How Is Red Ed Going To End Our "dependency" On Foriegn Labour?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25607578
Personally I think the only way is to reduce benefits to such a level that our own WSC have to work but I don't suppose a labour governement will ever do that.

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I didn’t say all of them Gromit, but many.

Yes, many State schools produce people who could - could - be an asset to the nation. But their skills and abilities are not being utilised properly.

But there are areas where State education is a complete shambles. These areas are often in inner cities where few children speak English as their first language. I’ve witnessed at first hand the difficulties that teachers have teaching classes in these areas. Despite the help of up to five classroom assistants (whose sole aim it seems is simply to provide translation services) it is clearly very difficult to impart knowledge to somebody who does not understand what you are saying. Other areas of concern include “deprived” areas (though what they’re supposed to be deprived of is not quite clear) where a few pupils can make learning for the remainder a virtual impossibility.

The aim of getting huge numbers of people to university is ridiculous, unless, of course, it is because secondary education has not quite done the job by age 18. As has been mentioned, large numbers of youngsters are being badly misled because the numbers gaining degrees exceeds the number of jobs requiring graduates by about four to one. It is quite true that comparatively few people enter the professions; that’s because there are comparatively few jobs in the professions. The trouble is many children are being given false hope. Some of them should be encouraged to set their sights lower and they can still follow a worthwhile career.

And so we come full circle. They won’t do what they consider “demeaning” jobs (because they’ve got a First Class degree in the Bleeding Obvious) so foreigners have to be shipped in to do them.

The entire situation is a shambles and it is exacerbated because employers have a ready pool of cheap imported labour. If it was not available “something would have to be done”.

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I think Gromit is bang on with his assessment of our education system. Sucessive governments have imposed rediculous systems of targets that basically fail the kids. We should accept that not everyone is HE material and stop inventing nonsense degrees for them to chase and not get a job with. Dare I say it we need to go back in time a generation, possibly 2 for how it should be done. At the same time we need to get it in the heads of the curent generation that living a life on benefits will not be tolerated.