Originally Posted by
Seekingasylum
Only knuckle-dragging Brxit morons, the ignorant, the ill-informed, the bigoted and the racist claim that immigrants distort the employment market by driving wages down and keeping indigenous labour out of the market.
The UK's occupational workforce number around 32 millions that operates in an environment where the minimum wage applies to all and is legally enforced.
The 3 million or so EU migrants constitute a mere 5% of the population and of those around 86% aged over 18 years old are in employment, a rate higher than indigenous labour and a total of about 2.3 million which represents around 6% of the total occupational workforce.
Now, by dint of what rationale would anyone with a fucking brain actually believe a mere 6% of the workforce dictates wage policy for the remaining 94%?? And before any monkey brained moron says otherwise, the EU migrant is employed in the full spectrum of work, from consultant heart specialist to a ward cleaner, from the bank securities trader to the sandwich bar owner, from quantity surveyor to hod carrier, from college professor to handyman, tc.
The thing is, and this is where the stupidity of Paki Patel comes in, the UK is a liberal, western democracy is a free society in which citizens can choose what they do. Patel of course is as thick as shit and fails to comprehend the implications. The British do not wish to work in fields, clean shit-clogged arseholes of geriatric patients, change hotel beds or to work in factory lines processing food and if they do they are a minority or they cannot keep pace with demand.
In the past twenty years we have seen an explosion in the demographic that is in part time employment, and who classify themselves as self employed - 26% of the total ar now part time workers, and around 15 % are self employed. 10% of all part-time work is involuntary. To a certain extent the stats are driven by the working tax credit system that subsidises such employment and low wages - employers also benefit by paying lower NI contributions.
EU migration is not therefore the driver of this trend, it is merely a function of British society as it evolves into a largely serviced based economy.
The idiot Patel has said that the economically inactive of the UK, around 8% of the population, can make up the shortfall created by the enforced diminution of EU migrant contribution to the economy. Disaggregated, this percentage comprises, the sick and infirm, students, the retired, housewives, single parents, carers, the discouraged and the criminal.
So, is this half-witted Home Secretary in her arrant and lofty ignorance seriously suggesting that the inactive demographic is going to decide in the next 10 months to alter the entire trajectory of their lives and take up work for which they variously have no aptitude, skill or even inclination to undertake??
On 1.1.21 the employers of the UK will now have to replenish their labour force from a diminishing pool of workers and the only solution offered by an idiot Home Secretary to the impending disaster for the care and leisure industries is to upskill pensioners, housewives, students, the disabled and the sick.
Truly with Patel we are firmly in the Age of The Stupid.