Plenty more examples online this one just came up first!

I don't have twitter, nor do I want it. But you seem to think that it is conclusive evidence of truth? CNN reported it. It must be true. I read it in the Sun*, it must be true. It was on twitter, it must be true. Jeez! As I pointed out earlier, your researching is flawed.

*thrown in to make you understand it's all BS

Systematically dragged down by the lawmakers

What do you remoaners think of this?
BBC News - Hollywood studio plans to build film complex in Reading
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Government unveils new immigration policy.

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The devil is in the detail but at first glance it looks a sensible policy. The government has set a minimum salary threshold to stop companies exploiting cheap foreign labour they have also banned workers from access to income related benefits to prevent employers using taxpayers money to subsidise jobs.

They cannot claim benefits for 5 years and must pay £400 pa for the NHS.

As long as care workers and the NHS are exempt which it appears they are this all seems well and good.

The key thing for me though is flexibility if the policy is not working in certain areas the government needs to be able to amend it quickly and without an act of Parliament it's not clear how that will happen yet.

Edited by Badger11 (19 Feb 2020 8.04am)

One more point

It has nothing to do with what happened on the bus. For me that clearly was included as a personal example of the problem she sees resulting from Brexit.

She didn't suggest that everyone who voted to leave is a racist did she? She only suggested that Brexit has taken the cork out of the bottle and released the previously restrained racism that was always there in some people. A view that I share and have expressed here before.

She went on to give an opinion about why she believes it necessary to go on challenging these attitudes.

There is no need for anyone to feel offended. What she said is an opinion from a particular perspective, informed by personal experience and a valuable contribution to an important subject.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

The devil will indeed be in the detail, which will not become clear for a while. When I heard the headline proposals last night my first impression was much of it made sense.

However, I am not so sure that care workers have been exempted and, if not, this will become a major issue.

Nor, it seems, has tourism.

If service levels decrease in the tourism sector as a consequence then the impact will all be economic. Businesses will fail and people will be unhappy but nobody will die. We can all make our own beds in hotels, self serve in restaurants, and survive.

Not so the care sector. Starve that of support staff and we will have a genuine crisis on our hands.

It's all very well wanting to see these jobs taken up by local people, or automated, but the impracticality of actually doing so, especially in the short term, is obvious. Even if the wage levels in the care sector are dramatically improved the take up is not going to be sufficient. As improving those wage levels depends entirely on government intervention that ball rests in their hands. Without funding it won't happen.

So I agree that flexibility is the key to success and that this needs to be shown quickly to reassure some vulnerable people. The statements from the government so far seem pretty rigid and ideological rather than practical.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.