Obvious common sense policy for Britain

[DodgyAgent]

Yes since a large percentage of the labour shortage is for non-skilled labour.

Fair enough

[Euler]

Farage was rather embarrsed by this:

"NICO's manufacturing manager, Steve Dalton, said that the firm needed to look to Eastern Europe to fill a skills gap and on occasion had flown potential employees from Poland."

Read more: Nigel Farage meets a 62-year-old Hungarian working in a hinge factory | Daily Mail Online

The line that the Kippers always trot out is that we're not training our people - but the training opportunities have always existed: you can take a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

It's quite notable that most of the kippers on this forum tend to be poorly educated - what do they expect, someone to come to their house to teach them advanced mathematics or carpentry?

[vetran]

After meeting several workers, he struggled to make small talk when he met 62-year-old Hungarian Mr Loncsarevity.

He has lived in Colchester for five years after travelling to the UK for work, but could not answer any of Mr Farage's questions as he does not speak any English. His colleagues described him as 'relatively low-skilled'.

His skill is being cheap.

But today he insisted he would not want to send Mr Loncsarevity back to Hungary. 'Ukip has never said anyone should leave the country, so the question is entirely baseless,' he told reporters.

'One of the big problems that we've got in engineering is a real shortage of young people studying engineering to go into trades such as this, which is regrettable.

'We've got rid of technical colleges and encouraged more and more young people to go to university and study degrees which are not directly linked to industry such as this.

'If there's no British person trained to do that job, then that says more about us than them.'

NICO's manufacturing manager, Steve Dalton, said that the firm needed to look to Eastern Europe to fill a skills gap and on occasion had flown potential employees from Poland.

Us as a country, our rulers have failed us.

[Avalonia]

kippers on this forum tend to be poorly educated

How embarrsing

[Euler]

His skill is being cheap.
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There is no evidence he's cheaper than anyone else or being underpaid for what he does compared to a native. The fact that they go to the expense of flying people in for interview, tells you much more.

Us as a country, our rulers have failed us.

I was brought up to think that if my life was not up to scratch it was up to me to fix it. I certainly wouldn't expect government to do it for me.
You can only fail yourself, no one can do it for you.
If you are a failure under the Tories you'll still be a failure under UKIP.
Its no surprise that UKIP are increasingly deriving their support from Labour voters with their dependency culture - that's why they've had to do a U-turn on their only sensible policy: reforming the NHS.
I'm rather disappointed that UKIP can't really come to power, it would be quite ironic to see your average kipper get even poorer due to UKIP policies.

[Batcher]

It's quite notable that all kippers are poorly educated

FTFY

[Avalonia]

But at least we live beyond the age of 50 due to the lack of deep fried mars bars down here.

[Euler]

FTFY

"Demographically, UKIP voters attract men slightly more than women – and the party draws its support disproportionately from older people with fewer qualifications. Whereas 46% of all voters are over 50, and 38% under 40, the figures for UKIP are 71% and 15% respectively. And just 13% of UKIP supporters have university degrees – half the national average (though this partly reflects the age profile: older people generally were less likely to attend university when they were young).
UKIP voters are less likely than voters generally, and far less likely than Conservative voters, to be above-average earners. 23% of UKIP supporters live in households whose total income exceeds £40,000, compared with 38% of Tories and 28% of Labour voters."


https://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/03/05...s-ukip-voters/

[Euler]

Come the EU referendum, the obvious way to win, would be to appeal to younger voters who usually don't vote in general elections

Most of them think of themselves as European and many like the options free movement of people potentially gives them.

[d000hg]

Wasn't there some bickering already over the voting age for a referendum, Dear Old Nigel complained young people shouldn't be allowed to vote because they were "brainwashed" and would "vote the wrong way"?

I'm not sure it's true to say young people view themselves as European, but they are disproportionately pro-Europe.