The Cause Of Immigration: Benefits
Why are immigrants still flooding into Britain and getting jobs despite rising unemployment amongst unskilled Brits? Because unemployment benefits are too high, and act as a disincentive for actually getting paid work. The report from Migrationwatch shows that:
- A family with two children is just £30 a week better off working on the minimum wage than not working.
- A single person under 25 on the minimum wage of £193 per week is only £10 a day better off than a non-working person.
- A family with two children and one working member receives £79.50 a week of Working Tax Credit. However, after means testing he keeps only £6.77.
- Working families with children and one working member on the minimum wage are slightly worse off than the same family receiving the maximum Incapacity Benefit.
- A single person on the minimum wage would be £3 a week better off than a single person on the highest level of Incapacity Benefit.
No wonder they don’t bother to get a job when it makes bugger all difference to their income, but takes a lot of time and effort! That’s why they are just lazy - because be hard working isn’t worth their while! What kind of society is being fostered by this? A fat, lazy, unproductive one - that’s what.
What we need to do to cut immigration and to produce great benefits for Britain - such as huge savings on the social security budget, an increase in GDP per head, less pressure on our infrastructure, less downward pressure on low wages, and a reduction in the non working underclass - is very simple: Cut unemployment benefits. Make it worth their while to get off their arse and get a job, otherwise they just won’t bother.
What this Labour government has done over the past decade is foster a society in which living on the dole is both possible and nigh-on acceptable. Unemployment benefit should exist simply to tide them over between jobs, not as a substitute for a job in itself.
I would far rather than working immigrants than lazy-arse Britons in this country.
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The foreign workers doing the jobs that the UK unemployed turn their noses up at are often East European members of the EC. There is very little the UK government can do about their presence because of our membership of the EC - and to be fair why should their industriousness be discouraged.
It is not as if the UK unemployed would rush out to embrace these jobs, the fact that they find it uneconomic to take them is the reason they are available for foreign workers.
The State is to blame for the problem by distorting the jobs market. Subsidising the unemployed not to work at the expense of those who do.
My point is that without such excessively high benefits, more Brits would go and take those jobs, and fewer immigrants would come because there would be significantly fewer jobs for them to go for!
It is economics, not politics, that is driving immigration!
If you base your prejudices on this load of shite, you’re in trouble… a single person under 25 not working would be on JSA. That’s £35.65 ifyou’re under 18 or £46.85 if you’re under 25.
So £193 is a lot more.
I’m sure the rest of Migrationwatch’s figures are equally fallacious, but never let the truth get in the way of a bigoted rant against working-class people eh?
“Bigoted rant against working-class people”? Hardly. Just those lazy shits who never bother getting off their arses and taking a job, preferring to live off the State instead.
If so many immigrants can get jobs, so can native Brits.
And I don’t exactly think that the people that I am referring to can be called “working-class”. That would mean that they would have to actually, you know, work.
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