Skilled immigration

[sp1214]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7269790 .stm From today only skilled indiviuals from outside the EU will be allowed to enter the UK under a points system. The unskilled will be prevented and those here illegally will be repatriated. Many older (>45) British citizens are unable to continue in work usually because of age dicrimination even though it is said to be outlawed. Do you agree with these new rules? Or do you think that immigration should concentrate on employing unskilled immigrant workers and to deny foreign workers taking up most of the skilled vacancies? ie. a reverse of the new rules.

[squarebear]

I think it's excellent news and about time too. If they have nothing to offer the country, why have them here?

[delboy3]

I agree with the Canadian/Austrailan rules, that only skilled workers should be allowed in.

If they've got nothing to add to the economy, keep them out!

[tiggerblue10]

About flippin time!

[Mamjet]

Send the ******* back.

[B00]

What about the unskilled work that our own grown British folk refuse to do though?

[Quinlad]

Here's a thought.

It's these skilled immigrants who will be most likely to change British culture.

They'll probably be higher-profile, more widely connected, wealthier and better educated than unskilled workers. Perfect for transmitting their ideas and values onto us.

Personally I'm fine with that - cultures evolve. But I know how scared some of you are by change.

[Lonnie]

With this Goverments record, I wouldn't hold your breath. (or mine)

[sp1214]

It doesn't help the middle aged British skilled worker who has been made redundant and trying to find a new job. Strange they should bring out this idea when only last week they put a clamp on overseas doctors coming here because so many of our home grown doctors could not get work. Talking with a forked tongue!

[persianlady]

I dont think they SHOULD be taking doctors from abroad when we have British trained doctors here that cant get jobs. Why are they trained and then refused employment? It does not make sense. I have nothing agaist foreign doctors, but they should not be employed here at the expense of our own.