But Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on Sunday said the government should issue 100,000 visas for HGV drivers, rather than 5,000. https://www.ft.com/content/683b4e41-9470-46ce-9c32-fe75214c4bf2 (View Post)

Possibly. But where they are is as important as how many there are. Voters going back and forth between Labour and Green in London, Brighton, Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge and so on has not much effect … (View Post)

LOL A 'short term fix'. Yeah, right. Starmer's pavlovian response was to get cheap migrants. That he thought the limiting factor was a lack of visas rather than poor pay and conditions… (View Post)

Its a generalisation but its based in reality. Its only when jobs at the lower levels of the ladder start having pay increase do we get the 'pay rises must be earned through productivity increas… (View Post)

2020 - the middle class gain but the working class don't 2021 - the working class gain but the middle class don't Its in 2021 that people oppose pay rises. (View Post)