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UK’s Regional Economies after Brexit

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Monday, October 29, 2018

UK’s Regional Economies are concerned about impact of Brexit’s Global Immigration System. The UK’s migration advisory committee has made a recommendation to globalize the British Immigration system. One example of the proposed criteria is, A worker earning less than 30,000 pounds will be ineligible to obtain a worker visa in the UK. Another example of the extremely conservative report was the equal treatment of all foreigners to the UK regardless of their ties or origins to Europe. This will prove problematic because a substantial number of workers (low and high skilled) that are in the UK are Europeans. This means that those workers must meet the criteria or leave!

Due to the immensity of the political debate currently enveloping Brexit, the government of the UK is giving very little weight to none political attributes of the Brexit process. The impact of a hard or a soft Brexit on the economy is a critical matter that must be considered. Opinions of employers in the UK and the impact of the Migration Advisory Committee’s plan on the continuity of their business must not be overlooked. Statements from chief executives across tens of sectors operating in the UK are all pro- multi skill immigration policy. You cannot, overnight, ask an employer who has 2,000 blue collar European laborer’s to lay off his workforce and substitute them with… who, or What?

Alan Manning said that the only exception to the criteria above that is possible, would be a seasonal allocation of a limited number of agricultural workers.

What about mining, steel work, excavation, construction, hospitality, food processing, catering, etc. laborers?

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