I give you 2 examples of this country.
EXAMPLE 1.
When I was 19 (nearly 12 years ago) I was temporarily out of work and as a single man with rented accommodation I needed to sign on to receive Housing Benefit and Council Tax relief, so I did. I had to fill in forms and take them to local council offices to be vetted (which took around 7 weeks, with rent arrears mounting). Anyway there was a discrepency and I had to go back and sort it. While I was in the queue there was an Indian bloke (could of been any nationality) who was claiming, nothing wrong there, but he couldn't speak a word of English - he had an interpreter with him, and I'm struggling to claim, I speak the language, I'd worked since I left school, my parents, grandparents and their forefathers were born here and grafted.
Back then I wasn't too bothered but if that was now with the influx of Eastern Europeans I'd have flipped me lid big time. I was out of work for 4 months and I've worked constantly until..........
EXAMPLE 2.
.............now. I was laid off mid December. I knew it was coming but I hadn't been there long so I didn't get redundancy. I don't have Industry recognised qualifications but I'm a hard worker, unfortunately that is not enough (neither is my BTEC ND in Art & Design
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). I knew it was going to be quiet jobwise Jan-Feb but its now 3 full months of not doing a great deal and I'm bored shitless. Whats the reason for me being unable to find work? Foreigners. They work for Min. wage and they don't know their rights, therefore they don't answer back they think overtime is a gift. Most Agencies would rather employ a Pole than a Brit and I think its disgusting.
It gets better though. I can't even claim benefits (if I wanted to) because my gf/partner
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works full-time and brings home just over £400 p/w. Apparantly thats ample for a couple withe a 4 year old, a Mortgage, school fees and everything else we all have to pay each week.
WHY THE F*CK HAVE I WORKED FOR 14 YEARS OF MY LIFE, PAID TAXES, MADE NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS TO BE TOLD 'I'M SORRY SIR BUT YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO ANY FORM OF BENEFITS, BUT YOU CAN SIGN ON EVERY FORTNIGHT TO GET YOUR STAMP PAID WHILE WE SNEER AT YOU'. GET TO F*CK!
Neither my savings nor my patience are going to last forever, but I feel alot of us sing from the same hymn sheet on here.
I'm glad I've got that out of my system. Phew!