tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546602206734889307.post5958741407130964403..comments2024-03-29T12:16:15.785+00:00Comments on mainly macro: Politicians and statisticsMainly Macrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984575852247982901noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546602206734889307.post-55477072337829461602016-04-30T19:27:15.257+00:002016-04-30T19:27:15.257+00:00Thanks - no idea how that happened!Thanks - no idea how that happened!Mainly Macrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09984575852247982901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546602206734889307.post-38034895455637802392016-04-30T07:49:30.146+00:002016-04-30T07:49:30.146+00:00Something far too often neglected in the immigrati...Something far too often neglected in the immigration debate - at least as far as working immigrants are concerned - is that eveyone entering the UK (or any other country) to work is benefiting someone, or ones, in the host country. Most obviously the employer, who is able to increase the business but also the clients/customers who are able to receive a service they would otherwise not get. Look at all the care and nursing homes, now often staffed largely by people from central and eastern Europe. Are local candidates being turned away from these jobs? Or is it rather that no one locally wants to do them? Should the homes be shut down if they rely on European workers?<br /><br />The curry chefs 'shortage' article struck me, too. You say "Unfortunately there aren’t many skilled curry chefs in Romania" but how about Bradford or Leicester? I have the impression that there are well over a million people from South Asia living, legally, in the UK (feel free to correct my figures). There are at least ten times more than that number who enjoy eating curries. Is it impossible to find sufficient decent chefs from that number, or is the argument about a 'shortage' more about maintaining a pipeline of new immigrants from some Bangladeshi and Pakistani villages, who can more easily be exploited and provide income and other benefits to the 'Godfathers' of specific communities?<br />DavidShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11679346381085854499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546602206734889307.post-11274775600553237712016-04-29T08:44:23.124+00:002016-04-29T08:44:23.124+00:00Looks like you accidentally posted the same chart ...Looks like you accidentally posted the same chart twice?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546602206734889307.post-68785326066898612202016-04-28T09:06:58.991+00:002016-04-28T09:06:58.991+00:00The issue at hand in the EU debate is whether *uns...The issue at hand in the EU debate is whether *unskilled and semi-skilled people in the EU who wouldn’t otherwise get a visa or asylum* in the UK should be permitted to come into the UK to work.<br /><br />If you separate out that set of people, then you find that *at best* they don’t reduce the wage at that level of work and at worst they do reduce the wage at that level of work.<br /><br />But far more important than that they don’t *increase* the wage a resident is going to get for a job, nor do they *increase* the chance of a resident getting a job.<br /><br />Given that we are not creating sufficient housing, nor improving our schools and hospitals to cope with the influx (e.g the level of language support and functional skills required in my local primary school is not something that is attracting additional central government funding), then the actual real costs of immigration are simply not in the figures.<br /><br />And then there is the impact on existing immigrant communities. There was a big spread on the front of the local Asian newspaper about how local curry houses may all have to close down because they can’t get the immigrants from the sub-continent they need with the required skills. Unfortunately there aren’t many skilled curry chefs in Romania. This problem seems to be more general:<br /><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/third-of-curry-houses-could-close-as-tough-immigration-rules-block-chefs-coming-to-uk-a6997831.html<br /><br />The excessive visa restrictions we have on the rest of the world – which are required to balance the lax ones in place to the EU – are stopping existing ethnic minority communities dealing fairly with parts of the world they originate from.<br /><br />So the oft-quoted figures relied upon by the left are skewed by aggregation, and skewed by omission.Randomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04445772572707818311noreply@blogger.com