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I don't think the toerags will reverse the immigration policy if they get in. I think the big outsourcers will be passing over big enough brown enevelopes to both parties, its now got too big of a concern to start kicking people out.
I wrote a letter to my MP in the 90s about opening up IT immigration and why it was a bad idea ie. no locals would be trained anymore ( didn't point out it would effect my stupidly high rate at the time ! ). Got a phone call from the home office and a decent letter from Margaret Hodge reassuring me it would not happen etc etc Within a year they opened the gates ! Next time I'm on the bench I'll try and work up some anger and write a follow up even though it'll go in the bin on arrival and I'll get a preprinted fob off.
Next econominc downturn I think rates will plunge quite nastily !
that may be the last offical recession, but the last IT recession was just 5 years ago
you think the good times we are enjoying now will continue for the foreseeable future ?
Milan.
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FT and Torygraph are pretty gloomy in their comment sections but things seem pretty good at the moment in my little bit of the economy. We would of had another rates boom without the immigration the past few years. I think that the immigration effect will mean rates will come down fast and hard if Co's start cutting back. It'll happen some time but when is anybodys guess, thats when its time for Plan Z, sit at home and take it easy !
question is when will the downturn be and are we near the top
When the King of the West
Decieved by Vanity and false Gods
Storms the Gates of Persia
Then the cataclysm as such the world has never been seen will begin
And after the battle - The End of Days
The King of the West nor the King of Persia - could not be found in the New or the Old Citys
What is needed is some MP to be convinced to put the complaint to the Parliamentary Ombudsman. This is clearly a case of maladministration. However, finding one will be a problem. No Labour MP will do it. The Conservative are highly unlikely to back it either as they would have been up to the same mischief given half a chance. A Lib Dem MP is a very outside possibility, but an Independent MP is really the only hope.
You can forget my MP, George Galloway though. Although he hates this government with a passion, he hates business people (i.e. us) even more. He actively discriminates against the indigenous members of his constituency in favour of the immigrant members.
Just suppose that we could win and that the government were made to pay compensation to contractors for loss of income over the lean years. It would come to billions!
What is needed is some MP to be convinced to put the complaint to the Parliamentary Ombudsman. This is clearly a case of maladministration. However, finding one will be a problem. No Labour MP will do it. The Conservative are highly unlikely to back it either as they would have been up to the same mischief given half a chance. A Lib Dem MP is a very outside possibility, but an Independent MP is really the only hope.
You can forget my MP, George Galloway though. Although he hates this government with a passion, he hates business people (i.e. us) even more. He actively discriminates against the indigenous members of his constituency in favour of the immigrant members.
Just suppose that we could win and that the government were made to pay compensation to contractors for loss of income over the lean years. It would come to billions!
What's 20% of Billions?
DA in "dont forget my cut" mode
Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone
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