On 25/06/14 08:45, Adrian wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:43:08 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

London has, IIRC, the sixth largest French population of any city in
the world. Including those in France.

Sounds like they are settled rather than mobile and temporary.

All of them? You can tell from that one snippet of information? Wow. Even
the students? Even those in the city who'd be off tomorrow, to chase big
numbers, if their job changed or required it?

Maybe even the settled ones didn't all start off with the intention to
settle?


I've never seen a french plumber in the UK undercutting the other plumbers.

I don't care about students - they are not damaging the local economy,
rather the opposite - they are contributing to it by paying student fees.
Let's clarify my standpoint further:

I think mobile workers who are able to vastly undercut the standard wage
for a given trade by:

a) Virtue of their own country's economic disparity;

b) The fact they do not intend to settle;

The two in combination are what causes the problem.

I see no obvious solution other than controlled immigration.