There are many thousands still working illegally in this country for cash-only payment while claiming benefits!

if anyone believe anything a Labour person says about immigration then you deserve all the trouble that's coming with a Labour government.

Abolishing the House of Lords is a must. The way in which the house has been perverted by many Governments is established truth. It has become a fine dining club.

Vote reform

It's not only unscrupulous employers it's successive governments of all colours.

The issue is no one believes that Starmer is sincere about anything that comes out of his mouth.

It was used by all employers with comments like if you don't like it there are plenty of people out there will do it

It's not a case of brits not wanting the work. I'm sick to the back teeth of that rhetoric. My boys tried getting fruit picking work and not one place would give them a day's work. That's while there were headlines about stuff rotting because noone would pick it. If you're polish however, they can't take you quick enough

David hits the nail on the head. Its not the immigrants themselves that are the problem, nor is the "diversity". It is the scale of it, 500,000 people, which is a city the size of Edinburgh coming in last year, with zero increase in public services like the NHS, with zero expansion of road networks to cope with increase volume of traffic, with zero building of houses to accommodate this new Edinburgh sized city of people every year..... This is the problem, as it is with respect to people that are already here living on benefits, which will simply continue to grow as a %age of the population. if you continue to bring in endless lines of cheap immigrant labour... I liked freedom of movement for what it offered me, but I could see the very obvious downsides of it for a large %age of the population, not to mention the legal implication of being in the EU.... of course, we're still stuck with binding agreements we're making above the UK state level which nobody voted for, like net zero and possibly worse coming with health ideas from the WHO in the post COVID panic era.

Uhh no shit. People are a resource. Like any resource, if you increase availability you decrease value. So, the more people available to do a job, the lower the wages for said job, while simultaneously increasing output. It's also the reason the government and industry are so keen on "empowering" women to work. You double the workforce overnight, doubling productivity whilst reducing wages. From the government's perspective, you can't tax a housewife.

Everyone in the house of lords should be selected from sovereign civilians similar to jury duty for the duration of twelve months then replaced on a yearly basis with full salary it's easy common sence rules the day !!! Another thing I would do is abolish civil servants pension and replace it with a state pension like everyone else £6 billion savings per year well there's a thought God bless us all

Still wearing your Chelsea footie top when you're on the job Mellor? I've been a lifelong Tory voter, but no more. As for Starmer and his cohorts, I have to say is this the best alternative, Jesus Christ. All my life it's been if it's not us, it's them, so vote for us. Come on Reform, and shaft the pair of them.

This goes on everywhere. 30 to 40 years ago there was no shortage of woeful tales from highly qualified I.T. staff in the US. In direct contravention of the US visa requirements Indians were hired, who existing staff were forced to train, and then the existing staff were fired. Of course the government turned an eye to all this.

So what's the reason now? We have industries making obscene profits whilst the standard of living is dropping through the floor.

Most foreign workers come to work on the black market cash in hand they don’t come here to fill the vacancies

Anne the only reason they don't do it is because the pay is too low. If employers paid a wage that allows people to pay rent/mortgage and bills they could take them. Minimum wage is too low in relation to cost of living, especially for the under 21's. Farmers are always complaining and living in a rural area I can tell you they are amongst the most exploitative on wages. They are in the dark ages, use automation!!! If the business isn't viable it goes under like everyone else, why the hell are we giving subsidies they're glorified benefit claimants.

If big businesses want cheap labour make them pay for their housing not the taxpayers

Ahh yes, Freedom of Movement of the EU - losts of Latvians in Kosta-Lotta-Koffees as Baristas and Romanians serving in restaurants. Strange, when in the Baltic Stes I never meet a Brit working i a coffe shop and in Bucharest no Brits are waiters . Strange, that FoM only goes one way!

Quantity of people like this in one year means infrastructure cannot compete and it's never ending, there must be calmed down to catch up it's common sense 🤬

there's over 800 Lords and climbing

Dont forget the CBI pushing wages down

Time to get rid of the house of lards

Should be abolished what a waste of money all they do is hold up legislation bellends

Indeed. It was also used by Labour to bring in a new voter base to keep them in power.

Age discrimination is rife in the UK it's a total disgrace.

Unemployed people have to show what work hunting they have been doing to receive their benefits. The house of lords and politician's should also have to prove what work they have done to receive their three hundred pounds a day. RICH MAN POOR MAN

The government charges VAT on professional qualification courses because such courses are provided by commercial companies who do not receive any public grants. Seems strange we are told we have a shortage in people able to drive HGV's or certificated IT professionals, but government provides no tax rebate and charges VAT on top of such course fees if someone should try and improve their own career prospects by taking such courses. Jobs aren't for life these days and people are going to have to train and retrain for jobs throughout their entire working lives. Government should stop being hostile to retraining our existing workforce.

True.

Vote Reform

That moment they decided that politcians should elect politicians....or lords...let alone appoint them.

Have they only just seen that.

House of Lord's should be elected on a PR basis over all the elections held over the previous ten years and sit for ten years, candidates should be selected from pre approved list submitted by each pary

It was used by all employers

I would say its most employers taking advantage not just unscrupulous ones, if the market is being undercut with cheap labour everyone else is forced to follow suit or go out of business. There are even some who will hire illegal immigrants cash in hand and pay below minimum wage so how are others going to compete with that. The country is overrun with people not legally able to work so what will happen, the unscrupulous with take advantage.

Duh! Ya don't say!

Well done Dave....12 years too late

My god forked tongue, you heard the Tories lately...

Its not great for a country, when employers rely on immigrant workers, especially during harvest season….if anything that needs fixing, Im talking about ( I dont care who it offends) some of the unemployed that get more for doing nothing than getting a job.

Teenagers out of school get more money working in McDonald’s than doing an apprenticeship. If I remember correctly.

The dog would do better 😆

Referendum on immigration.

These two are like Phil and willaboby 😒

I like it 2 sides

If that is true, why didn't the tory government increase the minimum wage over the last 13 years so that employers couldn't do that?