EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Also because they saw how you built and renovated houses and thought you could do with some help?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw9qN6_eXOg

Reminds me of an ex-mate who complained at every opportunity about Polish builders undercutting his day rate as a dry liner... Five minutes later he'd be boasting that he could get a whole days work done by lunchtime by cutting corners and doing a shitty job...

Knobend... He walks dogs now...

These migrants and making it harder for Britons to get jobs

So now that we've voted to leave the EU, kick out all the forrins and, as a consequence, lose a shitload of jobs as overseas based companies are planning to withdraw from the UK, how is that going to make it easier for Britons to get jobs?

I mean I get that all of the seasonal farm work will be there and all of the construction and service industry jobs will be there. Kind of. But isn't it inevitable that those jobs will be in decline too because the middle classes will be losing their jobs and unable to support those industries?

I asked my plumber if he was going to be working Polish hours or British hours and he wasn't happy.

He then fucked off at 1530....

Fair play to 'em! My mum and dad came to England in '65, got crappy live-in jobs in hotels where they had to report to the police station every week as 'resident aliens'... They worked their arses off, got called dagoes/wops/etc every day and did all the jobs that English people wouldn't do...

Plus ca change...

Can his team of advisers speak business French and understand complex negotiations, fully comprehend detailed papers and distill them overnight to brief him in the morning?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TknnvlcLsYI

Absolutely.

It was okay for British builders to chase work in Germany during the 80's doing all the things they now complain about Polish lads doing here.

Was Aufwiedersehn Pet a documentary?

It was inspired by the fact quite a few builders did head for Germany in the 80s and again in the 90s.

The CIOB has an interesting paper on migration in the construction industry here:
https://www.ciob.org/sites/default/files/CIOB%20research%20-%20Analysis%20on%20Migration%20in%20the%20Construction%20Sector_1.pdf

They note that fewer and fewer UK nationals have the skills required to work in the industry. Importing skilled foreign labour has been a cheap and effective way to address the problem. Training nationals to perform those jobs will take time.

It's worth remembering UK also recruited a lot of Irish to build the canals and railways in the C19th because there wasn't enough domestic labour. Then as now, a bunch of people decided to respond with xenophobic cuntery:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment#19th_century

The Irish labourers were also often exploited by their bosses.

CSB: The Dutch boss of the Polish guy that painted my parents fence back in NL didn't seem to pay him very much. I think they gave him a little extra an hour or helped him another way as they felt bad about it.

Migrants in some jobs are more vulnerable to exploitation everywhere but only the left / unions seem to acknowledge that atm. But sure they are undesirables so who cares eh..

i worked in a garden center/nursery and was appalled at how the eastern europeans were treated. Fucked over and exploited in ways that few UK workers would tolerate (and I didn't). It's a stain on the UK's culture that its tolerated.

It's not just the UK I fear...

But lack of union power, solidarity and the fact it's "salonfahig" now to label immigrants as lesser citizens won't help.

Good on you for speaking up :)

https://youtu.be/phFkdUNhUfA

A bit dated, even repost but this always makes me chuckle.. replace UKIP with Tory Scum

Paul Nuttals from the UKIPs is back in the news as he's running for leader

You couldn't make up Jimmy Nail.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/22/leading-banks-set-to-pull-out-of-brexit-uk

Oh, brilliant

Tempted to get a bank job. Would love to spend a coupe of years on the continent.

I am in mallorca and I can only afford to be 5/8 as drunk as I was this time last year.

Hardly surprising though. It's exactly what they warned would happen.

Not surprising at all, just thought it was the sort of thing that should be posted here

At least #EC1collective would fuck off

The Polish Air Force was based at RAF Northolt,
hence the Polish War Memorial, (to all branches of the Polish military, & presumably Merchant Marine), on the A40 to the south of Ruislip.

You're right - but there were quite a number of Polish fliers in the RAF itself as well, I think. It was several squadrons, not just the one as I said previously.