Quote Originally Posted by ragingpup View Post
That's a very interesting take on it animal. The same report also confirms that any migrant who arrives earning an average UK salarywhich includes the majority of medium and high skills imported migrants are actually offering a significantly greater financial gain the the UK economy, significantly more than a domestic citizen.

Now bear in mind that 53% of migrants who entered the UK in 2024 are High Skills, and therfore will bring in a much higher economic gain and 22% arrive to fill medium skilled roles, that makes up 80% of migrants entering in 2024 who are high/medium skilled are therefore bringing much higher economic benefit than the domestic workforce. I didn't know that before, so thanks for this link.

So, you are correct in that the remaining 20% are a net drain on the UK economy. However, the majority of these have directly entered the social care sector, which surely we can agree are hugely, hugely valuable jobs that have to be done. The visas were granted as we were't filling them domestically - so either we imported low skills workers, together with their net economic drainor we have a huge number of vacancies in the health and social care sector. We'd also probably both agree that there is no way that these jobs, which have their own extremely complex skills set and emotional demands should be neither called 'low skills' or should be low paid? Would we agree on that? Perhaps then we may be able to attract more domestic workers into these positions.

So isn't the answer that we simply raise the status of this sector or work, and pay them a better wage? Again, it boils down to cost - who is going to pay for it?
That's about the most clueless post I've ever read on here.

Brainwashed.