Evan Davis presents a programme exploring the effects of immigration in the UK by focusing on Wisbech, a town in Cambridgeshire.
Since 2004 this once prosperous market town has received up to 9,000 immigrants seeking work - the majority from Eastern Europe. But with nearly 2,000 locals unemployed and claiming benefits, many of them blame the foreign workers for their predicament.
To test if the town needs so many foreign workers, immigrant employees are temporarily removed from their jobs, and the work given to the local unemployed. Now the town's British workers have a chance to prove they can do it.
Gotta say some of that was unfair.
Especially the kid in the indian restaurant - kudos on him trying when he had no clue whatsoever what most of the dieshes etc were.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
yeah i watched it ...defnintly did well in the indian resturant tried to give it his all.
i actually found those other two guys in the potatoe factory abit of a joke lol
but yeah this program seemed to prove the point that immigrants can work hard and efficiently in labor jobs. why shouldn't they aswel they'v been allowed into this country so they should be able to earn a living.
I did not prove it as fully as it seemed - the guys in the potato factory manages to pull their own weight by the end og day two, were told that if they applied for jobs they would definitely be considered but the voiceover mentioned in passing that they had applied and not heard anything back.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.