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UK immigration - increased salary threshold
pep.fermi
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-67634719
With the new rule, workers from abroad can move to the UK only if they earn 38700pa or more (up from the current 26200pa). Average UK earning is probably near 30kpa.
The new increased threshold will probably keep out many young bright smart talented ambitious University scientists from China and India.
Who will do the low-paid jobs the Brits refuse to do?
All good with politicians taking decision they know they damage their country, only in order to appease a fraction of their voters. It's the scale of the damage that is excessive....
With the new rule, workers from abroad can move to the UK only if they earn 38700pa or more (up from the current 26200pa). Average UK earning is probably near 30kpa.
The new increased threshold will probably keep out many young bright smart talented ambitious University scientists from China and India.
Who will do the low-paid jobs the Brits refuse to do?
All good with politicians taking decision they know they damage their country, only in order to appease a fraction of their voters. It's the scale of the damage that is excessive....
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not sure if your reply was ironic. Maybe this is being discussed already in a different thread in the forum, sorry I didn't see it...
To be fair, we're training doctors and nurses who are going abroad to earn more than they can in the NHS.
In fact, I would imagine by a huge margin.
no idea, here my random guesses:
1) some people they're too bothered with their own immediate things (cost of living, latest football results, growing up their children, booking the next holiday) to care about what's right or wrong.
2) some people are simply to dumb to realize such policy "let's keep the poor out" goes against their interest.
3) people "against" immigration are simply much louder than those realizing and admitting the UK actually benefits from it
I thought you were a free marketer? Bring on lower friction labour markets.
At the very least we could pay to expand the training
...but I doubt Greece or Rumania have a problem of having too many Dr / nurses / carers / fruit pickers working there.
Reminds me when I hear "having a carer from East Europe here is a win-win: the family has a worker they couldn't otherwise afford, and the worker earns so much more than in their own country". Although this person makes a conscious decision, such statement ignores the facts such workers (very likely) leaves back home her own growing children and elderly parents. So although the net outcome is possibly still a win, it's not as positive as some see it...
It's win win. I don't really understand your logic here. Since when were you so autarkic?
I don't think so. By a very small poll of my own experience - taking my NHS dentist as an example. Pre Brexit/COVID there was a very steady churn of dentists from Greece, Spain, Hungary, India and China. So regular I barely saw the same one twice. Now it's mostly grumpy, white UK nationals probably because they haven't/can't get into private practice and make the megabucks.
I am not sure. You have no chance.
Doesn't bother me in the slightest, as I have a thick skin and if I am arsed to engage, I answer with some self-deprecating humour, which always shuts those halfwits up. I do, however, know quite a few families who moved back "home" because they couldn't bear it anymore and decided they preferred to live poorer lifes, but be happier among their own folk... only to find out that their former workplace roles had now been filled with immigrants from even poorer countries i.e. mainly Ukrainians, but also from the Middle East or Azerbaijan, happy to work longer hours for lower wages.
So on their way back to the UK on the next available plane.
Having lived in a couple of other countries I can assure you that asking where you are "from" is not a uniquely British trait.
- Dolan Tuono
The first time I met a friend of mine who is French I asked where in France he was from, same with a South African friend. A northerner joined my running club and I asked him. Yet if any of them had been black I probably wouldn’t have asked or would have clarified with ‘which part of France / SA / northern England are you from’ to avoid it being a reference to their skin colour. I regularly get asked where I’m from when outside of Wales and people hear my accent.
Incidentally, the jobs that Brits don’t want are the ones under 40k…
Edit… I knew 3 city brokers, none of them had a degree and they came from professional sport or the army, without much in the way of education… their usp were to be able to deal with the pressure and being good in a team
Er... England.
It's just a conversation opener, in that context.
Mother on the other hand.
Everyone has an accent.
I am not sure. You have no chance.