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How Should We Control Immigration Post Brexit?

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ToraToraTora | 10:19 Wed 07th Sep 2016 | News
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37279090
Ok so Mrs May is not a fan of the points system, so what are the alternatives?
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How would you do it ttt?
Work permits will work better than points system. No job, no permit. I am sure there will be fraud but it will be much easier to control. People should have a job lined up and the means to support themselves.
Unsure what all the options are myself but I don't see why multiple criteria can't work in tandem.

Work permits are ok provided the employer proves the wage & conditions offered are suitable that there is no reason an unemployed UK person can reasonably reject them, and the job position has been available to all the job seekers the government has already sent to apply, for a reasonable length of time. We don't need employers bypassing the UK national market be bringing in foreign workforce at lower wages and less than acceptable conditions.
TTT.......its worth pointing out that the points system in use in Oz was intended to increase immigration, not curtail it.
I would suspect it's main aim was to split applicants into a useful pile and a not required pile.
Hi tech companies will no longer be able to recruit the best coders, so they will fail or re-locate to croatia or some such.
The argiculture industry will have to pay decent wages if there isn't a cheap pool of foreign Labour, so prices will rise and exports will fall (because the produce is dearer).
Gromit...when have the agricultural industry ever paid decent wages ?

You might find this of interest :::

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akenfield

By the way, from my experience in Cornwall, the farmers pay exactly the same wages to all their workers, irrespective of where they come from.

The problem is that they can't attract a pool of workers from our indigenous unemployed dole-bludger population, because they have no need to work. They can have a very profitable existence by remaining on the dole for their whole lives.

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"How would you do it ttt? " - well I tend to favour the points system, yes mikey originally it was to encourage immigration but it has now been adjusted so that only people Australia need get in. I suppose the US working visa system is one way, though really I was looking for ideas as I don't have strong views on this except to limit migration to those we need. We don't want to fill up with more scroungers, we have enough home grown ones as it is.
TTT....."We don't want to fill up with more scroungers, we have enough home grown ones as it is"

Can't disagree with your there !
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"The problem is that they can't attract a pool of workers from our indigenous unemployed dole-bludger population, because they have no need to work. They can have a very profitable existence by remaining on the dole for their whole lives. " - and thus the immigrants true damage is exposed, if there was no one to do the work for 2 bob a week then the employers would have to raise the wages and, who knows may even attract some home grown WSS from their xboxes. So reduce benefits and immigrants, employers will have to increase wages, voila, WSS snatched from their scrounging existence.
You seem to think there is a vast pool of WSS as you call them. There isn't. Well not in enough numbers to replace the immigrants anyway.

The long term unemployed are either young people, who don't bother signing on because the hassle is not worth it for £71 (their parents keep them). Or the old who cannot do the physical work.
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/// TTT....."We don't want to fill up with more scroungers, we have enough home grown ones as it is" ///

/// Can't disagree with your there ! ///

Careful mikey who you criticise, not all home grown scroungers have white faces.
Gromit...I wouldn't be so sure about the profile of dole-bludgers.

...I know many, and come across many, that are in their late 20's onwards, with families, who have never worked. The benefit system isn't robust enough to weed these people out and make them work.

But the work needs to be done and its mostly being done by immigrants....after all that is why they are here in the first place....for work. As long as we continue to allow our own unemployed to carry on claiming benefits, paid for by the taxes paid by the rest of us, and never work or contribute, we will need immigration.
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/// By the way, from my experience in Cornwall, the farmers pay exactly the same wages to all their workers, irrespective of where they come from. ///

That may well be true, but is it the 'living wage'?
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so more or less the US system danny.
It would be similar yes.
No job=no entry and for goodness sake introduce health screening. TB? no entry.
Stating the obvious but while we can control legal immigration it is illegal immigration that is the big problem we can't control. A lot on here do not seem to realise there is a difference!
Different issue though isn't it. Even if both contribute to common effects.

What's needed is vigilance to spot hiring employers, and ensure all their workforce have a valid NI number. Check that and there should be no illegal workforce. Spot checks would help too.

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