If it isn’t the French, Poles and Italians screwing us it the ■■■■ Jocks!!!
So it’s ma fault 
[quote=If it isn’t the French, Poles and Italians screwing us it the ■■■■ Jocks!!![/quote]
I just hope there is no backlash regarding Brirish workers earning their living overseas. That includes British lorry drivers.
I think those protesting are very selfish and could quite easily open a can of worms for others.
the job went out to tender, the brits didn’t get the contract - what more do we need to know?
it’s no different than me choosing to buy clothes in Primark instead of Harrods, or buying my diesel from my cheapest fuelcard company etc…
we’re living in a global economy now !
I do realise that in the current climate there are many people wanting to work who are desperate for a job. HOWEVER, during the good times there were still nearly 2 million unemployed people in the UK AND x amount of foreign workers moved to the UK for a better life, which is fair enough. BUT if there were jobs for x amount of foreign workers THEN that means that there are also x amount of workshy lazy scrounging so and sos natively born here. The problem is that too many brits are too proud or lazy to do “scut-work” like working in restaraunts, cleaning etc. If anyone thinks Britain is a better place to live in and bring up a family and are willing to work hard and contribute to and integrate into the society then fair play to them and they are just the sort of people that we need. Anyone who only wants to come to scrounge can **** off and take our homegrown scrounging brigade with them [/rant]
Denis F:
the job went out to tender, the brits didn’t get the contract - what more do we need to know?it’s no different than me choosing to buy clothes in Primark instead of Harrods, or buying my diesel from my cheapest fuelcard company etc…
we’re living in a global economy now !
Until you turn up somewhere in France, to load for somewhere else in France, and they won’t load you because you aren’t French.
fuse:
i will not be crossing any picket line at this or any site where these foreign firms have came in lock stock and barrel with their own work force. they are racist, or is it ok to say you will not employ the british
Oh turn the bleeding record off!
Racist■■? Where does racism come in to it? 
andy get your self an ipod sound quality is better,you can also store more tunes,
Silver_Surfer:
TOTAL is a French company I believe who have decided to use an Italian company for work on their site in Britain after a competitive tender. Why should they be dictated to about where they spend their money? At least they are employing English workers at all at the site.
AFAIK they put the job out for tender, a Californian company won the contract, and sub contracted all or part of the job out to an italian company who hired willing and able italian & portugese workers for the job
Auf Weidersehen PET!
What a load of tosh again!!!
Foreign workers nicking local jobs, it has been going on since the beginning of time. Portugese sailors discovering new lands whilst sailing ships.
A couple of British surveyors changing the shape of the world when they plotted the future of the USA.
Foreign crews working on the space shuttle.
We have foreign politicians, we have foreign doctors and nurses. We have many foreign companies employing “British” workers. EON. Eurotunnel. GTM. lots of major construction companies are multinational.
Football teams employing foreigners.
How selective do you want to be? 
We are a global partner and are members of the EU, it allows me to work in Germany, France, Italy, Romania and Sweden without hindrance.
My biggest objection is to the media using the drawled To-Tarl to emphasise the French company who bought the Lindsey oil refinery
kitkat:
If it isn’t the French, Poles and Italians screwing us it the ■■■■ Jocks!!!
So it’s ma fault
kitkat its not your fault, just look at the nationality of the inhabitants of numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street.
I’m not having a pop at Jocks in general.
Just look at the bigger picture we are part of europe, a european company gets the contract to do work in a european country for a european company and they are employing european workers.
The common word is “european” and we are part of it, whether we like it or not.
Yes it ■■■■■ especially if you live in that area and you’re un-employed.
wheelnut can you name one british company that have won a contract in a foreign land then said we will not employ nationals we bring our own work force, if this sort of thing is allowed to contiue where do the british fit into the scheme of things, i had to chuckel when you said about working abroad without hindrance ha ha
fuse:
wheelnut can you name one british company that have won a contract in a foreign land then said we will not employ nationals we bring our own work force, if this sort of thing is allowed to contiue where do the british fit into the scheme of things, i had to chuckel when you said about working abroad without hindrance ha ha
Total do employ a British labour force, they use local british companies to supply the refinery. In this case it is a construction contract awarded to an italian company on service and price by tender.
We must have had “British” companies who tendered for it but were not successful. I dont see any problem with the italians using their own permanent workers.
Leons last company do not employ italians, yet they take foreigners to work as lorry drivers in Italy.
gogzy:
‘…what happened to “British jobs for Bristish people”…’
What happened was that you fell for it …it’s meaningless tosh since all mainstream political parties are welded to Europe. You (ie, we) voted for it when we ticked either Labour, Tory or Lib Dem.
For flip sake - please keep up …and there’s no point in petulantly sulking eg, not eating your cabbage or not crossing a futile picket line, etc.
Wake up, numpties, you (and thanks to you, me too) can’t change ‘our’ closed/mainstream minds now that we’re committed to this sickening giveaway bungee jump!
Meanwhile, the chances are that the newly contracted company communicates primarily in ltalian …but have not heard that issue addressed.
…and, if British/English landlords didn’t accommodate the migrant workers, or pubs serve them meals they’d soon learn of their non-gratis status and p*ss-off back to pizzaland - but what’s the chances of that happening?
(This is the reality of what diversity is about …it dilutes our once proud unity …and keeps our poiliticos well-fed on the Gravy-boat!)
So, you/ we have no choice but to cross the picket line …and own the self-loathing of what you/we have done to Britain.
Has any thing as big as this building project
happened else where in the EU;as it would
be intresting to either hear about or to read .
I would also like to point out ,has any one
looked at the local building site when they
have been putting up a new
supermarkt shop from one of the NON english
companys, you may be suprised to now that
they do not have many englsih workers on
their sites why, because the mainland
european worker is cheaper than in many
cases the local British worker,Plus they
bring the majority if not all of the required building
matirals and shop fittings with them.
Happy Keith:
gogzy:
‘…what happened to “British jobs for Bristish people”…’What happened was that you fell for it …it’s meaningless tosh since all mainstream political parties are welded to Europe. You (ie, we) voted for it when we ticked either Labour, Tory or Lib Dem.
For flip sake - please keep up …and there’s no point in petulantly sulking eg, not eating your cabbage or not crossing a futile picket line, etc.
Wake up, numpties, you (and thanks to you, me too) can’t change ‘our’ closed/mainstream minds now that we’re committed to this sickening giveaway bungee jump!
Meanwhile, the chances are that the newly contracted company communicates primarily in ltalian …but have not heard that issue addressed.
…and, if British/English landlords didn’t accommodate the migrant workers, or pubs serve them meals they’d soon learn of their non-gratis status and p*ss-off back to pizzaland - but what’s the chances of that happening?
(This is the reality of what diversity is about …it dilutes our once proud unity …and keeps our poiliticos well-fed on the Gravy-boat!)
So, you/ we have no choice but to cross the picket line …and own the self-loathing of what you/we have done to Britain.
i never actually, i just wasnt here when the voting all took place.
I don’t think this has anything to do with whats going on at Killingholme, it has, or is a backlash to the way the country or the rest of the world is at the moment. We are all in a financial crisis at this moment and we need to take it out on somebody so the government or more precisely the Italiens are taking the brunt of the blame.
As has been correctly pointed out on here, the work did go out to tender the British lost, well tough! you win some you lose some that is business, you will find that we win far more abroad then we lose, as we have the expertise and the techneical knowledge far greater than any other country. If you go to Dubai (the biggest building site in the world) you will find it all ran by Brits!!!
name one contract as big won by a british company where it has said we dont employ nationals we bring our own workforce, they are on a barge or huts at the site.You can not have a system where a contract so big is awarded to acompany that says to the locals dont apply were full.Some large road mainenance contracts in this country have been awarded for some 25 years can you imagine if they had said there is nothing for the nationals we will bring in our own men so dont even apply, and dont come the old the british will not work.if this was the case why the silly wtd i keep going on about, and what about the carbon foot print of all those men going home for hols ,breakes ect to conform to the silly wtd they must cause alot of green house gas ect.
If you have to decide not to cross the picket lines, ask yourself this before you decide.
If the pickets win and get all the jobs for UK workers, will they refuse to service a foreign truck delivering the materials to the site?
I think that you already know the answer to that.
Remember when they recently resurfaced the M5 bridge at Avonmouth? Did you see what country the contractors were from■■? They weren’t British■■?