Opps this is Racism

[Mottie]

My mistake, sorry. I should have put UNemployment.

It is wrong to employ foreign workers when you have any of your own population unemployed.

It is wrong, stupid and downright immoral to employ foreign workers when you have any of your own population unemployed, when those unemployed are being paid taxpayers money for being unemployed.

Well, in the early eighties, I got a job as a mechanic in Cape Town in a VW/Audi/Porsche dealership. I went over with about a dozen other Brits to work for the same company. The only reason we got the jobs was because there weren’t enough skilled South Africans to fill the vacancies. My girlfriend (now my wife) also got a job over there because she was a typist, skilled in the use of a particular typewriter or pc or something and she got a job training others up. Just because there are people that are unemployed it doesn’t mean that they are capable of filling any vacancy that is needed. BTW, apart from the weather it was a Shiite country to live in, we didn’t much like the Afrikaners so after a year we upped sticks, jumped on a plane to Durban, got on a ship and came home. Had to sneak off though as I was on a two year contract and it would have cost a lot (repay flights, bonuses, termination of contract fees etc) to jack it in properly. Sod 'em!

 

[Mottie]

My mistake, sorry. I should have put UNemployment.

It is wrong to employ foreign workers when you have any of your own population unemployed.

It is wrong, stupid and downright immoral to employ foreign workers when you have any of your own population unemployed, when those unemployed are being paid taxpayers money for being unemployed.

Well, in the early eighties, I got a job as a mechanic in Cape Town in a VW/Audi/Porsche dealership. I went over with about a dozen other Brits to work for the same company. The only reason we got the jobs was because there weren’t enough skilled South Africans to fill the vacancies. My girlfriend (now my wife) also got a job over there because she was a typist, skilled in the use of a particular typewriter or pc or something and she got a job training others up. Just because there are people that are unemployed it doesn’t mean that they are capable of filling any vacancy that is needed. BTW, apart from the weather it was a Shiite country to live in, we didn’t much like the Afrikaners so after a year we upped sticks, jumped on a plane to Durban, got on a ship and came home. Had to sneak off though as I was on a two year contract and it would have cost a lot (repay flights, bonuses, termination of contract fees etc) to jack it in properly. Sod 'em!

 

[Deleted member 18243]

Just because there are people that are unemployed it doesn’t mean that they are capable of filling any vacancy that is needed.

This is not South Africa though. We should have capable people. The benefits system has ruined us.

 

[Mottie]

This is not South Africa though. We should have capable people. The benefits system has ruined us.

Why should the U.K. have capable people? Every country in the world looks elsewhere for skilled workers in particular fields when they have a shortfall. I know people who have gone to work in China - millions of people there and no benefit system to talk of so why haven’t they got "capable people"?

 

[IT Minion]

It's possible to object to people undercutting your working life without being a racist. It's also entirely possible for a racist to object to the exact same thing without race coming into it.

But if there is racism involved then there may be more violence, cruelty and general unpleasantness. It also may turn something from a situation where you shrug and accept that's how the world works to one where people get hurt or worse.

Minor point, people use the term racism where bigotry or predjudice are more appropriate. But they all boil down to being an arse.