Monday - December 10, 2007
Britain's Immigration Problems: No Jobs for Britons
Open borders, multiculturalism, and political correctness have their consequences and for once, we aren't talking about the United States.
It seems since Labour has taken power in Britain, 80% of new jobs have gone to immigrants rather than natives. Funny how that seems to be an international constant.
Why is it that the left in the West have lost the will to defend their own nation? It is almost like they believe in the international proletariat over the nation state.
Migrants have taken four out of five jobs created since Labour came to power, Whitehall analysts have said.
Their verdict was a huge embarrassment to Cabinet ministers, who have claimed most jobs went to Britons.
It brought new criticism for Gordon Brown and his promise of "British jobs for British workers".
The calculation of how many migrant workers there really are in Britain was made by the Statistics Commission, set up by Labour to check the integrity of official figures.
It had been called in by Labour MP Frank Field during a row in October, when ministers were forced to admit their own figures were too low.
The commission said 1.4million workers born abroad had taken jobs in Britain since 1997. That was 81 per cent of the 1.7million new jobs for people of working age. Read more....
Author: The Machiavellian
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