More than three-quarters of Britons believe jobless immigrants should be asked to leave the UK, according to a new poll.
The finding will raise fears that the far-Right BNP could prosper in the recession as unemployment rises.
In addition, more than half of the adults in Britain who took part in the FT/Harris survey opposed the right for citizens from other European Union countries to work here.
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Showing posts with label British jobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British jobs. Show all posts
Monday, March 16, 2009
Friday, March 06, 2009
A Million Jobs Taken By Non EU Workers
A million workers from outside the EU have taken jobs in Britain since Labour came to power, according to official analysis.
Although they have no automatic right to work in this country, they have filled almost half of all the jobs created since 1997.
The scale of employment among non-EU migrants was revealed to MPs by the Office for National Statistics.
Gordon Brown, who earlier this year pledged 'British jobs for British workers', has faced difficulties in recent months with growing resentment over jobs going to competitors from EU countries.
But the latest breakdown shows that since 1997 workers from outside Europe have taken jobs at nearly double the rate of EU workers – including Poles and other Eastern Europeans given the right to work in Britain in 2004.
The figures were published by Karen Dunnell, the National Statistician and ONS chief whose determination to make the latest information on immigration and employment available has brought a wave of criticism from ministers.
They show that between December 1997 and last year the number of jobs held by workers born outside the country went up by 1,759,000, of which 1,084,000 were filled by people born outside Europe.
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Although they have no automatic right to work in this country, they have filled almost half of all the jobs created since 1997.
The scale of employment among non-EU migrants was revealed to MPs by the Office for National Statistics.
Gordon Brown, who earlier this year pledged 'British jobs for British workers', has faced difficulties in recent months with growing resentment over jobs going to competitors from EU countries.
But the latest breakdown shows that since 1997 workers from outside Europe have taken jobs at nearly double the rate of EU workers – including Poles and other Eastern Europeans given the right to work in Britain in 2004.
The figures were published by Karen Dunnell, the National Statistician and ONS chief whose determination to make the latest information on immigration and employment available has brought a wave of criticism from ministers.
They show that between December 1997 and last year the number of jobs held by workers born outside the country went up by 1,759,000, of which 1,084,000 were filled by people born outside Europe.
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
British jobs for British workers
How interesting that this harmless-seeming slogan is now seen as in some way ‘extremist’ or ‘far-right’. What is wrong with it? What, above all, is ‘extreme’ about it? If we are a country at all, then surely we must put our people first? If we don’t, then what exactly is a country? In fact, if we don’t, can we consider ourselves even to be a country?
The whole idea of a nation is implicitly based on the truth that we care more about some people than we care about others. It is only possible to be effectively unselfish within a group of people that has some sort of family feeling. Such a feeling comes from a shared language, a shared history, a shared sense of humour, and is often also rooted in a shared faith and (in exalted moments) a love or reverence for landscape, music, tradition and other such things, often underestimated in their power to move and bind. A shared law helps.
That is not to say that we do not care about people in other countries. A strong and wealthy civilisation can and should do what it can (NB, what it can, practically and effectively, not what makes it feel good about itself) to help the oppressed or the impoverished of other lands. It should also be prepared to take in refugees, though by definition refugees are fleeing from something, not towards something, and cannot simultaneously be refugees and choosy about where they find asylum
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In fact, any country that is no a self-confident family, bound together by such ties, will not long be able to do any good either to its own people or to any other people. Britain is a telling example of this. As our national feeling for each other declines we become less able to look after ourselves. Step by step, this leads to national economic, social, cultural and military decline, and we cease to be able to look after others as well.
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The whole idea of a nation is implicitly based on the truth that we care more about some people than we care about others. It is only possible to be effectively unselfish within a group of people that has some sort of family feeling. Such a feeling comes from a shared language, a shared history, a shared sense of humour, and is often also rooted in a shared faith and (in exalted moments) a love or reverence for landscape, music, tradition and other such things, often underestimated in their power to move and bind. A shared law helps.
That is not to say that we do not care about people in other countries. A strong and wealthy civilisation can and should do what it can (NB, what it can, practically and effectively, not what makes it feel good about itself) to help the oppressed or the impoverished of other lands. It should also be prepared to take in refugees, though by definition refugees are fleeing from something, not towards something, and cannot simultaneously be refugees and choosy about where they find asylum
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In fact, any country that is no a self-confident family, bound together by such ties, will not long be able to do any good either to its own people or to any other people. Britain is a telling example of this. As our national feeling for each other declines we become less able to look after ourselves. Step by step, this leads to national economic, social, cultural and military decline, and we cease to be able to look after others as well.
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Foreign Workers Win Olympic Jobs: 1 in 3 Employed at Key 2012 Site is From Abroad
Nearly a third of workers at the Olympic site in London are foreigners, official figures reveal.They show that just 63 per cent of the 3,315 workers on the Olympic Park are British and eight per cent are Irish. The remaining 29 per cent are foreign workers, half of whom hail from non-EU countries.
The Olympic Delivery Authority has pledged to employ local people, creating a skills legacy for East London in line with Gordon Brown's promise of 'British jobs for British workers'.
But yesterday contractors on the £9.3billion project said that the sudden downturn meant they were having to move existing workers to the 2012 site to prevent redundancies, and so had been unable to hire local workers.
But the Mail has learnt that Olympic jobs offering salaries of up to £65,000 are currently being advertised abroad to foreign workers.
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Sunday, February 01, 2009
Tosser Mandelson Tells Strikers " Go Work In Europe If You're Unhappy
Lord Mandelson enraged unions and Labour MPs last night by accusing wildcat strikers of "protectionism" and claiming they could turn the recession into a full-blown depression.The Business Secretary inflamed the dispute over foreign workers by suggesting that protesters could go and work elsewhere in Europe if they were unhappy.
As the mediator Acas was called in to try to prevent more unofficial strikes planned for tomorrow, the peer issued a statement that failed to damp down growing industrial unrest.
His support for free movement of workers in the European Union was also at odds with Gordon Brown's 2007 promise to safeguard "British jobs for British workers", a phrase which has been turned against the Prime Minister by protesters.
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