Britain’s post-Brexit immigration rules worry business

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Britain’s new immigration plan was billed as a “points-based system” but it is not as flexible as that implies

workers in health and social care and 85% in hotels and hospitality would be ineligible for visas under the new system. The government hopes to encourage British people back into the labour market to meet the need. Priti Patel, the home secretary, argues that “we have over 8.45m people in theaged between 16 and 64 who are economically inactive”. But most of them are studying, retired, sick or looking after family. Only 1.9m say they want a job.

Britain’s farmers are concerned for next year’s harvest. Although the government announced that this year’s seasonal worker scheme will be expanded from 2,500 to 10,000 places, no commitment has been given for 2021. Picking soft fruits such as strawberries is tricky to automate. But the impact of the changes will spread beyond low-skilled, low-productivity sectors. Manufacturing bosses in the north and the Midlands, where skilled technicians often earn below the £25,600 threshold, worry that the new rules will make it easier for firms in the south-east, where technicians tend to earn over the threshold, to expand. That is hardly what a government committed to “levelling up” wants to see.

 

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How many english speaking ballerinas w/ a doctorate exist in the world?

Just musing.. Would BaronessBull qualify? She makes a wonderful Peer, but I don't know if she has a Doctorate.

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This would be funny if it wasn’t so f*cking tragic! NotMyBrexit

Both of 'em!

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Bloody fool system thrown in to placate big business so they can carry on smuggling in low capital labour with degrees that aren't worth the paper they're printed on because they'll never be used in that capacity. The tax threshold system is the correct one, it guarantees benefit

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