You see this is my main point about whipping up fear about immigration. You assume that the reason these people are on benefits is because of immigrants coming and taking the jobs they'd have otherwise done.
Tell me Niceguy why you have totally ignored the context in which I set this i.e. that thise people 'languishing on benefits' would have had the hope of being trained by future employeres but this is no longer happening as employers can import an already trained workforce.
I am really disappointed that you chose to take a small part of my post out of context and twist it.
It's not whipping up fear - you're the one that's doing that by trying to make UKIP an anti-immigration party, which it is not. It's a fact. that we have one of the highest ever levels of youth unemployment as many of the jobs they could have hoped to get require skills that employers are finding elsewhere. That's not rascist that is fact.
And as long as we remain in the EU there is absolutely nothing that any party can do to prevent that.
My son is one of theose languishing on benefits , after 5 years of HE in a highly trained profession, as every one of the tens of jobs he has applied for wants 'experience' and he can't get the experience even though he has applied to potential employers to work for free to gain that experience.
As someone with decades of experience in the defence industry collaboration in capability acquisition is a nightmare.
But there are many other factors such as the fact our benefits system actively traps people into staying on benefits.
Yes, the last Lqbour governemnet preferred to keep people on benefits while actively encouraging immigration - they admitted it.
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Too many of our 'home grown' citizen's don't value hard work anymore. How many times have we heard employers complain that they can't find workers to do the hard jobs like picking fruit, cleaning toilets or working in factories. Immigrants have filled those positions because our citizens think they're too good for those sorts of jobs^
That's rubbish. No one could work for the wages these gang masters pay - which in some cases are below the minium wage. But if you come from one of eastern European countries even those wages are many times what you could expect to get in your own country. Plus, your living expenses are minimal as you share housing with fellow workers and send your wages back to your familes in your home country - who can also calim Family Allowance as you're working in the UK so entitled to claim it. And that's good for the UK ecomony? I don't think so.
We gave up trying to make people work years ago.
How many of our citizens have left school with fuck all qualifications. Trying to compete for jobs increasingly complex and requiring much more skills than they have? Of course they don't think that it's THEIR responsibility that they aren't suitably qualified but that it's the government's fault for not getting them a job.
They are not competing - they have lost the battle. When you have a Polish bus driver with a degree in physics like the one I spoke to last week you can see that our youth cannot compete. It's not a level playing field. They can't get training even if they wanted to because many company's training budgets have dried up. Try getting GCSE or A levels in FE around here - impossible, because they've sacked all the GCSE and GCE tutors and replaced them with tutors teaching Beauty Therapy. When Blair banged on about 'Education, education. education' I didn't realise he wanted more trainined aromatherapists.
No, this country is fucked. Proper fucked. You people can sneer at Nigel wanting to get back to the 1950s but it's preferable to sleep-walking into an EU superstate as we are currently doing.
It seems to me that those people who support the EU are those who have very little confidence in this country and its people. I find that very sad.