RE: Any voters wanting to ask questions?20 Jun 2024 09:47
Fordm you do make some very valid points. This isn’t a place for political views it’s a trading forum. That said I’ll just make a point from personal experience re immigration and it’s a fault of government, regulations and companies.
I worked in the mobile comms world. From the early 2000’s I witnessed and experienced huge offshoring and a huge influx of immigrants. The businesses deliberately cut first perks, then salaries and then jobs. Lots of very clever engineers were replaced by people from Eastern Europe then India, then the good old PIGS. My salary therefore stayed the same from 2002 through to my being made redundant in 2017, I wasn’t alone, indeed my overall package dropped 35% as bonuses disappeared. Running projects became a nightmare, mainly due to different work ethics and language issues and yes sometimes cultural. I know many many far better engineers than me who were consigned to the scrap heap, not because they couldn’t be retrained but because a. Cost b. Culture changes. Many of those engineers never worked again, not their fault. It’s not the popular view of immigrants taking low paid service jobs, these these were roles paying £50-100k in 2004 terms, not low paid at all