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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
No, of course I don't mean that. What I am saying is that if an organisation is unable to recruit a suitably qualified candidate for a position, the government would give that organisation dispensation to recruit from abroad.
We should only allow in the people we need until such time as our population levels reduce below an optimum figure. That way our services and housing needs will be back on an even keel.
I don't know why these simple concepts are eluding some people. It really isn't rocket science!
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How on earth do you determine what that optimum level is? You can't because this is not some planned economy without technological innovation.
Plenty of brownfield sites and closed shops that can be converted into housing. As others have explained to you - and I don't know why you turn a deaf ear to the facts - immigrants more than cover the services they use so are not a burden. Yes, a minority don't and they should be deported as legislation permits us to do.
You've not explained the process, timelines and costs behind your proposal but we're talking about a significant burden you propose to impose on British industry to solve a non-existent problem.
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Originally Posted by Damien
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Absolutely not surprised by this revelation, Brexit has been a God-send to the Russians.
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Interesting piece by former NI negotiation Jonathon Powell in today's FT.
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Thursday June 7 2018 may go down in history as the day hard Brexit died. It has tripped over the conundrum of the Northern Ireland border, as it was always going to do. The only reason there isn’t more noise is that the Brexiters do not realise it yet.
There was only ever one possible answer to avoiding a hard border, and that is either Northern Ireland or the UK as a whole staying in the customs union and the single market for goods. Finally the British government has accepted the inevitable in its “ backstop” proposal: the UK will stay in the customs union, although it will be called something else, and we will have to negotiate regulatory alignment by remaining in the single market for industrial and agricultural goods. The proposal suggests that the UK will be able to negotiate new trade deals with third countries from this position, but you only have to think about that for a moment to realise it is nonsense. The only area where we would have any scope for separate deals would be on services. And who is going to reach a free-trade agreement with the UK on services alone?
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He concludes by pointing out that the only bit of the EU we will be leaving is the one area where we are strongest in — the single market for services.
https://www.ft.com/content/05dc4920-...1-39f3459514fd