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Old 19-03-2010, 16:29   #32
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Re: british jobs for british workers.
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Originally Posted by BBKing View Post
IIRC we're a net investor abroad - we spend more money investing in foreign companies than they do investing in ours. Obviously any move to increase protectionism invites other countries to go 'We-eell, perhaps it might be a good idea to SLAP A MASSIVE TAX ON ALL UK INVESTMENTS' or similar. I'm not sure this is necessarily the answer.

If you want my opinion, which you probably don't, we need to stop treating skill, professionalism, loyalty and craftsmanship as undesirable attributes to be hammered out of our workforce.
Have we really done that, if so who is most to blame? Is it the consumer, the workforce or the employer?

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Originally Posted by ginge51 View Post
Who should be blamed for this mess???
Labour, simply put, it's them who need to lose there jobs for what they have brought this country since they've been in power.
I've been looking now and i\'d say I've applied for over 12 jobs in 3-4 months, i cannot get a job at all, it's that bad.
All the immigrants get the job before us British do.
It's a joke, all this mess is because of all these foreigners coming to our country and taking our jobs ffs.
Send the men home, but gladly leave you're women here
But that is simply not true. I recently filled a position in my company, there were five candidates. Of the six people I interviewed for the position, two of them, who had been unemployed for six months and three years respectively, were only interested in me signing their form for the Jobcentre. Of the other two, one had been unemployed for three weeks and the other six weeks. The one who had been unemployed for less than a month, was fired because he ripped his last employer off and the other lost his job, because he was no good at it. The remaining unsuccessful candidate was pipped at the post by the young man who eventually got the job, because he had a little more experience in the right areas and his references reflected my judgement. Two of the candidates were European migrants. The successful applicant was originally from Shirley.
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