Muammar Al Khadafi

Conservative MP Henry Smith has used parliamentary privilege to raise the issue of two workers who were allegedly dismissed from a cleaning company because they were British.

According to Smith, the duo were dismissed by cleaning company Jani-King, based in Surrey, were fired simply because they were from Britain.

Speaking to MP's in the Commons, Smith said that "Recently I have been dealing with a case on behalf of two constituents who were dismissed from their job with a commercial cleaning firm called Jani-King, allegedly for being British".

"Can we have consideration for a debate on discrimination against British workers in this country?"

For once, a Conservative has said something worthwhile, there should indeed be such a debate.

Discrimination against the British worker is rife in one form or another, there is in fact little doubt that the British worker is the most discriminated against group in the British workplace.

The disenfranchisement of the British worker, and the discrimination which goes hand in hand with that, should be top of the agenda for debate and action.

Sadly, we'll not hold our breath, seems very few among those in power care about us or the dire situation in which British workers now find themselves.

It's rare we've much good to say about ConDem, but never let it be said we're reluctant to do so when they've genuinely earned it.

In the light of recently released figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showing a disastrous rise in unemployment, any scheme which will create new jobs has to be welcomed.

God knows we need all the jobs we can get.

This new initiative will deliver job opportunities to 50 deprived and marginalised inner city areas.

Not only this, but the taxpayer will "provide grants to firms that seek to develop innovative products and services for export, helping to create more jobs and build a stronger economy"

Excellent news there, hat tip to the government for once.

Surely there can't be anything negative to say about this, can there?

Well, the fact that this new jobs creation scheme and grants to companies is to take place in the Caribbean might mute our praise a little.

That's right though, as Britain suffers its worse unemployment levels in decades, Development Minister Alan Duncan has swanned off to Jamaica for 3 days to pledge our help in solving their economic problems.

"A tough economic climate combined with high levels of violent crime are among the Caribbean’s biggest challenges and to help tackle this we are significantly increasing the resources that we will allocate to the region" said Duncan.

Earlier in the year, Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell announced that we were allocating £75million for the Caribbean.

Perhaps we spoke too soon in congratulating the government. It's typical ConDem, and Labour are no different, worrying about the worlds problems and spending our money trying to fix them whilst Britain itself slides into the abyss.

If only the politicians spent their time - and our money - worrying about us then our country might not be in such a mess.

Jobs are a national resource, and should be considered as such.

They are finite in number at any given time, we do not have an unlimited supply, why give them away?

If we found, for sake of argument, a huge diamond mine in England, we'd not just trumpet it on the news and invite the entire world to turn up and see if they could grab a stone.

Come on, help yourselves, it's a free for all!

Why should jobs be any different?

Indeed, we opened by saying jobs are a national resource, and they are, but there is an even more important national resource of higher priority - people, the British people.

By encouraging a jobs free for all in Britain, by giving away our national resource, we betray the British people.

We should use this national resource of jobs for the benefit of the only national resource which really matters, namely people.

Just a few random ideas (deliberately kept simple) in the light of todays hideous unemployment figures as to how we can nurture this resource, create more, and use it in service of the British people.

End immigration. It is clear that we lack the necessary resources - in this instance jobs - to support additional people entering our population.

Prioritise British people for British jobs. Jobs are a resource, and it is only rightful that this national resource should be used for the benefit of our nation.

Train British people for the jobs available in Britain. Skills shortage be damned, if such a thing exists then we have the people, they want the skills, we should deliver on that.

Tax foreign labour, or the companies who use it. The lower wages which are the knock on result of a huge (mainly imported) surplus in the labour market make existence more difficult for the British worker, and leaves them competing on an uneven playing field.

End foreign aid. That money could be used on creating additional jobs. Town and city renewal projects if you like, instead of languishing on benefits we could hand a decent wage to our people to improve our country. The possibilities are endless, and that money would end up going back into our economy.

Withdraw from the EU. Free movement of labour benefits some nations more than others. The British worker is a huge loser in the whole sorry affair, and loses on every single front.

End British state benefits for foreign labour. Why should the British worker pay tax to support their foreign competitors who come to this country in search of British jobs?

Finally, make the use of illegal foreign labour into a crime, not punishable by a measly fine, but a true deterrent like a prison sentence.

There, just a few thoughts, there are many more that could be added.

Jobs are a national resource, we should be cultivating them and using them for the benefit of our nation, not creating a free for all the world where this precious resource is squandered much to the detriment of the British worker.

According to new figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) the number of Britons working in the building industry dropped last year - whilst the number of foreigners working in the industry increased.



59,000 Brits left the building trade - whereas the number of those in the trade who list their nationality as non British actually increased by 36,000.



The rise in foreigners in the building industry now means that there are 153,000 foreign nationals officially working in the industry.



Care to hazard a guess how many more foreigners are working off the books?



Brian Berry, from the Federation of Master Builders said that "Lots of foreign workers are able to undercut in terms of the hourly rate they charge".



The manufacturing sector too showed a marked increase in the number of foreign workers, whilst the number of Brits dropped.



32,000 extra foreigners were working in the manufacturing sector, whereas 29,000 Britons left the sector. There were a total of 289,000 foreigners working in the manufacturing sector.



"It is now surely undeniable that British workers are losing out to immigrant workers" said Sir Andrew Green of Migrationwatch.



The pattern is one we see repeated in industry after industry - the number of Britons employed falling, whereas the number of foreigners is increasing.



The British worker is being forced out of the British job market by a tidal wave of cheap imported labour.



Free movement of labour is destroying the bedrock upon which our nation is based, the British worker.



We have Britons stuck in the dole queue, and foreigners snapping up increasing numbers of jobs in all sectors.



Can anyone - other than the few who will see huge profits from driving down wages - honestly say that makes sense?



We do not need this huge flood of foreign labour. Britain has workers enough, and it is high time we put them first instead of throwing them into some global jobs marketplace where the playing field is anything but level.

As if we didn't already know that the jobs situation in the UK is abysmal, now we have news that there are 181,000 more people in work this summer than at the same time last year - and only 14,000 of those were born in the UK.



14,000 out of 181,000 - that adds up to a jobs bonanza for the foreign worker and Brits left languishing in the dole queue.



Since we've well over 2million unemployed then the logic of allowing a swarm of foreign workers to swamp the jobs market simply beggars belief.



It all adds up to a failure of truly epic proportions however you look at it.



Can Brits not do these jobs, we're supposed to believe that every one of these positions is a highly skilled vacancy that Brits lack the skills to do?



Come on, even if that were true then it just serves to illustrate the utter failure of the training and education system to equip our people to do our jobs. These are British jobs - if we have not equipped British people to do them then the system has failed.



But, the reality is that most will be positions for which there was a willing and able British person available - just the job went to a foreigner.



Some trot out the idea that the British worker is lazy, workshy, unwilling to put in as much effort, as a reason for hiring so many foreigners. Rubbish!.



And, incidentally, good luck in an equalities court if you say that about any other racial or national group. Say it about Africans, go on, I dare you.



Foreign labour keeps wages artificially low, it meets diversity quotas, it adheres to the insane ideal of absolutely free movement of labour - and it does not benefit Britain or the British worker in any way at all.



Instead it disenfranchises the British worker both financially and in terms of job security. The British worker becomes reduced to a commodity - only instead of a commodity in a national workplace, he's now a commodity in an international workplace, competing against nearly everyone on the planet.



We all know simple supply and demand - when supply outstrips demand a products marketplace value is reduced. The jobs market is no different, and supply of a product - in this instance workers - has been artificially boosted far beyond any realistic demand.



The entire system as is fails the British worker and the British people utterly.



There simply are not enough jobs for the people already here - and yet we continue to import more people, creating a labour glut that is damaging to the British people.



Britons want to work and will work - we should be ensuring that they have that opportunity.



No job should go to a foreign worker when there's an unemployed Brit capable of doing it. When a Brit is not capable a Brit should be trained.



Give employers a financial incentive to hire British - it has to be cheaper than paying for millions of Brits in the dole queue.



Put the British people first for once, any need for foreign workers should only arise once all Brits who can work are employed, in short once we have 100% employment, a goal that will take a long time to reach, if ever.



The British worker forms the bedrock of our nation, our future, and our prosperity - and time and time again they are betrayed and undermined by our politicians and greedy profiteers.



It's high time we put our people and our future first - and that means putting the British worker and British jobs at the very top of the list, something which generations of establishment politicians have failed to do.