Via Tim W, comes this. Basically, benefits are so generous and means-testing so savage that younger unskilled UK residents are better off on benefits than in work, but migrant workers can earn much more by working here than in their home countries.
Which is exactly what I said a while ago here "... if we had a less savagely means-tested welfare system, under which claimants weren't penalised for taking a low paid or menial job - in construction or agriculture - then it'd be people (who are now on the dole) in those jobs, not East Europeans".
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2 hours ago
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Indeed - a CI would essentially subsidize the local labour force, giving them a far better chance of competing for low-wage jobs.
Lower benefits have the same effect by rewarding hard work with more pay!
Mark,
Are you familiar with the U.S. writer, Jim Marrs? You might be quite interested in his two books, Rule by Secrecy and The Terror Conspiracy, both of which speak to immigration as it is part of the move to globalisation.
Marrs also discusses at length who is behind globalisation and what their goals are.
WriterWriter
www.stupid-files.blogspot.com
http://stupid-files.blogspot.com/2005/10/assimilation-and-all-that.html
I'll check it out when I have time.
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