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Roland Perry · January 10th 17, 01:15 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 13:51:43 on Tue, 10 Jan
2017, d remarked:

The age of retirement is slowly being raised so that should solve the problem
at least partially. More workers in the job market without requiring
immigrants

How many redundant Southern Guards, aged 70+ want to work in all
weathers picking crops in the Fens?

If that was the only place immigrants were taking jobs then that would be a
valid question, but as you know - it isn't.

It's the jobs which tipped the Brexit balance among voters.

I'm currently sitting in an office 60% immigrants, none of them doing
a job that couldn't have been done by a native. And in fact 1 position
was illegally filled since it wasn't advertised in the UK before a
foreign director found someone in his own country to fill it for a
pittance salary.

That's extraordinary. Either a very small office and that's six out of
ten by some fluke, or as you hint a foreign-owned firm preferring its
nationals. And that could of course bring with them skills that a native
*didn't* have.
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Roland Perry