- 25 Feb 2020 20:29
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History shows that industrial countries have two choices:
1) bring in low-wage immigrant labor,
2) off-shore jobs, or
a combination of the two. Britain has already off-shored more jobs than is good for the country. There is a limit to how much you can off-shore without eroding your industrial basis.
Rich wrote:Now of course this might also lead to rising wages for care staff, but so what Britain should be able to manage an ageing population without resorting to driving down wages through mass immigration. We want a labour shortage. We want to strengthen the bargaining power of the employee against the employer in the market place, whether that's private company or the NHS.
History shows that industrial countries have two choices:
1) bring in low-wage immigrant labor,
2) off-shore jobs, or
a combination of the two. Britain has already off-shored more jobs than is good for the country. There is a limit to how much you can off-shore without eroding your industrial basis.