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the solution would be to raise the minimum wage, rather than clamping down on immigration.
Bingo.
To live a life on or near minimum wage, with little job security or career progression is reality for very large proportion of people now and it's difficult to feel part of anything other than an underclass. The fact that the bottom-end of the jobs market is flooded with europeans here short-term, happy to tough it out in a shared bedsit and send money home has bred some resentment.
It's not fucking rocket surgery ... but Jeremy C hasn't really dealt with this at all. I'd like to see him try, then hopefully survive. I like him.
miro_o-
You also need to enforce any minimum or living wage.
Remember the leisurely HMRC 'discussions' that came to light when
Mike Ashley appeared in front of the HoC Business Committee? -
It's not just minimum wage that's the issue. Traditional jobs are going. Re-training is slow and expensive, and the gov has cut uni funding. The open uni had to put their prices up as well.
Perhaps a return of apprenticeships can help, but skilled job apprenticeships still take time. And if the undereducation is so bad people can barely spell, those also won't be accessible to the ones that are really stuck.
mespilus
JWestland
Ish, if the English don't view it as viable but the Polish do, then that explains that - and the solution would be to raise the minimum wage, rather than clamping down on immigration.