Almost a Million Young Britons Idle as Migrant Workforce Soars

A new report reveals that almost one million young Britons are idle while the number of migrants under 25 in work in the UK has quadrupled. The Telegraph has the details.

Britons under 25 are being squeezed out of the workforce by mass migration, rising payroll taxes and surging benefit awards, a report by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) think tank has claimed.

Researchers found that the number of Britons aged 16 to 24 who are not in education, employment or training – known as Neets – has increased by almost 200,000 since the pandemic to 948,000.

It has been compounded by a slump in the number of Britons under 25 in paid employment, with 49,000 fewer on company payrolls than there were five years ago.

By contrast, the number of non-EU workers aged under 25 employed by British companies rose by 315% – or 258,200 – between January 2020 and December last year.

The report by the CSJ – which was founded by Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader – suggested the widening gulf in employment patterns could be partly explained by UK firms opting to employ migrants, while thousands of British young people are instead claiming out-of-work benefits for conditions such as anxiety and depression.

It called for an overhaul of the system that shifts away from “uncontrolled mass migration” to focus on getting British young people into work.

Its central proposal is for a “future workforce credit” which has been backed by Lord Blunkett, the former Labour Home Secretary, and Sir Jeremy Hunt, the former Tory chancellor.

The credit would help firms to recruit and provide training for Neets by paying the employer 30% of their salary, half of which would be paid up front and half after six months of continuous employment. …

The CSJ research found that the surge in the recruitment of non-EU migrants was largely concentrated in jobs such as retail and hospitality, where qualifications are typically lower. …

…One in eight 16 to 24-year-olds are now Neets, a rise that the CSJ report said had also been driven by rocketing claims for mental ill-health, the increase in employers’ National Insurance levies by Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, and the end to age-based minimum wage bands.

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john1T
7 months ago

The devil finds work for idle hands. I can only see more and more trouble down the line. Britain is a powder keg

FerdIII
7 months ago
Reply to  john1T

Guarantees a civil war. 1 million idle young men? Wow. Add in the invading population’s real unemployment rate of 70% and you have the pre-requisites for civil strife.

Time to clear the country of Muslims, Indians, African etc. 80 million on this island, not 67 million.

RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
7 months ago

And our wonderful NHS is determined to widen this gulf by denying work to UK trained nurses, instead recruiting directly from countries like Nigeria. Which creates Neets here and hollows out the trained staff who are needed in their own countries.

FFxache
FFxache
7 months ago

This knocks Prof David Bets’ predictions of a civil war on the head.
Nobody’ll turn up.
The ‘Britons’ will either still be in bed or playing Warhammer, and the migrants will be busy delivering pizza, or too busy over-representing their demographic in criminal activity.
Still figuring out if this is a silver lining or not.

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
7 months ago

What will it take to shake the government out of their state of catatonic complacency.

This is no longer a question of party politics – it is now a question of trying to save our whole constitutional order (what’s left after lizardman blair) and their own necks (quite literally).

transmissionofflame
7 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

They think they will get away with it – they have so far. Drunk on their own power. How many political leaders who abused their power have been properly punished for it? Probably not that many.

Jack the dog
Jack the dog
7 months ago

Not as many as should have, certainly.

And I am sure caucescu used similar reasoning.

They expect to keep milking the rotten system and kicking the can down the road, that’s all 99% are good for but occasionally it boils over and heads end up on spikes.

Obviously it would be dreadful if that were to happen to starmer reeves milliband and cooper. Awful. Shocking.

But as hemingway described bankruptcy first slowly then quickly, revolution is just the same.

Heretic
Heretic
7 months ago

Another crucial factor is that employers are being FORCED TO HIRE NON-WHITES by “Diversity, Equality & Inclusion” quotas, as well as being offered EXTRA MONEY for hiring Third World Ethnics, especially in apprenticeship programmes.

This was exposed a few years ago by the owner of a small business in Essex, who angrily refused a government “sweetener” of a few thousand quid each for every Third World Ethnic he hired instead of local English lads. He then reported the scandalous situation to a local newspaper. The mainstream media ignored it.

I also remember reading years ago that the Police Force recruiting department in Bristol had to reject 125 able-bodied, promising candidates SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY WERE WHITE BRITISH MEN.