Immigration is not only bad for manual labour, but for professional-level occupations too. After all, why should an employer spend time and money training British workers when they can just import them ready-trained and more cheaply from overseas. This just causes a vicious circle and race to the bottom, whereby more and more overseas workers are imported rather than resources invested in training our own.
Whilst this may be ‘beneficial’ for employers in the short-run (it certainly isn’t for patients etc, who can seldom understand what a lot of foreign doctors are saying), in the long run it is even more destructive. More often than not, foreign workers, including those in professional occupations, retain loyalty to their country of origin. This manifests itself in a lack of integration into British life and customs, little desire to improve their English, sending money home (as well as probably paying lower rates of tax here), and ultimately moving back home or to another country once a better opportunity comes along. If they benefit from tax breaks or send money home, this means even less money stays in the economy. The preponderance of money-transfer services in recent years speaks for itself.
On a more fundamental level, do British citizens not have priority over foreign workers when it comes to getting a job or pursuing a professional career? So many professions in this country are packed to the brim with foreigners, sometimes I wonder where all the British ones have gone.
The only thing worse than employing those from overseas is when we train them here (think the huge numbers of overseas students), only for them to go back home, taking their skills with them and depriving young British people of university places in the process.
Of course that cheap labour will in turn grow old and require care in their dotage themselves requiring even more cheap labour to look after them, with ever in reasing numbers spiralling out of control.
The side effect of subsidized immigration is to push up rent as a percentage of the economy. You can see why the establishment love this even if on a GDP per person basis it's an economic disaster
An excellent analysis of the state of modern Britain. Once the most innovative country in the world we are now very much at the back of the queue. In my 77 years on this planet I watched our industries decline. The mantra was we don't need to train anyone we can buy in the skills. We are now reaping the rewards of that fallacy.
Since Blair and 'New Labour' opened the borders it just reinforced to me the contempt the Labour party has for British workers.
The fact that the union bosses are in favour of mass immigration to the disadvantage of their own workers is equally disastrous.
My local hospital 'proudly' displays banners showing over 40 countries flags where they recruit from, most are third world countries. These obscene activities are apparently lost on recruiting staff and management.
Perhaps I can make a much broader point? One of the most irritating aspects of modern economic discussion for me is the way "the economy" treated as some sort of independent entity from the aggregate result of the activities of all citizens. To take political action to benefit "the economy" while damaging the lives of local citizens, is to treat the country as if it was a company. The government is treated as if it were the board of the company, and appears to decide that it can fire or import labour for the benefit of that company's profit. The real economy is the sum total of the activities that citizens are capable of doing and willing to do. If English people are unwilling to pick fruit, that's okay there won't be any fruit or it can be imported. It is not essential to import the fruit pickers!
Yes indeed, the 'economy' is certainly treated as being some mysterious beast which must be kept healthy for the good of us all, no matter what it requires. The economy should be geared to our needs, rather than being used as justification for a host of measures which few people actually want.
Immigration is not only bad for manual labour, but for professional-level occupations too. After all, why should an employer spend time and money training British workers when they can just import them ready-trained and more cheaply from overseas. This just causes a vicious circle and race to the bottom, whereby more and more overseas workers are imported rather than resources invested in training our own.
Whilst this may be ‘beneficial’ for employers in the short-run (it certainly isn’t for patients etc, who can seldom understand what a lot of foreign doctors are saying), in the long run it is even more destructive. More often than not, foreign workers, including those in professional occupations, retain loyalty to their country of origin. This manifests itself in a lack of integration into British life and customs, little desire to improve their English, sending money home (as well as probably paying lower rates of tax here), and ultimately moving back home or to another country once a better opportunity comes along. If they benefit from tax breaks or send money home, this means even less money stays in the economy. The preponderance of money-transfer services in recent years speaks for itself.
On a more fundamental level, do British citizens not have priority over foreign workers when it comes to getting a job or pursuing a professional career? So many professions in this country are packed to the brim with foreigners, sometimes I wonder where all the British ones have gone.
The only thing worse than employing those from overseas is when we train them here (think the huge numbers of overseas students), only for them to go back home, taking their skills with them and depriving young British people of university places in the process.
Of course that cheap labour will in turn grow old and require care in their dotage themselves requiring even more cheap labour to look after them, with ever in reasing numbers spiralling out of control.
The side effect of subsidized immigration is to push up rent as a percentage of the economy. You can see why the establishment love this even if on a GDP per person basis it's an economic disaster
An excellent analysis of the state of modern Britain. Once the most innovative country in the world we are now very much at the back of the queue. In my 77 years on this planet I watched our industries decline. The mantra was we don't need to train anyone we can buy in the skills. We are now reaping the rewards of that fallacy.
Yes, I remember when we were at the cutting edge, with things like hovercraft being invented here. Not these days though!
Your car wash similar had me chuckling 😅.
Since Blair and 'New Labour' opened the borders it just reinforced to me the contempt the Labour party has for British workers.
The fact that the union bosses are in favour of mass immigration to the disadvantage of their own workers is equally disastrous.
My local hospital 'proudly' displays banners showing over 40 countries flags where they recruit from, most are third world countries. These obscene activities are apparently lost on recruiting staff and management.
Yes, indeed. I am about to release a video on my YouTube channel on the subject of foreign NHS staff!
Perhaps I can make a much broader point? One of the most irritating aspects of modern economic discussion for me is the way "the economy" treated as some sort of independent entity from the aggregate result of the activities of all citizens. To take political action to benefit "the economy" while damaging the lives of local citizens, is to treat the country as if it was a company. The government is treated as if it were the board of the company, and appears to decide that it can fire or import labour for the benefit of that company's profit. The real economy is the sum total of the activities that citizens are capable of doing and willing to do. If English people are unwilling to pick fruit, that's okay there won't be any fruit or it can be imported. It is not essential to import the fruit pickers!
Yes indeed, the 'economy' is certainly treated as being some mysterious beast which must be kept healthy for the good of us all, no matter what it requires. The economy should be geared to our needs, rather than being used as justification for a host of measures which few people actually want.