With the CBI recently forecasting that half a million workers will have been made unemployed by the end of the year thanks to the financial crisis, one would be forgiven for thinking that the last thing we need is thousands more workers coming into the country.

Well think again because the government, in their infinite wisdom but seeming lack of basic mathematical skills, is doing just that.

Figures just released by the Department of Work and Pensions have shown that the numbers of foreign workers rose by 10,000 between April and June. This was despite a fall in the UK workforce of 15,000 over the same period.

The rise occurred in spite of the Government’s much trumpeted points-based immigration system, introduced in March of this year, which was supposed to make it more difficult for foreign nationals from outside the EU to obtain work permits.

Yet more than half of all foreign workers have been given permission from the Government to remain because they are from outside the EU.

A Home Office spokesman dismissed the findings:
“Government and independent research continues to find no significant evidence of negative employment effects from migration.”

He continued to laud the Government’s new scheme, despite the revelations: “The points system, plus our plans for newcomers to earn their citizenship, will reduce overall numbers of economic migrants and the numbers awarded permanent settlement.

“It also ensures British jobseekers get the first crack of the whip and only those foreign workers we need - and no more - will be able to come to the UK.”

Former Labour minister Frank Field brought the issue to light in the Commons, saying: “When is the Government going to try and deliver on the Prime Minister’s promise of British jobs for British workers?”

This was after Field disclosed in the Commons that more than 20,000 new National Insurance numbers were issued to foreign nationals last year in the London borough that will house the Olympic Village in 2012.


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A spectacular betrayal of the British people by the Labour government. The first priority of any government should be in looking after its own indigenous people first, particularily when we are entering tough economic times such as now.

A protest is taking place at a new power station in Nottinghamshire over claims that UK workers are being kept out of jobs there.
Unite said the problem focused on two Spanish sub-contractors who have indicated they would not be employing local labour.



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