Inevitably, the Daily Mail and every other tabloid is in uproar. Six and a half thousand jobs have been created by the Olympics and only one out of every eight jobs has been filled by a British worker.

But for myself, I can’t really see what the fuss is about, other than to commend the eight-hundred-odd British folk who have stooped to gainful employment while their friends and family remain firmly glued to the generous nipple of the state.

Slightly more scandalous was the discovery that since Labour have come to power, 2,000,000 jobs have been created, of which 1,999,999 have been filled by immigrants. But once again, this is merely a reflection of the generous nature of the safety net of welfare, which has somehow become more of a hammock for the idle and the workshy. For if life on benefits was as dire as those who defend the current arrangement profess it to be, surely two million more British people would be employed?

Those who get exercised about this fail to appreciate the irony that the tax levied on these hard-working, job-stealing, filthy foreigners then gets used to subsidise the idle and the workshy, as well as taking care of the jobs that the average dole-bludger is too posh to sully his or her hands with.

Anyway, why would you want to give up your cider, tabs and Jeremy Kyle for constructive gainful employment? Especially when it involves a pay cut!

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Uncle Marvo
April 22, 2010 at 12:11

Grr.

Every time I post something, someone does it better

sob

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opsimath
April 22, 2010 at 12:27

The story of my life, Uncle Marvo – one door closes, another door closes.

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John Pickworth
April 22, 2010 at 13:58

I dream of even having a door… closed or not

Tis true though what TJ said though. I’m sick of hearing about this ‘British jobs for British workers’ nonsense.

Look, in places like Dubai they employ thousands of migrant workers from Bangladesh etc to build their metropolis while the locals do better jobs. In Malaysia, they suck in construction or agricultural workers from the Philippines and India to toil away under the tropical sun while the locals work in hi-tech air-conditioned electronic fabrication plants or offices selling banking and insurance services. Oh on slave wages I hear you cry? Lets be honest, in comparison, then yes… perhaps. But then

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Mrs Rigby
April 22, 2010 at 14:35

One thing you’re forgetting about our tax system is temporary residents merely complete the form P85 or P85(S) and claim their taxes back, although they can’t claim back National Insurance.

Visit a tax office and you will see a long queue of people asking for the ‘leaving certificate’ – so, no, they don’t all pay their taxes, they use the system just the same as anybody else who knows the rules.

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Changing name to protect me
April 22, 2010 at 19:54

Went into the kitchen in work today. 12 Indian contractors eating their communal lunch.

I like them, get on with them, share their samosas, and they are good at what they do. However, they’re only here, on short-term contracts, because they undercut British workers.

Brown’s Britain
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Mrs Rigby, they all remain in the country 1 day less than 6 months so they don’t have to pay British taxes.

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john malp;as
April 24, 2010 at 02:15

Why are you concentrating on the bottom end of the market.
There are plenty of local born who would like to be trained to be doctors etc but the government prefers to import other country professsionals.

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Stewart Cowan
April 24, 2010 at 15:05

Don’t talk to me about the Olympics. I’m in the flag trade and we have been banned by law from selling Olympic flags until 2013. I was even told to destroy my stock of them, which obviously, I didn’t.

I was sent a booklet of dos and don’ts regarding using the Olympics to promote your own business. Basically, you can’t. You aren’t even allowed to, for example, use a picture of the London skyline with an athlete carrying a torch in the foreground.

They are so obsessive about protecting their ‘brand’ that there is a danger the whole shebang might go unnoticed!

The Olympic ring flag dates back almost a century, yet it is allowed to be protected for a few years to my trade’s detriment. (I mean, who is going to buy a flag from an ‘official’ supplier anyway, even if they can find one? We are doing them a service via free advertising.)

Remind me, is it London 2012 or Berlin 1936?