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The dumbing down of the UK
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Originally posted by alluvial View PostSo if there's a shortage of potato pickers in East Anglia, they can't increase the wages on offer to coax people off of the dole to come and work for them because their compatriots in New York State don't earn as much?
Also i doubt that you will be able to coax people off the dole with manual labor. Until the system allows for people to get more money as welfare than the minimum wage, there will be plenty of scroungers to exploit it.Comment
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Originally posted by sal View PostNo they can't increase wages too much because the price of their production will get too high and the supermarkets will just buy potatoes from Africa or w/e.
Originally posted by sal View PostAlso i doubt that you will be able to coax people off the dole with manual labor. Until the system allows for people to get more money as welfare than the minimum wage, there will be plenty of scroungers to exploit it.Comment
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Originally posted by alluvial View PostSo if there's a shortage of potato pickers in East Anglia, they can't increase the wages on offer to coax people off of the dole to come and work for them because their compatriots in New York State don't earn as much?
That's the reality of international markets.
Of course because Poland is having a boom in potatoes the burgeoning farms need finance so they'll pay some Investment bankers who commute to London from East Anglia to help them raise finance.
This is how the modern world works.I'm alright JackComment
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Originally posted by vetran View Postthe town is 1/3 migrants and they wonder why people feel threatened.
At least they have a trainee facility for recruitment agents!Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View PostIf they can't get potato pickers at "International Rates" they'll just close the farm, and the Supermarket will import it's potatoes from Poland.Comment
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View PostIf they can't get potato pickers at "International Rates" they'll just close the farmAlways forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by xoggoth View PostEven if that is true one has to ask a) why? and b) for how long?
If we do have problems in this country like welfare dependency, poor education etc. that damage incentive or ability we need to fix them. Immigration is not going to provide any long term solution as the same problems will affect migrants and their dependents. What do we do then, import yet more migrants? It isn't a solution to an ageing population either, migrants get old too.McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."Comment
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Ooh look, a points based system already exists: https://www.gov.uk/government/public...stem-form-vaf9
Although probably not quite what a few people want...“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostOoh look, a points based system already exists: https://www.gov.uk/government/public...stem-form-vaf9
Although probably not quite what a few people want...
If it is all that will happen is skills not on the list especially those that were removed a few years ago would be put back on.
Then certain people on this board will be complaining even more about competing with certain Commonwealth migrants for work...."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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