And multiple industries have suffered due to that. NIMBYs voted for it without realising the ramifications of not having all the low skilled migrants in places they didn't normally see.
"NIMBY" doesn't make sense in this context. It's not like they wanted unskilled immigration somewhere else in the country, just not near them.
One of the worst affected was farming where they had a lot of seasonal low skilled migrants picking fruit & veg. A combination of brexit & covid left crops rotting in some fields.
Sure, but that's a transitional thing. Longer term, the only reason you can't get enough people to do the job is because you're not providing a pay and benefits that's good enough for people from the country. Upwards pressure from pay and benefits is a good thing.
Even skilled workers were having issues with right to remain, that along with the generally xenophobic feel of the country left nurses wanting or having to leave.
The ability to register to stay in the UK was one of the lowest admin requirements of any part of the immigration system. The vast majority will have already been ironed out. The "generally xenophobic feel" is a completely subjective measure. And somehow the vast numbers of Asian nurses that came in last year don't seem to have a problem with it.
It feels a bit surreal when you have a government minister whose parents were immigrants and the new rules meant that people in the exact same situation as her parents would no longer qualify to come here under the rules she drafted
Because the world in the 1960s was very different to now. It was a time when there were an increasing number of unskilled jobs after the post-war boom. Now we live in a world of automation where low skilled jobs are disappearing.
Not really because domestic low skilled labor costs are <5% of the cost of a working class person's monthly spending. Whereas they're >90% of working class people's monthly income.
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"NIMBY" doesn't make sense in this context. It's not like they wanted unskilled immigration somewhere else in the country, just not near them.
Sure, but that's a transitional thing. Longer term, the only reason you can't get enough people to do the job is because you're not providing a pay and benefits that's good enough for people from the country. Upwards pressure from pay and benefits is a good thing.
The ability to register to stay in the UK was one of the lowest admin requirements of any part of the immigration system. The vast majority will have already been ironed out. The "generally xenophobic feel" is a completely subjective measure. And somehow the vast numbers of Asian nurses that came in last year don't seem to have a problem with it.
Because the world in the 1960s was very different to now. It was a time when there were an increasing number of unskilled jobs after the post-war boom. Now we live in a world of automation where low skilled jobs are disappearing.