Re: Question on immigration


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On 8 Sep, 14:28, "William Black" <william.bl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Everyone knows how immigrants run a range of cheap ethnic restaurants.
But we already have a very large number of these restaurants. Nearly
every day I get a leaflet for one of them. Do we need more immigrants
to run more restaurants?

Possibly not.

But the number of suppliers of a service will expand to fill the economic
niche.

If there isn't enough business then either the prices will come down (no
problems there) or they'll close up and go and do something else (no
problems there either)

We probably do need more foreign engineers and doctors and nurses.


What about all those newly trained nurses we read about who can't get
jobs. And likewise doctors.


A newly qualified nurse is invariably offered a post at the institution they
trained at.

Any unemployed and newly qualified nurses you hear about are those who want
a job different to that offered.

The doctors' thing is slightly different, and is why Indian doctors in the
UK were busy suing the government last year and earlier this year.

Essentially all junior hospital doctors are employed from a single date
every year, and last year the system changed so that foreign doctors on a
work permit didn't get put on the list for a job unless there were no
British applicants.

The Indian doctors in the UK promptly claimed that this was racist because
the vast majority of foreign doctors within the NHS are of Indian
nationality.

They dragged the government through the courts, and won. The government
policy was racist.

This upset the whole system and we've got the rather odd case now where
foreign doctors are competing with British doctors for the same posts, even
though there's now no UK shortage of junior hospital doctors. As the
foreign doctors all have experience within the NHS they are obviously
preferable to British doctors straight out of university.

This problem should right itself in a couple of years as the work permits
for the foreign junior hospital doctors will not be renewed and they'll have
to leave the country.

The only current shortage of doctors in the UK is GPs. If you're a
qualified GP you can get a UK non employer tied work visa (HQMP) almost at
once.


--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.




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