British jobs for foreign workers

The free movement of labour and capital — don’t you just love it? Our unemployment rate is now 8.4 per cent, the worst in sixteen years. But, paradoxically, there isn’t an enormous problem with unemployment — or at least there shouldn’t be. Take the following two figures and you’ll see why:

Last year’s total of British born workers in paid employment: down by 208,000.

Last year’s total of foreign born workers in paid employment: up by 212,000.

That’s fairly straightforward, isn’t it? Ok, it may not be quite as straightforward as it looks. But there is a certain agreeable symmetry to those figures, no?

The Conservatives like foreign labour because it is dirt cheap and undercuts domestic wage rates, thereby increasing profits for the wealthy. Labour and the Liberal Democrats like foreign labour because liking foreigners means they’re not raaaaaaaaaaccccccisssssst, which is the worst thing one can be. Either way, the British working class are buggered.