ban-all-sheds
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> Be that as it may it
still results in unfair competition for british
workers of all types, as you well know.So is it safe to assume that given your dislike of "unfair" competition for British workers, you have never bought a single item made or produced in a foreign country because it was cheaper? Or you've never taken a foreign holiday because it was cheaper?
> So when one
of the unfair competitors comes on here moaning about
the general unfairness of life, I believe that
pointing that out is fair comment don't you?Depends on whether you regard a free labour market as an unfair one.
I suspect that if the Government tried to tell you what you could or could not charge for your services you'd regard that as an outrageous interference.
Fairness doesn't mean the right to charge as much as you like whilst preventing other people from charging less.
As for Budzinski's complaint, in some ways it's completely without merit - it doesn't affect him or any of his friends and family as it doesn't apply to people from the EU. But in general terms I don't think it's necessarily wrong to require people who want to come here to be able to speak English to a degree. A uniform policy may not be the best one, as the degree of fluency required depends on why someone is here - you need better English to be a doctor than you do a street-sweeper.
So is it unfair to require it? Depends how it is done, what the standard required is, but most of all why it is done. Is it of vital importance, or is it cynical political posturing designed to appease xenophobic elements in society? Will it take account of people who come here partly to improve their English skills? Will it actually achieve much? If people who come here want to integrate as much as they can will naturally try as hard as they can to learn the language. Those who don't want to integrate won't do so and won't use the language much anyway, so you begin to wonder what the policy is designed to achieve.
> By the way, on the whatever happened to terryiphe thread I
was dissappointed that you took no part. I wanted to
ask you if you had complained about him to the site
admin, also did you then go on to lobby the IPHE to
have him removed from their list.Well I'll save you he trouble of asking by telling you that if you were to ask me those questions my answers to both would be "no, I did not".