It's literally just the UK implementing actual standards and not just letting anyone into their country because they have a passport from 1/3rd of the world.
Well, not exactly. They'll let anyone in from 2/3 of the world, even if they have no passport, as part of their 'regulated migration' policies (family reunification, politically driven migration, ...), which will be outside the 'points system' and 'significant' in scope, they just do nothing that would be of macro scale economic impact currently -- and f*ck over European students, because they want better relations with developing economies. (To which they want to sell cheaply, cheaply produced products and services (for the next 20 years) until, those economies gain more importance, and that also lifts the british boat).
Read closely.
You are misrepresenting the situation here.
Outside EEA migration is expected to rise. And has to, because the UK are dying out (didn't produce enough children).
This was a 'f*ck over the EU, to get us better Indian and Bangladeshi relations' for 50 years from now spiel. Monitor migration numbers closely for the next five years.
See what will happen for yourself.
(Inner EU migration influx was over, by the time the Brexit debate began, its just that no one told the morons.)
Also the EU currently has about 9% of world population (and sinking), not 33%.
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UK is telling people 'this is only about letting highly qualified people into the country' but a. thats what everyone is saying, and b. it doesnt have the pull, that it had, when it was the major financial center of the EU (economy wise). So attractiveness for that clientele (highly qualified) went down.
Meaning currently about the only thing they have left is an education system that is not that bad, which they are - right now - selling out like a cheap whore, to our good new friends from the developing economies (former crown colonies). So Erasmus students get shafted, for better business relations with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Kenia, Southafrica and so on, with whom the UK wants their future exchange of minds (- and genes (just put in to rile up the racists..
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Well done Brexiters.
PS: They are also telling everyone - "we still dont want to produce anything, we want to provide 'services' to India and Bangladesh, which is why we named our future student exchange program after Alan Turing (they wont make 'Turing based hardware' in the UK, thats for sure..
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edit: This is the other 'side' of what is proposed:
14. As part of the significant changes we are making to the operation of the border and immigration system, we are delivering on our manifesto commitment to reduce overall migration numbers. We will therefore end free movement and not implement a route for lower-skilled workers. We have reached this conclusion based on a number of factors set out in this paper.
15. UK businesses will need to adapt and adjust to the end of free movement, and we will not seek to recreate the outcomes from free movement within the points-based system. As such, it is important that employers move away from a reliance on the UK’s immigration system as an alternative to investment in staff retention, productivity, and wider investment in technology and automation.
16. The points-based system will provide significantly greater flexibility for skilled workers wishing to come to the UK. The requisite salary thresholds and skill levels will provide employers with greater scope to employ skilled migrants from overseas.
Here are some of the issues with this
- this never was the inter EU/EAA migration problem the UK was faced with.
See:
https://assets.publishing.service.g...achment_data/file/741926/Final_EEA_report.PDF
- the listed solutions for low wage sectors are:
investment in staff retention, productivity, and wider investment in technology and automation.
== Pay them higher wages, or invest in automation.
Still looking for the scope of the low income sector issue 'that might have been created by EU/EEA migrats' - because most of the outrage was around qualified manual labor taking away business from british outfits, and that afair didnt happen at scale... But I'm still reading...
- European migrants are mostly high-skilled, even if temporarily taking up low-skilled jobs
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/high-skilled-migrants-in-the-uk/
- Are EU Migrants Over-Qualified for the Jobs They Do?
https://www.rand.org/blog/2016/02/qualifications-and-jobs-of-eu-migrants-are-eu-migrants.html
- Also this:
https://www.employment-studies.co.uk/news/eu-immigration-impacts-and-prospects-uk-labour-market
This was the problem:
Summery: So the full story is even more cringeworthy.
UK was the only country not implementing a 'transition phase' for 'free movement of labor' (EU wide policy), and got an influx of working migrants from the EU that was higher than expected (entirely their fault). Those working migrants where 'qualified labor'. UK didnt know what the f*ck to do with them - they didnt want 'structural growth in any sector' - so they SHOVED them into low paying 'no qualifications sectors', which on their own were declining. Creating a problem for their poor.
Net outcome of EU migration was more economic activity for the UK - not less, they have now destroyed that.
And the only thing they added was a point system that needs migrants to show, that they are qualified for a high income bracket - before they are allowed to enter. So in a sense, nothing changed. On EU migration.
Low skilled labor migrating into the UK, did not come from the EEA. It came mostly from countries outside of the EU.
src:
https://assets.publishing.service.g...achment_data/file/741926/Final_EEA_report.PDF
So ALL of the UKs problems where home made, none of them had to do with EEA migration, the proposed solution doesnt fix what was wrong with EEA migration (or only does so, by using a loophole, and looking at current income levels of those migrants, after the UK jobs market f*cked them over, and not at qualifications). The decline in employment in the unqualified sector, was not because of unqualified migration (at least not from the EU), it was because of AN ENTIRE LACK OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO DO ANYTHING - because even with a net positive effect of EU migration economically, they failed entirely to
- attend to the unqualified classes
- enact any labor policies at all
The points program is used, to ONLY let in people who are qualified AND practically have a job offer.
And their outlook is to let more people from non EU countries in through family reunification (outside the points system), to probably overall make the UK poorer. But for political bakshish with their former colonies, who are expected to grow again economically, in the longterm. (But not at a timescale, where this would matter for millennials.)
UK was the only country in recent history - that got a high skilled labor force - for free, via migration, and managed to turn them away - because they wanted to become a poorer country more quickly, or 'to get to that qualification level 'on our own''. (British companies, have to also qualify british uneducated workers, or invest into automation. No more cheap PhDs from the EU for you to send into unskilled labor jobs.)
Then they said they would decrease immigration overall - but mostly in the unqualified sector. Which isnt what EU migrants were. And which you didn't have to leave the EU for.
Morons. Utterly and truely. You lied to your electorate. Whatever they thought Brexit was, it wasnt. Now all praise to your new overlords, the fully automated services company to provide 'something' to India and Bangladesh. The true winners of this historical episode.
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Also, let me feature this statistic, just off the cuff, because its so astonishing: