Anti-UKIP Propaganda?

[Beskar]

That, Sir, is the real racism here.

According to some conservative voting business owners I have spoken to, it is true. They say British workers generally don't work hard because they see jobs like cleaning to be menial and beneath them, preferring to be on benefits, compared to someone coming from Poland where the wages are higher than the homeland, and value the work far more, thus do a better job.

I remember a program where a farmer was trying to benefit the country by recruiting from 'locals', basically, none of the locals would work as a farm hand for £8 an hour and he was forced to hire foreign workers because no one was doing it, according to him.

According to the first result on google, from the Telegraph.

The CIPD said its research had found that negative assumptions about the growth of the migrant workforce were untrue.
For example, only one in eight employers admitted they hired foreign workers “because they have lower expectations about pay and employment conditions”, it said.

“Employers are making rational decisions to employ more experienced and qualified workers from overseas over less experienced UK workers, or are hiring migrants because there are simply not enough applicants in the local labour market.”

Only a “small proportion” of employers polled by the CIPD, or 12 per cent, said they recruited migrant workers because they were cheaper or had lower expectations about working conditions, the report said.
The most common reason given, by 26 per cent of firms, was “difficulty attracting UK-born candidates to fill unskilled or semi-skilled jobs”.
A fifth of companies said foreign workers had better work ethic or motivation than home-grown candidates.

Seems it isn't purely anecdotal.

As I explicitly said, I have no issues with businesses recruiting local or recruiting from the job seekers pool as a priority. But removing legislation which also protects British workers seems counterproductive.