A COUNTRY WITHOUT BORDERS....
What fate awaits a country that has no effective borders? The next decade will see the UK provide an answer to that question - and the omens are not good. I was reading that migrants from eastern Europe are pushing down British workers' wages and increasing unemployment.
Lord Turner has told Tony Blair that low-paid workers are earning less following the arrival of 600,000 migrants from countries such as Poland. He also believes that unskilled British workers are being left without jobs.
Meanwhile, Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said:
"At last someone is getting through to the Government the real-life consequences of the massive levels of immigration, which it has not only permitted, but stimulated. If they do not now regain control of our borders, their traditional supporters will desert them in droves."
Previously, David Frost, of the British Chambers of Commerce, has warned that current levels of migration are "not tenable", and are leaving young Britons out of work. In evidence to a Tory seminar group, Mr Frost said many arrive with degrees, but are willing to take non-graduate jobs. This leaves UK nationals who do not have degrees with nowhere to turn.
"There are now some concerns, wider economic concerns, coming through from the business community that is about the displacement of young white males. There is a feeling young white males are being displaced by young migrants from eastern Europe and that position at this stage is not tenable."
So, is the Government deliberately perpetuating a policy of open borders that means young unskilled British white males find themselves excluded from the Labour market, and if so, what are the socio-economic consequences of THAT? Why does Governmen care so little about our own nationals? There is no such things as "the jobs that the British cannot do" - there are only jobs that some British are either physically unwilling or economically unable to do. But Government policy is mute on that aspect of the situation.
David Vance
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>>that means young unskilled British white males find themselves excluded from the Labour market, <<
I would have thought that you, both from your political views and position as employer, would be very much in favour of an open labour market without state interference.
You forgot the biggest reason of all. The unwillingness of so many Britons to do jobs that immigrants will do. The fact that the social security system in the UK makes it feasible for so many people in the UK to be quite relaxed about whether they work or not.
That's what I meant, but my clumsy words did not spell it out as clearly as you have. Exactly right.