You likely make a good point. Another considerable influx of people mind you. Further implications for housing, the NHS and so on. Though I do take into account that they are well educated and that there is a rationale to us extending a hand.

Before lockdown, in fact since he left Uni in 2018, my son applied for numerous jobs in different sectors. Those that bothered to reply wanted “experience”. He obtained a zero contract at Thorpe Park but lost this due to lockdown. He couldn’t even get a job on a farm!
Now got an unpaid job working as a scout for semi-pro football club from Iceland. He loves it but no income unfortunately

Noise now about the EU backing down over this divergence stuff now. Might be too late but let's see.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Overall, agriculture contributed around £24 billion of revenues and around £8.5 billion of Gross Value Added to the UK economy in 2015.

In contrast the UK's fishing and fish processing industries contribute £1.4 billion to the UK economy.

The UK Music Industry contributes £5.8bn.

GVA (gross value added) of the Creative Industries was £71.4 billion in 2012 and accounted for 5.2 per cent of the UK Economy.

What is it with fishing? Apparently Warhammer on its own accounts for more value than fishing.

Edited by Mapletree (13 Dec 2020 5.47pm)

Thank you. Not sure you qualify for expenses sitting on your settee watching videos but worth a try. When he was applying for jobs, they were interested until they found out he was over 21, so would have to pay him more.
Take care mate and have a good Christmas

Its a good thing for him to get in to , even as a part time thing, good luck to him, yes, take care mate.

Have we really left yet?

COYP

Brexit is Margaret Thatcher's true legacy.

'I need a scape-goat'.

Ordering her ministers to blame Brussels for her disastrous economic failures.

'Nigel (Lawson) has messed it all up, now he must fix it'.

And what a target Brussels has been.

Totally unprepared to be portrayed as bureaucratic and anti-democratic, they even thought because the UK was a member, we were friends.

Now, it is an impossibility for the British to do anything but blame the EU for all their self-inflicted disasters.

The Remainers on here really don't know how sad they sound.
Britain has defied the global agenda and will prove that a move toward a globalised world is not an evolution but a choice. There is no natural evolution in man made decisions since the term describes something that is a random process.
Ask dogs if they think that man made 'evolution' worked well for them. They used to be proud wolves and now many of them are rat sized ugly lap warmers.
Something similar would happen to Britain if they slowly surrendered control of power to Brussels.

Sure we will have no one to blame for our mistakes and that is just how I like it. We will become better by learning from them like everyone does.
The biggest mistake we made so far was to join the common market and then open the flood gates of immigration.

If we could build a great big wall all around the UK and never let anyone in, or out, ever again, and become totally self-sufficient in every aspect of life, feeding ourselves and manufacturing all we needed, then your plan might work. We would of course have to commit huge sums to our defence too.

Life would be very hard and really boring. A bit like North Korea without the fun.

There is though a basic problem. The people wouldn't accept it for a moment. The rest of the world exists. We are part of it and if they now think globally we have no choice than to do so too. They are both our customers and our suppliers. Today's world is interdependent. Mess with it and it's you that gets hurt.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.