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Originally Posted by Livia

So if skilled workers aren't coming - and it's only supposition to think they aren't - maybe we could train British people how to be skilled workers? Seems like a great idea to me.

It does sound like a good idea. Maybe someone should pass the memo on to the Tories that if they want to discourage immigrant skilled labour and encourage it natively, they should probably stop systematically destroying the basic education system, and make it easier for people to access decent quality higher education.

Of course, they don't want to do either. They don't want to import talent. They don't want to fund the creation of talent natively either. State schooling is a shambles. Brexit is absolutely destroying academic funding with no apparent plan in place to make up the difference. A trundling, clunking race to the bottom .