Why is it?

[DodgyAgent]

I walked past Victoria coach station yesterday on the way to a meeting, being an observant agent I noticed two things:
There was an abundance of people from eastern europe arriving presumably to work in jobs at the a*** end of the jobs market. There was also a considerable number of (self??) "important" looking characters wandering around in quasi police uniforms wearing "community officer" badges on the backs of their high vis yellow jackets. Now it seems to me that all these uniformed twits do all day is to give visitors directions; they do nothing else (they are all so fat, old and or unhealthy they couldnt possibly chase or detain a pickpocket).
Why is it then that the tax payer is forking out vast sums of money to employ British people to give directions to immigrant workers? should these people not themselves be working as barmen, pickers, care workers, street sweepers etc?. After all if a Polish barman has the initiative to find his way to London, it shouldnt be too hard for him to work out his travel directions once he gets here.

[PerlOfWisdom]

But how would that make more people vote Labour?

[threaded]

DodgyAgent: you mistake the purpose of the yellow jackets, think early days of the brown shirts.

HTH

[DodgyAgent]

DodgyAgent: you mistake the purpose of the yellow jackets, think early days of the brown shirts.

HTH

Threaded they dont really look threatening enough to worry anyone, but I bet they will vote labour.

[threaded]

Everyone used to laugh at the brownshirts at first as well...

[DodgyAgent]

Everyone used to laugh at the brownshirts at first as well...

You saw it first threaded (in 5 years time whilst you are sitting in solitary as a political prisoner you will be able to wallow in the satisfatction of being able to say "I told you so" )

[threaded]

No, they will cause me to have an 'accident'.

It is already happening.

[sasguru]

No, they will cause me to have an 'accident'.

It is already happening.

You ARE an accident, Threaded. A miserable stain on the fabric of life.

[xoggoth]

Has anyone been in a bar or restaurant recently where the staff have not been mostly East European? High percentage in supermarkets too.

Ah yes, silly me! they do the jobs British people don't want of course!

The only slight problem I have with that concept is that a couple of years back I cannot recall hanging around in these same or similar bars/restaurants/supermarkets for hours waiting to be served because of staff shortages.

The reality is mostly that immigrants create their own demand. Add more people, you need more barmen, shop assistants, doctors etc to cater for them. The gross domestic product goes up, the quality of life goes down and, if you're really lucky, the standard of living goes nowhere.

[sasguru]

Has anyone been in a bar or restaurant recently where the staff have not been mostly East European? High percentage in supermarkets too.

Ah yes, silly me! they do the jobs British people don't want of course!

The only slight problem I have with that concept is that a couple of years back I cannot recall hanging around in these same or similar bars/restaurants/supermarkets for hours waiting to be served because of staff shortages.

The reality is mostly that immigrants create their own demand. Add more people, you need more barmen, shop assistants, doctors etc to cater for them. The gross domestic product goes up, the quality of life goes down and, if you're really lucky, the standard of living goes nowhere.

It all stems from the mindset you see. Rather than thinking of ourselves as a medium sized country in Europe, some people persist in the grandeur of Empire. Hence adventures in Iraq and allowing unlimited immigration - becuase of course a "big" country doesn't need to worry about such trivia.