Answered by Gerard Batten
Thing is, you have to divide it into two things – people who come here to work and people who actually want to emigrate here. Now, if there are gaps in the job market eg there are farmers that’ll tell... Show more »Thing is, you have to divide it into two things – people who come here to work and people who actually want to emigrate here. Now, if there are gaps in the job market eg there are farmers that’ll tell you they need these European labourers to harvest their crops. That’s a temporary thing, lasting three or four months or whatever part of a year. We should have a government ministry that sees what gaps the industry’s got, what places you can’t fill and then we issue work permits that people can apply for and they come here. And that might be on a very temporary basis, maybe 3 or 6 months or 1 / 2 / 3 years. But what that will give them the right to do is come here and work for a specific period of time and after that, they have to leave. Second thing – emigration, allowing people to emigrate into this country. I think it should actually be very difficult to do because we are a very densely populated country and we all know from personal experience that our quality of life is suffering because of congestion, particularly in London and the South East. So, if people want to emigrate here, I think we should have a very strict system similar to other countries in the world, where you have the points system, again, which says “what age are you?’, “what are your educational and professional qualifications?”, “how much money have you actually got?”, “can you support yourself when you get here so that you don’t become a drain on the public purse, the benefits or the health service?” and we decide on that basis. Someone has done some very interesting research on this and found out in order for an immigrant to have a neutral effect on the economy, they should actually bring with them £144,000 in cash. If you try to emigrate to a country like Australia, you will find they require you to have a profession they want, the right age so they can get X years of work out of you and you have to bring with you certain amount of money. Unless there’s a particular gap in the job market, eg, doctors, nurses, dentists etc, in which case they would waive that condition. But they have a very strict system. I think we should have one too. Show less »
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