Do we have unemployed young people with a great work ethic, well developed customer service skills and some flexibility clamouring for these jobs, or wouldn't the earnings be enough to entice some off benefits?
I honestly fail to understand this attitude.
I heard the very same thing this morning: "should we not be grateful to them, they are coming here to do the very jobs our own countrymen refuse to do", was how it was expressed.
So whose failure is it that we appear to have a large part of the populuation, that are either idle, attitude-wise unfit to hold down responsible employment, or innumerate or illiterate to be useful citizens. Is it our own fault or someone else's. Or for that matter who are we to think it OK for someone else to empty our rubbish bins whilst believing our own time better spent doing other things.
Whomever fault it is I'm neither inclined to sneer at those unfit for work, nor am I inclined to cheer and welcome those that some appear to welcome because it addresses, what I believe is a rather trivial requirement, shortage of labour for service level jobs.
Allowing immigrant labour to come here to take up these service jobs might well help Wetherspoons, Holiday Inn, East Anglian Farmers, but how the heck does it help our left-behind countrymen. Allowing immigrant labour to come here, it occurs to me, actually makes it much harder for any moderately ambitious left-behinder to get a start at anything.
Perhaps, I'm missing something.
