The asylum and immigration problems are often justified as we are told British people do not want the jobs.?

We have a lot of school leavers and long term unemployed who are claiming benefits. Should they be told that they have to take some of these jobs as fruit pickers hotel cleaners or sandwich makers or no benefits? The trouble is the greedy employers want the asylum workers because they can pay them less. Pay our workers a decent amount of money so that they could afford to go to work and be able to pay their rent etc., and have a worthwhile life and the country would save a lot on benefits payouts. We would not seem like such an easy option for immigrants if these jobs were taken. What do you think?

I agree with you that there are a lot of school leavers and long term unemployed, that are capable of filling vacant positions in employment, which would indeed save this country money in handouts. But unfortunately these people don't want to work, that is why the eastern Europeans are filling these jobs, they are not taking other peoples jobs they are doing the jobs that the scroungers on benefit, think are beneath them. Most of the immigrants that are working here, are polite hard working and are highly educated, In fact far too educated to do the menial jobs that they do and they do not think that hard work is beneath them. I many instances they have far more pride than us Brits.

thats rubbish mate the goverment want them here for slave labour
I think it sounds like an absolute carbon copy of what we're discussing in the U.S. ... the same problem, the same lack of solution from our respective governments ... I wonder if Blair is copying Bush, or Bush copying Blair? Either way, both have proven they really don't give two craps about their own citizens .......
We are told by LABOUR that immigration is a good thing for the UK as it fills the jobs we indiginous people do not want to do. At the very least this can be seen as an admission that LABOURS 'Welfare to Work' idea was a failure. My work brings me into contact with many immigrants, and I have to say that I am always shocked by the number of fit, healthy males aged 20-30 that are listed as unemployed. I believe the "......because Birtish people dont want those jobs' arguement is spewed out to placate our justified anxiety over the immigration issue.
The jobs school leavers get are not fruit picking job, but jobs that require an education of some kind. It is a waste to give someone with brains a job in a field miles away from where they live just for the sake of them having a job. They will eventually find something anyway.

The long term unemployed are long term unemployed because:

a) They are unemployable

b) Thick as pooh and dangerous with it

c) Don't want to work

There is no group of intelligent hard wokring people that aren't mentally ill sitting around unable to get a job. The people you hear on Radio 5 every morning complaining about foreign workers are too dumb to get a job themselves. You can hear it in their voices and words that they are barely capable of forming a sentence and when they do it is a biggoted one.

You could force the natives who aren't working to take the jobs the immigrants do but the thickos would get fired quickly, the school leavers would find the better job fairly soon after starting and the rest aren't qualified in the correct areas such as being a professional qualified builder.

That is a version of what I think.
People are not paid enough here, and immigrants will not complain of health and safety issues, etc, hence they are used for slave labour
Wow sounds like our problem. We have had the same problem with our southern boarder.