English Opinion

When the credit crunch hit the UK, it was only a matter of time before the unrest that the country has been experiencing for some time manifested itself in a more demonstrable way. There have been mutterings here for some time about foreign workers that have arrived in the UK since the unification of the European Union taking the jobs of British workers. In some cases they have filled job vacancies that Brits neither have the skills necessary to fulfil or those vacancies that far outweight the number of people that can fill them. Medical professions are prime examples of that. However, in manufacturing industries it is a well known fact that foreign labour is cheaper than British labour and so companies have chosen the former rather than the latter. In years gone by, when the economy was booming, this did not matter that much as unemployment rates were low, but it did cause some resentment. However, now that resentment has turned into bitter emnity.

The wildcat strikes that have been going on for a little under a week started at Lindsey Oil Refinery in Licolnshire because a major new contract was awarded to an Italian company by plant owners Total. This in itself is not significant but the fact they brought Italian labour over to fulfil it was. After all, they could have employed British workers to do the same job at the same price given the number of people unemployed at the moment. In the past week, people from all over the country have walked out in wildcat strikes in solidarity. Now it appears that half of the jobs will be awarded to British people in a compromise stemming from the talks that have been in progress for a couple of days.

I wasn’t at all surprised to see the wildcat strikes, especially when Gordon Brown had been spouting on about British jobs for British workers. He has since hypocritically condemned the action but opened the door to begin with. It was bound to happen sooner or later because very little of Britain is left as it is with stupid PC laws and those removing our identity because it may offend someone. Well, I hope the workers of the wildcat strikes do get their own way. I also hope that the government starts taking notice because enough is enough. We have all had enough of being dictated to by Brussels. Anyone that was born in the UK has a fundamental right to work here unimpeded and bringing workers in specifically to do jobs that we can do is not on. People have the right to keep a roof over their heads and support their families. This country should look after the hard working as much as it looks after the benefits cheats it is supposed to be cracking down on.

I am British and proud of it and it really is about time that we all started making our presence felt again. I’m with you boys!

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