Firms urged to hire UK unemployed not foreign workers

[d000hg]

On the one hand they want to reduce unemployment. On the other they want to help UK businesses be able to export successfully.
If the two are not complementary, then what? Stifle companies short-term by forcing them to hire and train Brits, or hope companies can bring in enough to fund the benefits system?

[OwlHoot]

.. I am looking for an Eastern European 25 year old bird with a good chassis and down on her luck .

Got just the thing for you Dodgy.

It breeds in southern and central Europe, where it is the largest species ...

There must be some down on their luck, who haven't found a breeding partner.

[gingerjedi]

Got just the thing for you Dodgy.



There must be some down on their luck, who haven't found a breeding partner.

Them foreign bustards are already over here: BBC News - Salisbury Plain great bustard project EU funding boost

[DaveB]

Or to put it another way.

The Daily Mash - Firms urged to hire stupid little tulips

A spokesman for the Confederation of British Industry said: "We don't want to employ foreigners. We only do it because we want things to actually work and not be completely terrible all the time.

"Otherwise, yeah, totally."

Kyle Stephenson, 19, from Peterborough, said: "I went for a job last week and they gave it to some Bulgarian just because he didn't sit there wanking the whole time."

[DimPrawn]

Oh and another thing. If you want British people to work, don't pay them benefits not to.

Benefits should ramp down every month. You get 100% on day 1 and lose 5% of them each month you are not working.

DP for PM.

[PAH]

Alternatively, make the dole dossers do community work rather than laze at home watching Jeremy "well, well, well" Kyle.

I was watching The World at War recently (excellent documentary, though not really utilising the benefits of blu-ray) and IIRC the Germans got the unemployed to build the autobahns.

Looks like a solution for those wanting those high speed rail links between london and the north.

[doodab]

Looks like a solution for those wanting those high speed rail links between london and the north.

So what you are suggesting is that instead of endless public enquiries and expensive compulsory purchase schemes we simply unleash the doleys like a plague of locusts stripping the earth bare, laying waste to local economies and encouraging people living along the route to sell up at knock down prices?

It might just work.

[DodgyAgent]

Alternatively, make the dole dossers do community work rather than laze at home watching Jeremy "well, well, well" Kyle.

I was watching The World at War recently (excellent documentary, though not really utilising the benefits of blu-ray) and IIRC the Germans got the unemployed to build the autobahns.

Looks like a solution for those wanting those high speed rail links between london and the north.

And they can be fed on British Rail sandwiches

[rd409]

Oh and another thing. If you want British people to work, don't pay them benefits not to.

Benefits should ramp down every month. You get 100% on day 1 and lose 5% of them each month you are not working.

DP for PM.

You'll get my vote just for that.

[gingerjedi]

Just let people work on the side and claim modest benefits, let them grow weed in their lofts too.

No job at that level will pay enough to live on without some sort of subsidy, time to be realistic.