Setting a low, rigid figure for immigration is pointless if it leaves employers short of workers
We want to see it at a level our communities and infrastructure can cope with
Migrants error
THE “tens of thousands” a year target for net migration should be binned. It is a nonsense figure plucked from thin air.
This is not The Sun going “soft” on immigration.
The total HAS been far too high. We want to see it at a level our communities and infrastructure can cope with. We want our elected Government to control it, and Brexit will secure that power.
But setting a rigid, low figure — as the Tories intend in their manifesto — is counter-productive if it leaves employers short of workers, as in some areas and industries they already are.
Yes, firms should prioritise training Brits, paying decent wages and not relying on cheap foreign staff.
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But our Government must be flexible in regulating the influx, not bound by a limit dreamed up by David Cameron.
We also think foreign students, who pay to be temporarily educated at our universities, should be taken out of the total.
Officials claim so many overstay after graduating that they ARE migrants. also fears, wrongly in our view, being accused of fiddling the figures. But we don’t believe people think of genuine foreign students as immigrants.
The answer surely lies in much stricter checks, post-Brexit, to ensure they leave when their course ends, unless they have special talents enabling them to stay.
Labour has no credibility on migration, having opened the doors to Eastern Europe. But the Tory Government is now wasting energy on a bogus target.
We just need a sensible, managed system that works for Britain.
TV bigheads
THERESA May would make mincemeat of Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron on TV. She is the only credible option as PM, as would be blindingly obvious to anyone watching.
But The Sun doesn’t really care how much or how little TV she does if she thinks her election campaign is better spent touring marginal constituencies.
We DO object to self-important broadcasters acting like their debates are a cornerstone of our democracy.
They’re entertaining enough, if that’s your thing. They get decent ratings. Do they change any minds?
We doubt it.
Broadcasters who try to shame the PM by “empty-chairing” her in her absence will be playing with fire. How would that remotely be impartial?
And who do they think they are?
Secret shame
SHAMED footballer Adam Johnson told his trial he regretted groping a young girl.
It turns out, horrifically, that he only regretted he didn’t rape her.
We are able to show the video of this vile paedo because of the overwhelming public interest. We hope those who defended him change their tune today.
He is not as repulsive as he was made out. He is far worse.