The Daily Mail’s
front page lead this morning appears at first glance as if someone hacked the
Northcliffe House computer systems and substituted a parody front page for the
real thing. But no, “Is There No-One Left In Britain Who Can Make A
Sandwich?” is a real, serious headline. And the
article backing it up is equally serious – and just as spiteful as the rest
of the paper’s attack copy.
What's so f***ing wrong with kicking foreigners, c***?!? Er, with the greatest of respect, Mr Jay
The legendarily foul mouthed Paul Dacre has decreed that
anyone who speaks foreign is not one of the Daily
Mail’s kind of people. Moreover, those that fit into that category are to
be regularly frightened at the prospect of cars with non-UK numberplates
fetching up on the street where they live. They are also to be fed the line
that they have only come here to get benefits.
So the opening of a new factory near Northampton in two
years’ time, for which the owners may recruit some of the workers from Hungary,
is an ideal opportunity for the Vagina Monologue and his obedient hackery to
spread the usual migrant-baiting smears, which, by fortunate coincidence in the
run-up to a General Election, can be labelled as “All being Labour’s fault”.
And, as for Hungary, well – I mean, they call a railway
station a Pályaudvar. What’s
that about, eh? It’s foreign, innit?!? Just wait till Littlejohn sees that. And
they call a square, as in Sloane Square, a Tér. With an accent. In fact, the language has
far too many accents on letters not to be highly suspect. And they’re coming
here to get tax credits and housing benefit.
Budapest: station with funny foreign name
Here we get to the real reason for the story: “In Hungary, the average wage is little more
than £7,000. Even if workers coming here were on the minimum wage, they would
earn almost double that – £13,520 a year. And they would have their wages topped
up with tax credits – seen as a major
attraction for EU migrants – and housing
benefit”. Thet’re getting something Mail readers don’t get!
And, as the man said, there’s more: “a migrant with no dependants on the minimum
wage has their net income of about £184 a week boosted to £254, studies
have suggested. For
those with a partner and two children, that rockets to £543 a week, equivalent to a salary of more than £28,000”.
300 foreigners! Be angry, Mail readers! All on benefits, and in clear defiance
of Iain Duncan Cough!
However, and here we encounter a significantly
sized however, the firm may only be recruiting 151 workers from mainland
Europe: the phrase was “most of”. And
tax credits and housing benefit are paid to UK citizens too – yes, even to Daily Mail readers. So wage levels are
lower in Hungary? So what? They live here, they pay the same price as UK
citizens for everything.
This story is more demonising and xenophobic
claptrap. So no change there, then.
6 comments:
You seen to have missed the point of the spin the DM has put on this story-Which is people in Northants are so lazy the company are having to recruit from Hungary.
The real reason that this company is recruiting from Hungary: they are paying a wage that they know local people can't live on, so are recruiting people who will work for crap wages and probably won't be aware of UK employment law and their rights as a employee. You seem to have missed that point as well.
You are missing the real issue, which has nothing to do with who is employed, or where they come from - companies will always exploit the employment market
The issue is why in this day and age are so many workers reliant on public welfare payments to top up 'crap' wages.
It's getting to the point where making sandwiches can earn you a wage equivalent to someone with responsibility.
The MSM will very rarely, if at all, investigate businesses paying the minimum wage and why they prefer to employ immigrants.
It doesn't fit the narrative for starters, they are also highly unlikely to investigate corporate welfare, how low wages are topped up with Housing Benefit and Tax Credits.
The unemployed, immigrants, sick and disabled etc... are far easier targets.
Rly
Having recently been to Budapest, I am in a position to assert that they do in fact know how to make a better sandwich.
There is an economic point which transcends politics...
A sandwich is a low value item which requires a relatively high amount of manual input (labour might be too strong a word!). If you have to add transport costs there isn't much margin to pay living wage. If you do pay living wage and transport and still take a profit the price becomes unacceptable to the market - or at least fails to undercut local sandwich bars.
Bottom line, the mass produced supermarket sandwich being trucked in their millions across the motorway network cannot survive. Unless they make them in Eastern Europe and truck them eiether further!!
I wonder how many immigrants work for the DMGT.
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