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As France and Germany show, the problem is not wanting to train in the first place, not leaving to go elsewhere.

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We could force them to work for the NHS for say 5yrs to repay the money spent on training them,or we could simply make them pay for their own training as in other countries

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No not leaving isn't an issue :rolleyes:

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/home/fin...66.fullarticle

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Or we could make the terms of employment as attractive as other countries offer, just a thought but if people want to stay rather than being forced to stay generally the outcomes are more positive

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What's wrong with agreeing to signing up to x no of years to offset the time and money invested in training you?

Other places do it, notably the forces where, dependant on your specialization and the level you attain, you agree to sign up for a number of years, essentially so the organisation that spent a lot of time and money investing in YOU, ensures that YOU give some back in return.

Or would you rather have it that (as now) people get trained, get a skill useful elsewhere in the world and fark right off without a second thought because 'it's better for them'

At least with option 1, you still get the opportunity to peddle your skill elsewhere, but not until you've somewhat repaid the time and effort put into getting you that skill. Win win for everyone, instead of having to import dodgy 3rd world, barely english speaking/reading doctors with no benefit for anyone.

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Indeed since the EU became a political union there has been no need to train our own. Why should we when we can get cheap labour from the EU? Maybe they will start training now. They should because then in 2 years time there will be a workforce. NHS excluded that takes 5-7 years apparently.

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No, and I doubt the EU cares. It's not their problem unless we through negotiations make it their problem in which case we leave ourselves open to reciprocal action.

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It's not that simple. We can just accept it, get on with it, and cut off our nose to spite our face.

We absolutely need to get this right, else we risk affecting so many things both within and without Europe.

As far as democracy goes, that's an entirely different barrel of monkeys. When I see people protesting en masse for proportional representation and an elected second house then I'll take seriously people's complaints about democracy.

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The trouble is they apply until the end of the two years. I agree it seems ridiculous but it's what the UK agreed to when Gordon Brown, on the quiet, signed the Lisbon Treaty :(

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Immigration isn't necessarily a problem. We have a laundry list of things we could and should do better. It's going to be falling back naturally anyway as our economy is no longer as exceptional as it was.

We need to get our house in order here. We do that we can manage immigration way, way better. We needed it desperately in the 2000s but some of it was the wrong kind, although on hindsight realistically we couldn't expect it all to be exactly what we wanted.

For the most part the migration from the EU has been positive, although Romania and Bulgaria not so positive. Among the worst if not the worst immigration has been from elsewhere, with bits of Africa, Bangladesh and Pakistan standing out.

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This article kinda puts forward the difficulties ahead. For right now it really is that black and white.

This is a good article too.

I don't envy her the fine line she has to tread and am pretty sure that she chose some of her cabinet with the intention of their treading that fine line instead of her.

Seems reasonable based on her performances in PMQs and the reshuffle that she's nothing if not ruthless.

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l suspect many of us are not surprised by this...

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...09-says-survey

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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...MCNEWEML6619I2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36853952

I'll leave this here..

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Are you likely to? Our papers are not going to be interested in what happens in Bosnia, anymore than the Bosnian papers are interested in what's happening here.

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Because they need to have a lot of things in place or proceeding (such as negotiations) before they can even consider invoking Article 50. If they don't, they risk damaging the economy.

This never was going to happen quickly, and if the Leave campaign ever even hinted it would, they were lying.

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The problem is to train people it costs money. Beyond school education (which is where the potential votes are), no recent government has shown any real interest in funding education or training. Now, in a lot of cases, businesses have been funding their own training, and I hope this increases, but this tends to be training for staff they already have rather than potential recruits. I hope the government is going to spend at least some of the money it saves on improving training and education, as I think (at least in the STEM subjects) we are sorely lacking.

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Nothing has actually happened yet. Everything is the same as before. Their figures are not based on any REAL things.
And their figures are not yet complete.
Not sure how they can publish full July figures that quickly.

Anyway the rest of the EU isn't doing that great so that by itself will have an impact, eg less exports.

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With 85% of the questionnaires in, I am fairly certain whatever the final 15% of them contains, it isn't going to change the outcome much.
If they have 85% of the questionnaires in already, it should be relatively easy to publish full July figures that quickly, because they can collate the figures as they receive the questionnaires.

In fairness, all the report is saying is that we are seeing a sharp drop during a period of uncertainty. Both sides said we would have a period of uncertainty if we chose to leave the EU. Businesses are citing Brexit as the cause purely because they don't know how they are going to be affected when we leave the EU, so are less likely to invest a lot of money, at least until the uncertainty is resolved.

We may or may not have had problems had we chosen to remain, but businesses would have been more confident to invest as they would have had at least a vague idea of what was going on.

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The people supplying the data won't have full up-to-date data themselves.

As can be seen from the graph, this PMI has been on a downward trend for a couple of years. It also fluctuates wildly from month to month. It dropped dramatically just before the 2012 Olympics, however GDP shot upwards.

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We'll find out soon enough if the predictions of a recession are true or not. No point arguing about it at the moment. I would say that many analysts seem to think it is but this is one of those things that will be proven right or wrong.

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Everyone's trying to create a juicy story out of something before the facts are properly known. The veracity of the data doesn't or the context doesn't seem to matter as much as creating something to fill the pages and airwaves with, much of it pure speculation...

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With 85% of the questionnaires in, I am fairly certain whatever the final 15% of them contains, it isn't going to change the outcome much.

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Not sure how they can publish full July figures that quickly.

Remember Stats are just that.

Not fully as there is only 85% but it gives them a good idea from those 6oo firms. Ask another 600 firms and you would get a different answer.

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It has never been denied even by us leavers there will be a mini recession. The then Chancellor said 2 quarters and that sounds about right. However, he also said it would be immediate which is bunkum. Yes he did and his argument was why plunge ourselves deliberately into a mini recession?

The point is that it's not going to be the doom and gloom predicted. They're not investing because it's a bad thing, they are waiting to see how things go with the talks. The delay of A50 is going to cause more uncertainty and may even push any recession into 3 or even 4 quarters. That's not the fault of we who voted leave, its the fault of not invoking A50 when Cameron himself said he'd do it straight away.