Ethnic minorities double in 20 years

[Kidorry]

..and their dad Keith?

You have the wrong Orville.Think flying.

[pininsho]

We are addressing that, we have made the exams easier so no one will notice

 

Yes, very good. It's amazing how evolution has managed to give us more powerful brains every year for the last 15 or so years enabling the exam results to continually improve in all that time. Imagine how stupid we all were back in the seventies and eighties when very few people received A's and A*'s. It's amazing we survived as a civilisation.

[Soothsayer]

That's you sussed then.

Eat your heart out Sherlock, fishy's able to read 40-foot wide banners.

[evildrneil]

So how bad is that for the economic state of the nation when you seem to be suggesting that it's mainly the rich or well educated that are emigrating and the poor or poorly educated that are coming into the country?

Are we suffering from a national brain drain?

 

There's been a brain drain going on for a while - in 2008 a research project by the OECD reported that 10% of the most highly skilled graduates and professionals had left the UK for jobs abroad. Though this has nothing to do with immigration but is to do with the fact that scientists, engineers and the like while highly valued by our competitors typically have poor pay and worse job security in the UK.

[boyfriday]

You have the wrong Orville.Think flying.

 

Kidorry, please-it was a joke

[Kidorry]

Kidorry, please-it was a joke

 

If you say so.

[hard2miss]

If you say so.

He is known for his lack of humour that Boy Friday

 

 

 

[chem1st]

They do in Canary Wharf

 

Hamster cages don't count, the GIFA of those properties are half most HA/council/LHA properties. The cheap studios cost 6, 7, 8 times the average wage, and your lucky to fit a washing machine in the kitchen. There are nice penthouses for the middle class though, but you need a few million £.

 

Back in the 50s and 60s there were a lot of disabled people about, war damaged, and the majority of the population seemed to be kids! But you're right, there was full employment for anyone that wanted it.

 

The demographic can be changed, if we just bite the bullet? We are encouraging people to come here and work but imo, we don't actually need most of them. There are too many people here already that don't work even when they're perfectly fit and capable.

 

We are inviting immigrants to increase the worker:non worker ratio (and boost our economy relative to other similarily industrialized countries). I think full employment is a dream, at least while we have our technology.

 

We can all eat very well and only a small percentage of the workforce are required to work in agriculture. If we didn't replace our setees, TV's, clothes te.c and redecorate every year we could eat and drink like kings working just a few weeks a year each.

 

80% of our economy is service based, only a small amount of work is really needed to provide the things we truly need.

 

But I do agree, young people no working is a problem. But as things have improved, less work has been needed and the value of labour has fallen. Some people work for effectively nothing.

 

As the worker:non worker ratio decreases, the value of labour will increase, and work will become economical as wages rise, youth unemployment will fall.

[boyfriday]

He is known for his lack of humour that Boy Friday

 

I read that as 'black humour, it must be my default with you

[chem1st]

So how bad is that for the economic state of the nation when you seem to be suggesting that it's mainly the rich or well educated that are emigrating and the poor or poorly educated that are coming into the country?

Are we suffering from a national brain drain?

 

Currently the economic situation is bad. A natural recession has begun, the worker ratio will fall predictably. The people who know of demographics will seek to move to a place where the demographics are in their favour, higher wages and less tax, a high worker:non worker ratio.

 

We have racist immigration laws in place to combat this. Seeing as our quality of life is far better than that of Indians for example, we can borrow their labour for a few years at low cost. We can have temporary brain gains at low cost, they can save up and return down the line. The points based immigration system welcomes those with the brains.

 

It is not the end of the world, but we shall have to get used to our quality of life rather than the rate at which it improves. Not necessarily a bad thing. But it ain't good when you think were used to things improving constantly.