RETHINK, RESKILL, REBOOT

A recent advert for the Government’s Cyber First campaign, entitled ‘Fatima’s next job could be in cyber (she just doesn’t know it yet)’, caused some controversy recently. The advert, from the Government, with the slogan ‘Rethink, Reskill, Reboot’ was taken down after a deluge of derision and No 10 saying that the ad was ‘not appropriate’.

The Culture Secretary, Oliver Dowden, said: ‘To those tweeting re #Fatima. This is not something from @DCMS & I agree it was crass. This was a partner campaign encouraging people from all walks of life to think about a career in cyber security. I want to save jobs in the arts.’ The Government had launched a £1.57billion Culture Recovery Fund.

Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, insisted that he wanted people to ‘adapt’ and seize the ‘fresh and new opportunities’ available if they could not do their old jobs.

The crass nature of the advert might be an embarrassment, but that is not the full story. The plot thickens.

Also recently, incredibly, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) called for the Government to make it easier for employers to recruit immigrants for more than 50 occupations including: care workers, butchers, bricklayers, artists, archaeologists, veterinarians, welders, ‘skilled orchestral musicians’ and ‘SKILLED CLASSICAL BALLET DANCERS’. The MAC chairman, Professor Bell, said: ‘We remain particularly concerned about the social care sector – which is so central to the frontline response to this health pandemic – as it will struggle to recruit the necessary staff if wages do not increase as a matter of urgency.’

What Professor Bell does not seem to understand is that so long as employers can recruit cheap immigrant staff, and offload the costs of that immigration onto the general public, such as the impact on housing, roads, railways, hospitals, schools etc – as well as the social costs, then that is what those employers will do. The MAC is not responding to labour shortages by increasing immigration, it is causing those shortages as the adjustment in wage rates are not happening. A shortage of staff for a particular occupation will tend to force the wage rates for that occupation upwards – but only if the market is allowed to operate properly.

Given that Britain is full, the strain on public services and housing, the looming Covid-19 depression and mass unemployment, and public opposition to mass immigration, one might have thought that the MAC would have been abolished. But no. The prompt for its latest report was explained:

‘On 17 March 2020 the Home Secretary commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to undertake a review of the composition of the Shortage Occupation List (SOL), with a focus on those occupations skilled to at least Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) level 3 (RQF3 broadly, A-levels) and equivalents in the Devolved Nations.’

Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, is the Einstein who was concerned that there might be a shortage of ballet dancers despite all those aspiring engineers, schoolteachers, doctors, etc who are daily bobbing across the English Channel in rubber dinghies to be ‘rescued’ by the Royal Navy or the police (if they reach shore unaided) and brought to the UK; despite the fact that immigration is running at around 715,000 annually (ONS figures for the year ending March 2020); despite the Government pledge to bring up to 3.5 million Hong Kong Chinese to the UK; and despite the new Windrush-friendly, points-based, proposed immigration system. That points-based immigration system would open up a global pool of immigrant workers amounting to 600million and another 80million within the EU. When the EU8 accession countries were allowed to come to the UK to work, and then Romania and Bulgaria, around 5% of the relevant populations of those countries did so.

The Government is desperate to prevent the Covid-19 pandemic and the looming depression to obstruct their globalist theories and pet projects, and is comprised of people who could not join up a row of dots even if they had a set of written instructions.

Mass Immigration Must End.