The UK's New Open Door Immigration Policy

[vetran]

There will be 2.5 million unemployed by next year. Last thing we need is mass cheap labour.

Bank of England warns UK unemployment will hit 2.5m after Covid-19 slump – as it happened | Business | The Guardian

Retrain the poor sods who lose their jobs, its cheaper than paying them benefits.

[Old Greg]

There will be 2.5 million unemployed by next year. Last thing we need is mass cheap labour.

Bank of England warns UK unemployment will hit 2.5m after Covid-19 slump – as it happened | Business | The Guardian

Retrain the poor sods who lose their jobs, its cheaper than paying them benefits.

So much for the Brexit economic boom.

[vetran]

So much for the Brexit economic boom.

Well maybe that will save us, but Covid has done more damage than any other recession so far.

[Old Greg]

Well maybe that will save us, but Covid has done more damage than any other recession so far.

Brexit will see the UK through the choppy waters just fine. President Trump has promised that the UK will be front of the queue for a trade deal with the USA.

[NotAllThere]

So the local takeaway can offer a job as chef at £25,600, deduct costs of accommodation, flights etc and that's it.

That's a relief. I'd hate to not be able to get a decent takeaway when I visit the UK.

[AtW]

£ 25k is important for Rishi’s wife’s father’s InfoSys company, so that will be happening and by way of keeping it fair British IT contractors will get extra taxes until it brings them closer to £ 25k salary mark

HTH

[d000hg]

It appears that immigration to the UK will be easier after 1st January.

Visa applications will be on line and all that is needed is , to be proficient in English, and earn at least £25,600.
There will be no limit on the number of visas issued.

So the local takeaway can offer a job as chef at £25,600, deduct costs of accommodation, flights etc and that's it.

Takeaway chefs are hardly going to lead to rampant immigration

[GigiBronz]

People are forgetting and focussing only on salary but previously, the deterrent was the red tape put by the EU. Company acting as sponsor, criterias for company, paperwork and fees. They still abused it but it was a lot more cumbersome.
Lets see how the future looks but that is what I would pe particularly careful about.

The whole shenanigans: immigration, border controls, passports could be a ploy to show the other party (and own people) that steps are taken in that direction. Maybe those policies were never intended to be put in place.
Or at least a part of me trully hopes so.

Well... hasn’t it always been that the rulling class brings in migrants to depress salaries and motivate people?
If you say people don’t want to wash cars on minimum wage. It is true, but I think plenty would on a 2xmin wage.
World it is not a fair place, it has never been.
I think they might allow the people already here to have access to some other opportunities or people will have to find a new home. Or at least the people bothered by that.
You can’t possibly live on 30k in S unless you own your own home or live in a slum...

[Paddy]

There will be 2.5 million unemployed by next year. Last thing we need is mass cheap labour.

Bank of England warns UK unemployment will hit 2.5m after Covid-19 slump – as it happened | Business | The Guardian

Retrain the poor sods who lose their jobs, its cheaper than paying them benefits.

It's a result of Brexit

[fullyautomatix]

I still remember the points based highly skilled visa fiasco. Visas were handed out en masse for thousands without proper checks and they flooded the market bringing the IT salaries way down. They even crashed the contracting market after a year of slaving. I feel this change will have a much bigger impact on the IT sector. The flood gates are opened. Pretty much every Indian IT company is readying their troops to apply for the visa and ship them out here on 25k salary. The effect will be devastating. I fear we may never recover from this tsunami.