There was a time when low skilled jobs were taken by young people whilst studying, or learning a craft, as they worked their way up the career ladder.
Then it got that young people were so well off that they could afford to stay up until all hours in the pubs that their parents worked in when they used to close at 10:30pm, but have now been converted into clubs.
So well off that that they didn’t need those jobs. So people had to be recruited from abroad.
Now the government is proposing to stop bringing in low skilled workers from overseas. In stead they are going to encourage highly skilled people to come here to do the very jobs that a previous generation of UK citizens studied and trained for.
That strikes me as an inversion of what a country that sees itself as advanced ought to be doing.
What message does it send to potential investors?
Whether indigenous entrepreneurs or foreign investors, what such companies look for is the availability of a skilled workforce. What are they supposed to think when they discover that the UK has to bring skilled workers from overseas to fill the jobs that are already here?
May as well take their investment to the place where the skilled labour is already in-situ.
No wonder the government is telling companies to go home!
Now, of course, UK citizens will have to do all those unskilled jobs themselves.
I can’t help but wonder if someone in government is thinking along the lines of
“Let’s teach those people a lesson. Let them do all the nasty unpleasant jobs. It is, after all, the will of the people to send the low skilled migrants home. Serves them right.”
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It seems indeed a “crazy inverted immigration policy” but to your question, ““Let’s teach those people a lesson. Let them do all the nasty unpleasant jobs. It is, after all, the will of the people to send the low skilled migrants home. Serves them right.” …I would like to be pleasantly surprised but I doubt that anyone “in government” i.e., elected representative of sorts, would have the intelligence to come up with that idea.
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I don’t know about intelligence, Sha’Tara, I think a thick layer of cynicism is what would be required – and the current crop of politicians, damn near everywhere, have a huge supply of that.
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You’re right about the cynicism, certainly. Intelligence, particularly ability to reason drops exponentially the longer one remains in politics… just as it is with organized religion.
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It’s just one of a whole load of outcomes from the referendum that no one had the common sense to foresee, and if anyone said anything like this during the campaign they would have been derided as participating in ‘Project Fear.’ Sadly, subsequent events have shown it to be more a Project Reality – how a country can commit suicide on the basis of jingoism, lies, and baseless, meaningless slogans.
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Hi Clive – tried to reply to this yesterday but my internet was down, along with thousands of others. Trouble seems to be that when leavers are accused of ‘jingoism, lies, and baseless, meaningless slogans’ they call us ‘traitors’.
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No worries, Frank, good to see you back in civilisation again! It seems to me that the leavers’ whole campaign and subsequent approach has been based on name-calling. If only they were capable of rational thought.
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