CBI says migrants are providing vital skills and that British school leavers lack the necessary qualification?

Answer 1

I know of at least two employment agencies who were saved from closure by migrant workers. Whereas many native people are simply unwilling to do these awful jobs the migrant workforce are more than happy to do it.

Just think about the NHS... without a migrant workforce it would completely collapse. Very few cleaners, very few ward staff and very few doctors. And that's just one industry.

Answer 2

Absolute rubbish! Why are there 5.5m people unemployed in the UK on various types of benefit and a further 1.5m unable to claim through means testing. Also thousands of post graduates across the employment spectrum who are either contained in the above U/E figure or are working for the minimum wage?
It has been admitted by our wonderful establishment people that migrants are being brought in as their labour is cheap.
This country should be taken before the European Court of Justice for the way it treats it's workers whether they were born here or have come from elsewhere. It is a two class society, e.g. the Blair's and Kinnock's on top salaries with their plutocratic friends of all parties who assist them to maintain the status quo.
The rest of us have to constantly read or listen to their endless claptrap and spin that is put out in the servile media.
Democracy, what a sham!

Answer 3

Hmmm...

I've always been pro immigration. I don't believe in borders and think it's a big step towards the world becoming more unified.

However the constant influx of Eastern European Tradesman is beginning to saturate the market.

When you have a huge skilled foreign work force, often willing to work for half the cost of our indigenous tradesmen then you find the minimum wage stays low and the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.

We live in a capitalist world where being competitive is the only thing that matters, and it sucks.

When will we learn that people are worth more than money?

Answer 4

i think of that the government and the CBI are in mattress at the same time in this project. If college babies fairly are so incompetant, whose damn fault is that? government left wing ideaology that has failed miserably. The CBI won't care with regard to the social effects of immigration, via fact it fairly is not any longer their duty, it fairly is the governments. you do no longer unexpectedly finally end up with a so called 'skills hollow', or a loss of docs, nurses, plumbers and so on. it fairly is been coming up over a number of years. Why hasn't it been acknowledged and remedied in the past? in line with probability now all of us understand why, it has presented the government with an excuse to enable in many greater immigrants, in achievement of their left wing ideaology. do no longer we could forget approximately with regard to the numerous different routes that enable people to interrupt into this usa. that's mandatory understand that, as some distance via fact the government is worried, there are no greater any borders around Britain, that's a factor of the deal in becoming to be a member of the ecu. via fact of this they're called migrants now and not immigrants. i could bypass on, yet I fairly have replied to such a lot of questions like this, sorry.

Answer 5

The UK government say that we are not to worry as there as many people leaving the country as there are immigrants. What Mr. Blair fails to state is the people leaving the UK are taking large amounts of money with them to buy property overseas. The new immigrants are arriving almost penniless and will depend on government help, for a while and then when in work most will send the bulk of their salaries back to their home country.
I have left the UK and i am the foreigner now.

Answer 6

I don't believe that at all. If our school leavers are inferior to immigrants, then it is the fault of this government!!

We now have the problem that because of the influx of immigrants, we now have an unemployment problem amongst the indigenous population. This cannot be allowed to continue.

Immigration must be checked now. The country is FULL. Unless it can be shown that a specific skill shortage can be filled by foreign workers, then we must stem the flow immediately.

Answer 7

The influx of new people is an absolute necessity for any community. Without new blood a community, however large will wither and die. FACT.
In todays overpopulated world, those areas with the most economic growth also (coincidentally ?) have the largest influx of new immigrants or workers.
I live in what is a hugely successful refugee community.
Over the last 60 years we have had an influx of talented expatriates, hard working farmers/factory workers, foreign domestic helpers, laid off army and construction foreigners, refugee boat people, unemployed westerners and back-packers...... etc. etc.
Each group brought there own problems with them, each had their detractors - but everyone kept getting richer.
However, bad government and a stupid immigration policy can undo all the good work these people could bring.
But with any immigration, there are always problems.
For UK the West Indian immigration policy has given Britain some much loved British heroes and disaffected inner city youth. But overall what happened 20yrs. ago has benefited Britain.
As for lack of skilled labour - that's government and industry excuses, and needs changing. It has nothing whatsoever to do with immigration.

Answer 8

Rubbish.

1. The Eastern Europeans are coming over here to do manual labour.

2. Due to falling education standards in the UK, new school leavers are only good for manual labour.

We're going to have a glut of cheap labour soon.

Answer 9

And degrading your schools with excess migrants with insufficient income to cover their education costs is going to help your own children's qualifications coming out of school?

In any event there are skilled migrants and uneducated unskilled migrants. The issues are different.

Mind you, it is none of my business since I am from the US, but those issues are being dealt with here, as well.

Good luck.

Answer 10

I have no problem with immigration, the country is not full! Look to the east, the population density is much higher. The thing I have problems with is the fact that salaries aren't increasing as much as inflation and teaching methods are clearly not as effective as they could be.

That said, you should be using yahoo groups for rhetorical questions. This is Yahoo Answers, not Yahoo soapbox!