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Old 01-07-2025, 02:11 PM #1
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"Home Secretary Yvette Cooper commended the Sun's Campaign to shine a spotlight on this!!"

Don't make me bloody laugh Cooper. You were pictured welcoming illegal migrants with signposts!
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It is a big problem with Just Eat and Uber Eats tbf - people sell their accounts to people who aren't allowed to be doing the job and take a cut of their income. The delivery guys fly around on e-bikes which are also usually illegal and really dangerous to other road users. They're also normally wearing face coverings because obviously their delivery account isn't actually under their own name

It's exploitative to the people involved who often won't be making minimum wage. I wouldn't order through these third parties anyway tbh because they take a massive cut from the restaurants. I'd place my order directly with them and normally collect it myself
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It is a big problem with Just Eat and Uber Eats tbf - people sell their accounts to people who aren't allowed to be doing the job and take a cut of their income. The delivery guys fly around on e-bikes which are also usually illegal and really dangerous to other road users. They're also normally wearing face coverings because obviously their delivery account isn't actually under their own name

It's exploitative to the people involved who often won't be making minimum wage. I wouldn't order through these third parties anyway tbh because they take a massive cut from the restaurants. I'd place my order directly with them and normally collect it myself
Yeah I've never ordered from any of those delivery services, well I've ordered through Just eat but for pick up but I stopped doing that because I realised how much of a cut they take from the restaurant
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'E-bike crash ruined my life - rules need to change'

Chef Aldo Zilli, left, and his wife Nicola, right, are calling for tighter e-bike regulations after
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ive never used any of these just eat etc delivery services, but aren't the people self employed? If someone legal registers their own name just eat and then sub contracts out to an illegal or 2, how will just eat know?
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ive never used any of these just eat etc delivery services, but aren't the people self employed? If someone legal registers their own name just eat and then sub contracts out to an illegal or 2, how will just eat know?
It's all done with photo id and face recognition software on the app.
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I really couldn’t care less who’s delivering my food. If you want to throw a tantrum and boycott over someone’s immigration status, be my guest. Just don’t pretend you’re some principled crusader when all you’re actually doing is hurting the paychecks of countless other workers trying to scrape by. Enjoy your moral high horse while the rest of us eat dinner
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In fact the more I think of it, I’ve never had my food delivered by an English speaking person.
British people seem to think work like that is beneath them, until it’s time to whinge about “foreigners taking all the jobs” they’d never dream of doing themselves.
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In fact the more I think of it, I’ve never had my food delivered by an English speaking person.
British people seem to think work like that is beneath them, until it’s time to whinge about “foreigners taking all the jobs” they’d never dream of doing themselves.
"British people seem to think work like that is beneath them"

so just because every delivery driver is "foreign"

you decided that was the reason

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It’s called an observation, not a manifesto. If you’ve got a more convincing explanation for why so many Brits refuse to do these jobs, by all means, enlighten us.
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The reason these illegal immigrants are hired is because they are paid peanuts and if they are illegal they will get cash in hand to most likely top up the benefits they are getting...
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My point is they are getting paid, getting away without paying any taxes, which any other employee has to pay and getting just about everything else under the sun given to them free.

They get the transportation paid for as well. And I sincerely doubt they need to do 12 hour shifts though I grant you our own workforce probably do. Nevertheless boycotting makes sense, it's not fair or just. It's the employers fault and the Governments.
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No they are working officially and not getting taxed yet the law says they can't do so.
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So basically, you’re angry that desperate people with no legal right to work are being exploited for crap wages under the table, but also convinced they’re somehow living in luxury with “everything under the sun” handed to them. Which is it—are they destitute and desperate or living it up on your dime? Because you can’t have it both ways.

Sound like you’re more upset about the migrants than the actual company exploiting them.
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So basically, you’re angry that desperate people with no legal right to work are being exploited for crap wages under the table, but also convinced they’re somehow living in luxury with “everything under the sun” handed to them. Which is it—are they destitute and desperate or living it up on your dime? Because you can’t have it both ways.

Sound like you’re more upset about the migrants than the actual company exploiting them.
Nope you're wrong. They aren't working for crap wages. I never said they were? I only said they'd work for less as they get topped up. I'm annoyed about both, and yes I can have it as my opinion. They are taking the piss, the companies are taking the piss and so is our Government.

Do you actually think it's right all these men coming here and getting to live in hotels, etc etc etc.
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Nope you're wrong. They aren't working for crap wages. I never said they were? I only said they'd work for less as they get topped up. I'm annoyed about both, and yes I can have it as my opinion. They are taking the piss, the companies are taking the piss and so is our Government.

Do you actually think it's right all these men coming here and getting to live in hotels, etc etc etc.
Apparently it is fine and dandy for employers to break the law because they are migrants, that is what I am reading, maybe I will stop paying my taxes, see how I fare with that one
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Nope you're wrong. They aren't working for crap wages. I never said they were? I only said they'd work for less as they get topped up. I'm annoyed about both, and yes I can have it as my opinion. They are taking the piss, the companies are taking the piss and so is our Government.

Do you actually think it's right all these men coming here and getting to live in hotels, etc etc etc.
You’re free to have whatever opinion you like, but let’s be honest—it’s still pretty contradictory. You’re annoyed they’re supposedly getting everything for free and working for less money, which kind of proves they’re not exactly living some five-star dream. And no, I don’t think putting people in budget hotels and giving them £9 a day counts as a life of luxury. If you’re angry, be angry at the system that keeps people stuck in limbo for years, not just the people trying to survive it.
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Poor migrants my arse. They are a damm sight better off than you acknowledge.
You keep saying they’re “better off” and getting everything for free, but the facts don’t back that up. Most asylum seekers are banned from working legally, living in overcrowded hotels or hostels with mould and bedbugs, and surviving on about £7 a day if they’re lucky. That’s not some lavish setup—it’s deliberately grim to deter people from coming here.

And let’s be honest: if you or I were stuck in that situation, we’d be doing whatever we could to survive too. Blaming people who’ve got nothing and no way to earn is a lot easier than admitting the system is broken on purpose.
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You keep saying they’re “better off” and getting everything for free, but the facts don’t back that up. Most asylum seekers are banned from working legally, living in overcrowded hotels or hostels with mould and bedbugs, and surviving on about £7 a day if they’re lucky. That’s not some lavish setup—it’s deliberately grim to deter people from coming here.

And let’s be honest: if you or I were stuck in that situation, we’d be doing whatever we could to survive too. Blaming people who’ve got nothing and no way to earn is a lot easier than admitting the system is broken on purpose.
7.00 a day is more than alot of people have, for instance families who use food banks, they are fed, have a roof over their head, have heating, have free dental and medical, and free travel, personally I think they should be allowed to work while they are waiting for their claims to be assessed, but they should be working legally and paying any relevant taxes like everyone else, as it stands due to the governments inertia they are stuck in a processing backlog, and are working illegally so you have to ask yourself is the government happy with this as they are doing their rich mates a favour by giving them cheap labour, just like they are doing their rich mates a favour by filling their hotels which would otherwise be partially empty....try thinking outside the box for a change and not be as accepting of what the government is trying to force us to accept as normal...you seem very hung up on migrants, you have no interest it seems in disabled citizens of the UK being sent into poverty
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