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

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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

Did I just roll my eyes out loud?

Exactly. The young people who pay for a working holiday visa and flights are highly unlikely to be the same ones who are in receipt of benefits due to being unable to find suitable work.

THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So why can't the unemployed teens do it

Unemployed teens magic money out their arse and fly to Oz?

They will be very different groups of teens. The ones motivated enough to go to Australia and get work to fund their trip are not going same ones that are unemployed They probably work in the UK to fund the trip also and will have got more life experience to get a job when they get back. Some teens just have the get up and go and other don't

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Well yes, that was the point that me and @JenniferBooth were trying to make.

PP saying Brits go to Oz to fruit pick, so why can't Brits fruit pick here.. totally different groups and motivation.

If you want to buy a house and start a family, seasonal work is no good at all.

And some teens have the Bank of Mum and Dad, and some don't..

Oh FFS How thick are some people.? Unemployed teens living with parents and hopefully near the farm.

They won't be buying a house on seasonal work ( not that many teens but houses) 1 but they will have a couple of months work rather than languishing on under £100 a week universal credit while sat in their bedroom

Yes, because everyone lives near a farm 🙄

We were not even on about teens here... just general unemployed which could be people in their 60s. Do you think people in their 60s would be doing fruit picking?

Not everyone no. But I'm sure there are some that do.

I haven't worked in that business for years but yes back then, approx. ten years ago I know of one other nearby farm who did the same and my coworkers all talked as if it was completely normal. I know that the farm I worked for still has at least one bus. I don't know if they had or have more than one. I only used it myself a couple of times when we had teambuilding and also for a Christmas party.

The thing is that a lot of farms are quite large these days. The farm I worked for used to be three farms, and they kept expanding both land wise and product wise, so it isn't really surprising that they own a bus.

Noone is looking down on British education. There are just certain subjects that apparently don't interest that many British students and that is ok. People should study what interests them but it means that sometimes project leaders have to look abroad for someone with the skill set their research group needs.

Though, of course, this is much harder now because of Brexit and the large cost of moving a family to Britain.

Didn't know mumsnet had Russian bots!

I'm glad to hear Andy Burnham has acknowledged how disastrous it is for us as a country to have a million NEETS. He says it is an 'economic catastrophe and moral failure'. I think he gets it and the Milburn report is a good start.

Yes, it's always easier to import foreign workers and have British people on benefits. We have become addicted to cheap labour from abroad. But the government has to crack this nut. It will be difficult but our future as a country depends on it.

I live in a small town in a rural area, surrounded by farms. I have never heard of any of them doing this.

However, pre-Brexit there were at least 3 farms that recruited people from EU countries, mostly in eastern Europe, to pick fruit and accommodated them in (mostly shitty) caravans on the farm.

Exactly That is the more common scenario And SH tenants cannot do it They would lose their tenancy

What i meant by hypocrisy was the SH angle People on here are up in arms if someone dares to live away from their main social home for any reason oh but except for back breaking work like fruit picking THEN they are all for SH tenants breaking their tenancy agreement and not living there. See also when something breaks "why cant you fix it yourself" despite the tenancy agreement saying they arent allowed to. A lot of people here are very happy for tenancy agreements to be broken.............when its to the tenants detriment Hope thats clear enough

I do think this is an important discussion. I have no problem with people moving overseas. I have been a migrant several times over so undoubtedly took a job a migrant could do.

Also we need to know more about the jobs are doing. It does make sense to say over they are taking British jobs if they are doing jobs Brits are not qualified to do. But it does seem backwards to have an ever increasing welfare state, loads unable to find work and yet increase the numbers in the workforce.

But I guess this knocks on the head those who insist migrants don’t work.

The comment about “diversity hire tick boxes” is grossly stupid though.

I also don’t get the argument about migrants necessarily accepting worse conditions / poor pay. My office has loads of foreigners all paid well and in comfortable conditions. I would not work there otherwise. Similarly when I was a migrant I was highly paid and never accepted poor work conditions.

Why have you assumed they get universal credit and pay little in. They pay the same tax and NI as the rest of us.

Got to say, whenever we take on non- native bods they work bloody hard. Possibly far harder than we would have expected ( from a UK national). Goes for Portuguese, Lithuanian, Polish and French so far.

I never met a Brit who was in Australia to pick fruit as a specific desired role.

A period of Farm work is a requirement to get the second year of the Working Holiday Visa so many suck it up (and some horrendous conditions) to get the second year and hopefully get a proper sponsored role.

My brother had a business and said Brexit and the choice of so many East Europeans to leave hit him hard. He had a valeting business and he said the Brits could never be bothered to turn up if they did not like the weather (it was cold) where his EE workers were professional and always turned up. Obviously this is not true for all but many employers just pick whoever is the best candidate.