Again, you are WAY off the mark.
The main reason we have high unemployment, especially among low skill workers is the minimum wage law.
The government makes it ILLEGAL to employ anyone for less than NMW. That means that if your productivity is not worth the NMW, an employer isn't going to employ you. That's just common sense. Employers don't have a duty to employ people; they have a duty to make money.
If your productivity is only worth £5ph then you have been priced out of work.
It IS to do with productivity, it's got nothing to do with "fairness".
And what's the reason we have the minimum wage my learned friend?
Also knowing what an employee costs an employer in a legitimate role, I would argue thats a far bigger factor than the NMW. Judging by 66-1 for retail. I'd say it's highly unlikely that once these people get the jobs they will sit around drinking tea.
There's a myth that the British are lazy that you seem to have readily bought into. Our car manufacturing is rated as the most productive in Europe. We have built one of the greatest countries on earth through our industry.
Our society has developed far beyond people earning £3ph and being took advantage of by unscrouplulous individuals. We have health & safety laws, unions and minimum wage to stop people being taken advantage of.
Immigrants will accept work without this in a lot of cases because the quality of life they are accustomed to is one far below that of what our government, elected by it's people, deems the minimum neccessary for our people. These have come about through people fighting for workers rights and a decent standard of living for all our citizens. If an employer canno9t run a profitbable business within the confines our our laws they have no place setting one up. £6p/h or 10-12k pa is hardly top wages.
Eventually the countries of the immigrants will also develop these if they are governed fairly and properly. The fact that they are willing to undermine our countries values is clearly now a massive issue for our nationals. That said it's not thier fault, it's ours that we allow it.
Yeah the 40s were a different story entirely - everything went t*ts up - but the way he rebuilt that economy in 1930's was just astonishing, it really was. It might sound crazy but if he hasn't been such a lunatic and had simply balanced the books and revised his economic policy in times of strength and peace (instead of going all Hitler on us xD) then he would have went down as one of the greatest leaders Germany ever had.
