@Bacon88 *Can you not see the issue in what you just said.?? The working class of the uk have had to compete with the likes of you from around the world that come here and work for cheap then go back home with all the money you make. Yet our own kids have no hope as the money here is buys you less then your own country??
You have taken a job from someone who was born here and lives in a poor part of the UK. Do not give me that "British people do not want to work shit". That's a lie the govement uses to hide the facts.
You have taken jobs over the years in areas there are not many because you work for less. It's the reasons my husbands job is so lower paid because of all the cheap eastern European labour. You do know companies are allowed to pay 30% less to a foreign worker they being over if they cannot fill the job in the uk??. So they deliberately do not take a UK worker*
Okay, that was a really bizarre post. I did not come and take someone’s job. The reason I was able to go and work in the UK was because there were genuine gaps that needed to be filled and you need a certain skill set to do it. There were not enough people in UK with that skill set at the time so the alternative would have been absolutely no one in those jobs. That’s the truth. This would have been a disadvantage to the people in the UK, so we were able to plug the gaps. As to being paid less - nope. I was paid EXACTLY the same as any local counterpart during the years I spent there. I didn’t take ‘all that money’ home to my ‘poor country’ either. I’m also not Eastern European as you seem to think 🤯, I don’t come from a poor country at all, same living standard and costs as the UK including housing. In fact many from the UK are starting to come here now, and we accept people with recognised degrees and skills for our labour shortages.
In fact, your brother, as a teacher who has gained a degree majoring in maths would be able to make enquiries tomorrow and see that they would be sponsored to come here asap and work for good money. They would be able to go on to get permanent residency easily if they wanted (usually hard but not in jobs with critical shortages such as senior maths teachers), or they could work for a few years and return. Problem solved for your brother. Similarly, I understand we are short on accountants also. Always confuses me though as I understand there are two different types, with one being more like bookkeeping and low level tax stuff and the other more financial services and corporate stuff, but am not across it (I do have one child that is involved in this area and explained it but I zoned out). Anyway I think we may be short on both types, so opportunities for you as well and DH could get working rights based on your skills. However, granted, these opportunities are not in your home town.
My kids are in 20’s, some finished uni and working, some still in uni, one with disability who will never be able to work full-time and is restricted in what they can do. I understand the plight of young people today. However, I’d be so disappointed in any one of them if they sat there, refused any opportunity because there was some effort/distance involved and then moaned about life. I’d really wonder where we went wrong.