O/T Labours cunning plan - again !!

[ragingpup]

Prove they?re wrong Raging

If the argument is that there is too much immigration (legal and illegal), how do I prove them wrong? It's an opinion.

I tend to think there is more immigration for work purposes than we actually need and that we need to invest heavily to skill up and incentivise UK workers into key positions such as care work, building etc. But I can see the difficulties in getting either us taxpayers or employers willing to cough up the huge amount of money needed, and to pay the incentives needed and so we will keep defaulting to immigration to do these jobs.

Labour are trying to plug an initiative to do this at the moment by stopping immigration visas for care work and insisting that there are enough care workers in the system already? Not sure what research they've based this on, but quite a big risk with many of our elderlies in the care system.

It's hugely complicated and until we have a definite, comprehensive and well funded proposal to fill the gaps in the workforce that immigrants are taking, then I will likely side on the opinion that we need immigrant labour to fill vacancies and even though there is more immigration than I would like, I can't see any alternatives. Extend pension age to 75? Force ex pats to return and work in the UK until they die? Makes just as much sense of forcing lazy buggers to come and teach my students.