Builders are being undercut by illegal migrant labour – Brits who pay taxes and play by rules feel shafted
ON Question Time last week, Labour's clueless Treasury minister Darren Jones made an extraordinary claim.
He told the BBC's top debate show that 'the majority of people in these boats are children, babies and women' when they cross the Channel. This is simply not true.
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The Government's own website states: 'Seventy per cent of people detected arriving irregularly have been adult males aged 18 and over.'
And — thanks to the exclusive Sun on Sunday investigation published here — we now know what many of them get up to once they arrive.
The British people are being taken for fools again.
We already know that our borders are in chaos.
But, thanks to successive Labour and Tory governments, those arriving then go on to work illegally on the £260billion black market economy.
And all the while we pay for their accommodation.
Today it's highlighted in Barking but make no mistake, this scandal is playing out in towns and cities right across the country.
Nearly 40,000 boat migrants have arrived since Labour came to power — and numbers are up 40 per cent on this time last year.
How many of these already work on the black market without paying tax?
Labour has long championed the mantra of British jobs for British workers.
But brickies and builders are being undercut by illegal labour.
Britain is in social and economic decline. The social contract is stretched to its limits.
People that pay their taxes and play by the rules increasingly feel shafted.
Yes, these migrants may be victims of exploitation — but they are also part of the criminal economy.
Unscrupulous bosses are laughing all the way to the bank while British workers get priced out again.
I was the first to highlight the impending invasion of young, undocumented males.
Most of the media ignored me. But we can now see I was right. Immigration is out of control.
The situation in the Channel is a security emergency.
If we cannot stop this in Barking, how on earth will we control the borders in Dover? Keir Starmer's soft touch is laughable.
He promised to smash the gangs — but all he has smashed are illegal immigration records.
The only way to deal with this problem is to say everyone that comes to Britain illegally will be deported — and actually mean it.
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