Fordert Ermittlungen gegen Uber Eats und Deliveroo nach Razzia im Wohnwagenlager in Bristol

Going after the workers but not the companies doesn’t solve the problem. The government will only play a permanent whack-a-mole as these companies continue to hire more migrants to do their bidding. The gig economy is not the only sector it’s happening in either, the social care sector has a lot of bad faith employers exploiting and scamming foreign migrants too.

So these are the same people who were interviewed by the Guardian last month and are now shocked that immigration came knocking? Imagine somebody in the Home Office couldn’t believe their luck when they read that article.  

The Government do need to crack down on account sharing on these apps. 

Sometimes the British State is the master of turning a blind eye and feigning ignorance. “A lot of Deliveroo riders are the victims of modern slavery? I’m shocked I tell you! Shocked!”

Whereas it’s been pretty bloody obvious to the general public for years!

My wife is an immigrant, and as a result I have a broad network of family and friends who are also immigrants. I also speak a second language, and have a fair amount of visibility to their community in the UK. I do not have an issue with people coming to the UK and trying to make something of their lives, but my wife and friends all did it legally, and got jobs that were above board, paid their taxes, and have built successful careers.

However there is a serious problem with people coming to the UK on “holidays” and staying for years. Yes, I somewhat sympathise with those who are being “taken advantage of” by businesses, but on the other hand they are here illegally. It’s not just Deliveroo drivers and the likes, but it extends to small time drug dealing, and a bunch of other illegal activities that have an impact on the country as a whole.

There are entire areas, with caravans, houses, flats, with illegal immigrants working under cover. Often they will rent a house with 4 rooms, with multiple people in a singe room. There are beds which are rented, with two people taking shifts on a bed. For example, a nightshift worker coming back home in the morning and swapping with somebody who has a day job.

But to say this is “victims of labour exploitation” is pretty weird mental gymnastics. I’ve seen other cases where it is presented as the UK introducing some kind of modern slavery, when the network is almost entirely driven by the illegal immigrants themselves. Of course, people lap it up because it adds to their idea that Britain are historically racist colonisers looking take advantage of “slaves”.

These people know what they are doing. They are here illegally, not paying taxes, and doing jobs in the undercurrent. They take advantage of weak points in our culture, claiming they are being exploited, when they are doing the exploiting.

I see other comments saying that this is the fault of the companies involved. However it doesn’t need to be one or the other. It can simultaneously be an issue with both companies and illegal immigration.

These food delivery apps need to shut down ASAP and reduce several of the problems facing our society.

You’ve got undocumented migrants, usually riding dangerously and illegally on either push bikes, scooters or modified e-bikes, for a pittance with alot of the cash going off shore, delivering excessive portions of fatty, sugary, salty SHIT to lazy overweight natives who should at least be getting of their arses to get it themselves.

I always assumed these companies using the cheap gig labour where just biding their time until they could automate the delivery process. Whether its dones (flying or wheeled) or self-drive cars. They have no interest in the human component, especially regulating it.

It’s time for a grown-up conversation about immigration.

It is not hard to stop people from working illegally.

– Every other country in western Europe does it by requiring identity cards/registration. The excuse-makers here bleat that identity cards will ruin our freedom, but we already have to show identification to vote, to register to vote in a particular area, and to do any number of other things.

– It would also cost very little, in the context of the budget, to hire investigators to ferret out employers who exploit foreign workers so they don’t have to pay our own properly.

The point is, EVERYONE KNOWS we have hordes of immigrants working illegally. It’s because of that that pre-Brexit prices were so much lower for food, accommodation, and many other things than on the continent. We all saw what happened after Brexit and the pandemic drove the foreigners away. Prices skyrocketed.

It is shameful and disgusting that everyone is fully aware that we rely on immigrant workers, but they have no rights and have to live in fear and squalor. Keir Starmer should be telling idiots that they have a choice. Pay what things actually cost or accept that we actually rely on foreign workers.