diamondgeezer wrote:
oioioi wrote:
diamondgeezer wrote:
Back on thread topic....what are being imposed on 'me' (and everyone else) are the Mass Immigration open border policies of the EU.
And what is being discussed are the reasons behind those policies and both the short and long term economic & social consequences of those policies.
So, discuss.
How has it impacted upon you?
Well as was pointed out earlier in the thread, its already having a very noticeably detrimental effect on the job market.
That has personally impacted upon me. Employers now expect more for less, they can pick and choose.
Expectation to work 12 hr shifts over weekends and nights for little more than the minimum wage has now become commonplace for example....refuse to do it, hey they'll easily find an eastern european who will.
Similar thing is happening in Australia in certain circumstances, for example, teams of chinese workers (tradesman and labourers) are sponsored to come and work in the country by businesses, and they can easily undercut local tradesmen, and are. Because they send the money home, (and that amount of money goes a long way there) and will temporarily stay in shared accomodation, sometimes many many people in the one house, the australian worker can find himself not being able to compete.
if the australian worker drops his rates to those levels, they just cant make ends meet when they have local mortgages or rent to pay and a family to raise. And the house prices in Australia are some of the highest, if not the highest, in the world. I read a recent article which stated that houses in Sydney for example cost more than in New York. Its not a problem if you are willing to rent with 5-10 other dudes as some of the sponsored labour does. And this is not a stereotype, its fact, and real estate agents in the larger cites will confirm this.
The large corporations that are currently taking over all the irrigated food production in Australia and shaking out all the small operators (with help from the politicians) , are also running the labour side of their operations using a large proportion of Pacific Islander and asian labour.
As Jimmy Goldsmith said in his 'prophetic interview' that i have posted a while back in the economics section, 'these people want nothing, work for nothing' (his words, probably somewhat paraphrased by me as i havent watched it in a while) ... so some things are going to have to change, and they will change, just like Lady Annabels husband said it would in that interview... and yes the labour market is definately one of those things.
I feel as though these are factual observations by myself, and with all that being said, my personal view will always be that anyone who 'blames the immigrant' is at the very best looking at a rather complex global economic paradigm in a simplistic manner.