The working/minimum wage provides a target to aim down at. Besides, if all those expecting the government (us) to pay for their housing etc actually had the mind to do the work that the immigrants do, then perhaps they might get better contracts/money... Genuine zero hour contracts actually pay a decent rate because they provide labour for infrastructure.
Shitty shop jobs have low rates and hours to a) maximise profit... If no one worked for these companies then, again, a radical rethink would see wholesale changes to the employment market both in terms of wages and job security. The side effect of this would be an increase in cost which would affect all of us* b) make employment numbers look better... Government won't change this, if anything the lefties will actively encourage this behavior.
There's plenty of work around, if you can be arsed to do it. So no sympathy from me there.
*I would wager that this extra cost on products/services would actually work out cheaper for everyone by way of higher wages than the burden of supporting those who won't work.
In your part of the world maybe but not everywhere
No offence but your a southerner and unless you have lived up here for a big chunk of your life, you really haven't a clue what its like up north
This country has been split in two for best part of 60 years.
Up here, work for the common man and women came from manufacturing and production.
Whether you was a skilled person with a trade, a so called semi skilled person with skills who supported the skilled people OR you swept the mess up on the floor.
Either way, you worked in a factory because that is simply what you did.
With the advent of automation and technology, these jobs started to dwindle but these jobs was never replaced (and putting my capitalist money grabbing head on, why should they when the owners / share holder can profit the money saved)
Added to that, you have union leaders like Scargill, Len McCluskey and Jack Jones who became that powerful that they could hold the country to ransom with the good old call of one out everybody out so people like Thatcher went out to destroy them.
Once the unions where destroyed and the industries that they dominated had also been destroyed, the southern based Tories stuck two fingers up to the north and left it to rot
When B liar got into power, those who hadn't got a job was encouraged to live off the state
Those people who was then stuck on the dole very quickly became unemployable because the jobs / wages on offer didn't come anywhere near what the state gave them to keep them quite and quite frankly, the British workforce is lazy so lapped it up
In approx 2005, B lair opened the floodgates to the labour market to the Eastern Europeans.
The working wage become the The Wage of the unskilled / semi skilled because companies didn't have to pay anymore and they loved it. The Eastern Europeans came over with a better work ethos to build a better life for themselves and took what's left of the jobs because by now the unskilled British worker was lazy.
I've often asked myself why did ALL parties affectively abandon the north
Well this is my theory ....................
Politicians look after the people who vote for them.
Around here and many other places, you have Labour OR the Limp Dems (who are a friggin joke anyway) and UKIP (who became nothing more then a protest vote because the thick bastids could never put any policies on the table
)
In these areas, 8 out 10 times, people vote labour. So why should labour spend money in these areas when they will get the votes regardless ?
Quite simply, as a rule, they don't
They just make false promises and its lapped up by the voters
The torries are just the same. They go on about the northern powerhouse. Well you can bet your life that any money available goes to marginal seats and any infrastructure built passes through these areas were the vote swings
Again, its the "i'm alright jack, opps you attitude that IS politics in this country
That's MY take on why there is a shortage of proper jobs (not zero hour / 60 hour a week to make a living jobs) around these parts
So back to BREXIT
What has this got to do with BREXIT ?
Well now the benefits have been rightly cut, those great unwashed now have 2 choices ............... either work OR turn to crime
Sadly, rightly or wrongly, the British workforce are classed as lazy. If a employer has a choice of employing a eastern European or a British person for a services or production line job, he will take the European every time
BREXIT was a chance to not only gain back political independence from the EU but limit the influx of foreign labour and force the British companies to put British workers first. IF they don't come up to scratch, they sack them (and contra to popular belief, if your dismissed you rightly get sweet F All off the state for upto 6 months)
This country is totally FOOOKED