Immigration needs to be more controlled IMO.
Big business loves mass immigration because it provides a timid, compliant, pre-trained and above all CHEAP and EASILY EXPLOITABLE workforce. There is a sudden race to the bottom when it comes to wages and conditions. Jobs which used to pay decent salaries a man could raise a family on, have now become hourly payed, cheap quasi-slave labour.
This contributes to a lot of problems. Who wants to train up local people when you can have pre-trained, imported labour for half the price? The "Takin' our jobs!" joke on South Park may seem all well and good when you're a smug media goon payed a fortune for doing something fun and creative that ONLY YOU can do. But when you're working class doing a working class job you see things very differently. You see a disenfranchised working class population, many of whom have actually given up.
When will people get over the fact that this is a NUMBERS thing, not a pathological hatred of someone else's skin colour thing?
I understand the Bankers are responsible for most of the misery in this country but until we have held them to account it might be worth taking on an immigration policy more similar to the Australians, the Danes or the Japanese who seem to actually value what they have.
Too much planning, and you'll never get anything done.
Karl Pilkington.
