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@JWestland
Ah yes, if us EU immigrants would never have been able to come here, the UK would have been a paradise of great wages.
Better if we had not existed at all to annoy the natives.
I've no sympathy for the places that underpay people, or the "Brits are lazy" BS, sometimes you cannot find people locally but moving costs money, so that isn't going to happen on poverty wages.
And some business will get wiped out if everyone gets £10.50 an hour, OK, that is perhaps not so bad. Or is it? A low wage topped up by UC is still better than... just UC.
So what do you do then? Hm there could be tons of work in insulating houses, and that will be local too right now, there are enough UK properties that need done up. But there's f all coordination there. You need the training to begin with.
Care Work being in a crisis because not everybody has a budget to pay more! Sure, some places do pay more now as it was just a case of greedy owners, but if you get government money only for yourself or most of the people you need to take care of, there IS NO MONEY.
The media optics of this are often "haha greedy employers" (totally) is usually skimming over the fuckery experience by EU immigrants (treating the country too much like our own) and central government just...doing f all/making it worse with their kack handed care funding plan.
Because it was all "exploitation" as if people didn't also come out of their free will (again, low wages are not OK!)
End of rant, have a good day, tip the staff always.