FOUR out of FIVE new jobs went to foreigners in the past decade, new report reveals

I knew after reading OP’s post that this thread was going to be mostly others shouting bot. The predictably is getting boring now and it’s a lazy attempt at an answer for when people have no response and want to shut down any opinion that’s different to their own.

How reliable is this as a data source?

I knew after reading OP’s post that this thread was going to be mostly others shouting bot. The predictably is getting boring now and it’s a lazy attempt at an answer for when people have no response and want to shut down any opinion that’s different to their own.

Four in five jobs created over the past decade have been taken by migrants.

Of the 3.7million new roles recorded under the PAYE system since 2014, just 734,000 were taken by UK nationals, a think-tank has found.

EU citizens accounted for 408,000 jobs, while the vast majority – 2.5million – went to migrants from the rest of the world, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) said, with most of the surge coming since the pandemic.

The think-tank warned that while employers gained 'unprecedented access to overseas labour', taxpayers have been forced to absorb the cost of millions of Britons being 'written off' and left on benefits.

As the number of migrant workers soared by 2.1million from 2020, the number of people receiving out-of-work benefits across the UK rose by 2.3million.

More than one in four (29 per cent) of the jobs that went to migrant workers from outside Europe were in health and social work.

So much for British jobs for British people!

Do we think this is due to Brits being 'too lazy to work' or because of a combination of employers wanting to pay lower wages and offer worse working conditions to migrants/preferring to employ migrants/not wanting to invest in training Brits/diversity hire tick boxes etc.

https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/CSJ-State_of_Dependency.pdf

IPSO ruled repeatedly that this is not what the data says.

The Times has already updated their headline to "Nearly three million foreigners added to UK workforce since 2014" and published a correction

Exactly!

The report is ADDITIONAL vacancies, and includes a large swathe of jobs in sectors which were (are…) desperately short of workers. It’s not 80% of jobs are given to migrants.

I knew after reading OP’s post that this thread was going to be mostly others shouting bot. The predictably is getting boring now and it’s a lazy attempt at an answer for when people have no response and want to shut down any opinion that’s different to their own.

There is a mistaken belief that only posh young people with degrees on gap years benefitted from the freedom to work in the EU we had before Brexit. This was categorically not true. I know anecdotes aren't data but I knew people in Germany and the Netherlands in "trades" that came to work from the UK. It's. It just about money, it's also nice as a young person to have the freedom to try out new places etc and since carpenters etc are in demand in most places they had that.

That was an opportunity that young British people had in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s which todays generation of young people don't have. However there is a refusal to believe this is the case. People will insist to you that it's only British people with degrees who wants to work abroad for some reason.

They both work AND claim benefits, thus taking British jobs and draining the economy. The sly muggles!

Social media is a huge influencer of public opinion.

Where do you think the term influencer comes from?
Why do companies spend billions on social media advertising?

This. It's all very well for degree educated Mumsnetters to virtue signal about how anti racist they are about immigrants but they aren't the ones who are faced with applying for hundreds of jobs at minimum wage that they can't get and are languishing on benefits. Employers want staff that they don't have to bother to train, so drain other countries of their trained staff. The health and care visa was designed to cover a shortfall of 30-50k people. 600, 000 visas were issued due to the botched post Brexit visa system set up by the Johnson government. The rest of these people aren't working in care. They are working in shops, some illegally, deliveroo drivers etc, so they are taking minimum wage jobs in areas like hospitality and retail that young people could be doing to at least get on the ladder of working, or be trained into.

I've no particular opinion on the subject, but those two things can both be true: for one working adult, there may be several dependants, including elderly parents as well as children.

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/gazan-family-refugee-status-asylum-rejection-gwsq2c8b

My son in law worked in recruitment for several large warehouses (think Amazon, big online shops etc) until recently. He said that the vast vast majority of applicants were foreign nationals, and that many of the UK nationals that do apply leave pretty quickly as the work is boring, physically taxing and the hours are long. The money is very good as a result.

He thinks that many British young people see the job as beneath them and dont want to do the hard work that it takes to earn the wages.

My son in law worked in recruitment for several large warehouses (think Amazon, big online shops etc) until recently. He said that the vast vast majority of applicants were foreign nationals, and that many of the UK nationals that do apply leave pretty quickly as the work is boring, physically taxing and the hours are long. The money is very good as a result.

He thinks that many British young people see the job as beneath them and dont want to do the hard work that it takes to earn the wages.

This site is well known to be left wing. People on here literally parrot Labour sound bytes with no critical thinking whatsoever. No one is spending time and effort posting on here in the hope of influencing someone to vote in a particular way. If they actually believe they are, I truly despair.

….why though is an immigrant more attractive to employ than a UK citizen? There needs to be a reason to explain your theory?

I used to work for an employability charity. We used to source jobs for young people. Despite there being TONNES of jobs in hospitality none of them wanted to apply. They were also really snooty about which retail jobs they would apply for, and despite going through an employability programme so many still expected to walk into a £30K job with no qualifications, they did not get that your first job will not be your only job. The former HR director of Pret said that only 1 in 50 applicants for the jobs were British, and that British people do not see hospitality as a long term career option.

It is appalling that more British people are not in British jobs, I would be so interested in knowing what the applicant proportion of british born vs migrant applicants is.

MN? Left wing? Where?