HD> Wed. 13 Jul 2016, 15:13:26, David Rance wrote to Richard Menedetter:
DR>> Because we cannot stem the flow of migrants to this country who are as DR>> entitled to government allowances as those who have lived here all DR>> their lives, which is why we need not just more money to go to the NHS, DR>> we need more schools, more teachers, more affordable housing, and so DR>> on. Do you honestly think that we can see the "greater picture" when DR>> the EU is preventing us from reducing the flow of immigrants? And why DR>> do we have this flow? Because they think that the UK is a soft touch DR>> when it comes to free handouts.
HD> One of the problems is that in England everyone can get work paid black, HD> because it is not necessary to show your pasport to your employer.
Not everyone in the UK has a passport. I didn't have one until I was forty years of age which is when I started going abroad. Not everyone in France has a passport either but they all do have an ID card. My French neighbours came to visit us in the UK and all they had to do was to show their ID card at passport control. (Of course, that may change as a result of Brexit but I don't know. There are lots of rumours flying around.)
HD> Here in NL you can only get legal work if you have a pasport of a EU country HD> or a "status" as immigrant to work here. HD> Then you get a unique social number wich is used for almost everything, HD> i.e. legal work, tax payment, health care, insurance etc.
Basically it is the same in the UK. We do have something called the National Insurance number which is exactly like your social number and is needed to get work.
The illegal immigrants don't have an NI number but they can still get work by being employed by "taskmasters" or "gangmasters" who don't report anything illegal to the authorities. And so they pay the immigrants very little and can get away with it. The immigrants are hired in gangs, housed (usually) in appalling conditions and taken by bus to a place of work. Usually this work is on farms gathering vegetables and fruit.
David
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