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Originally Posted by martyh
Have to agree ,when was the last time we heard of someone leaving the UK to claim benefits in Boznia .Whichever way you look at it there is a problem of migrants getting benefits in this country without ever contributing .The number doesn't matter ,it could be 2,000 or 200,000 annually it is wrong and needs to stop .Our own 'lazy' non workers are getting hammered from every angle by the benefits system so why should migrants be any different
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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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Originally Posted by Big Brian
Why can't they just accept the democratic will of the people and get on with it?
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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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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Adult training is an area the UK has failed miserably in the last few decades it's often just been easy money for the company's that got the contract with no real oversight or means to ensure decent standards. I am hoping as we go forward that those areas of skills shortages are identified and the means to train people to fill those shortages are created so that we become as self sufficient as we can be. It can't be done overnight but we can make a start and if you turn round to most unemployed people and offer them the chance for proper training with a skilled job at the end of it they will jump at the chance.
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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.