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May. 18th, 2011 08:59 pm"The Day the Immigrants Left"
British film-makers decided to take the complaints about 'British jobs for British people' seriously. and they have gone to a town in East Anglia with a large eastern european migrant workforce with all these tattooed unskilled brits who start the film whinging about how the immigrants have taken all the jobs, how they want to work but they can't get jobs. Claiming that it is the problem of letting 'third world countries joining the EU' has caused all the problems - they claim that they work for less (the employers say that is not true) that all the services are overrun, that there are more migrants than anyone else in the town (statistically not true).
So they find twelve brits who are on benefits and replace various migrant workers for a few days. In a factory, on a farm and in an indian curry house.
They all start out saying they want t work, they can work as hard as everyone, and they can't get minutes into the job without it turning into complaining and bitching. The two guys in the factory job are amazing. One of the three never even showed up, the two older ones show up late, whinge that they can't understand the trainer, they can't pack the right amount in the crates and when they are called on it they claim that you don't know it is them that made the mistake. And claiming that the factory is pretending that they work that fast when they aren't there.
The farm hands - same thing. Not long in they are whining about how they are new, and so of course they can't do that fast. They keep explaining to them what they need to do, and they keep whinging that they are being picked on. Actually they just won't do the job properly. And the numbers show up with the pay. And funny the girl came out on top. They actually didn't pick enough to meet minimum wage - so he had to spend 50 quid topping out their salaries over what they earned.
The waiter can't tie a tie. And copes with about a half hour of the lunch seating. He goes out for a smoke instead of working. He only manages half the lunch seating.
Funny though, all the employers are brits who are saying that it is the dole culture that is the problem, that the brits don't want the hours or the hard work.
Awesome headmistress of the local school talking about the school before the increase in migration and and now. Looking at the tax immigrants pay in and whether they cover their costs.
Of the 12 - four called in sick on the first day. And two were late because a kid was sick apparently. Actually cool cause they make some of the sickies turn up and explain why they didn't show and make them explain to the other brits in their team.
Of the 12 only 4 have managed to do a decent job. Staggering. I would love to know how that show was received in Britain. Actually, as it was a doco, the very people it was about probably didn't watch it.
But I loved it.
Tonnes of talk about how good the brits are, by the brits - who aren't the equal of the eastern european workers - in terms of how much work they get done, how quickly, the quality, and sheesh, the bitching and whinging by the brits. And any time they do anything wrong, the brits all get stroppy and blame others and fall back on racism.
and I have to say, most of the twelve aren't proving that wrong at all.
British film-makers decided to take the complaints about 'British jobs for British people' seriously. and they have gone to a town in East Anglia with a large eastern european migrant workforce with all these tattooed unskilled brits who start the film whinging about how the immigrants have taken all the jobs, how they want to work but they can't get jobs. Claiming that it is the problem of letting 'third world countries joining the EU' has caused all the problems - they claim that they work for less (the employers say that is not true) that all the services are overrun, that there are more migrants than anyone else in the town (statistically not true).
So they find twelve brits who are on benefits and replace various migrant workers for a few days. In a factory, on a farm and in an indian curry house.
They all start out saying they want t work, they can work as hard as everyone, and they can't get minutes into the job without it turning into complaining and bitching. The two guys in the factory job are amazing. One of the three never even showed up, the two older ones show up late, whinge that they can't understand the trainer, they can't pack the right amount in the crates and when they are called on it they claim that you don't know it is them that made the mistake. And claiming that the factory is pretending that they work that fast when they aren't there.
The farm hands - same thing. Not long in they are whining about how they are new, and so of course they can't do that fast. They keep explaining to them what they need to do, and they keep whinging that they are being picked on. Actually they just won't do the job properly. And the numbers show up with the pay. And funny the girl came out on top. They actually didn't pick enough to meet minimum wage - so he had to spend 50 quid topping out their salaries over what they earned.
The waiter can't tie a tie. And copes with about a half hour of the lunch seating. He goes out for a smoke instead of working. He only manages half the lunch seating.
Funny though, all the employers are brits who are saying that it is the dole culture that is the problem, that the brits don't want the hours or the hard work.
Awesome headmistress of the local school talking about the school before the increase in migration and and now. Looking at the tax immigrants pay in and whether they cover their costs.
Of the 12 - four called in sick on the first day. And two were late because a kid was sick apparently. Actually cool cause they make some of the sickies turn up and explain why they didn't show and make them explain to the other brits in their team.
Of the 12 only 4 have managed to do a decent job. Staggering. I would love to know how that show was received in Britain. Actually, as it was a doco, the very people it was about probably didn't watch it.
But I loved it.
Tonnes of talk about how good the brits are, by the brits - who aren't the equal of the eastern european workers - in terms of how much work they get done, how quickly, the quality, and sheesh, the bitching and whinging by the brits. And any time they do anything wrong, the brits all get stroppy and blame others and fall back on racism.
and I have to say, most of the twelve aren't proving that wrong at all.