Migrants Keep Coming and Coming

[WBA123]

If you recruited from overseas you would know that brexit has overhauled the immigration system. It’s radically different.

You can still recruit to doctors, nurses, academics etc. but you can no longer fill a low skilled role with a migrant.

That’s the points based system people wanted isn’t it?

I haven't a clue what people want to be honest. If I had to guess, most voted to be poorer, in exchange for fewer immigrants. But what we've done is made it harder for immigrants to come here who were contributing and easier to come here for non-contributing immigrants. And here we are economically worse off and posters on this thread complaining about immigration.

Yeah doctors, academics would be great (I'm still not so sure it's that easy for them to be recruited btw) but the real effect on our economy is the low paid roles. We need truck drivers, fruit pickers, hospitality staff etc. so European immigration was very important to our economy pre-2016.

Because of shortfalls in this area, businesses now need to pay more for staff and supply costs - which drives up inflation. Inflation is high, so BoE has increased interest rates. That's why I found it financially baffling why anyone voted leave.

Of course, we would have had economic issues anyway with global issues outside of our control such as the war and Covid, but Brexit has just compounded it. We will have a far worse recession than most of the rest of the developed world in my opinion - and it will be self-inflicted.