes to the UK with nothing, and then two years later he has enough money to buy a house and rent it out and also have enough cash to have his own flat - even if someone worked on minimum wage for 12 hour shifts every day of the week, they would still not have enough money to buy a ��150-200,000 house straight up.