@upthecreekyetagain wrote:

As a side note to this general discussion I find it ironic that at the same time as worrying over the poor and the unskilled trying to get into our country we are welcoming, (encouraging), the rich and the doctors, nurses, scientists, engineers and other professionals with open arms.


You can scrap nurses off that list.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/new-migrant-rules-will-cost-nhs-thousands-of-nurses-sa...

https://fullfact.org/factcheck/health/foreign_nurses_visas-45855

 

So we end up with an NHS staff shortfall, increased costs for training to fill that shortfall, and wasted millions on recruitment....

 

*slowhandclap* for the Kippers and co.