'Time To End' Care Worker Recruitment From Abroad, Says Home Secretary...

[naomi24]

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper pledges up to 50,000 fewer visas for lower-skilled workers

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2jnr1mkv8t

 

 

A crackdown on legal immigration and people willing to do essential but not necessarily attractive jobs.  Meanwhile the boats keep coming.

 

 

 

 

 

[douglas9401]

I'm sure I picked up on one commentator remarking on it being 'another useless punt' but I may have misheard.

[mushroom25]

so no curbs on all the highly qualified (but undocumented) engineers and surgeons who arrive on the frequent rubber ferry service on Kent's beaches then? 

[naomi24]

Maybe the surgeons will all become care workers.  Not quite sure what the engineers will do.

[naomi24]

Apparently her plan is called "Restoring Control Over the Immigration System".   What control?  The woman always has been a joke.

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxkl01qjzwo

 

 

 

 

[Untitled]

the fact of the matter is that many british people are opposed to immigration at all, legal or otherwise... and labour has foolishly decided that the best response to their defeat in runcorn is to try and win people like that to their side. 

i consider this political strategy idiotic. the kind of creature that objects to visas for care workers would rather cut of their own fingers than vote for labour. it will never work.

so it is a policy that is both economically and politically stupid.

[naomi24]

untitled.  // the kind of creature that objects to visas for care workers would rather cut of their own fingers than vote for labour. //

 

You're making a huge assumption based on your own imagination - but that doesn't make sense anyway.  She's objecting and she votes Labour.

[10ClarionSt]

The boats accross the channel are escorted half way by the French, then escorted into Britain by the Royal Navy/ Coastguard/RNLI, whoever is nearest. Tis true. No link. Sorry.

[William51]

Why dont these politicians think before they act. If she stops foreign care workers coming in it will make the recruitment worse.

[Canary42]

We could always let them in but force them to wear a yellow star.

[pastafreak]

Those 'lower skilled' workers are doing jobs rejected by our own workers...and they are absolutely necessary jobs. Think of all the care homes and even individuals who rely on them.

[Deskdiary]

12.59pm - Jesus wept - what sort of waped mind can come out with something that crass?

[dave50]

If we have to resort to employing foreign workers then unemployment in this country must be zero.

 

[douglas9401]

Think also of all the miserly profiteers running the places on a shoestring while hoovering up subsidies to fund their lifestyles while residents are given the bare minimum or less care and services supplied by staff who struggle with basic English.

The whole system is a disgrace and needs intervention but that's not the easy option, and any resident who complains will be dead soon so the situation continues. Trebles all round.

[pastafreak]

I briefly worked as a cook in a care home. The best and most efficient careworkers were Eastern European...mostly Polish. No language issues. Whereas some of the more locally sourced carers seemed to spend a lot of time on smoking breaks and swearing.

[ladybirder]

I employ a Polish cleaner and she's lovely.  Always on time, works hard and asks if there is anything else she can do before she leaves.

 

[barry1010]

If I were in a care home I'd want to be looked after by willing staff, happy in their work, not someone under duress because their benefits have been taken off them.

Couldn't care less where they come from as long as we can understand each other.

[sandyRoe]

Could we reduce the numbers of foreign doctors and nurses coming into our beloved country?

There's no reason why our own native born people couldn't be trained for these jobs.

[davebro3]

my nephew starts his medical degree in September & my niece is on a course to upgrade her nursery nurse qualification to that of hospital nurse. 🙄

[Rosetta]

 i can't see the boat loads of illegal immigrants, mostly young men, wanting employment as care workers, imo they would feel it would be below them, particularly in the culture where women almost exclusiveley do the menial tasks within the home or  "taking care" of elderly or disabled relatives. Whilst we should encourage our own citizens to take up these roles it has to be acknowledge that there is a short fall in  local staff wanting to do these sort of jobs and that visas are needed for staff from abroad

[Bazile]

Chris Philip - shadow home secretary seems to agree with the plan

//Philp - who said he agreed with the plan to end care worker recruitment from abroad - told the same programme the Conservatives would push Parliament to vote on a yearly migration cap this week.//

So what are all you righties complaining about ?