Money for nothing

Several staff in our offices have and I seriously question the necessity of it all.

It must have cost a fortune to discover that Worthing's roads are totally inadequate for the volume of traffic using them; that many of our principal routes need to be drastically improved and that we need a proper A27 by-pass.

We've had census after census in the past; we've had inquiries, properties bought and sold along the A27 twice and we've had piecemeal botch-ups on our roads for decades.

Isn't it time to spend money on actually doing something?

NEWS that hundreds upon hundreds of economic migrants to Britain are being lured here by deception and forming a new, exploited underclass is frightening.

What is happening is that people in Eastern European countries are being conned into parting with hundreds of pounds to get to Britain on the promise of jobs which don't exist.

Instead, they are given to gangmasters who put them into modern-day sweatshops and pay them far below the minimum wage and have the cost of appalling accommodation deducted.

If they don't work they mount up debts to the gangmaster and, in effect, are being kept in modern-day slavery.

It's no wonder that some unscrupulous employers are tempted and, in the process, higher-paid British workers are thrown onto the dole.

It's a time-bomb waiting to explode into the faces of politicians, because if the UK economy, which has boomed over the past few years, goes sour there will be trouble, big time.

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