Misguided Cabinet ministers must not delay the Government’s new immigration controls
If David Cameron's 100,000-a-year net migration target is ditched and there is no set limit on skilled migrants coming into the UK, we will benefit
Migrant sense
The plan is well-considered and potentially hugely beneficial.
We will be happy if David Cameron’s random 100,000-a-year net migration target is ditched.
And it is right to set no limit on highly-skilled migrants or students, so the brightest and best can come.
We also back a £30,000 pay threshold on most semi-skilled workers and more severe curbs on low-skilled ones except where the economy needs them. That is what taking back control meant.
A salary threshold can regulate flows. It must be high enough to wean our firms off cheap foreign labour, so they can hire Brits and pay them more.
Why Chancellor Philip Hammond and others want to lower it is beyond us.
This new post-Brexit policy is scandalously overdue. Get on with it.
Down the Tubes
FOR a small taste of life under Corbyn, look how casually vastly-overpaid Tube drivers bring London grinding to a halt.
Most earn £60,000-plus, all-in, for a 36-hour week with 43 days’ holiday. A few trouser over £100,000.
How did they secure this sweet deal? By their unions blackmailing the capital with strikes.
Now imagine Labour fulfilling its vows to abolish every union reform since the 1970s and back workers striking in sympathy with ANY dispute on the planet.
The chaos is unimaginable. Corbyn would be a dream for unions, a horrific nightmare for consumers and business.
Britain would be broken — and broke.
Dodgy degrees
TWENTY years ago a tiny handful of students got a first-class degree. Now it’s more than a quarter.
That’s not them getting brighter or working harder. It’s grade inflation, of the sort that cheapened school exams under the Blair Government.
What value will some degrees have to employers if so many get top honours that they become meaningless?
If there wasn’t already reason enough for school-leavers to think twice about picking uni over job training, there is now.
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Junck too much
EURO clown Jean-Claude Juncker has an unusual strain of sciatica.
Not only does this “back problem” make him shamble unsteadily after dinners. It makes him slap world leaders, ruffle women’s hair like a condescending, sexist pig and forget he insulted our PM the night before.
Replace “sciatica” with “epic brandy consumption” and it all makes sense.
Why is this buffoon still in a job?
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