87% of new jobs go to immigrants. Did you vote Tory for that?

[Gromit]

// In the first year of the Coalition, 87 per cent of the 400,000 newly created jobs have gone to immigrants — as Britons fail to chase work, according to new official figures uncovered by the Governments' Poverty Tsar. //

That's a bit of a shocking statistic. I am sure Cameron never had that in his manifesto.

Any explainations?

[Quizmonster]

Youngmafbog, I know I'm probably wasting my time in even asking you whether you actually READ the question, but it did refer to the 400,000 NEW jobs created SINCE the coalition came to power. In what conceivable way can the allocation of these jobs to applicants be a 'leftover' from the Labour government?

[Old_Geezer]

It is more likely to be a left over from the freedom to move labour around that was part of the EU regs. No party has sorted out that error yet.

[R1Geezer]

QM, the British won't do them because they are better off on benefits. The wages would be higher if market forces where allowed to progress. So if labour hadn't swamped the country with millions low paid workers they would be working not claiming.

[jno]

Geezer, wouldn't market forces also mean that if the indigenous workers are paid more, the price of goods would go up and people would stop buying them?

[DrFilth]

if the immigrants are taking all the jobs they can't be all claiming benefits ?

[Old_Geezer]

The number of goods sold depend as much if not more on how they are marketed than anything. Yes paying a fair price for labour may mean a higher price at the retail outlet, but in which case it is guilt free. Or alternatively if may just mean less profit since the price is affected by the competition in the market too. Recall that the market doesn't demand a fair price for the goods, but allows the seller to demand whatever someone feels they have to pay, so a cut in profit need not mean a lost opportunity.

[Old_Geezer]

No one suggest they all are. It has been suggested that, that is also a problem.

[anotheoldgit]

Did you Gromit also vote Labour for this?
Well perhaps you did.

Old news maybe, but what an eye opener.

http://www.telegraph....migration-policy.html

[Gromit]

AOG

I haven't voted Labour since 1982, and that was only to get the mad loon out.

[Quizmonster]

Aw, come on, R1, you know as well as I do that there are multitudes of unemployed native British people who are desperate to find work; they really AREN'T all 'workshy scum'. Out of these nearly half a million new jobs, do you seriously suggest that virtually NONE of these genuine job-seekers applied?

[Brenden]

DrFilth. Yes some do both, having quite a few different names. They know every scam in the book.

[emmie]

I am sure you are aware of the black economy and i am not referring to the colour of the persons skin, more that there are any number of ways you can work and claim, paid cash in hand, bosses looking the other way, and then sign on, so they pay no tax or insurance, and the money they get may well be enough to pay rent, and food, and maybe send the rest home.
And those that say well they do the jobs we won't, well perhaps someone should come up with a better system, because i know what it was like to juggle a small income, but be just over the limit of what the government allows you to live on, so i couldn't get any help whatsoever.