Kikapu wrote:And that is my whole point, that the UK is being very disingenuous with their new policy of only bringing to the country of “desirable workers” meeting their 70 points system just so to please ( more like fool) the Neo Brexiteers that they will be keeping out the “undesirables”. The truth is, the UK is pulling the wool over the eyes of the gullible Brexiteers, because as long as the country’s economy grows, so would the need for low skill workers. If you think you can just admit low skill workers without long term visas to remain in the UK, then you are being wishing thinking that you can just use them and send them back at will if the UKs economy takes a downturn later.
One of the fascinating things about Remoaners, and those on the left generally is the binary thinking...
If you discuss healthcare it is always a stark choice betwixt the NHS and the American system -
nothing else can possibly be considered.When it comes to immigration, the UK
must accept low-skill workers -
nothing else can possibly be considered.And yet in reality, there are an infinite number of options in both cases - there are many other successful health care systems (many better than the NHS) and it isn't a given that the UK must import cheap, unskilled labour.
As I said earlier, importing low-skill workers and their families puts a burden on taxpayers and the health and education systems.
Stopping mass immigration of low skilled workers will (Economics 101 tells us) push up the price of labour. People will earn more flipping burgers and it will attract labour... At some point of course it will be too expensive to employ people to flip burgers and automation will be brought in...
There are many different scenarios beyond importing low-cost labour or not having cheap burgers...