brits are lazy and tend not to want any of the menial jobs.
why do you think its the reason we only see ethnic minorities do this work?
vrits have wised up to the fact that their nanny state will pay them to sit at home all day and pretend to be looking for work.
one of my neighbours has 5 kids and tells me straight that the benefits she gets paid are more than her getting a full time job -so who is the crimanl? i say the politicians
change the system!!!!

This kind of question can be put in every each country in this world. Should we hire foreign workers over our own ones? It's pretty difficult - because in the end they are all humans and they all must be treated equally. The problem stand in the moment when you are subjective and you surely think only about your own people. I would recommend peo services because they could solve the problem without any problems and without discriminating!

Complaints about migrants taking more than they contribute are unfounded nonsense.

The reason for this misconception is that local councils have argued, often through the media, for more funding as their local populations increase, in order to provide facilities and resources to meet growing numbers.

Outwardly this seems to support the case that immigrants are taking more than they give. However, if you look at the details of the councils' arguments they believe they are entitled to more funding as they now have more residents contributing to the national wealth via their taxes.

What has been happening is, if eg. the population increases by 10% due to immigration and that 10% are paying taxes which the majority will be. That area deserves a 10% increase in its funding. Instead the treasury is giving those boroughs very little in return by way of increased funding. So of course those areas struggle to meet the needs of the growing population. Reading in Berkshire is a good example of this.

The taxes paid by immigrants fund things ranging from the police and healthcare to maintenance of village halls where no immigrants live. And even when they work but pay no tax, they increase the productivity of companies based in Britain who then pay tax on their profits.

I do however believe that immigrants should not be used as a form of cheap labour, consequently undercutting British workers out of the market. But to remedy this companies in Britain need to pay a decent wage to people, enough money to allow a person to support a family and live in decent housing. This means supporting the unions fight for fare pay and decent working conditions, something many people here seem reluctant to do for reasons which are beyond me.

Until employers are pressured to pay wages that allow people to live with dignity, as opposed to crammed three to a room working 11 hours a day. Migrant workers will remain a reality.

I have great respect for migrant workers and equal sympathy and understanding for British born workers. But the argument is not between these two groups but between them and the wealthy owners of businesses excessively lining their pockets with the money due to their employees.

After graduation, international students were able to apply for a post study work visa that enabled them to work in the UK for a period of two years.

j1 visa workers

Ab fab my godoly man.

I had no idea how to approach this before-now I'm loeckd and loaded.

With the bases loaded you surtck us out with that answer!

@Arica is not in the European union,Poland is.

@Holy,I think you are taking pc too far,its ridiculous.
The writer called polish people immigrants???polish people have been europeans for thousands of years.uk is a european nation,so to see a second generation descendant of recent immigrants complaining about indigenes is just absurd.
Nationality and race? The polish is a european national,lets face cold hard facts,polish are white and the writer is black,that is descendants of Africans,like it or not something is not right about a black british national complaning about polish people.
DO you know how many polish people diedin the two world wars for the liberation of europe??.
I am black by the way,i just happen to see clearly.

Eastern europeans are great. Theyre strong white people who have pride in themselves. They fit in with the UK culture well and create no problems.

It also means that we can go to poland to escape this hell hole. I only hope Russia joins the EU one day.

It is fascinating to me how people often cross-over issues of race and nationality as if they are the same thing:

The anonymous commenter left saying they found a "black person" complaining about "white" immigrants seems to have missed the point by a mile...

There are black AND white (AND Asian, AND mixed race, etc.) people living in Britain who are British Citizens, not immigrants and entitled to their opinion!

JUST AS there are immigrants who may be black or white or any other nationality!

Lets not get a debate about immigration mixed up with race please!

Holly Powell-Jones
News Reporter
London 360

P.S. If you have a strong opinion on the subject (strong enough to post a comment), then it might be an idea to leave a name so that we can continue this lively debate further! :)

Immigration is needed, as the British white birth rate is continually shrinking. Added to this is a large growing elderly population who need caring for.
In fact this is occuring all over Europe, and immigration is needed to sustain the economies, and care for the elderly.

Interesting discussion. I live in East London and find many people of African origin sharing Ms. Afful's opinion. One problem I do encounter is that although British people are openminded and tolerant many immigrants are from closed societies and have very conservative views. I don't believe the government has taken this into consideration and could be a source of conflict in years to come. As for allowing people in just to have cheap labour as Mr. Kumar does is pure idealistic and rather blindsighted. When people are coming into the country, as a few Polish people did recently, with criminal records but were undetected because they are EAA is a threat to national security. I give the existance of the EU 10 years at most if it continues down this road.

Couldn't give a toss if they are foreign or British - can they do the job properly and are they prepared to work? Unfortunately the British have a benefit system where it's ok to sit on your arse all day pop out kids like peas and get paid and it's not worth getting up to do a hard day's graft like the rest of us and these aren't immigrants it's the British born and I've known it to be 2nd and 3rd generation who've never had a job in their lives and have no intention to but they are the first to complain!

Don't blame the immigrants coming in for taking British jobs - we just do the jobs that you can't be bothered to do and 9 times out of 10 are better at it!

As a former "foreign worker" who is now a citizen, I say the best candidate should get the jobs. End of.

@to see a black person complaining about immigrants from eastern europe(white)beggars belief.
it shows how twisted peopleare in the uk .sad.