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Just the other week, I was really ill on Friday but still went to work...And no, its not because I`m not a BC..Its to do with a long forgotten concept called conscience ( Its bad enough being non-white, I don`t want to be branded a skiver as well )olisun wrote:You will once your get your ILR / BC...Shan12 wrote:Do you know that I have not had 1 sick day off in the last 4 years. Something they would never understand.
This country needs to take a leaf out of Pres Clinton's book & adopt a 'welfare to work' program, which helped cut the number of benefit recepients dramatically in the US. More should be done to get the 9 million or so economically 'inactive' natives off their backsides & address the issue of unbridled immigration from Eastern Europe, which is making the problem worse by masking it..The Sh*t would really hit the fan when many of these 'hardworking' newcomers qualify for benefits & work out that actually going on the dole is about as good as earning the minimum wage, when you take housing benefits, NI contributions etc into account. Apparently, a Polish Newspaper in London recently ran a multi page supplement, advising its readers on how to play the British benefit system to maximum advantage..a sort of 'The Dole system for Dummies'Shan12 wrote:I think what annoys me the most is the claim that we put pressure on their public services. They seem to conveniently forget that we pay for the services (with our council tax and various other taxes) we use. So, who is really putting pressure on these services?? they should be looking at their own dole seekers!
Hmm..Polish gardener & Punjabi cleaning lady..lemme guess where you live..Ealing??OL7MAX wrote:I've found immigrants easier to work with. Except that I've spent the last half hour on an entirely unproductive activity: resolving a conflict between two immigrants. If I can get my Polish gardener and Punjabi cleaning lady to communicate directly without me or my wife translating I could leave them to sort out their own differences! Bloody foreigners!
Currently, the UK can't do that.thirdwave wrote:I feel the points based system is a step in the right direction but it should be expanded in order to include unskilled migrants from Eastern Europe & elsewhere as well.
The government may be ignoring the huge elephant in the room, but their voting constituencies see it. Time will tell.thirdwave wrote:I feel bitter about the fact that the govt chooses to focus on non EU immigration by adopting the points based system etc, whilst conveniently ignoring the big elephant in the room i.e low skilled immigrants from New Europe.
I'd feel too guilty.. besides, I have my own business, so I don't really have an option...rain, sun, snow or wind... and unless I'm on my deathbed... I'll be at work.. Where is the brick wall that I can bang my head on????olisun wrote:You will once your get your ILR / BC...Shan12 wrote:Do you know that I have not had 1 sick day off in the last 4 years. Something they would never understand.
Shan12 wrote:
Do you know that I have not had 1 sick day off in the last 4 years. Something they would never understand.
You will once your get your ILR / BC...
I'd feel too guilty.. besides, I have my own business, so I don't really have an option...rain, sun, snow or wind... and unless I'm on my deathbed... I'll be at work.. Where is the brick wall that I can bang my head on????