The British economy appears to no longer prioritise British workers, with a think tank finding that four in five jobs created over the past decade have been given to foreigners, as the number of Britons shifted onto the welfare rolls soared. The State of Dependency report from the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has found that since 2014, only 734,000 jobs were given to British citizens, compared to nearly three million being taken by immigrants. The think tank said that around 408,000 of such jobs were given to EU nationals, while the overwhelming majority, 2.5 million, were handed out to migrants from outside of Europe.
The report found that most of the shifting of employment to foreigners began during the Chinese coronavirus crisis, which also coincided with the United Kingdom officially leaving the European Union, and then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson introducing immigration liberalisations that would pave the way for record levels of immigration into the country, despite having promised the public that his so-called Conservative government would do the precise opposite. Defending what has come to be colloquially referred to as the ‘Boriswave’ of immigration, Mr Johnson claimed that he was urged by the Treasury to engage in “human quantitative easing”, simply put, flooding the market with migrant labour and thereby slashing wages in the hopes of reducing inflation. However, in addition to reducing the purchasing power of working Britons, the move also appears to have correlated with many being pushed into state dependency.
