article_snippet: Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels talks about employers being able to discriminate in favour of British-born citizens.
article_snippet: Instead, the Ukip leader focused on less controversial suggestions that firms should be allowed to favour British job applicants.
article_snippet: I’m saying that I think British companies should be allowed the presumption of favouring British applicants for jobs over those from southern and eastern Europe.
article_snippet: Both Labour and Tory politicians, notably former prime minister Gordon Brown, have made similar proposals of a system of ‘British jobs for British workers’.
article_snippet: I think the employer should be much freer to make decisions on who she or he employs.
article_snippet: I think the situation that we now have, where an employer is not allowed to choose between a British-born person and somebody from Poland, is a ludicrous state of affairs.
article_snippet: I would argue that the law does need changing, and that if an employer wishes to choose, or you can use the word
article_snippet: “discriminate” if you want to, but wishes to choose to employ a British-born person, they should be allowed to do so.
article_snippet: I’m talking about lightening employment legislation so that small employers – and don’t forget, there are nearly five million in Britain –
article_snippet: are less fearful of taking on young British workers.