This, in letters of fire six feet high.

But I’m going to try and make this point as clearly as I can. There are a few hundred contractors completing a job for a temporary period of time only. I know it’s a vulgar comparison, but please bear with me. Imagine you are loaded and you want your house redecorated. You call the firm you think is best value for money and hire them. They bring their own people and do the job. But then imagine that a few local decorators find out about it and start going mad. “Why did you call those. We could have done it”.

But isn’t this the free market though?

Instead of checking that all decorators, by law are paying decent money, are safe, have decent breaks or that they don’t work donkeys’ hours, the issue becomes that “the local decorators should have done the job”. It’d all be very nice, but unrealistic in a contemporary free market society. See why it’s surreal?

Back to Lincolnshire. In the specific case, the job those people are doing will only take months. At the end of it, those workers are going to return home (Sicily, and Portugal, according to the reports).

For some well known reason, though, the Chinese whispers started. From the firm bringing its own full-time skilled workforce for reasons of time and efficiency, it gradually turned into “they are deliberately turning people down because they’re British, and “we are being swamped”.

It is true that some people on the left genuinely started making the case about the country’s workers losing control of their negotiating power, ability to secure good jobs for all, etc. But it took the unions (and a Labour government) 11 years to bring in watered down measures to limit the most extreme impact of agency/casual work in Britain. And, incidentally, I don’t recall any anger, sit-ins and walkouts when 750,000 jobs were offshored during “the years of binge” 1997-2007. It’s ironic that the explosion of anger took place against what is essentially the wrong target.

Anyway, The Express and the Daily Mail in particular started publishing daily opinion columns ranting against immigration. They would anyway, but this really made their mouth water. One logical somersault after the other. They’d start with Grimsby and, within the same article, talk about asylum seekers claiming benefits, our own homemade feral scum on the dole, the immigrants swamping Britain, our loss of identity thanks to Labour, the EU coup. A “Best Of”/”Golden Collection”, that has literally fuckall to do with the issue in question. See what I mean? This is how you inflame a situation and whip up populist mob mentality. Textbook.
You should have then checked the “comments”. Some were truly scary. Literally. “we all know these foreigners all wanna cum here cuz they get everything for free” and several references to “wops” and “johnny foreigners”. Again, I remind you, what did the Grimsby issue have nothing to do with this!???
It’s no wonder the BNP vultures smelt an excellent opportunity. It’s what they do for a living. And then you moan about the anti-BNP warnings, chavscum?

The Unions didn’t want to be left out. Understandably so. It’d have looked bad on them. Some of Dereck Simpson’s initial comments stated that the Italian/Portuguese workers were “on the cheap”. The Unions were asked to confirm this but, when pressed on the issue, of course, they couldn’t.

One final point and this is going to get me pilloried.
You hear stuff about the British spirit and the British bulldog and the British resolve. Yesterday the news came in that RBS (and other banks) are awarding themselves humongous bonuses with our money. Now, isn’t that something that the British should demonstrate about and get truly pissed off about?
Shouldn’t the tabloids write inches and inches of bile about that? We are being taken for a ride, pathetically so, and instead we’re just swallowing it, at best uttering to ourselves that “it’s not on”, and then meekily wait until our anger is then deflected and re-directed and mis-directed against some other harmless poor sod – just because they’re not British. Think about it. It’s embarrassing.

Can they do the job quicker? can they do it better?

“I’ve seen reports saying the imported workers are having their transport, accommodation and subsistance deducted from their pay.”

THE BASTARDS! Man, I *never* have to pay for my transport, or accomodation, or living costs. The EU dream is truly dead.

Just seen Sami from Liberty and Will Young (yes Will fucking Young) on Question Time tell us all, that they know fuck all about the issue, but lets not pander to the BNP, to wild cheers from the assorted lefties in the audience. Well thats it solved then. Fuck the poor unemployed with families to support, exitinguish their pride and aspirations and abandon them to welfare fishing net, but its ok ‘cos we can make some patronising statement about racism and we all feel morally superior.

PS Theresa May was also appalling. She was just reading from the central office script.

Well done though, as I say.

Just to add, I listened to Mandy today and he’s scared stiff.
He’s singing away about not talking down the economy and trying to make people with a legitimate grievance keep their mouths shut. He would like to see a quiet workforce just getting on with whatever they want to throw at people and say nothing despite their homes are being repossessed as a result of his idiocy and the governments stupid immigration and employment policies, which are more aptly named “unemployment policies”. labour out, Labour out. They are scabs on a working mans back.

Oh yeah. Get back to me when you have a cohesive argument against my point though.

Nobody, and in particular those who resent their employment, can give an answer. So, given absence of response, STFU.

Doesn’t sum up your arguement, Lee: doesn’t mention Cornwall once.

“Where is the reference to unemployed Italian oil-rig engineers unable to work due to cheap British labour”, you said.
It’ll take you 30 seconds. Google “unemployment rate in Italy”. You’ll find it’s approaching 7%. I’m sure it includes a number of technicians and engineers caught in the crisis in the wrong place at the wrong time.
And in Italy too, like in the rest of Europe, the least travelled people are also of the opinion that “they all wanna cum ‘ere”EXACTLY in the style of the Daily Mail.

Its ironic you Daily Mail obsessives use an inflammatory tabloid article in an Italian newspaper to support your opinions. Trouble making hacks giving half-truths to oil workers to fit their agenda. Where is the reference to unemployed Italian oil-rig engineers unable to work due to cheap British labour. Oh yeah, there isn’t any is there?

As I said on another thread, The protectionist accusation is the politics of fear. Its an attempt to appeal to our ingrained fear of reprisal. “Don’t stand up to the kid kicking you because he will only kick you harder”. Its simply bullying. Its also inaccurate. The British workers abroad are not undercutting local people, they are not some company’s rent-a-cheap workforce, they are not displacing local people onto their State’s debilitating benefits system. They are fulfilling a skills deficit. The fear of irresponsible reprisals is appeasement of stupidity.

Still, if I took 10 Cornish workers and………..

ITALIANS KICK OUT BRITS IN PETTY REVENGE