Cheap labour wouldn’t be there if people could afford to pay the rent out of minimum wages.
They can’t of course, which I blame for why so many local workers don’t want to pay £30 a day to commute to a job that only pays £200 a week. It’s not laziness, it’s simple math.
On the other hand, bring 6 people over who don’t mind living together, stick them all in the same house with a £1500 per month rent all claiming housing benefit, and bob’s your uncle.
The benefit system needs to be changed ahead of any immigration policy changes is what I’m saying.
If you could only get benefits after paying full stamp NI for 10 years or more, then things would be a lot different around the UK.
Rents would fall, landlords would go bust, but Wages would rise, and there would be staff shortages because more and more people would refuse to do poorly-paid work at some distance from the worker. The employer is thus encouraged to build up local firms rather than have only fancy premises in posher areas, and then expect to pay someone out of town rock-bottom wages to staff the place.
It’s time we stopped looking to the so-called “captains of industry” to create the jobs. Removing Employer rather than employee sloth will create the jobs pickup that’s needed. Middle classes need to be sticked into action a bit, instead of hoarding their money in loss-making bank accounts and moaning about the returns.
True investment isn’t encouraged in this country, and hasn’t been for some time. Even a big factory proposed has it’s owner passing around the begging bowl for “government subsidy” as some kind of bribe for “building it here”.
Like the ■■■■ Commandant, Firms are only “following orders” of the succession of foolish governments we’ve had in this country that encourage the wrong things in our economy, whilst aiding and abetting damaging business practices that do nothing but perpetuate such economic woes.
Nationalise the firms that are leeching money OUT of the economy rather than allowing the same firms to privatize all the money, whilst nationalising all the passed-on debts and job losses that go with such privatized profits.
