Lithuanian shanty town... in Peterborough

[Strix]

work rate and hanging about for lengthy hours are very different Mathom, and there's another thread about what everybody expects as a minimum standard of living now

 

the very idea of owning your own home, own car, going on two foreign holidays a year.... that used to be luxury, but now we all want it handed to us on a plate and affordable on benefits

[StarSparkle]

work rate and hanging about for lengthy hours are very different Mathom, and there's another thread about what everybody expects as a minimum standard of living now

 

the very idea of owning your own home, own car, going on two foreign holidays a year.... that used to be luxury, but now we all want it handed to us on a plate and affordable on benefits

 

You have a VERY strange view of life in modern Britain, Strix

 

Poverty is only a word to you, isn't it? Lucky you

 

StarSparkle

 

PS Ny name's not SS, thank you Strix, as I've mentioned to you before, several times I think Do me the courtesy of listening

[StarSparkle]

Are British workers able to afford to live on wages offered to them though, that's the problem. It doesn't matter if they are the same as what migrants earn, if you cannot afford a permanent home on them then they are no good to British people.

 

There's also the issue that it might look great that a migrant is willing to work 70 hour weeks for a brief time, after all, the quicker they do the job, the quicker they are out of that room they're sharing with five other sweaty blokes and on their way home with the £££s. But for a British worker who lives here it's not sustainable - people have families they need to go home to at the end of each day.

 

 

This is all so self-evidently obvious, Mathom - why do other people have such difficulty taking it on board? Or are they wilfully blind, because 'they're all right, Jack'? I really don't understand it

 

StarSparkle

[willman]

Unfortunately for them, many tradespeople have priced themselves out of the game now that there is a cheaper alternative. Plasterers will just have to go back to the one holiday villa and a couple of rented student properties.

 

The party is over.

 

Just remind me again - what happened last time the indiginous population priced it self out of work. Oh yes Mrs Thatcher.

 

I know Polish teachers who are working in steelworks in Derbyshire and earn more in a week than they did in a month. There's nothing wrong with that - the Governments trying to encourage entrepeneurs at the moment isn't it.

[Don_Kiddick]

From OP:

 

One resident, Igor, an electrician, said he became homeless after moving to Cambridgeshire for work from London.

 

 

Wasn't he in Young Frankenstein? :hihi:

[pk014b7161]

so if a migrant worker is happy to work for £5.60 an hour every worker should be happy to work for£5.60 an hour

[willman]

so if a migrant worker is happy to work for £5.60 an hour every worker should be happy to work for£5.60 an hour

 

no - but if a job pays £5.60 and someone wants a job the solution is obvious.

eventually the guy who started on £5.60 could have progressed or been promoted or studied to do other things.the guy who won't work for £5.60 will still be sat at home.

[MAMALOCHA!]

so if a migrant worker is happy to work for £5.60 an hour every worker should be happy to work for£5.60 an hour

 

isn't that above minimum wage (i could be wrong) so you shouldn't be complaining

[Tony]

Are electricians underpaid at £18 ph?

 

Rates are up 30% in less than three years. The person that pays the bill has every right to find somebody cheaper.

[pk014b7161]

no - but if a job pays £5.60 and someone wants a job the solution is obvious.

eventually the guy who started on £5.60 could have progressed or been promoted or studied to do other things.the guy who won't work for £5.60 will still be sat at home.

i agree with you but there are company,s who have got rid of good workers to employ persons who are willing to work cheaper i bet there are people on this forum who have had wage cuts forced on them