British workers lazy? Or left wing propaganda?

I am right wing, but I believe there IS some truth in the statement, although I believe that the left exploit the message to the hilt in order to promote their pro EU pro immigration policies.

One thing I will say from experience, is that the company I work for in the midlands is short of skilled workers, but every time we advertise for quite well paid jobs, starting pay around 20k rising to 36k after training bonuses and overtime CALLOUT etc.... we hardly get any applicants, and those applicants we do get are 'usually' very unsuitable and we're not able to take them on most of he time.

The crude answer is Yes , because we have developed a society in which children from a very young age learn to expect that it is their right to do what they want, when they want , and that someone else will always provide for them .

School, for many now, is just a boring way to spend their day, and even an intrusion into their rights .A quarter of them leave school barely literate and numerate , and most leave without ever developing a real work ethic .

They are unreliable and functionally useless for the work place -- and yet they expect someone to pay them or the state to provide for them.

Call this lazy if you like , but the fact is that an increasing proportion of the UK population are simply unfit for purpose .

What you mean is RIGHT-wing propaganda, such as the more bigoted parts of the Tory party (and that's saying something).

Apart from that, you are quite right in your reasoning, and it's not just London, but most of the country.

I'm not aware of any left-wing group or person who has ever suggested that British people are lazy. I think you ought to provide some evidence for that, because your suggestion of it being 'left wing propaganda' is dependent on there being a grain of truth in that allegation. Which there isn't.

I am aware of employers, typically of Conservative inclination, suggesting that they have to employ foreign workers because British people don't want the work. So is it right-wing propaganda?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7288430.stm - it's the farmer saying that. Probably not a left wing source.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/439715/Migrants-c... - that famous 'left-winger' David Cameron

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2032406/UK... - that well known organ of the left, the Daily Mail?

It is actually right wing latrine rumour, usually repeated, oddly enough, by pig-ignorant working class Tories, especially if they are proprietors of a shop or garage or small building firm.

I say, tell it to the miners turned out of their jobs by Thatcher. Tell it to NHS nurses. Tell it to firefighters. Tell it to singlehanded small farmers. Tell it to fishermen, both inshore skippers of family boats and deep water trawlermen.

Tell it to the Army vets who re-took the Falklands.

Tell it to the Marines!

I think you'll find that right wing propaganda.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-435757/Bos...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19300051

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9483268/Y...

Above Hoarseman, he us a right winger.

The MRSA happened because we privatised hospital cleaning! As soon as it went " in house", cleaning got a lot better!!

You need to do like the Polish people do, and move to a different area if you cannot make it alone in London, or find a roommate. London is obviously one of the most expensive places to live in in Britain, so it is up to you to adjust.

Some are bound to be, there are lazy workers all over the world that and drugs are the reason for so many recalls of products.

Talk about turning something on its head ---- this is right wing propaganda. Everyone knows that. But then you are right wing so you are bound to be confused and two faced.

No, but jobs are harder to get in Britain (as they are here under Obama)