Grandad1943
The increase in GDP has been in 'soft' industries such as banking and IT skills and not in manufacturing and heavy industry which was in decline during the Thatcher years and her drive to turn UK into a service provider. Much of the manual work in UK contributes little to GDP this being assembly work, warehousing. We do little heavy manfacturing as this is outsourced.
We are fed the idea of needing immigration which for some sectors maybe we do, but since 2004 when free movement really took off employers have drastically cut training budgets, apprenticeships and succession training has all but gone because they can import someone already trained at a lower salary, pushing our less academic youngsters into unskilled and possibly gig economy jobs. Why are employers panicking now? Because their trained, cheap employee stream may dry and they will have to start training and apprenticeship schemes again incurring a cut in profits.
I am all for inviting people to work here for jobs where the need is immediate and cannot be filled internally.
For every person who comes here we have to find accommdation, school places, room on the roads, doctors appointments,additional water, sewage and waste capacity, electricity, gas etc. etc.
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