ICT Petitition on Number 10 website

**Sean Key** · 28 July 2009, 20:05

Hi - Thanks for promoting the petition

Its now up to 50 signatures, or 10% of the way to the 500 needed to get a letter back.

If you agree with it, please send the link on to your mates to push up the signatures.

**Sean Key** · 28 July 2009, 20:16

Petition Text

This scheme allows companies to bypass UK immigration rules and import non-EU workers into the UK, displacing UK/EU staff. This scheme bypasses other schemes such as the skilled migrants points system, which work fairly based on national need and individual migrants skills. This is allowing the displacement of tens of thousands of workers, particulary in IT. It is unfair on UK (and EU) workers as these shipped in workers enjoy tax (and often accomodation) benefits not available to workers living in the UK due to the local cost of living and tax regime. This is raising UK unemployment by the tens of thousands and undermining the UKs future competetiveness in Information Technology as skills are built up here and then return abroad. This scheme is fundamentally unfair. No one can object to the work being out-sourced to be carried about abroad, but this mass importing of non-EU labour to have the work done here, is unfair.

**the_duderama** · 29 July 2009, 13:14

Bump and signed.

**MPwannadecentincome** · 29 July 2009, 21:31

where is PZZ to tell us what a waste of time this is?

**RichardCranium** · 30 July 2009, 16:15

103 signatures.

**pzz76077** · 30 July 2009, 16:17

All this is as a waste of time, who do you think is listening out for this kind of thing in UK Gov these days??

PZZ

**SueEllen** · 30 July 2009, 16:29

The government in waiting - the Conservative Party.

**RichardCranium** · 30 July 2009, 16:33

Originally posted by pzz76077 View Post

All this is as a waste of time, who do you think is listening out for this kind of thing in UK Gov these days??

I also do not think these e-petitions change anything. However, I did like Sean Key's thought:

Originally posted by Sean Key View Post

It would be great if we could get over 500 signatures, as they have to provide a response of some kind then.

It would be nice to get a definitive "Live with it, losers" or "waffle, rhubarb" or even "tulip! I thought we'd scrapped that years ago!".

**BrilloPad** · 30 July 2009, 16:35

Originally posted by pzz76077 View Post

All this is as a waste of time, who do you think is listening out for this kind of thing in UK Gov these days??

PZZ

Maybe. But does iot do any harm to try?

ICT Petitition on Number 10 website