AOG....it was said last week, that one of the main causes of Britains better economy, was due to immigrants coming over here to work, and pay taxes.
Anyway, this sort of thing has been debated on here ad nauseam. Without skilled and unskilled labour, lots of British commerce would grind to a halt. I am just about to go to Cornwall for my Easter break, and farmers that I am acquainted with down there would have gone out of business years ago if they had to rely on local workers. One farmer I know quite well, goes to stay in a Warsaw hotel for a long weekend every Autumn, to recruit staff for the following season, because the local Job Centre in Penzance are unable to provide him with any more than a handful of people. He is pleased to see Poles that have worked for him before and they bring friends and relatives along, which he is glad to employ, as they have been so reliable in the past. The daffodils and potatoes would be rotting in the ground without our friends from Europe to harvest them.
We have two large meat packing plants near me, and the workforce is predominantly Polish. Without them we would starve, or at best, be forced into vegetarianism.
We might be able to survive without daffs, potatoes and lamb chops, but dirty Hospitals are quite another matter.
I have spent a good deal of time these last 2 years, in and out of various Hospitals, with my brothers serious head injury. Our NHS would cease to function without immigrants, especially in the more unskilled areas like cleaners.
If we could persuade enough of our "sick" and unemployed citizens to work instead of spending years sitting around watching daytime telly, we wouldn't need these foreign workers. But successive Governments of both political hues haven't been terribly successful in solving this problem, although this present lot have tried and are beginning to make some headway, as I will quite happily acknowledge.