The utter betrayal of Britain’s working people is now laid bare for all to see: more than 3.8 million jobs, or over thirteen percent of all positions in Britain, are now occupied by foreigners, with most of them coming from outside the EU.

The new figures, the result of research by the independent House of Commons Library, show that two-thirds of the foreign workers were born outside the EU in countries whose citizens need permits to work here. (Image alongside: Some poor British workers tricked by their treasonous Labour Party-supporting union Amicus into thinking that the union and the government actually wants to protect their jobs).

A second study by Migrationwatch revealed that British workers are also losing out under EU free movement rules. Europeans taking advantage of the rules to work here outnumber Britons working elsewhere in the EU by more than four to one. The analysis is based on figures from the Office for National Statistics.

Between October and December 2007, before the current economic crisis struck, there were 25,860,000 UK-born people in employment. A year later, with the UK officially in recession, the figure had shrunk to 25,582,000. Over the same period the number of non-UK born workers leapt from 3,605,000 to 3,819,000. Some 9 percent of the workforce is now from outside the EU — up from 5.3 percent in 1997.

According to the Migrationwatch study, the number of UK nationals working in other EU countries is approximately 286,000 as against some 1,172,000 workers born in the EU currently working in the UK.

“The government have been emphasising that the number of British workers operating under the “Posted Workers Directive” is three times the number of European workers in Britain under the same regulation. However, if all workers are considered the result is reversed,” said Sir Andrew Green, Migrationwatch chairman. “Our paper sets the record straight.”

“There is no clear sign yet in these statistics that workers from Eastern Europe are starting to go home in significant numbers,” he added.

“Getting these numbers right is important because it informs debate on a very sensitive issue. Our long held view is that economic migrants from the EU are not likely to become a long term immigration problem as their numbers are expected to come into balance in a few years’ time. The really big issue remains the very large numbers coming to the UK from outside the EU, again confirmed by the latest figures, at a time when the pressure on jobs here is as intense as it has been for many years.”