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Originally Posted by MSS
Are you questioning the viability of Priti Patel's latest plan? 
There is a school of thought that the skill shortage is largely a smokescreen manufactured by business and financial leaders in order to justify either exporting UK jobs to places of lower pay and therefore cost or importing lower-paid workers through various visa schemes.
Many of our high-tech companies have been offshoring jobs or onshoring low-cost workers for years whilst at the same time offering redundancy packages to 50+ age high paid professionals. There is a large population of UK professionals not working in their areas of expertise as a result of the above. I don't believe this is going to change.
So the choice may be between allowing these jobs to be offshored, to countries such as China, thus funding their strategic aspirations, or taking in migrants to perform jobs at equivalent low pay rates.
What would the contributors to this thread choose? |
Spot on, though there are other factors but all this baloney about many of them having skills is utter tosh. Even if there are a few that have and get jobs it means as a country we don't want to upskill native personnel!
Kev