Flood of IT immigrants from India

[MicrosoftBob]

And east of Offer's Dyke.

Too late my family mounted the dyke centuries ago

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Policies for People - UKIP

Somehow I rather doubt we'd be seeing mass immigration from India if UKIP had anything to do with it.

Well this was written by Farage himself less than a week ago

Nigel Farage: Ukip's immigration policy is built on fairness - Telegraph

Importantly, Ukip wants to ensure that highly skilled people from the Commonwealth – from India, Canada, New Zealand, and beyond – get a fair chance to get into Britain, unlike now, where we give precedence, via our open border with the European Union, to half a billion people from Europe and its former Communist countries.

As a total number, immigration would drastically fall if UKIP had their way. But not every industry would be affected in the same way. The IT industry (with a strong prevalence for India based immigration) would see no difference, or even higher immigration.

If you are voting UKIP because you think there will be few competition for IT jobs - forget it.

[RoastedSlopes]

Well this was written by Farage himself less than a week ago

Nigel Farage: Ukip's immigration policy is built on fairness - Telegraph



As a total number, immigration would drastically fall if UKIP had their way. But not every industry would be affected in the same way. The IT industry (with a strong prevalence for India based immigration) would see no difference, or even higher immigration.

If you are voting UKIP because you think there will be few competition for IT jobs - forget it.

Silly man...

are you free PR for the tories? do you really believe what you have just said?

[DodgyAgent]

Interestingly there is more chance of cheap indians coming to the UK under UKIP than any other party

[darmstadt]

Interestingly there is more chance of cheap indians coming to the UK under UKIP than any other party

And not just Indians...Ukip are all for more integration with the Commonwealth and they in return are also happy with that although with the caveat that there are open borders. So instead of an influx of Romanians and Hungarians you would get an influx of Tongans and Bruneiens (sp) Interestingly enough the Ukip Commonwealth Spokesman, the mad as a hatter, Winston Mckenzie (who seems to have been in every political party) was sacked yesterday

[BrilloPad]

I see many female German Professors are refusing to accept Indian male students due to the countries "rape problem".

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Silly man...

are you free PR for the tories? do you really believe what you have just said?

No - I am reading what the leader of UKIP has said - those are his own words - very recent - and in an article which was written by him - almost certainly proofread and approved by him, so they are not taken out of context.

And he has said it before - quite a few times. I have heard him saying it in an interview.

Sorry if this shatters the illusion for IT-based UKIP-leaning voters, but UKIP will not lift a finger in respect of imported IT labour - if anything, it will be the opposite.

Wake up and smell the coffee...

[DodgyAgent]

And not just Indians...Ukip are all for more integration with the Commonwealth and they in return are also happy with that although with the caveat that there are open borders. So instead of an influx of Romanians and Hungarians you would get an influx of Tongans and Bruneiens (sp) Interestingly enough the Ukip Commonwealth Spokesman, the mad as a hatter, Winston Mckenzie (who seems to have been in every political party) was sacked yesterday

I hardly think there will be many "skills shortage" Tongans or Bruneiens. It will be Indians Pakistanis and Nigerians.

The choice is either Slavic/eastern european skills or Indian, pakistani and African

[RoastedSlopes]

So the hundreds of thousands of EU immigration are all low skilled workers ?

Your argument is that managing our borders so that only controlled immigration is allowed, irrespective of where they are from (so as to make it fairer) will mean less work for skilled IT contractors?

Laughable.

I have worked alongside Tech Mahindra people for years (first time was approx. 11 years ago) where the Indian workforce would arrive en masse on a Sunday with their paper MCSE's on low pay. This didn't stop me contracting solid for nearly 16 years now.

Look at numbers 600000 immigrants under Tories as apposed to circa 50000 under UKIP. the laws of common sense dictate which is more favourable to home grown workers.

Yes the 50000 will be better skilled and in demand (IT roles maybe) percentage wise than current profiles but this will compliment rather than replace our workforce.

if someone REALLY wants low cost IT resource then you offshore it..

[vetran]

I hardly think there will be many "skills shortage" Tongans or Bruneiens. It will be Indians Pakistanis and Nigerians.

The choice is either Slavic/eastern european skills or Indian, pakistani and African

the Indian / Pakistani IT industry grew up to service western needs. Why wouldn't Tonga see the opportunity?