Government gives into populism on immigration
Good to see that the Government is to introduce an unworkable, ill thought out, populist, immigration policy - not for the first time.
Restricting workers from Romania and Bulgaria will mean:
- Britain cannot benefit from the advantages they bring.
- The measures suggested by Reid, which include allowing self employed workers, are unworkable. Workers will just use self employment as a loophole (they’ll all become consultants).
- It should be left to the market not some Migration Advisory Council.
- Most will not come to the UK anyway.
- You can’t stop them coming here even if you wanted to.
- They’ll just work in the grey economy and not pay tax.
December 17th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
[...] In his speech, John Hutton’s also going to compare the attitude of the lazy British to that of the dynamic and hardworking Central and Eastern Europeans who have come to the UK. I suppose that this fits nicely with the Government’s policy on Romania and Bulgaria, which has placed limits when they join in January. The Government message is that there’s lots of jobs, we’re not allowed to fill those with Romanian and Bulgarians, (because the Daily Mail said it’s bad) so you lazy British will have to scrub the floors and serve burgers instead. [...]