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The immigration argument was never about skilled workers. London itself voted heavily in favour of remaining. Immigration was a stirred-up debate citing unski
by zhte415 10y ago
The immigration argument was never about skilled workers. London itself voted heavily in favour of remaining. Immigration was a stirred-up debate citing unskilled eastern european workers taking low paid jobs, heeding and feeding the insecurities of areas of the UK which are and have been economically depressed for decades.
I expect visas for skilled workers to quickly become very, very easy, and visas for unskilled workers impossible.
- BjoernKW 10y agoMaking immigration an argument only about unskilled labour is incredibly short-sighted. You can't run an economy just with highly-skilled workers. At the very least you can expect things like construction or plumbing to become a lot more expensive (not that I consider either unskilled labour but those are typically not included when talking about visa for skilled workers). Then there's the foreign exchange risk created by this whole mess, which will make skilled work more expensive as well. I've been doing business with UK companies occasionally and up until now I had no problem with billing them in GBP. Now I'll have to bill them in EUR because I'm not willing to take the foreign exchange risk. Since the pound is already massively devalued against the euro and likely will continue to be in the next few years British companies will have to pay a premium for products and services from outside the UK.
- zhte415 10y agoI fully agree.