Private Eye News: Tikka back control…
Restaurants which provide takeaway service will be allowed to recruit non-EEA (European Economic Area) chefs under a Tier 2 visa from 6 October, 25 days before the all-important Brexit Day. Chefs join architects, engineers and nurses on the shortage occupation list.
Now, despite not having left the EU yet, Patel has somehow found enough control to change the rules after all. This will hopefully, er, curry favour with disgruntled restaurant bosses who in 2017, a year after the Brexit vote, said they felt “betrayed” that ministers still hadn’t done anything.
Back then, immigration minister Robert Goodwill suggested the staff shortage could be dealt with by training curry chefs in Britain. He forgot that this had already been tried in the Cameron era, when Eric “Poppadom with” Pickles spent £1.75m creating 70 apprenticeships at “curry colleges”. Only 16 people actually signed up.
Now, despite not having left the EU yet, Patel has somehow found enough control to change the rules after all. This will hopefully, er, curry favour with disgruntled restaurant bosses who in 2017, a year after the Brexit vote, said they felt “betrayed” that ministers still hadn’t done anything.
Back then, immigration minister Robert Goodwill suggested the staff shortage could be dealt with by training curry chefs in Britain. He forgot that this had already been tried in the Cameron era, when Eric “Poppadom with” Pickles spent £1.75m creating 70 apprenticeships at “curry colleges”. Only 16 people actually signed up.
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