should we all go to work in eastern europe as mandy suggests?how does that equate with british jobs for us?

british workers?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/you-can-go-and-work-in-europe-mandelson-tells-strikers-1522527.html
is mandelson telling us to shut up and go elsewhere? maybe we like our country. has he thought of that?
hi lorne. thats what he says in my link. its the independent so its not biased or lying. i think its an unbelievable cheek for him to say that.
edit sidious. go tell that to mandy

i would not go to work in eastern europe... eastern europe is a very poor area and i do not think you would get a great job (i hope i do not offend eastern Europeans)

Has he seriously suggested that ? Why doesn't he go there instead, and stay there.

It is because it is our country and we have the right to work here also. Why should we just hand over the entire country like the Labour party seems to be doing in the cause of lining their own pockets and being 'right-on'.

mandelson is broones slippery doormat trap to sell us all to the european state. God help this country.

I think that article sums things up quite well - our "leaders" don't appreciate us here, tax us so heavily, fail to provide and protect jobs, failing to keep the economy steady, while providing non-uk residents with better quality of living and more rights than some of its own residents.

Leaves me asking myself why would I want to stay?

Just my 2p

Chris
www.teech.org - UK based charity raising money and running projects in some of the poorest parts of Eastern Europe such as Moldova and Bucharest.

Go to work in Eastern Europe? There isn't any work there, that's why they come here!

Not only has Labour stole our national identity we now have to move out of our country to support ourselves. The whole Labour part should be sectioned, they have lost a complete grip on reality.

any one with half a brain wants a job as close to home as possible so that they can be near their family.....what is that idiot Mandleson all about.....and who the f*ck is he....( a proven criminal) to be telling British workers what to do? ....when the hell are the British going to grow some back bone and march on parliament to throw these traitorous b@stards out of office?..... decent hard working people being told what to do by a criminal????? its outrageous.

He's just making the point. There are plenty of British people in Europe working for less than the local labour, yet the moment someone cheaper comes here everyone's all up in arms about it. We live in a capitalist society, where competition is key. If you're not willing to work for the cheaper wages of others, well, it should be no surprise when people from abroad are taking your jobs. Stop expecting so much, especially in a recession. If people were willing to take a bit of a pay cut, maybe they would have got those jobs at Total, rather than them being given to the Italians (who are earning British minimum wage, so it's not like it's a ridiculously low amount of money).