Gissa Jobski!
There’s a thing, official figures for 2009 show that 835,000 18 to 24 year olds had left school, discovered that the nice man in the job centre didn’t have anything they really fancied to hand to them on a plate, and had settled down to ‘being unemployed’. That’s a 120,000 more than made the same decision last year.
In 2006, 519, 720 18 to 24 year olds left school, left the family home, left their country of birth, travelled cooped up in buses and sleeping on the floor of trains, to a country where they knew no one, struggled to make themselves understood in any language, slept 5 to a room, shared a loaf of bread when things got hard, and scooped up a total of 519,720 jobs paying the minimum wage of £4.77 an hour; and that is just those officially registered.
So if a Polish teenager, without any of the benefits of a home grown teenager can find a job here, why exactly can’t our British variety? Try these pathetic excuses.
The agricultural sector would be in dire straits without the immigrants willing to do the hard graft on the land. Labour which can net workers up to £25,000-a-year with overtime.
But that’s not enough to entice some of the local lads picking up their dole money in Peterborough. A constant trickle of young men are in and out of the office collecting their state benefits. But there’s little appetite for taking one of those vegetable-picking jobs of up to £7-an-hour. One group of lads:
“No mate I’d prefer to sign-on than do that.”
“I don’t want to work in like no cornfield.”
“I don’t want to work with a load of foreigners.”
Some 2.4million are officially counted as unemployed, most of whom are on jobseeker’s allowance. Labour’s pretence of progressing towards a society where all can succeed under their own steam has been exploded by the Policy Exchange think-tank which has dissected the British Labour market to reveal the truth. The emergence yesterday of the fact that 60 per cent of social housing tenants now have their rent paid by housing benefit is more evidence that Labour has actually created an underclass that is more deeply entrenched than it ever was under those “heartless” Tories.
The Liberal Democrats said the surge showed young people were bearing the brunt of the economic downturn. Absolute rubbish, it shows that kids without any of the opportunities enjoyed by our home grown variety are getting up earlier, prepared to work harder, and do the jobs that are actually out there. All those polish agricultural workers didn’t ‘steal’ the jobs, they took jobs that no one else wanted.
Figures from the EU statistics body, Eurostat, show Britain’s youth unemployment outstripping that of Germany, France and other European countries.
When I was in Jersey last year, being an early riser, I was amazed to find that the streets were teaming with young people at 6am hurrying here there and everywhere. Not staggering home from a nightclub, but washed, dressed, and cheerfully off to work.
I talked to one Polish girl at length working in a shoe shop – her idea of dealing with a customer enquiry as to whether there was anywhere one could just get a cup of tea and a sandwich rather than a trendy restaurant, was to ask if I could wait ten minutes and she would show me where to go in her lunch ‘half hour’ – she led me through a warren of side streets, to a minute cafe, run by, you may have guessed, another polish couple, for the benefit of all the polish workers who couldn’t afford to eat in the fancy bistros. That girl did three jobs, seven days a week, the full time job in the shoe shop paid her rent – an astounding £120 a week for a room with one double bed shared with three others on a shift basis. A cleaning job in a local hotel before the shoe shop opened paid for her food and clothing, and after work and at week-ends a job in a nightclub paid for the money she was sending home to Poland to build the restaurant she hoped to run one day. She was 19. I spoke to several of her friends that lunchtime, they all had a similar story to tell.
On the ferry back to mainland France, I was unwillingly engaged in conversation by a couple of shell suited beer swilling anglo-saxon speaking teenagers. You know the routine. ‘Alright darling, wanna beer’………..they were impossible to shake off. Eventually I gave in and asked what they were celebrating.
‘Fu** all, there’s fu** all to fu**ing celebrate in fu**ing Jersey now’. ‘
‘Why is that’?
‘Fu**ing place is full of fu**ing polaks innit’.
Needless to say they went on to tell me how they’d been out of work for a year ‘cos all the fu**ing polaks had taken all the fu**ing jobs…………..before one of them threw up violently on the floor of the restaurant/bar.
A quiet and unassuming young man with a mop and bucket appeared and cleaned up after him.
Lithuanian? Polish? I don’t know, I didn’t recognise his language.
Neither did Shell suit No 2.
‘Fu**ing muppets, they’ll do fu**ing anything’, he said. ‘Ere, you missed a bit’.
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August 19, 2009 at 14:09 -
Anna,
normally an intermitent lurker here, but moved to comment in this instance.
Last week when hilarity benn , started to whine about ‘food security’ issues, my immediate reaction was disbelief – this is the guy supposedly running defra and he is unaware that English growers are giving up on fruit and field vegetable crops, because local labour is so uttery disinterested that they will not do field work ?-
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August 19, 2009 at 14:12
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August 19, 2009 at 14:49 -
I live in Lincolnshire. Most Sundays I frequent a boot sale. It’s quite easy to spot the Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians etc. They are quiet, tidy, and come with wives, children, girlfriends etc. The obese Brits turn up in their shell suits, usually with a crutch to prove they’re disabled, wives up the duff, tattooed like there’s no tomorrow, smoking like Auschwitz chimneys with their whining, snotty kids whose reaction when you tell them not to touch something on your stall is to tell you to ‘Foxtrot Oscar’.
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August 19, 2009 at 14:52 -
I ran this story sometime back, Jersey is a prime example because its not under EU law You can work like a dog there and no one minds, but it is lucrative if you want to work like a dog . Blame it on the parents. Mine never gave me pocket money. I only got it at uni I never overspent, I still have my child benefit in a savings account.
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August 19, 2009 at 14:54 -
Polish, Lithuanian, Anglo-Saxon. The present boundaries of the first two nation states have shifted around a lot down the centuries, and the third is a term applied by early modern eugenists to what they believed to be a racial grouping. The genes are another matter. The gene structure of modern Saxons shares a number of similarities with those of its near neighbours. Also, there are a number in parts of the UK that seem to relate. As someone who grew up expecting to start work at 7.30 to finish 11 or 12 hours later, and to have to work to recieve money, the attitudes of my generation were not much removed from theirs then or now. Also, in my day there were a lot of Poles about for other reasons, and there did not seem to be much difference between them and us beyond language, religion or tastes in sausages. So what has happened in the last two to three decades?
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August 19, 2009 at 15:36 -
This attitude doesn’t just apply to Brit Teenagers. A lot of Brits in France who need to earn money, are constantly complaining that they can’t get a job and have to go Home to get Benefits.
I managed to find a job at the age of 55, and I couldn’t speak a word of French. Okay, so it was working on a farm picking and grading potatoes, and working in the notorious Chicken Sheds, uplifting chickens in the middle of the night. But I have to say that I had never had so many laughs in all of my life before And it did wonders for my coloquial French.
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August 19, 2009 at 18:00 -
For anyone who fancies moving to France, there is work available if you don’t mind getting your hands dirty, and you can always wash the chicken shit of your face. Chickens somewhat object to being upended and tend to flap about a bit.
The schools are good, and the health care is excellent. And the way of life is bloody lovely.
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August 19, 2009 at 18:25
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August 19, 2009 at 18:25 -
I think any MP who claims that MPs wages should be doubled to over
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August 19, 2009 at 18:42 -
This growing class of benefits families is now entering the third generation. Grandad was spawned by industrial strife of early 70′s. Many got on their bike and avoided the benefits trap. Many did not.
Mom and dad found that life on benefits was not too bad. Dad buggered off.
The female grandchilren heard of the
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August 19, 2009 at 18:47
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August 19, 2009 at 20:10 -
Thanks Anna – I tried to paste it here but it wouldn’t ‘underline’ for me. This sums up Dinner at the Smudd Household superbly…
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August 19, 2009 at 20:26 -
Absolutely! Although ginger kittens can be tremendous time-wasters too. I’ll have you know that I am tonight slaving over a hot stove attempting to make up for last night’s pathetic effort; I have chosen something which requires a liberal topping of ‘stale breadcrumbs’ which will give you an idea of how much Mr Smudd is going to ‘enjoy’ it…. once he’s forced his way through all the soggy laundry….
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August 19, 2009 at 21:30 -
What a load of curmudgeons!!………yes, send em all down t’mines, or t’cotton mills, nah better still bring back conscription eh to knock em all into shape!……time warp.
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August 19, 2009 at 21:55 -
Call me old fashioned, but how about asking people to do community work, in return for their benefit money.
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August 19, 2009 at 22:23 -
Good idea but what happens to the kids of non complying parents ?
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August 19, 2009 at 23:20 -
I blame the parents !
Brits now turn their nose up at manual labour, skilled or other wise, so they certainly don’t want to see their kids doing that sort of work.
Though why we then complain about migrant workers coming over to do it for us i’ll never know, may be its because they have the cheek to ask for minimum wage . . . . -
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August 19, 2009 at 23:33 -
Education,education, education….. I remember these words, it’s a pity the Labour party don’t.
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August 20, 2009 at 00:17 -
Saul August 19, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Call me old fashioned, but how about asking people to do community work, in return for their benefit money.***
Call me old-fashioned too, but I’m so happy YOU said it …
And, yes, education. Ever since people started to read and write the “church” started to lose its numbers … Blimey, thinking for themselves and doing something.
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August 20, 2009 at 00:24 -
Anna Your site is generating the most hits to my website
I must thank you
Good night
Oh Niacin also lowers cholesterol naturally, a fact that the Statin manufacturers would prefer to hide from the public.
Vit B3 is not patented and has little if any side effects and is even listed in the BNF as a lipid lowering agent.
No one should be on a statin. No one
And now Bonne Nuit
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August 20, 2009 at 16:08 -
*And, yes, education. Ever since people started to read and write the
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August 20, 2009 at 22:35 -
Anna what an excellent article! Last weekend I had 3 young czechs come and work at my house.They cleared out all the rubbish ,cleaned the place from top to bottom and then cle
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