One Chicken Tikka Masala And A Couple Of Referendums Please…

[Garaman]

...was the minister wrong to curry favour?

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/brexit-ministers-misled-us-over-immigration-say-furious-curry-house-bosses-a3537356.html

[youngmafbog]

Errr, we havn't left yet. Are they that stoopid or just trying to stir trouble?

[mushroom25]

is externalizing one's recruitment and training costs the only business model available to this industry? is training uk-based staff really so difficult?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Curry house bosses told how they felt “used”, “let down” and may have been given “false hope” by politicians that quitting the EU would allow more workers in from South Asia to address staff shortages. ///

Blimey haven't we enough here already to take up these posts, if necessary?

[fender62]

of course they can train people here, it's probably just a ruse to get their families over, it's a bit like sayig i cannot hire a uk brick layer as they cannot lay bricks like back home.

[ToraToraTora]

I'd say they should Korma down.

[anotheoldgit]

ToraToraTora

They needn't try and 'Curry' favours from me.

[Old_Geezer]

It is true some suggested that curtailing unstoppable EU immigration would likely pull in immigration from elsewhere, but we all know that would not be great in numbers.

Surely there is no one in the country unaware that the main reason to curb immigration is that we are already overfull, blighted by urban sprawl, and want to get the unemployed here in work not suck in more citizens from elsewhere. Only where we are desperate and haven't sorted the system to get the unemployed in work and contributing would immigrant labour be reluctantly considered.

I can't see how anyone can say they were mislead, if they did they'd surely die of embarrassment having confessed to utter foolishness.

[Old_Geezer]

I have to admit though that, saving the curry houses was the main reason most of the country voted to take back control from that unelected undemocratic elite that decides the EU legislation to be considered and then, once approved, imposed on all members.

[Garaman]

//I can't see how anyone can say they were mislead, if they did they'd surely die of embarrassment having confessed to utter foolishness.//

Sad fact is that not everyone is gifted with your intelligence, OG, so many did believe rubbish MPs on things like this, Project Fear etc.

[mikey4444]

Ah yes....foreign food...the acceptable face of immigration !

[naomi24]

What utter tripe - and not the edible kind!

[-Talbot-]

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[naomi24]

Talbot, that just abut sums it up. :o)

[New Judge]

Yes the question that needs to be asked is why "Indian" (for which read predominantly Bangladeshi) restaurants in the UK find it necessary to employ almost exclusively staff of Bangladeshi origin or heritage.

There is absolutely no need for this. Most dishes served in such establishments cannot be found in Bangladesh and were developed here in the UK. As well as that the cooking and serving of those dishes does not require skills that are only available in Bangladesh. Any half decent cook (of any race) could prepare them and anybody trained as a waiter could serve them.

Imagine, then, if you ran an "English" restaurant and insisted on employing only English staff. Would questions be asked enquiring why your workforce does not exhibit the "diversity" which would almost certainly be present in the area? Furthermore, you might be asked why you employ only men (seen many women working in "Indian" restaurants here?). These questions do not seem to be asked of the Taj Mahal curry house in the High Street. I wonder why.

[Garaman]

I remember reading a while ago that a lot of Indian restaurants would be happy to take on British chefs and particularly young apprentices to train, NJ, but they get very few applications when they advertise in job centres.