Immigration is a tough one. As you say, Brexiteers want us to take back control of our borders so the illegal immigration from economic migrants is totally unacceptable. Also unacceptable to many people is the level of mass migration from foreign cultures at a level that precludes assimilation into our culture but instead creates ghetto areas of our country. Multiculturalism is a failed experiment and it’s time that critics were not vilified for supposed racism. It’s not racist to state fact.
We do however need a certain level of immigration from people who have the skills we need as a country in order to grow our economy (a major plank in Truss’s strategy). It’s about taking control. I think that most people would support an immigration system such as the Australian points system but only when our porous borders are controlled and illegal immigrants are removed immediately. We only need to send the first batch to Rwanda before channel crossings stop.
Hi Adrian, thanks for your comment. The balance surely is to bring net migration down to sensible levels. Cameron and May pledged reducing it to tens of thousands per year which seems much more reasonable and sustainable. Post-Brexit the Conservative Government can finally deliver this. And they should.
The need for skilled immigrants shows another long term example of mismanagement in the UK. Blair helped crush vocational training by setting a socialist target of 50% of our children need to go to university. There was no generalised improvement of vocational training from Blair or the following administrations. The demise of proper old fashioned apprenticeships happened, whilst old polytechnics converted to universities to chase the new money. Now we want skilled people from third world countries, to work here, denying their home countries of the very people they need most. This is lunacy. Added to this, the lower quality Mickey-mouse university degrees, the inundation of woke ideology in our education system and the requirement that you cannot be a nurse or policeman without a degree has resulted in an utter shambles. The recent welcome announcement of ditching the ban on Grammar schools, and building them in more deprived areas needs to be accompanied by a rethink of vocational education and a reduction in the elitist snobbery that a university degree is the bar for getting skilled work. If we get this balance in education right, the need for immigration decreases and the general level of wages will rise.
Hi Charles, thanks for your comment. There is no doubt that there have been big mistakes made when it comes to education and a lack of long-term planning. I agree with you that the new grammar schools should be focused in deprived areas to boost social mobility. We also definitely need a much bigger focus on vocational education and apprenticeships as you point out. Hopefully Truss delivers!
Immigration is a tough one. As you say, Brexiteers want us to take back control of our borders so the illegal immigration from economic migrants is totally unacceptable. Also unacceptable to many people is the level of mass migration from foreign cultures at a level that precludes assimilation into our culture but instead creates ghetto areas of our country. Multiculturalism is a failed experiment and it’s time that critics were not vilified for supposed racism. It’s not racist to state fact.
We do however need a certain level of immigration from people who have the skills we need as a country in order to grow our economy (a major plank in Truss’s strategy). It’s about taking control. I think that most people would support an immigration system such as the Australian points system but only when our porous borders are controlled and illegal immigrants are removed immediately. We only need to send the first batch to Rwanda before channel crossings stop.
Hi Adrian, thanks for your comment. The balance surely is to bring net migration down to sensible levels. Cameron and May pledged reducing it to tens of thousands per year which seems much more reasonable and sustainable. Post-Brexit the Conservative Government can finally deliver this. And they should.
Absolutely right, Adrian! Surely Truss is not stupid enough to commit electoral suicide over this issue.
As I highlighted, 83% of Conservative voters (and Leavers!) think immigration has been too high for the last decade.
The need for skilled immigrants shows another long term example of mismanagement in the UK. Blair helped crush vocational training by setting a socialist target of 50% of our children need to go to university. There was no generalised improvement of vocational training from Blair or the following administrations. The demise of proper old fashioned apprenticeships happened, whilst old polytechnics converted to universities to chase the new money. Now we want skilled people from third world countries, to work here, denying their home countries of the very people they need most. This is lunacy. Added to this, the lower quality Mickey-mouse university degrees, the inundation of woke ideology in our education system and the requirement that you cannot be a nurse or policeman without a degree has resulted in an utter shambles. The recent welcome announcement of ditching the ban on Grammar schools, and building them in more deprived areas needs to be accompanied by a rethink of vocational education and a reduction in the elitist snobbery that a university degree is the bar for getting skilled work. If we get this balance in education right, the need for immigration decreases and the general level of wages will rise.
Hi Charles, thanks for your comment. There is no doubt that there have been big mistakes made when it comes to education and a lack of long-term planning. I agree with you that the new grammar schools should be focused in deprived areas to boost social mobility. We also definitely need a much bigger focus on vocational education and apprenticeships as you point out. Hopefully Truss delivers!
Spot-on Charles.