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UK is going to be in serious trouble because of this. (1) They already had a major shortage for low skilled workers to assist in agriculture and social care. A
by threeseed 7y ago
UK is going to be in serious trouble because of this.
(1) They already had a major shortage for low skilled workers to assist in agriculture and social care. And yes they have tried to raise wages and encourage UK applicants with little success. Given the lack of consultation with the agriculture industry I am guessing they are just going to let it wither and die.
(2) Given how poorly the Home Office has treated EU citizens wanting to remain in the UK as well as scandals such as Windrush I can't imagine too many people trusting them to look after you over the long term.
- fiblye 7y agoThe number of countries with population growth large enough to serve as a stable supply of immigrant labor is shrinking by the day. The sooner we adapt our economies to operate without being dependent on an underclass of foreign workers, the better we can avoid actual serious trouble down the road.
- threeseed 7y agoUK had a massive supply courtesy of the EU and they benefited immensely from it. Now that it is going to dry up what is the long term solution for health and social care workers for example. You can't automate genuine human compassion and understanding with a DL neural net.
- fiblye 7y agoThe UK benefited from it, sure. Meanwhile Bulgaria's population has dropped by about 25%. They deserve health workers just as much as Brits.
- plantain 7y agoAre you really pro-brexit because you're concerned about Bulgaria's healthcare?
- myle 7y agoThat would make a lot of sense if he is from Bulgaria. Also, in other cases too.
- fiblye 7y agoI'm from nowhere near Europe and I'm not letting anyone pin me as pro/anti-brexit. I just think it's weird how some "common sense" policies that benefit one country often come at the cost of another country.
- Tomis02 7y agoYou make it sound like Bulgarians were enslaved and sent to work on foreign lands. No, people left voluntarily for a better life. Also, these policies benefitted Bulgaria as well, otherwise they wouldn't have joined.
- holografix 7y agoThe solution is lower rates of population growth. Romanian youth were already preferring to stay home and seek office jobs than to travel to the UK to work low paid manual labour jobs. It’s inevitable that economic growth around the EU drains the pool of cheap labour.
- thinkingemote 7y agoI think nursing would be classed as skilled?
- aSplash0fDerp 7y agoI believe the article mentioned investments going full speed towards automation for the industries that allow it and retire low-skilled and manual labor jobs for the rest of eternity. I'm located in the US and they moved many of the LS/ML jobs overseas decades ago, so we can expect a consorted effort from the UK, US and AU kindly stating that selective immigration is in everyones best interest. It may also be a guise to limit fallout from climate change migration, but that remains to be seen.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoThey could raise wages for low skilled workers to attract more people. The poorest working Britons will be better off, instead of the richest.
- npc1220 7y agoBut how is paying people more going to increase the value of MY stocks?