British Jobs for British Workers? - George Galloway & Arthur Scargill

George Galloway and Arthur Scargill (former NUM leader) discuss UK job losses and the wildcat strikes around the UK in support of the workers protesting at the Lindsey Oil Refinery in January 2009. 400 Italian and Portuguese migrant workers were given jobs on a £200m construction project at the refinery. Protesters believe the jobs should have gone to British workers at a time of recession and high unemployment. Arthur Scargill condemns EU policies for the unrestricted flow of migrant workers within the EU.

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[hablerz]

Give 50 billion to pensioners ? thats a lot of beige cardigans and blue rinses.

[oclandestin]

@hablerz ... Also alot of hot dinners and paid heating bills for people who have worked all their lives and lived through far more austere times than we have today...

[alanheath3]

How does George and Arthur know that the French unions would not stand for it?

Or do they just 'know'?

[oclandestin]

@alanheath3 ... It's an educated guess, based on the present and past activity and influence of the French unions and their members...

[gilesosborne2]

Bollocks.

All was never well under that bitch. Mass unemployment, mass poverty, mass homelessness... is that 'all well' with you? If so you are deluded.

Name anythiong wrong with this country today and you can lay theb blame squarely at that bitch's feet.

I do know what socialism is and it isn't what you THINK it is.

If you admire Thatcher you need your head examined.

[chadberry75]

ha...sounds like canada..want see a canadian worker?..go visit yer local welfare (dole) office..

[tezzabanboy]

the last bastion of the working man is the right to withdraw his labour.There are hardly any working MEN left in this country.So what rights do we have really.Thatcher and her ilk who are still present today will never allow us to have a decent life or a life for our children unless we kowtow to their ways.Some of us will not and eventually we shall overcome the differences between us.

[macs19772002]

@alanheath3 look at there history

[matthewmch]

@MrMoel1 immigration has little to do with the private industries bringing in foreign workers because they will work for less and the weakening of the trade unions in britain who now lack the rightful means to do something about it.

[MrMoel1]

both these blokes are trying say they believe in protecting British jobs but don't believe in limiting immigration. You can't have it both ways!!!

[hablerz]

@oclandestin Im in my 30s, by the time i reach retirement there will be no govenment pension under the current 'sell everything to foreigners and import cheap labour policy' .

But yea i think pensioners should be kept warm and fed and not die in some damp flat somewhere because they cant afford to heat the place.

[alanheath3]

@oclandestin I think that is probable too in the case of France and Italy (although not Germany) but nowhere do I recall George and Arthur using the words 'I think'.