Does eastern European coming to U.K is a problem?Do you agree with government they are good for U.K economy?

Answer 1

The figures show immigration from Eastern Europe has hugely befitted our economy. There is a labour shortage in the UK and industry would be unable to compete without the extra workers. The public sector also needs more migrant labour. The NHS would simply no longer exist if foreign workers were unable to filling the gaps.

Answer 2

To be honest, I can't help but think that this is a short term solution to a long term problem. The Labour government has totally over stimulated the 'educated' areas of the public sector by encouraging too many people to go through higher education when it was not necessary, leaving many of the countries youngest and brightest potential workers disillusioned and thoroughly debt ridden. Also introducing very in-adequate government Y.T.S-esque schemes and effectively nullifying apprenticeships.
Also cheap labour will not remain cheap, many of the flocking workforce will soon need places to live, a reasonable standard of living etc, which is just not possible on meagre wages and then human right etc etc yadda yadda yadda. Leaving us in approx 10-15 years with exactly the same problem but with an expanded population for the government to support. What then???? import yet more under privileged workers from abroad and set the wheel in motion again?

Answer 3

Cheap labour is not good for the economy.

British workers need to earn a certain amount of money to support their families and survive( pay bills,eat etc) any surplus is spent on luxury goods-holidays,cars etc.The money stays here in Britain and rotates through the system,supporting the economy.
If a British worker cannot earn a basic survival wage then they seek help from the government-The Benefit Agency.

Eastern European workers can afford to work for lower wages,because their families are "at home"where the cost of living is a lot less.These workers do not "need" to earn the same amount of money as a British worker.They can live a basic life here, and send money back to their families,any surplus money that they have is spent in Eastern Europe,helping the economy in these countries.

If the Eastern European worker is allowed to continue working here,then more and more British workers will be forced to work for lower wages and be supported by benefit money,which is not good for the economy of Britain.

Answer 4

Yes, it IS a problem!. NO, I do not agree with the Government!The people who promote open borders and migration, either as an imagined "solution" to global economic injustice, or population pressure, or because they want to effect demographic change in the Western world, are in the wrong.
Here are some of their frequently heard myths:
"We need immigrants to pay our pensions"
Immigrants age too. Who is going to pay the pensions of the millions of immigrants who are coming to Britain and Europe? With this reasoning we will need more and more immigrants to pay the pensions of the new ones. It's a vicious circle which cannot be squared within this false economic paradigm.
"Many companies couldn't survive without immigrants"
So what! If the company is only employing immigrants then what good is it doing for anyone other than immigrants?
"Immigrants do the work we won't do"
This is not necessarily true. Are we to believe that without any immigrants we would have no cafes, no waiters, no cleaners. Of course not. The only reason immigrants are doing these jobs is because they don't pay well enough for indigenous people to accept them.
Immigrants and asylum seekers arrive here, in large numbers, every day, to an already existing nation which is one of the smallest and most over-populated on earth.

Answer 5

There are not enough facts available [facts with integrity] for any of us to make a valid judgement. If immigrants are doing menial, low paid jobs that unemployed Brits won't do then frankly that's immoral. As for immigrant 'skilled labour' keeping British industry working - well what industry? - that all fell apart in the 1980s/1990s - result of a World recession and years of lack of investment in industrial infrastructure to modernise. Now we're a 'service industry' country like Barbados and now even services which can be exported to Asia are reducing our capability to create replacement jobs. The skills we are really short of are those of electricians, plumbers, plasterers, bricklayers, at the working class end of the scale - because we stopped training and apprenticeships. Where is the Construction Industry Training Board these days - that was an organisation representing the construction industry who were responsible for skills training and apprenticeships - it and many others got closed down when some idiot in the civil services advised the then government that that Government Sponsored Training Schemes would be more effective - civil service job creation schemes more like it!

Answer 6

So far they have been good for the economy. If you take the latest influx of Polish workers, they are earning 10 times what they would do at home and they are sending a substantial part of that home. This is helping to revitalise the Polish economy. They will be the last big influx because it's already agreed that in the case of Bulgaria and Roumania their workers will not have a right to work for 6 or 7 years after they join the EU. This is to protect the UK economy and theirs as any sudden influx to the UK would damage their economy as it would be their most able workers who would seek to come here.

Answer 7

Eastern Europeans work harder than Brits and thats a fact. I Brit will always bit*h all day and want a break every 20 minutes. An eastern European will work till they have completed what they said they will. They also do a lot of jobs that British people just dont wanna do.

Answer 8

How are we looking at this? they are doing jobs that some of us refuse to do why money? tis better to do something than nothing & the sooner we as a nation start doing these mundane jobs the sooner we get our country back `cos there won`t be any vacancies for others.You can still get help with rent etc so come on Brits show your true colours !!

Answer 9

lets be honest if it wasnt for immigrants coming to this country for work you would have a building trade, a restaurant trade, food processing industry and most importantly a NHS. We have an aging population and a pension timebomb we need the RIGHT immigrants as much as they need britain, the trick is too manage immigration properly so it is advantageous to the UK the problem at the moment that is not happening.

Answer 10

who's thought became it? The idiots working the ecu, who desperate an open-boarder coverage could be a terrific thought. properly, it is a terrific thought, till you reside interior the united kingdom. human beings come here by way of fact they get loose healthcare, loose advantages, and loose housing the 2d they set foot on our soil. And did you spot the information on the weekend? The French are telling us we ought to continuously settle for all of the unlawful immigrants at Calais, in simple terms by way of fact a lot of them are from commonwealth international places etc. yet they are commonwealth international places, France, meaning they haven't any ought to bypass away - we supply them hundreds of thousands in help a year. it is not our fault they are able to't do something with it. the financial mess we are in now's not hte fault of immigrants, the concern is that those from the ecu are loose to bugger off on each and every occasion they like, so as that they bypass away on each and every occasion there's a sprint of financial worry. This leaves us lacking a great share of the artwork rigidity in some trades, which then exacerbates the financial difficulty there. we are purely a small u . s . a ., and we don't have from now on room. the place I stay, the government is forcing our council to construct all alongside the Thames - on a flood hassle-free for God's sake! it is idiocy previous perception. maybe if we allowed much less immigrants in, and inspired our very own inhabitants to have much less toddlers, we does not ought to construct residences on land that gets flooded each and every 5 years, and while situations get difficult as they at the instant are, it could make it much less annoying to discover jobs for the unemployed, by way of fact there could be extra call for.