Send em all home?

[BrilloPad]

Mass immigration has made Britain a less competitive economy - Telegraph

[Mich the Tester]

Mass immigration has made Britain a less competitive economy - Telegraph

Evidence; absent
Sources; absent

1/10 for effort.

[sasguru]

Too simplistic.
Uncontrolled "immigration" from the EU, unskilled/low-skilled migrants from war-torn areas not that good.
Highly skilled, wealthy and students good.

The evidence shows there is a small net economic benefit.
Torygraph contradicting itself

On an anecdotal note, when I was hiring in the City I found only one local who had the requisite quals and experience - otherwise my team consisted of French, German, one Indian.
I would guess if a draconian law came in saying only British nationals had to be employed, most City firms would have to decamp to a more open environment.

[BrilloPad]

Too simplistic.
Uncontrolled "immigration" from the EU, unskilled/low-skilled migrants from war-torn areas not that good.
Highly skilled, wealthy and students good.

The evidence shows there is a small net economic benefit.
Torygraph contradicting itself

On an anecdotal note, when I was hiring in the City I found only one local who had the requisite quals and experience - otherwise my team consisted of French, German, one Indian.
I would guess if a draconian law came in saying only British nationals had to be employed, most City firms would have to decamp to a more open environment.

[Mich the Tester]

Too simplistic.
Uncontrolled "immigration" from the EU, unskilled/low-skilled migrants from war-torn areas not that good.
Highly skilled, wealthy and students good.

The evidence shows there is a small net economic benefit.
Torygraph contradicting itself

On an anecdotal note, when I was hiring in the City I found only one local who had the requisite quals and experience - otherwise my team consisted of French, German, one Indian.
I would guess if a draconian law came in saying only British nationals had to be employed, most City firms would have to decamp to a more open environment.

Same in high-tech industry here in NL. Advertise for an HR manager, a marketing person or other commercial bla-bla-ologist and you get 400 responses. Advertise for industrial engineers, industrial programmers or testers and you get none at all. Clientco have set up offices in Italy and Greece with no other purpose than to hire new graduates from the universities there. In my team there is one Dutchman, one Brit (moi), one Indian, a German and now a young Argentinian graduate who was hired through the Italian office. I'm the only one without an engineering qualification.

[Troll]

Same in high-tech industry here in NL. Advertise for an HR manager, a marketing person or other commercial bla-bla-ologist and you get 400 responses. Advertise for industrial engineers, industrial programmers or testers and you get none at all. Clientco have set up offices in Italy and Greece with no other purpose than to hire new graduates from the universities there. In my team there is one Dutchman, one Brit (moi), one Indian, a German and now a young Argentinian graduate who was hired through the Italian office. I'm the only one without an engineering qualification.

How hard (and have they tried) would it be for the company to offer scholarships for locals to study & graduate?

[sasguru]

No need to sign off your posts. We know what you are already.

[Mich the Tester]

How hard (and have they tried) would it be for the company to offer scholarships for locals to study & graduate?

They're doing that and have done for years. Anyway, they're not a charity for the benefit of yokels that say 'gissa job'; they're a business aiming to make a profit.

[sasguru]

How hard (and have they tried) would it be for the company to offer scholarships for locals to study & graduate?

Why should they?
A company's role in a market economy is making profits for its shareholders, not shaping a decadent society.

[Troll]

Why should they?
A company's role in a market economy is making profits for its shareholders, not shaping a decadent society.

Why do companies already provide apprenticeships, fund post graduate studies or offer scholarships in the UK (Kingsbury Engineering scholarship is for 19k )- they wouldn't be doing this out of a sense of altruism but rather they see a long term benefit to the company.
Your lack of comprehension around this is telling