10-05-2024, 08:19 AM in response to #45536
Lenny Baryea Wrote: ^^^ 'We' should be having grown-up conversations about the above, IMO, and how to improve things. However, sadly, I think we're incapable.
Agreed - unfortunately ‘we need to have a conversation’ usually means tribes shouting at each other. Sad.
Fraud etc, are we providing enough resources to check these things? Are ‘we’ aka the government actually arsed? Dunno.
We need to build more houses, especially social housing, but where? To what specs? What do we do about the rental sector? Dunno
If immigrants are coming here to do ‘low paid’ work rather than the brightest and best coming over to be Professors, how do we fix that? Increase pay to attract locals? How much? How does that translate to how much tax we pay? Do we need to do more about childcare provision? What? How much will that cost? Is it cheaper to keep parents at home and bring in someone from Lagos who will share a room with 4 others? Dunno.
Skills and training - more investment in apprenticeships please. But when loads of industries are price competitive, how do we better incentivise firms to invest in training rather than get some experienced lads in from
abroad? How much will that cost the taxpayer initially versus the long run? Dunno.
There’s no silver bullet but I’d be interested to hear from those who work in sectors where immigrant workers are more common - and also those who are seeing home grown talent emigrate elsewhere.
I should probably look somewhere else than a football forum tbfl.