MumboJumbo wrote on Aug 13
th, 2014 at 8:38pm:
Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 13
th, 2014 at 8:21pm:
why is the UK and Australia's taxi industry dominated by little brown men who hate our white credentials
Because the little white men don't want to do it.
Bullshit.
The reason is nepotism. A couple of Arabs or subcontinentals get into an industry like taxi-driving and before you know it they've persuaded the boss to hire their cousins, nephews, uncles, brothers, brothers-in-law and the village postman from the Old Country.
I saw this phenomenon 'close-up-and-personal' in Sydney's manufacturing industries. Australians were queuing up at Centrelink to be told there wasn't any work, with meanwhile
streams of Middle Eastern and other migrants were bypassing the usual JobSearch processes and going straight to factory doors.
It was the biggest swindle on Anglo-Australians I ever witnessed in all my years here.
And the catchphrase has always been ...
"Oh, but Australians/Brits won't take these jobs!"In some cases I agree with this ~ but for the most part our successive governments have been desperate to get new immigrants and refugees off the dole and into the workforce even if this means sidelining Australians.
And I'm sure it's still happening since I left the workforce.