Originally Posted by
mr brightside
The immigration system has a backlog of an estimated 60,000 cases according to that last Panorama/Dispatches i saw on the subject; and is thus out of control.
People from outside the EU were flooding in under Blair/Brown, and it was an open door with no skills needed.
We don't 'need' foreign workers in this country. Too many of our own folk are either sat on their arses or desperate for work, there is nothing wrong with giving our own population some skill and encouragement. I think Dave's 'Big Society' thing was along these lines but i can't see what if anything has been achieved. In certain cases he seems to have hit their benefits payments instead of their lack of enthusiasm, which is only going to demoralise them further.
In the interests of not going round in circles...i think we need to close our borders totally until the backlog of immigration applications is cleared, then open them to skilled workers who we need. We also need to get our own people skilled and working, and enthusiastic about both those things.
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