Young Brits Squeezed Out of Jobs by Migrants as One Million Left Idle While Non-EU Workers Soar by 315%
Nearly one million young Brits have been left idle while the number of non-EU workers has soared by 315% as employers take advantage of lax border controls rather than training up young Brits, a new study has found. The Mail has more.
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) said under-25s were being “squeezed out of the job market” by a combination of mass migration, rising payroll taxes and surging benefit awards.
A total of 987,000 16-24 year-olds – equivalent to more than one in eight – were categorised as NEETs (not in education, employment or training) in the year to December, an increase of 877,000 on the previous year.
The CSJ found this rise had been exacerbated by a fall of 49,000 in the number of young Britons on company payrolls between January 2020 and December 2024.
By contrast, the number of young non-EU migrants employed by British businesses soared by 258,000.
The CSJ report, ‘Wasted Youth‘, claimed that the widening gulf in employment patterns is partly explained by UK employers opting for immigrants, while thousands of British young people claim out of work benefits for conditions such as anxiety and depression.
The number of NEETs citing ill health has increased by half (50%) since 2019.
And of the 250,000 NEETs inactive due to sickness, 62% reported mental or emotional difficulties and half cognitive difficulties, with the two overlapping in over a quarter of cases.
The CSJ, which was founded by former Tory leader Iain Duncan-Smith, called for an overhaul in the approach, shifting away from “uncontrolled mass migration” to focus on getting British youngsters into work.
It proposed a new “Future Workforce Credit” to incentivise the hiring of NEETs. This would pay employers 30% of their salary, half upfront and half after six months of continuous employment.
A cross-party group backing the proposal included Lord David Blunkett, former Labour Secretary of State for Education and Employment.
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How about the State just gets out of the way, by for example not giving out benefits to people who are capable of working?
But no, instead:
I don’t know what it is that established power has this ability to create problems and dig itself even deeper into a hole than accept error and reverse course
It’s the WWI mentality of just more of the same no.matter the cost, no matter the catastrophe.
In for a penny, in for a pound. To the bitter end.
“I don’t know what it is that established power has this ability to create problems and dig itself even deeper into a hole than accept error and reverse course”
As with so many things in life (well, mine at least) I had not given this much thought until recently. Aside from all the sinister reasons, many of which may well apply, it seems kind of obvious that people who choose to spend their lives doing this kind of stuff will want to keep doing more of it. I fact the State “getting out of the way” would be the oddity – and anyway, sadly people now seem to expect the State to “fix things”. I don’t see much hope for a major course reversal, and there is not much precedent for it. I know the Argentina Federal Government was in surplus for the 1st time in 10 years just recently after Milei’s policies took effect, but I have struggled to see how much exactly he has cut public spending by.
The Centre for Social Justice does sound like another global fascist Far Left ‘think’ tank but has produced some good research. A shame it failed to address the root causes such as immgrant scum and benefits for the workshy with proposalsfor change. There is also the complete failure that is Blubbing Rachel as Chancellor who has excelled only at killing jobs for the youth in hospitality and retail and it will only get worse with another of her failures on taxes for large retail stores.
While the DS comments on the underhand French looking to crash their economy before Two Kier’s student clowns do so to ours, the repected Liam Haligan writes in the Mail of our impending doom if the blubbing one fails to address spirolling costs in October.
I think the CSJ is run by Ian Duncan Smith so not a far left think tank.
IDS. Just two letters short of IDEAS
Maybe not, but a pretty wet bleeding heart.
I wonder how many ‘young Brits’, in their political innocence, voted for Starmer and his cronies and are now living to regret it. I know of two such voters, close relatives, who have been shocked by the chaos and ineptitude shown by the government over the past 15 months or so.
Not yet enough of our ‘young Brits’ I would suggest. Your Earlship..
Ludicrous nonsense in the Mail’s article: “A total of 987,000 16-24 year-olds … were categorised as NEETs … in the year to December, *an increase of 877,000 on the previous year*.”
Neither figure appears in the CSJ report: the first figure is close to the CSJ report figure; the second figure is patent b*****s. The actual figures in the ONS data (used by the CSJ) are: Q1 2025 923,000. Q1 2024: 935,000 – so a fall of 22,000 – but Q2 2025 shows a rise to 948,000.
Read the detail here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/unemployment/datasets/youngpeoplenotineducationemploymentortrainingneettable1/current/notineducationemploymentortrainingaj25.xlsx
Correcting my own typo: “The actual figures in the ONS data (used by the CSJ) are: Q1 2025 923,000. Q1 2024: 935,000 – so a fall of 12,000 – but Q2 2025 shows a rise to 948,000.
Another side to this coin.
It is currently not that easy for people finding appropriate jobs. Companies are definitely prudent in hiring in the current economic climate.
I do wonder why the Government if it wants to really get on top of ilegal migration and migrants who can reside here for a while but NOT work, such as retirees and students, why is the Government not auditing Deliveroo, Just eat, the Distribution companies such as Evri, DHL, the Turkish Barbers etc, check the rights to reside and work permits of its employees, and those companies found to be hiring these non permitted workers should be very heavily fined. There should also be if not already an obligation on all companies to ensure they are employing British Citizens or people with permits/work visa again heavy fines against those that are found to be breaking the law.
Finally no NEET should be receiving any benefit unless severely physically or mentally disabled, they do not get a free ride having contributed zero to the public purse.