foreign nationals

[Le Sanglier]

By the time I was 20 years old (1980) I had flown on Freddie Laker to Los Angeles with £50 in my pocket, no credit card, no email…it was poste restante back then. You waited 2 months for a letter from home if you were lucky. No onward flights no nothing. I had no back up and no support whatsoever.

 

John Lennon got shot while I was there. I arrived in Australia with 1 American dollar in my pocket and left there 18 months later and followed the hippy trail back to the UK overland through Asia. Gap years, round the world tickets, and the term backpacker or backpacker hostels weren’t invented yet. I celebrated my 21st birthday after I had done all that.

 

 

That was hard. I don’t have much time for small minded regionalism.

 

You either know how to get off your arse or you don’t.

 

Did you shoot John Lennon ?

[daveindales]

I hope UKIP get their way. The British government and not the EU should govern the influx of foreign nationals (and everything else) in this country.

[Albedo]

Did you shoot John Lennon ?

 

I was aiming for Yoko...Oops:001_smile:

[Andy Collins]

There is always something to do, the lower the skillset, the greater the variety. Being more skilled can greatly limit your chances as an employer will be aware that you are less likely to hang around if a better offer comes along. It's easier to blame the immigrants, the government, the economic climate, then get off their collective backsides and work.

I was in the Job Centre earlier in the year, the waifs of society were disinterested, dressed like they didn't care less, round shouldered and heads hanging, down with their knuckles, hardly an inspiration to any employer. Those same characters have been frequenting the same place since I can remember, some since they left school when I did. Any one of those could bhave had employment at some point, but choose the easy life.

[daveindales]

Spent an hour walking to the hotel where John Lennon was shot (persuaded by a mate). Wish I had'nt bothered, as nothing much to look at. Poor doorman must have been asked a thousand times that day, if this was the place where John Lennon was shot

[eggsarascal]

Hi Jon

unfortunately not everyone has Silkys skills, there are very few unskilled vacancies about, with the added competition from more foreigners coming to the uk the dream of a Real job for the unemployed indiginess population becomes just that a Dream, sad but true.

 

There are plenty of unskilled jobs about, maybe not in your own town/city. go out, even move to get that job, then when the machine on the factory breaks down watch/ask the fitter how he repairs it/re-sets it, then do the breakdown your self next time, the boss will soon notice you are more than an operator and with a bit of luck you move up the ladder.

 

When i came back from Spain i took a job in traffic management, throwing cones, putting up signs on big motorway jobs (permanent nights) 7 nights a week.I lived in a caravan following the work from north to south. After 3 years i was a foreman running the night shift.

 

Some people just don't want to work. And there excuse is it's all these bloody foreigners !

 

It doesn't take silky fox skills to get work! it takes hard graft and determination.

[egnsean]

There is always something to do, the lower the skillset, the greater the variety. Being more skilled can greatly limit your chances as an employer will be aware that you are less likely to hang around if a better offer comes along. It's easier to blame the immigrants, the government, the economic climate, then get off their collective backsides and work.

I was in the Job Centre earlier in the year, the waifs of society were disinterested, dressed like they didn't care less, round shouldered and heads hanging, down with their knuckles, hardly an inspiration to any employer. Those same characters have been frequenting the same place since I can remember, some since they left school when I did. Any one of those could bhave had employment at some point, but choose the easy life.

Unfortunately your attitude is becoming more widespread due mainly to being drip fed by the media that people on benefits are all scroungers as i stated there are those who don't want work and in my opinion should have all benefits stopped no question BUT i believe that the vast majority would love a full time job even on the min wage, your tar everyone with the same brush attitude is frankly cruel/ignorant/and offensive, i reiterate what i said before WHAT jobs are they supposed to go after that in the main part don't exist, i suggest you stop believing all you read in the papers and other media and have the balls to think for yourself:thumbdown:

[Andy Collins]

Unfortunately your attitude is becoming more widespread due mainly to being drip fed by the media that people on benefits are all scroungers as i stated there are those who don't want work and in my opinion should have all benefits stopped no question BUT i believe that the vast majority would love a full time job even on the min wage, your tar everyone with the same brush attitude is frankly cruel/ignorant/and offensive, i reiterate what i said before WHAT jobs are they supposed to go after that in the main part don't exist, i suggest you stop believing all you read in the papers and other media and have the balls to think for yourself:thumbdown:

 

I believe my eyes, not the media (FTR I do not read newspaper, and watch little tv) . Crying about the hardship does not wash with me, I've done my share of crap jobs to keep myself working, not snivelled about how poor society treats me.

I would love to be wrong about what I have seen, but sadly I know differently. Like it or not, that's life.

[egnsean]

There are plenty of unskilled jobs about, maybe not in your own town/city. go out, even move to get that job, then when the machine on the factory breaks down watch/ask the fitter how he repairs it/re-sets it, then do the breakdown your self next time, the boss will soon notice you are more than an operator and with a bit of luck you move up the ladder.

 

When i came back from Spain i took a job in traffic management, throwing cones, putting up signs on big motorway jobs (permanent nights) 7 nights a week.I lived in a caravan following the work from north to south. After 3 years i was a foreman running the night shift.

 

Some people just don't want to work. And there excuse is it's all these bloody foreigners !

 

It doesn't take silky fox skills to get work! it takes hard graft and determination.[/ when did you come back from Spain recently??? iv also worked on motorway jobs, contraflow setups reg nights 7 days a week 12/14 hour shifts but i dont think that gives me the right to condemn people who genuinely seek employment and cant find it because of to many foreigners, sorry the Hero big motorway jobs dont cut it with me between me and my dad we did 55yrs for Alfred Mcalpines:001_tt2:

[Andy Collins]

So, just because you disagree with others you adopt a tone of contempt for their opinion? Why is this? I'm sure many of us have had hard times, and worked our way back out if it, few get the silver spoon treatment from birth. This doesn't make us heroes, tough guys or anything else, it's just what we do to survive and then improve our life. Everyone in this country has this ability to a certain extent, of course certain things can stand in some people way, if they let them.