THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Workers should be able to get jobs abroad within Europe more easily as migration will help the economy, David Cameron has claimed.
In a joint letter with 11 other conservative leaders, the Prime Minister urges greater “labour mobility” within the European Union to help people move abroad to places with the best job opportunities.
Mr Cameron has claimed that mass immigration in Britain has led to “discomfort” and promised voters that he will bring immigration down to the “tens of thousands”.
Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from Eastern Europe have settled in Britain since countries such as Poland joined the European Union.
However, Mr Cameron is now leading a coalition of countries claiming that Europe should have a “more integrated open labour market”.
The European leaders, including the prime ministers of Italy, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Latvia, want migrants to settle where there are jobs amid high unemployment rates across the continent. Read on and comment » | Rowena Mason, Political Correspondent | Monday, February 20, 2012
My comment:
The longer Cameron is prime minister, the more disappointing he is. It is the prime minister's responsibility to foster a sound economy with sound economic principles. It is not his job to pass on the responsibility to create jobs to other countries. It may or may not have come to his attention that unemployment is high right across Europe. Shifting workers hither and yon will not solve any unemployment problems, and certainly will do little to foster economic growth.
I have direct experience of working in Europe. Not many countries in Europe are as open to foreign workers as is Britain. British workers migrating to Germany or France, for example, are likely to be employed in menial work unless they are able to speak the local language. But even if they are absolutely fluent in the local language (which very few British people are), they will find that they are discriminated against in one way or another.
So David Cameron is talking about something which his life's experience has given him little or no knowledge or experience of. It is becoming ever clearer to me that this prime minister is as mediocre as the last few. It is also becoming absolutely clear that he simply doesn't know what he is talking about. It behooves him to engage his brain before he allows his chin to wag. That will be better for him. – © Mark
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