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On 18/11/2017 21:44, Rod Speed wrote:
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On 18/11/2017 18:59, pamela wrote:
On 13:53 18 Nov 2017, Andrew wrote:
On 17/11/2017 13:40, JoeJoe wrote:
How many loaves of bread would that have bought?
£7.50 can easily buy you at least 15 loaves nowadays.
£7.50 is a lot more than the folks from Latvia, Poland and
other places can earn. This is the problem, their sheer weight
of numbers means that employers and parastitic agencies can
operate the sort of 'flexible' employment that employers could
only dream about 20 years ago. And they are happy to live 12 to
a house to save money.
Those migrant workers have to pay UK costs while living here.
Looking at what they would earn in their home countries is largely
irrelevant.
Meanwhile down in Mythyr Tydfil there is an army of unemployed
folk who have spent a whole generation on the dole, or more
likely 'disability' benefits and they cannot even be arsed to
get the bus or train down to Cardiff where there is plenty of
work. They don't even have to learn another language on the job
either.
Those same migrant workers provide a shining example of a good work
ethic for UK workshy to see.
Two employers I have spoken to some time ago, who have a significant
proportions of migrant workers, say that after 18 months to 2 years
they seem to acquire British work ethics.
Unfortunately the response of a UK
workshy person is to get resentful rather than to seek a way to
improve themselves to the point of getting a job.
Many can't expect to improve their lot. You seem to forget that 20-25%
of the indigenous adult population are unable to read and write.
Oh bull****. And plenty of jobs dont need you to be able to do either
anyway.
No, but they tend to pay minimum wage.
Sure, but the reason its the legal minimum is because
it is possible to 'live' on that. And quite decently too.
well the loony lefties will tell you otherwise
Doesnt matter what they say.
in fact some not quite so loonies will tell you otherwise
Ditto.