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UK Politics General Discussion

What will be the result of the UK’s General Election?

  • Conservative Majority

    Votes: 3 2.5%

  • Conversative Biggest Party in Hung Parliament

    Votes: 2 1.7%

  • Labour Majority

    Votes: 87 72.5%

  • Labour Biggest Party in Hung Parliament

    Votes: 28 23.3%

  • Other Result (Please specify in your post)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    120
  • Poll closed .
BarryZola said:
I'll give you an example. The Turkish economy is not doing brilliantly. Coming here on a work Visa would probably be great for hundreds of thousands of Turks to earn some money and then send or take it home. However, they probably wouldn't get a work visa. But look! The British government have just announced that whilst asylum claims are ongoing you can work. And the best part? It'll probably take a couple of years! Who needs a Visa eh? We'll just rock up, put our claims in and be off to work for an agency for a couple of years. And it wouldn't just be one country doing it.

Come on guys, how many pull-factors do we need? It's a non-starter. Just get rid of the backlog and get new claims sorted quickly.
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I think that’s a valid point, unfortunately the Tory’s deliberately slowed down applications and it’s going to take some time to get them down again (it is coming down).
 
BarryZola said:
I'll give you an example. The Turkish economy is not doing brilliantly. Coming here on a work Visa would probably be great for hundreds of thousands of Turks to earn some money and then send or take it home. However, they probably wouldn't get a work visa. But look! The British government have just announced that whilst asylum claims are ongoing you can work. And the best part? It'll probably take a couple of years! Who needs a Visa eh? We'll just rock up, put our claims in and be off to work for an agency for a couple of years. And it wouldn't just be one country doing it.

Come on guys, how many pull-factors do we need? It's a non-starter. Just get rid of the backlog and get new claims sorted quickly.
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Although I broadly agree, the wait time will be an issue we still need to have the jobs available for people to take them. If there is an excess of work available that people already holding the right to work aren’t taking up then immigrants are a good option.
 
The jobs as described above have always been filled by immigrants over the years.
It is still the case.
They do the jobs others don't want to, pretty much.
 
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