A very interesting point was raised on the Mathew Wright Show today

[Bobbisox]

Are foreign workers really taking our jobs?
or as a Nation, are we too lazy?
Who really is to blame?
The company's for exploiting foreign workers by paying them a lot less?
This is always an emotive topic so let me state here and now, I am not being a Racist bigot

[Arti]

This issue has been getting debated for years, and will continue to be for a long time to come.

[Bobbisox]

No doubt it will Arti
but it hasn't been all bad..LOL
181 posts, eh?

[jackthehat]

Like I said, soaps, I trust as a fine upstanding citizen who is very concerned about the level of fraud in the benefit system, you'll have reported what you know to the relevant departments ?

[mike11111]

Can I just ask one question, which I ought to have raised at the beginning, "Who, or what, the f**k is the Matthew Wright Show, and what should I be sacrificing to watch these pearls of wisdom, whenever they may appear?"

[Bobbisox]

each morning on Chanel 5 Mike, discussing what is in the News

[mike11111]

Two points:
1.I can't afford Chanel 5 and have to settle for Brut or Old Spice.
2. A woman who has nothing better to do with her time than laze around watching TV in the morning is a serious social concern,although I am given to understand that social mores South of the Tyne are somewhat more lax than those to the North.

[Bobbisox]

your gan a git a belt for that..LOL

[mike11111]

3. I would sooner confess to knowing the way to the local brothel than where the button for Channel 5 is located on my remote.

[Bobbisox]

ha-ha Mike, where is that
Elswick Road..LOL

[starone]

You have to have money to live and so you have to work to get it, or beg, borrow or steal it if that is your inclination. What i do not like to see are the lads between 16 and 18 hanging about with no hope whatsoever of getting a job. In fact it seems to me that companies have stopped employing them. How on earth are their parents expected to keep them - they cannot 'sign on' until they are 18. Going on to the NHS when I was a child - before the NHS was even thought of - I was in the local hospital for a couple of months enforced stay and the nurses there were all Irish. My next door neighbour who is black came from Jamaica shortly after the war when no-one wanted to drive buses or do menial work and the Government actually begged them to come here and work. He has worked wherever he could find a job - I love listening to him talking about the various jobs he did - so it has been going on for a long time.

[Bobbisox]

what is very worrying Star, we have a whole generation of young people who don't know what having a job is, all very sad indeed

[mike11111]

What is even more worrying is that we have an OLDER generation of people who don't know what a job is, sometimes stretching back to the third generation.

[Bobbisox]

well I'm off to bed now, it's been interesting to say the least
I have a big day tomorrow so Night night x

[soaps]

No Jack, I haven't reported what I know to the relevant departments, don't they already have people to investigate these claimants?

[jackthehat]

They do, however, they are not psychic...........

[sara3]

soaps, there are millions of benefit claimants out there.. do you think all their movements are captured on cctv, and viewed by benefit investigators?

that "it's someone else's problem" attitude is just one of the reasons this country is in trouble.

if you don't want to report it, you can't gripe about it.

[Aqualung]

EDDIE51 most people find it very hard to claim any kind of benefit so no wonder they want to be paid on the the lump.
The trouble and messing about you would have to work long hours for a few weeks is not worth it.
The DWP don't make it easy for you and treat most of the people i know like scum, certainly make them feel like scum.

[Gromit]

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