From time to time I take a break from focusing on Zambian issues and look at other topical matters. This week the BBC programme “The Day the Immigrants Left” has caught my eye.
As the general election looms in the UK, immigration is turning out to be a key battle ground with the current government being seen as operating an open door policy. The recession has not helped matters and most indigenous people blame the immigrants for taking “British jobs” meant for British people (a phrase made popular by the current Prime Minister).
As the general election looms in the UK, immigration is turning out to be a key battle ground with the current government being seen as operating an open door policy. The recession has not helped matters and most indigenous people blame the immigrants for taking “British jobs” meant for British people (a phrase made popular by the current Prime Minister).
This hard hitting programme on BBC One last night set out to test the theory that immigrants are taking jobs that British people could do and want to do. If you missed the programme catch it on the BBC iPlayer.
The results of the programme proved what I have always suspected. The UK is bringing up a generation of people who are work shy and want to sit all day at home watching TV or playing Play Station 3. Yes there are problems with the current immigration policy but the evidence from the programme was that employers would struggle to fill positions in certain sectors if the boarders were shut completely. Solution? Make it difficult for people work can work draw benefit payments from the state. Benefits should be used to cover unforeseen circumstances and not as a lifestyle. The programme featured a 26 year old lad who has not worked for 5 years. What has he been doing? Well, he seemed to spend a lot of time a room (his bedroom) ) that looked like a DVD rental store. Only difference is that the store is funded by the taxpayer the chap happens to be the proprietor and sole customer!
The PANEL.
2 comments:
It's not the immigrants who ruined the UK, its the British. Unfortunately there are immigrants who abuse the benefit system in some spectacular ways , but the media focuses on these rather than the vast majority of regular abusers who are native british. As a British schoolteacher i left my country because i could not see how the current generation has a hope of advancing the place. Most native UK citizens with a good work ethic are fleeing the country for places like Australia and Canada.
I agree - the election is even closer now (2 weeks away) and the emphasis with all parties is how to REDUCE immigration... But Britain DEPENDS on its immigrant work force, in part because of its lazy benefit-claimers but also because of a declining and ageing population. Such short-sighted politics is appalling. I am British and ashamed of the attitudes represented by all three parties in the runnings.
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