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Sadly the UK and EU are not the only ones with this problem. In Australia we have our 'boat people' or illegal immigrants, who upon landing on our shores get benefits that amount to twice was a pensioner gets, and our pensioners have given blood, sweat and tears to our great country for 40+ years.
We can't offend those illeegal immigrants coming to our shores illegally...that just wouldn't be fair now would it
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Same Human Rights issues Almac...impossible to send them back, we have tens of thousands in 'processing' or 'detention' centres across Australia (Christmas Island is the primary one) and off shore (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Nauru
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As my partner and I have been unemployed for a long while now, I cannot offer official statistics but a personal opinion on the subject -
From my part-time work of recent years there is certainly a bias towards employing foreign nationals and immigrants, and with good reason - they will do the work that English nationals refuse to do, and they do it unquestioningly to a good standard. Often they don't drink, smoke, waste time or belittle the job. At Royal Mail, when asked who would take extra shifts or overtime, the local population chuckled cynically and kept their hands down while most of the foreign students and parents leapt at the chance. That epitomised to me the current attitude towards menial work for the general population of Great Britain. Luxurious society has made us scoff at the thrifty, and expect something much better.
The Jobseekers system is also broken, staffed mostly by people of equally low expectations who are forced to meet targets and quotas set by government. Their job and wage is not worth their time to take an interest in you, and as such they will simply try to push people into any job, or any training scheme to lighten the books. Before a previous job I was almost made to go to a backwater college for only TWO hours a week to learn basic computing and jobsearching techniques; I already have an A level in the subject.
There are enough by-laws and rules to prevent training or academic qualifications while unemployed, as this makes you ineligible for finding work, so self-improvement becomes either impossible to fund, or you would have to commit benefit fraud whilst studying to better yourself. However part-time menial jobs of similar hours are absolutely fine, a contradiction. Grants are available to the young, however these have proved to be ineffective and are simply another means of improving youth unemployment figures. It's really about pushing the unemployed into different categories, spreading the sh*t a little thinner so it looks better.
My advisor told me 40% of Jobseeker's contracts are to be outsourced to a private company, which frankly sounds terrible. I have never seen anything good come of privatisation for the patrons using the services at a ground level. Making money from the unemployed now in the form of government contracts and sponsorships.
The Richard Littlejohn approach of blaming immigration is far too easy, when to my perception it seems there are a massive group of people (myself included) who are disillusioned with their government, the aspirations of modern society, the standard of work, and the repeated pain of kick after kick on the unemployment ladder.
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