Is this like Blair’s “no one will come the UK from eastern Europe - why would they want to do that?” prediction though? (View Post)

It’s a gift to the big consulting companies like Tata who can recruit in India & ship people over here for a few years. On the other hand - we have similar agreements with a swathe of countries i… (View Post)

NB. IIRC the justification for the lower NI is that Indians here on short term work visas have to pay the NHS surcharge (~£1k / year). If they’re only being cut the element of NI that notionally pays… (View Post)

It is absolutely insane frankly. Labour has just comprehensively lost a local election where the electorate was very clear that immigration was their top priority and /this/ is the bullshit they come… (View Post)

Oof. 6 votes. So my parents’ canvassing impressions were much closer to the money than the polls, but Reform still squeaked it in the end. Think this one might return to Labour at the next GE, but th… (View Post)