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Originally Posted by Rastamouse
How do you think jobs are created? By economic growth. Migrants create growth. And no study after study shows that migrants only depress a small number of jobs a small amount.
The funny thing is, I've heard many people argue that one of the benefits of immigrants is that
because migrants depress wages, they keep cost of labour under control for things like supermarkets, which thus of course means we all get cheap food.
People are quite open and honest about what benefits migrants bring and to whom.
Of course, it doesn't benefit the working class in the slightest.
The simple fact is this Phil, work worth what you can force your employer to pay you. If your threatening to leave has no effect and you are completely replaceable, you will earn whatever your boss tells you you're earning.
This is why the likes of Bob Crow and Tony Benn (hard, hard lefties) were so against the EU and free movement of labour. They weren't swivel-eyed right wing loons, they just realised that the only lever of bargaining that an unskilled, working class man has to negotiate with is "I'm-not-doing-that-for-that".
My recommendation is that you talk to some Labour campaigners who went door-to-door for Miliband in the last election (as I have done). They got a really rude awakening.
The Labour party has two choices; admit that its multicultural experiment has failed and brought misery to thousands of working class people, or put its fingers in its ears and shout 'lalalala I'm not listening'.
As a supporter of the Conservative party, I'm of course hoping that it'll be the latter.