“British jobs for British workers – you said it Gordon Brown…”

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A French company Total in north Linconshire awarded a construction project to an Italian firm who brought their own non – British workforce with them. (300 Italian and Portugese housed in their own floating accomodation in the UK legitimately as EU citizens)Today saw a major walk out of British workers at the refinery the third largest in the UK with protests over the use of foreign workers.

You don’t have to go accross to Europe to bring people in to do skilled jobs, when the skilled men are here and they’ve been doing it for years.

According to the report hundreds of workers walked out of a neighbouring plant, and with protests to continue tomorrow the reporter says ‘we’re already hearing anacedotally of planned protests on Teeside and the north bank of the Humber in support of the walkout here….

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