Points System for Spots

[lilelvis2000]

From the BBC news website
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Successful highly skilled applicants will need to have passed a test in English, equivalent to GCSE Grade C or above.

Gosh, they'll speak better than half the population!

Not sure about your banter about lunch..I bring my own because it tastes a heck of a lot better!

[Paula]

I made a fortune from sas programming. Never involuntarily on the bench ever in 10 years. Money for old rope, that is.

HTH

and it certainly was old rope as they soon discovered

[SueEllen]

The proposal doesn't stop people coming over here as "students".

[Ruprect]

From the BBC news website

For example, someone aged under 30 with a PhD will automatically gain the 75 points necessary to gain entry, regardless of how much they are earning.

They're only about $150 on t'interweb aren't they?

[Dow Jones]

Not so sure

All well in theory, but unless you are one of the top earners (bonuses) or a director with shares (dividents), you won't see the 'benefits'. The majority of permie IT jobs in banking are between £ 30-50 k, what about them?
Not very middle-class, is it?

[sasguru]

Says the failed SAS programmer

I made a fortune from sas programming. Never involuntarily on the bench ever in 10 years. Money for old rope, that is.

HTH

[Bagpuss]

Can we, at the same time, ship out poor people with few qualifications and no prospects like Troll and Bagpuss?

Says the failed SAS programmer

[Bright Spark]

Think of the bigger picture, companies and banks are saving about
30-40k per 'inshore/offshore' that money can be invested (bonuses)
elsewhere in the economy therefore creating more jobs in the longer term.

[sasguru]

Can we, at the same time, ship out poor people with few qualifications and no prospects like Troll and Bagpuss?

[Troll]

Same is true for the Eastern lot: Poles etc sleep 4 in a room, stay in and never go out, to maximise their savings.
Not very British, is it?

You forgot to mention remitting £5 billion out of the economy back to Poland

[Dow Jones]

From the BBC news website
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Points

Immigration Minister Liam Byrne earlier revealed how the system would work for highly skilled migrants, who work in "financial and public services, education and health, ICT and business".

We are not running immigration policy in the exclusive interest of the British business community

Liam Byrne, immigration minister

People applying for a visa as a Highly Skilled Migrant will be awarded points based on their qualifications, age, their previous salary or the amount of money they are planning to invest in the British economy.

For example, someone aged under 30 with a PhD will automatically gain the 75 points necessary to gain entry, regardless of how much they are earning.

But ordinary graduates who have not gone on to further study would need to be earning a minimum of £40,000 to gain entry.

Successful highly skilled applicants will need to have passed a test in English, equivalent to GCSE Grade C or above.

They will be able to bring wives, partners and children to the UK, who will be able to take jobs, as dependants of successful applicants.
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DJ comment:

About time and long overdue. Not a Gov't idea, but another one 'borrowed' from the Tories who in turn 'borrowed' it from John Howard (ex-Oz PM)
No point bringing low-skill (and low-paid) workers, who are not contributing a penny to the local economy, but have to save all their money in order to send it to feed their families abroad. Just to give you an example, in the bank's restaurant, not a single 'off-shore/in-shore' is queuing up to pay for lunch, as they are all bringing their own. Can't afford it, poor sods. I've asked one what does he do with his money. He says he sends most of it back home. In a couple of years, he will be able to buy his own place. All well and good, but I am sure it doesn't help all the shops and business in London who are finding it hard to survive with prohibitive rents and rates.
Same is true for the Eastern lot: Poles etc sleep 4 in a room, stay in and never go out, to maximise their savings.
Not very British, is it?