import medics from abroad
If people would stop just repeating the "acceptable" ideas and look at the facts they would see that many of the problems that immigration is supposedly solving are partly, or even mostly, caused by immigration in the first place. Why do we need more teachers? More house builders? More infrastructure like roads, power stations and water supplies? In the future plans for water supply in the South East, for example, population expansion is a greater factor than anticipiated global warming.
A long term insidious effect is the destruction of incentive. There is never going to be a perfect match in supply and demand at all times and in every area. If companies are allowed to always look abroad for the quick and cheap option, rather than raise wages to attract more staff, even fewer here are going to see that area as worth entering or training for, even fewer on welfare are going to see any sound financial reason for working instead. In the case of British companies who are outbid by cheap options, they are necessarily going to miss out on the experience of that work and be even less able to compete next time.
Maybe this is all making things cheaper, to the advantage of the better off in our society, the real problem is that we can't lower our wages towards third world levels without taking our society there as well. India, Pakistan, Bangaldesh, Phillipines, Nigeria etc are all very cheap but do you seriously want to live there?
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