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The pictures of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy found washed up on a beach in Antalya, Turkey, appear to have (finally) brought it home to the British commentariat that more must be done to help those refugees currently fleeing from war and dictatorship.
As such, David Cameron is coming under increasing pressure to let in more refugees. Up to now the prime minister has responded that Britain is doing a great deal to help refugees – but by spending money on aid to be sent to the areas where people are fleeing in the first place.
But are the prime minister’s critics right – should Britain take in more refugees? Or is Britain, as the PM likes to point out, already doing its bit?
Have your say – the results of the poll will be published early next week.
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94 Responses to “Poll: Should Britain take in more refugees?”
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I rarely find an English person to speak other languages so fluently as the many foreign members of our united globe, yet do fully get your meaning about employer bias towards British who appear to know and oftentimes demonstrate their worker rights in higher paid positions and why cross-board employers are more inclined to employ multinationals. This is rarely discussed in media circles and why prejudice towards indigenous people such a growing issue. I once did a cleaning job and had to interview and employ co-workers of various nationality and lucky that I could speak and translate in some instances as a native Brit with Nordic Siberian roots – my own employer left it to me to do the work despite it being outside of my own job description – why I eventually left my job I was already over-qualified. What amazed me however, that I was okay to work for £6.00 p/h yet the multinationals wanted far more and why they did not adhere to the role!
Amazinglyso
Sandra is spot on.
Amazinglyso
Employer bias is also a very credible reality you have forgotten to mention in your reply to Sandra’s argument. Performance related pay is a subjective matter unless you work in sales to garner informed decisions within the company you are employed, and does depend upon individual employee approach I agree totally where profit-margins must be met. However, persuasive speech is the domain of sales companies – whether you speak fluent English or not – even in accountancy and healthcare roles; demonstration of person-centred approach everything and not always achievable without excessive training or experience that can prejudice a person’s successful employment.
I have worked in Social Care; Sales, non-trained recruitment and still unable to secure jobs within my experience range even as a highly articulate, organized, multilingual and wealth of people and intermediate skills and yet known foreign nationals get jobs they have never once worked in on the basis of their illiteracy CVs. This is largely to do with employer bias of ‘workers rights’ many appear to assume that indigenous British know what these are even if they really don’t at all.
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Disagree entirely. I used to write CVs’ for Lithuanian migrants as a highly educated and articulate person – they still got jobs based upon their original unreadable resumes and largely because this demonstrated ill knowledge of ‘workers rights’ that indigenous Brits are meant to utilize in low-paid or unskilled positions yet do not possess these skills, only those largely employed within profitable careers.
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Britain has many thriving cities of wonderful people of all ethnic calibre we can all agree, yet what of the equal number of wealthy politicians, multinational businesses and lottery winners- where are they making any contribution to impoverished multinationals that are often forces to live amongst some of the poorest communities in Celtic lands?. I never used the word ‘indigenous’ you may like to toss an argument because this is now an obsolete terminology in enlightened 21st century western society that happens to be home to a fantastic array of smart-intelligent multicultural populous – I myself have Swedish and Siberian (Genghis Khan) roots as a native Brit and have always championed multicultural cohesion before you even begin to start a debate on my own ancestral background. I also speak 6 languages, self-taught and came from impoverished parents who tried to ruin my own chances of life through abuse and impertinent human pain.
Very few people are against immigration yet more precisely against the ill-social mobility that directly exacerbates poor social and economic circumstance. Right-Toff media and politicians who like to provoke prejudice within poorer challenged communities think they are winning the war on the oppressed masses by igniting ignorant fires in those who behave and think awkwardly destructive on the matter of immigration, themselves unable to communicate this in literate terms because frustration of class-divide just as tangible now as it ever was in contemporary history. I get it that people are angry and not because of ethnic diversity, yet more precisely because of the added contribution to community struggle against disadvantaged poverty and social inclusion.
Perhaps our wealthy MP can relate to some extent to those poorer communities struggling to defend themselves against further poverty and obsolete job opportunities within the poor working sector, most worried about causing majority political uprising against the social and economic divides inherent within our own multi-ethnic impoverished cities?. This will happen regardless of any further immigration impact and as the nation awakens to such wealth- inequalities.