Arbeitskräfteflucht kostet Großbritannien jährlich 16 Milliarden Pfund an Steuereinnahmen

Well that’s a pretty convincing answer that we’ve been looking for.

I’ve been saying on this sub for a while (not my own thoughts but those of people far wiser) that despite about 1m people joining the workforce through immigration in recent years, it’s barely increased in size. That it was unclear what was causing it except that it was something to do with the sickness claim count increasing amongst young people and almost certainly due to benefit changes the Tories bought in. We can see it isn’t *just* people being sicker because France and Germany have had similar increases in sickness but no corresponding increases in claim count and notably they haven’t changed their welfare systems recently.

The answer suggested here is that young people are driven on to sickness as the easier benefit to claim because unemployment benefits are so restricted and then they get stuck on it.

Another classic Tory fuck-up, spending pounds to save pennies and driving people out of work in an attempt to increase employment!

I work in STEM and I’m unemployed but not by choice. From my own perspective there’s not really any decent jobs available. In the last 18 months there have been so many redundancies, offshoring of jobs and hiring freezes that I don’t think I’ll find work again in the next 6 months.

On top of that where jobs are available employers can be so picky and treat candidates like shit because the candidate pool is colossal and they know you’ll be so grateful for the opportunity.

I’m starting to think about living my life outside of Britain now in following some of my peers to the Middle East. I hate the fact that I have to consider it but it’s really starting to feel like there’s no work for me here anymore

Proud to be part of this exodus. The Tories ruined the U.K. and the British public just kept on voting them in, 4 million also voted for reform. I am not helping pay taxes to a nation with those racist ideals nor a people who love to elect inept and corrupt people.

I think a big part of it is that people who want to work just can’t find a job. That isn’t to say there aren’t jobs, because there is. There just isn’t enough of them to go around. Each vacancy has hundreds of applicants, especially graduate jobs.

There’s also the fact some would rather be on benefits than work. If my choice was benefits or a crap minimum wage job with no defined hours and barely any disposable income then I too would choose benefits.

The problem with the British economy is jobs just aren’t paying enough. If you get wages up then you get tax income up without raising taxes, and people spend more money in the economy.

Just seems like a simple case of a certain demographic actively choosing unemployment because “that perfect job hasn’t come through yet, mummy.”

Most likely perfectly capable of grafting but just ‘feeling it’.

This sounds like bs.

£16 billion lost tax receipts from 800,000 people.  That’s £20,000 tax lost per person.

Taking the average income of £36,000. Around £8,000 for income and national insurance, £4,000 for employer national insurance contributions and let’s say everything you spend is 20% VAT so £5,600.  So £17,600 close enough to the £20,000 but then the article says:

> Many people who were out of work before the pandemic have remained jobless, when they would previously have retrained and found work again. 

People that retraining and getting a new job are unlikely to be get a new starting position at £36,000 but depending on what they retrain too and their pervious experience most likely be higher then minimum wage

>Meanwhile, there is a growing band of young people who have never worked, often staying out of the jobs market after leaving school or college because they suffer from ill health.

Never worked and only having gcse or a level equivalent are very unlike to get more then minimum wage.

So let’s say they get £11.44 an hour ( minimum wage is lower for under 21 but let’s just say this is the base).

So £24,000, £3,000 NI and Income tax, £2,000 employer NI and again 20% VAT £4,000 that makes £9,000 taxes lost per person.

So yeah I think the £16 billion is bs and widely over estimated.